Shakespearean Criticism

War in Shakespeare's Plays | Further Reading

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Arnold, Margaret J. “‘Monsters in Love's Train’: Euripides and Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida.Comparative Drama 18, no. 1 (spring 1984): 38-53.

Compares Euripides' several plays focusing on the Trojan War with Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida. Both dramatists, Arnold contends, present a grimly realistic view of war and depict self-divided characters struggling to retain their idealism in a world where moral relativism prevails and events are beyond their control.

Baldo, Jonathan. “Wars of Memory in Henry V.Shakespeare Quarterly 47, no. 2 (summer 1996): 132-59.

Demonstrates the ways in which the sixteenth-century movement in England toward national unity is reflected in Henry V.

Bowen, Barbara E. “‘Read My Labia: U.S. Out of Saudi Arabia’: Gender in the Theater of War.” In Gender in the Theater of War: Shakespeare's...

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