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.^3i. Washington Co lege Revie ^^^M _„i! ¥, 'i' ^A ^ vc^,;^ •» 7/ ^^ ^ a liberal artsjournal olumexii Washington d^lale review TheWashingtonCollegeReviewisaliberalarts journal that seeks to recognize the best of un- dergraduatestudentwritingfromalldisciplines oftheCollegeandtopublishworkdeservingof wideravailabilitytoreadersinthecollegecom- munityandbeyond. The Washington College Review is published annuallybythe O'NeillLiteraryHousePress. CoverIllustration: OriginsbyKatherine Coots '05 Cyanotype WashingtonCollege 300WashingtonAvenue MD Chestertown, 21620 ©2004byWashingtonCollege. Allrightsreserved. Washington College Review a liberal arts journal volume xii 2004 Chestertown, Maryland Editorial Board JanetT. Sorrentino, editor KathrynMoncrief, humanitieseditor JohnL. Seidel, socialscienceseditor Jennifer O'Neill,fineartseditor KatherineA. Cameron,naturalscienceseditor & RobertMooney, creativewritingeditor publisher MeredithDaviesHadaway,managingeditor SaraKathleenWuillermin '05, studenteditor, publicationdesign Contents AWord fromtheEditor viii WaterStriders AngelaHaley 1 The Queer Clique: YesterdayandTodayShakespeare'sMascu- lineHegemonyin "TheMerchantofVenice" RobRanneberger 3 Eve AngelaHaley 13 "Never Will YouAscendtoHer":Hispano-ArabicInfluenceon the ConceptofCourtlyLove Angela Haley 15 DrivingHome: Voice 101 KateAmann 27 Shakespeare Outside theAcademy: AssessingtheBard's CulturalRelevancebyMeans of ContemporaryPopMusic LouDiBenedetto 29 WhyDidThis Woman? Chelsea Gates 52 ThingsFallApart Chelsea Gates 53 Sephira Katherine Coots 54 Storm ofAngels Julia Shinderman 55 Ajax Sam Gutheridge 56 FridayNight Sam Gutheridge 57 Solarium HeidiAtwood 59 A MostHideous Object: Womanas Currencyin All's WellthatEnds Well HeidiAtwood 61 Adolescents LouDiBenedetto 79 WordFrom thePublisher 81 Contributors 83 Colophon 86 A Word From the Editor Every day, every momentcertain spectacular phenomena oc- cur,commonplaceandfamiliar:themovementofwavesonto shore,thedailysunriseandsunset,teeminginsectsmovingamong myriadsofflowers,thebreathoflifeitself.Weavingthroughsuch repetitious miracles, we reduce them to backdrop for our own chosenforms ofcommotion. Just as predictable, but equally extraordinary is the nexus of thought, image and language. As professors at Washington College, we daily witness as young women and men assemble thesethreegreatcomponentsofphilosophyandmoldtheminto written and visual sculptures. For this reason. Board ofEditors ofthe Washington CollegeReviewareverypleasedtobringyou VolumeXIofourliteraryjournal, foritgives us an opportunity tosharewithyousomeofthe bestofwhatourWashingtonCol- legecommunityseeseveryday: excellence. Itisoursincerehope that you will enjoy reading this issue as much as we have felt privilegedtoproduceit. Mysincerethanksgotothealleditorsfortheirtirelesshelpin producingthisissue,andaspecialthankstoSaraWuillerminand MeredithDaviesHadawayfortheirperseverance andcreativity duringtheproductionphase. Mostsincerely, JanetTierney Sorrentino SeniorEditor Washington CollegeReview Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with funding from LYRASIS members and Sloan Foundation http://www.archive.org/details/washingtoncolleg12unse