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The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

Contents

ARTICLES

Excellent Dissembling: Antony and Cleopatra Playing at Love

Shakespeare's Women

Lucius and the Babe: Structure in Titus Andronicus

1 Henry IV: Structure, Platonic Psychology, and Politics

"Like a Mad Dog": The Radical Romanticism of Wuthering Heights

Tangled in the Language of the Past: Ken Kesey and Cultural Revolution

POEMS

Letter to Bemheimer from Back Scottsbluff

My Cousin Who Dies Quick in the Night

Swapping Oranges

Empty Beer Can

On the School Bus

A Damned Pretty Rain

Ardis Newkirk at the Charity Ball

How I Got My Good Luck Piece

The Campaign

In This Hour

The Singing School

In Spring Rain

My Lecture to the Writing Students

REVIEWS

Kansas State University: The Quest for Identity by James C. Carey

Two Books by Michael A. Weinstein

The Ethnic Frontier: Group Survival in Chicago and the Midwest edited by Melvin G. Holli and Peter D'A. Jones

Abstract

in this issue . . .

ANTHONY S. BRENNAN, who shows how Antony and Cleopatra play their roles as lovers and rulers, received his Ph. D. from McMaster University in Ontario where he teaches English. His articles and stories have appeared in a number of magazines, and he has published two novels.

VELMA BOURGEOIS RICHMOND, who examines Shakespeare's attitudes toward women, received her Ph. D. from North Carolina and teaches English at Holy Names College in Oakland. She has published two books and numerous articles on English literature.

STEPHEN J. TELLER, who investigates Shakespeare's use of his source for Titus Andronicus, received his Ph. D. from The University of Illinois and teaches English at Pittsburg State University.

V. J. EMMETT, JR., who looks at 1 Henry IV, received his Ph. D. from Iowa and teaches English at Pittsburg State. His articles and stories have appeared in a number of magazines.

JUDITH WEISSMAN, who defines the particular romanticism of Wuthering Heights, received her Ph. D. from The University of California at San Diego and teaches English at Syracuse. She has published numerous articles on nineteenth-century fiction.

JAMES F. KNAPP, who investigates Kesey's experiments in "creative mythology," received his Ph. D. from Connecticut and teaches at The University of Pittsburgh. He has published a number of articles on modern and medieval literature and on myth theory. His book on Pound will be out soon.

CRAIG CHURRY works and writes in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

DAVE ETTER lives in Elburn, Illinois, where he edits manuscripts for the Northern Illinois University Press.

MICHAEL FINLEY, another Midwesterner, lives in Minneapolis, where he does newspaper work at the University of Minnesota.

RALPH J. MILLS, JR. teaches at The University of Illinois—Chicago Circle.

ALICIA OSTRIKER teaches at Rutgers. She has published numerous poems and a recent edition of Blake.

ROBERT K. RATZLAFF, who reviews James C. Carey's Kansas State University, received his Ph. D. from The University of Kansas and teaches history at Pittsburg State.

PAUL W. ZAGORSKI, who reviews two new books by Michael A. Weinstein, received his Ph. D. from Claremont and teaches political science at Pittsburg State.

DONALD F. KERLE, who reviews Holli and Jones' Ethnic Frontier, received his Ph. D. from The University of Kansas and teaches political science at Pittsburg State.

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