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Read the provided paragraph and apply the MLA rules for In-Text…
Read the provided paragraph and apply the MLA rules for In-Text Citations (Parenthetical Reference). Then, do TWO things:
Label each as either “C” for correct or “I” for incorrect.
Briefly explain why any “I” is incorrect.
For example (and these are not necessarily the correct answers):
1. C
2. I-missing page number with citation
3. C
_____1. Critic Stephen Hollins makes the point that “regardless of moral or religious injunctions against personal vengeance, Elizabethan and Jacobean audiences shared a universal, instinctive desire to see violence repaid with violence” (qtd. in Yancey 89).
_____2. Yancey points out that “Critics do not agree on the extent to which Shakespeare’s treatment of revenge adheres to or diverges from the standards established by Kyd and
others.” (89)
_____3. It has been said, “Despite disagreements over what his works may reveal about the dramatist’s attitude toward revenge, scholars uniformly regard Hamlet and Titus Andronicus as the plays that come closest to the revenge tragedy model” (Yancey 89).
_____4. Elizabeth Yancey points out, “Critics do not agree on the extent to which Shakespeare’s treatment of revenge adheres to or diverges from the standards established by Kyd and others” (Yancey 89).
_____5. Commenting on earlier research into the concept of revenge tragedy, Yancey states, “Susan Escobedo asserts that Shakespeare scrutinized the moral and ethical quandaries facing the revenger much more closely than did any of his predecessors or contemporaries” (89).
_____6. Susan Escobedo makes the claim that “Shakespeare endorsed the idea that revenge is the prerogative of heaven” (238).
_____7. Yancey shows just how wrong-headed Escobedo’s views of Shakespeare are by citing the critic Stephen Hollins, who says “Elizabethan and Jacobean audiences shared a universal, instinctive desire to see violence repaid with violence” (qtd. in Yancey 89).
_____8. One authority explains that “the most notable English example of this form is Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy (c. 1587), a play which helped formulate the conventions of this genre and to which Shakespeare’s adaptations are frequently compared.”
_____9. Yancey, in the article “Shakespeare’s Take on Revenge Tragedy,” published in the journal Shakespeare Quarterly, argues, “While there are, of course, other avenues to achieve revenge, violence is the means that most satisfies the audience’s need for balance
and closure” (89).
_____10. While most readers do see elements of revenge tragedy in Hamlet, “Critics do not agree on the extent to which Shakespeare’s treatment of revenge adheres to or diverges from the standards established by Kyd and others” (Elizabeth 89).
_____11. Since revenge is a central theme in Hamlet, it is important to note that “Recent commentary on the question of revenge in Shakespeare’s plays frequently alludes to the dramatic genre known as revenge tragedy, a form that achieved widespread popularity in the late Elizabethan and Jacobean period” (Yancey 89).
_____12. Yancey points out that “Recent commentary on the question of revenge in Shakespeare’s plays frequently alludes to the dramatic genre known as revenge tragedy, a form that achieved widespread popularity in the late Elizabethan and Jacobean period” (89).
_____13. While it is certainly true that “Critics do not agree on the extent to which Shakespeare’s treatment of revenge adheres to or diverges from the standards established by Kyd and others” (Yancey 89), most astute readers know Hamlet is the greatest revenge tragedy of them all.
_____14. Yancey makes the point that despite disagreements over what his works may reveal about the dramatist’s attitude toward revenge, scholars uniformly regard Hamlet and Titus Andronicus as the plays that come closest to the revenge tragedy model (89).
_____15. It has been argued that “Despite disagreements over what his works may reveal about the dramatist’s attitude toward revenge, scholars uniformly regard Hamlet and Titus Andronicus as the plays that come closest to the revenge tragedy model” (Yancey, pg. 89).
