TY - JOUR
AU - Neill, Anna
AB -  Reviews that "[the]changelingand the issues of parental him. Arguing this secloss he evokes"unsettlethe play's comedicresolution, than the subsequent tionis somewhatless clear and convincing III, analysis ofthe orphanedboysin Richard a play thatexplores not only the threatsposed by parental substitutesas "protecas tors"but also the wholeidea ofhistory a drama of substituthe whole tions. Richard's paxodic language works similarly, "the necessity and the difficultyof thus demonstrating play both substitutewords and substituteguardians accureading rately" (187). ElizabethBishop's "One Art" Drawinga finalparallelbetween (with its compelling focus on "the art of losing") and the Shakespeare texts she has studied, Dubrow neatly concludes overdeprivation absence and and thatthey"bothassert mastery themwhen some of that masteryslides away" (201). replicate this nuanced,and extraordinarily well-researched, book Probing, for is important a numberof reasons, not least of which is its and to the tooattentionboth to new historicist methodology and culturalmaterial. betweengenericform neglectedinterplay And especially in this last respect,one can see how not only from this scholars but also teachersof Shakespeare willbenefit workforyears to come. Mannersand Character Paul Langford. EnglishnessIdentified: 1650-1850. Oxford UP, 2000. 389 pp. $39.95. ReviewedbyAnna Neill In the past decade, plentyhas been said about nationalism the between late-seventeenth in and and nationalidentity Britain Paul Langford's book delibcenturies. new the mid-nineteenth 
TI - Englishness Identified: Manners and Character 1650–1850. by Paul Langford (review)
JF - Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies
DA - 2001-07-03
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/university-of-pennsylvania-press/englishness-identified-manners-and-character-1650-1850-by-paul-a7zNaOGbvi
SP - 147
EP - 150
VL - 1
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DP - DeepDyve
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