Schofield: Union General in the Civil War and Reconstruction

McDonough, James L.

Florida State University Press

From inside dust jacket flap. In contrast to the dominant interpretation of Shakespeare as a Renaissance humanist, Harry Morris stresses the playwright's medieval heritage. Reading the plays in light of medieval Christian theology, particularly its eschatology, Morris shows that Shakespeare lived and wrote as an inheritor of a 1,000-year-old Christian world view. This medieval vision has as its central concerns death, judgment, heaven, and hell. With these concerns as his framework Morris analyzes Shakespeare's four major tragedies-"Hamlet, Othello, Lear, and Macbeth"-as well as "Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, the Henry" plays, and "As You Like It." An appendix includes a survey of the "memento-mori" lyric along with its special application to "Hamlet". The readings are supported through references to other eschatological works of the period, particularly pictorial art and medieval iconography.

Last Things in Shakespeare

Literature & Fiction

Morris, Harry

Dramas & Plays

From Publishers Weekly\nA dogged will to live and close sibling ties made possible the survival of the Polish-Jewish author and four of her five sisters and a brother though six years of German and Soviet occupation of Lwow and Krakow (with its little-known but vast adjoining Plaszow concentration camp). Two of three sisters sent to Auschwitz endured to rejoin the other two in Bergen-Belsen. Fleeing the Soviet advance, they shared forced marches to other labor camps, despite a raging typhus epidemic. The matter-of-fact narrative, devoid of literary ambition, emphasizes the family's struggle to resist dehumanization in an "industrialized death" system where sadism was practiced in the name of efficiency. The ordeals produced heroes and traitors, while luck and resourcefulness, such as that of older sister Balbina, helped to preserve life and sanity. Embittered by pre- and postwar Polish anti-Semitism, which the author claims rivaled that of the Nazis, Graf emigrated to the U.S. Now an American citizen, she teaches elementary school in New York City. Photos not seen by PW. 
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The Krakow Ghetto and the Plaszow Camp Remembered

History

Graf, Malvina

Americas

Social science and the challenge of relativism

Hazelrigg, Lawrence E

Thomas County, 1865-1900

Rogers, William Warren

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