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sologdin
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Twelfth Night
I love this one, but on rereading again here, it seems like it's just pieces of other plays snipped out and switched around. The twinfoolery linked to madness is pure COE, and the cruel exclusion of Malvolio has a piece of MOV, even if it lacks a plain axis of oppression, as opposed to how Shylock is handled. Cross-dressing is MOV and AYL, whereas mass marriage is those plus MAN and MND.
— Feb 17, 2026 06:51PM
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I love this one, but on rereading again here, it seems like it's just pieces of other plays snipped out and switched around. The twinfoolery linked to madness is pure COE, and the cruel exclusion of Malvolio has a piece of MOV, even if it lacks a plain axis of oppression, as opposed to how Shylock is handled. Cross-dressing is MOV and AYL, whereas mass marriage is those plus MAN and MND.
Michael
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King Henry IV Part 2 - 3/5, this one feels like it’s really just hyping up King Henry V
— Feb 17, 2026 02:48PM
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Hamlet
A consideration of the opacity of another's interior. Despite the protagonist's certainty and incidental correctness, the epistemological problem is not resolved by the play-within-the-play. That the ghost's testimony itself is rooted in the normal problem of a history play's moral universe being determined by the arbitrary point of theatrical intervention does nothing to enhance interpretive clarity.
— Feb 16, 2026 05:58AM
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A consideration of the opacity of another's interior. Despite the protagonist's certainty and incidental correctness, the epistemological problem is not resolved by the play-within-the-play. That the ghost's testimony itself is rooted in the normal problem of a history play's moral universe being determined by the arbitrary point of theatrical intervention does nothing to enhance interpretive clarity.
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As You Like It
Superficially similar to MND, with its forest setting, erotic misrecognitions, and mass marriage, the structural analogue here is really Richard III, focusing on fraternal conflict. Richard famously murders his brother, but this one avoids that result by virtue of reconciliations, achieved perhaps impossibly, but provides a window on how fratricidal tragedy is averted.
— Feb 14, 2026 11:29AM
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Superficially similar to MND, with its forest setting, erotic misrecognitions, and mass marriage, the structural analogue here is really Richard III, focusing on fraternal conflict. Richard famously murders his brother, but this one avoids that result by virtue of reconciliations, achieved perhaps impossibly, but provides a window on how fratricidal tragedy is averted.
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Julius Caesar
Against the backdrop of mass slavery, apprehended directly herein only in moments of death scene manumission, the optimate faction proclaims to be defending 'liberty' whereas the populares faction instrumentalize even their own aristocrats and issue proscription bills by fiat. The normal problem of history plays obtains here: the intervention elides much to focus precariously on ethics.
— Feb 12, 2026 06:48AM
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Against the backdrop of mass slavery, apprehended directly herein only in moments of death scene manumission, the optimate faction proclaims to be defending 'liberty' whereas the populares faction instrumentalize even their own aristocrats and issue proscription bills by fiat. The normal problem of history plays obtains here: the intervention elides much to focus precariously on ethics.
