“Still-Vexed”: Laura E. Richards’s Captain January and Shakespeare

This paper examines the connection between Laura E. Richards’s Captain January and Shakespeare’s The Tempest, considering how the allusions to the play might change our reading of the story. The discussion is then widened to show the importance of Shakespeare for Richards and her manner of relating...

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Main Author: Josephine Sharoni
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Language:English
Published: European Association for American Studies 2024-12-01
Series:European Journal of American Studies
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/22956
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“Still-Vexed”: Laura E. Richards’s Captain January and Shakespeare
European Journal of American Studies
Laura E. Richards
Shakespeare
The Tempest
Captain January
title “Still-Vexed”: Laura E. Richards’s Captain January and Shakespeare
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title_fullStr “Still-Vexed”: Laura E. Richards’s Captain January and Shakespeare
title_full_unstemmed “Still-Vexed”: Laura E. Richards’s Captain January and Shakespeare
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Shakespeare
The Tempest
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