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Sent to the Chopping Block

Like a courtier who has fallen out of favor with the monarch, a doctoral student is dumped by her adviser

By ANA FORBES

In my corner of academe, English Renaissance drama, New Historicists dominated the 1980s and '90s. Their research often involved speculating about who might symbolize Elizabeth I in any given play, preferably by Shakespeare. Was it Portia in The Merchant...

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