Duncan-Jones, Katherine

Duncan-Jones, Katherine, Ungentle Shakespeare Scenes from his Life (looT). 

Duncan-Jones, Katherine. Playing Fields or Killing Fields Shakespeare s Poems and Sonnets. Shakespeare Quarterly 54 2. (2003), 127-41. 

Ben Jonson, Explorata or, Discoveries, in Workes (London, 1641), 125. Intriguingly, if speculatively, Katherine Duncan-Jones sees Jonson as the model for Jacques in Shakespeare s As You Like It-. Give me leave I To speak my mind, and I will through and through I Cleanse the foul body of th infected world, I If they will patiently receive my medicine. As You Like It, in The Norton Shakespeare, ed. Stephen Greenblatt, Walter Cohen, Jean... 

On the rarity of direct references to plague in the literature of this plague-ridden period, see, for example, Katherine Duncan-Jones, Playing Fields or... 

Sidney, Philip. The Old Arcadia. Edited by Katherine Duncan-Jones. Oxford Oxford University Press, 1985. 

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