Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature back issues from September 2003:
The serious comedy of Twelfth Night: dark didacticism in Illyria.(Critical Essay)
Sep 22, 2003; ... IN "Or What You Will," Barbara Everett notes that Shakespeare's Twelfth Night "poses in a nicely acute form a problem inherent in all the earlier comedies: why do we take them seriously? Or how, rather, best to explain the ways in which it is hard not to take them seriously-the sense that ...
Newman's idea of a classical university (1).(Critical Essay)
Sep 22, 2003; ... <Pre>With Julian, the light went out, and now nothing remains but to letthe darkness come, and hope for a new sun and another day, born oftime's mystery and man's love of light. </Pre> So Gore Vidal ends his historical novel, Julian, which tells the story of the ...
"I sit as God": aestheticism and repentance in Tennyson's "The Palace of Art".(Critical Essay)
Sep 22, 2003; ... ALFRED Lord Tennyson provides an interesting point of departure for readers of The Palace of Art" by recalling an observation by Archbishop Trench of Dublin when they were undergraduates at Trinity Cambridge: "Tennyson, we cannot live in Art." The poet then observes that the poem is "the ...
Man shall not live by bread alone: the biblical subtext in Cyrano de Bergerac.(Critical Essay)
Sep 22, 2003; ... CYRANO de Bergerac is one of the best known and most admired French dramas in modern times. The five-act play was first Performed in Paris on December 28, 1897. It received forty curtain calls and the performance was considered one of the greatest triumphs in all French theatrical history ....