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Gynophobia and Anti-republicanism in Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus : Reflections on Adrian Leverkühn's Shakespeare Opera

Elsaghe, Yahya

In: Neophilologus, 2015, vol. 99, no. 3, p. 465-475

Macbeth and the Croxton Play of the Sacrament : Blood and Belief in Early English Stagecraft

Dutton, Elisabeth

In: Blood Matters: Studies in European Literature and Thought, 1400-1700, 2018, p. 183-197

This essay discusses blood as 'proof' in the late fifteenth-century Croxton Play of the Sacrament, and in Shakespeare's Macbeth. In Croxton, a bloody severed hand becomes a mark of the guilt of Jew Jonathas in torturing the eucharistic wafer; both Macbeth and his wife repeatedly allude to the ease or difficulty of washing blood off their murdering hands. Drawing evidence from historical...

Jesting with Death : Hamlet in the Graveyard

Ghose, Indira

In: Textual Practice