... eds Jean E. Howard and Marion F. O'Connor (New York and London: Routledge, 1987), 33, 34–5, 38. See Parvini, Shakespeare's History Plays, 10–32. Felperin, The Uses of the Canon, 154–5. David Scott Kastan, Shakespeare After Theory ...
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