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Shakespearean power and punishment : a volume of essays / edited by Gillian Murray Kendall.

Bibliography, etc. note: Includes bibliographical references and index. Formatted contents note: Contents: Revenge comedy: writing, law, and the punishing heroine in twelfth night, the merry wives of Windsor, and Swetnam the woman-hater / Ann Rosalind Jones -- Cutting to the heart of the matter: stabbing the woman in Philaster and Cymbeline / Susanne Collier -- "Content with art"?: seeing the emblematic woman in the second maiden's tragedy and the winter's tale / Sara Eaton -- "I'll pray to increase your bondage": power and punishment in measure for measure / David McCandless. Uk-SuSCL. Contents: Absolute bodies, absolute laws: staging punishment in measure for measure / Arthur L. Little -- The state of life and the power of death: measure for measure / Robert N. Watson -- Flout'em and scout'em and scout'em and flout'em: Prospero's power and punishment in the tempest / Kathryn Barbour -- Overkill in Shakespeare / Gillian Murray Kendall -- The unheimlich maneuver: antithetical ways of power in Shakespeare -- Ronald R. MacDonald. Uk-SuSCL.