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Literature, war and politics, 1642-1668
Posted on January 3, 2012 | No CommentsWhat the two poems could not register (beyond a loaded remark in the Epilogue to the effect that if the play had offended the prince then ‘we’ve now / Three hours done treason here’) was the full extent of the political crisis then unfolding. -
All Singing, All Dancing
Posted on November 22, 2011 | No CommentsSexually explicit jigs were a major part of the attraction of the Elizabethan, Jacobean and Restoration stage, as Lucie Skeaping explains. -
Shakespeare and the Public Discourse of Sovereignty: “Reason of State” in Hamlet
Posted on April 29, 2010 | No CommentsShakespeare and the Public Discourse of Sovereignty: “Reason of State” in Hamlet DiMatteo, Anthony Early Modern Literary Studies 10.2 (September, 2004) Abstract Hamlet marks a turning point in Shakespeare’s evolving... -
“That vain Animal”: Rochester’s Satyr and the Theriophilic Paradox
Posted on April 24, 2010 | No Comments“That vain Animal”: Rochester’s Satyr and the Theriophilic Paradox Rosenfeld, Nancy Early Modern Literary Studies 9.2 (September 2003) Abstract The Satyr against Reason and Mankind by John Wilmot, second Earl... -
“He is turned a ballad-maker”: Broadside Appropriations in Early Modern England
Posted on April 23, 2010 | No Comments“He is turned a ballad-maker”: Broadside Appropriations in Early Modern England Fisher, Joshua B. Early Modern Literary Studies 9.2 (September 2003) Abstract Responding to an enduring critical heritage that often... -
The ”popular philosopher”: Plato, Poetry, and Food in Tudor Aesthetics
Posted on April 22, 2010 | No CommentsThe ”popular philosopher”: Plato, Poetry, and Food in Tudor Aesthetics Mitsi, Efterpi Early Modern Literary Studies 9.2 (September 2003) Abstract Sixteenth-century arguments on the role of poetry reveal the ambiguous... -
The Metaphysical Sonnets of John Donne and Mikolaj Sep Szarzynski: A Comparison
Posted on April 22, 2010 | No CommentsThe Metaphysical Sonnets of John Donne and Mikolaj Sep Szarzynski: A Comparison Kay, Magdalena Early Modern Literary Studies 9.2 (September 2003) Abstract Two of the most extraordinary minds of the... -
Meet the Peters
Posted on April 22, 2010 | No CommentsMeet the Peters Abrams, Richard Early Modern Literary Studies 8.2 (September 2002) / Special Issue 10 Abstract Recent internal evidence makes clear that John Ford had a principal hand in... -
“Powdered with Golden Rain”: The Myth of Danae in Early Modern Drama
Posted on April 6, 2010 | No Comments“Powdered with Golden Rain”: The Myth of Danae in Early Modern Drama Sanders, Julie Early Modern Literary Studies 8.2 (September 2002) / Special Issue 10 Abstract This essay explores the... -
“To stand upright will ask thee skill”: The Pinnacle and the Paradigm
Posted on April 5, 2010 | No Comments“To stand upright will ask thee skill”: The Pinnacle and the Paradigm Barton, Carol Early Modern Literary Studies 6.2 (September, 2000) Abstract Paradise Regain’d was considered inferior to the diffuse... -
Cheerful Girls and Willing Boys: Old and Young Bodies in Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Posted on April 5, 2010 | No CommentsCheerful Girls and Willing Boys: Old and Young Bodies in Shakespeare’s Sonnets MacInnes, Ian Early Modern Literary Studies 6.2 (September, 2000) Abstract Many twentieth-century critics have been willing to admit... -
Narrative and the Forms of Desire in Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis
Posted on April 1, 2010 | No CommentsNarrative and the Forms of Desire in Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis Kuchar, Gary Early Modern Literary Studies 5.2 (September, 1999) Abstract Recent articles by Catherine Belsey, Richard Halpern, and James... -
“In this dark world and wide”: Samson Agonistes and the Meaning of Christian Heroism
Posted on April 1, 2010 | No Comments“In this dark world and wide”: Samson Agonistes and the Meaning of Christian Heroism Barton, Carol Early Modern Literary Studies 5.2 (September, 1999) Abstract In this essay, I argue that... -
John Donne’s Use of Space
Posted on March 23, 2010 | No CommentsJohn Donne’s Use of Space Gorton, Lisa Early Modern Literary Studies 4.2/ Special Issue 3 (September, 1998) Abstract John Donne’s writing shows he was fascinated by new discoveries. He took... -
“On the Famous Voyage”: Ben Jonson and Civic Space
Posted on March 23, 2010 | No Comments“On the Famous Voyage”: Ben Jonson and Civic Space McRae, Andrew Early Modern Literary Studies 4.2/ Special Issue 3 (September, 1998) Abstract In this essay I want to contextualize Jonson’s... -
Translated Geographies: Edmund Spenser’s “The Ruines of Time”
Posted on March 23, 2010 | No CommentsTranslated Geographies: Edmund Spenser’s “The Ruines of Time” Griffiths, Huw Early Modern Literary Studies 4.2/ Special Issue 3 (September, 1998) Abstract This paper deals with two ironic movements in relation... -
The Poetic Nocturne: From Ancient Motif to Renaissance Genre
Posted on March 18, 2010 | No CommentsThe Poetic Nocturne: From Ancient Motif to Renaissance Genre Fitter, Chris Early Modern Literary Studies 3.2 (September 1997) Abstract The genre of poetic nocturne needs dating not to the eighteenth... -
New Pleasures Prove: Evidence of Dialectical Disputatio in Early Modern Manuscript Culture
Posted on March 18, 2010 | No CommentsNew Pleasures Prove: Evidence of Dialectical Disputatio in Early Modern Manuscript Culture Downs-Gamble, Margaret Early Modern Literary Studies 2.2 (August 1996): Contents Abstract Thomas Fuller first related the legend that... -
“Not Onely a Pastour, but a Lawyer also”: George Herbert’s Vision of Stuart Magistracy
Posted on March 18, 2010 | No Comments“Not Onely a Pastour, but a Lawyer also”: George Herbert’s Vision of Stuart Magistracy Powers-Beck, Jeffrey Early Modern Literary Studies 1.2 (August 1995) Abstract “Justice is the ground of charity”... -
‘Lyke Chaucers boye’: Poetry and Penitence in Gascoigne’s Grief of Joye
Posted on March 18, 2010 | No Comments‘Lyke Chaucers boye’: Poetry and Penitence in Gascoigne’s Grief of Joye Laam, Kevin Early Modern Literary Studies 14.1/Special Issue 18 Abstract In The Renaissance Chaucer, Alice Miskimin argues that the... -
The fruits of war: The voice of the soldier in Gascoigne, Rich, and Churchyard
Posted on March 17, 2010 | No CommentsThe fruits of war: The voice of the soldier in Gascoigne, Rich, and Churchyard Heale, Elizabeth Early Modern Literary Studies 14.1/Special Issue 18 Abstract The poem succinctly dramatizes the complex... -
‘Nedelesse Singularitie’: George Gascoigne’s Strategies for Preserving Lyric Delight
Posted on March 17, 2010 | No Comments‘Nedelesse Singularitie’: George Gascoigne’s Strategies for Preserving Lyric Delight Zarnowiecki, Matthew Early Modern Literary Studies 14.1/Special Issue 18 Abstract George Gascoigne’s A Hundreth Sundrie Flowres (1573) is among the most... -
Self-portraits and Self-presentation in the Work of George Gascoigne
Posted on March 17, 2010 | No CommentsSelf-portraits and Self-presentation in the Work of George Gascoigne Austen, Gillian Early Modern Literary Studies 14.1/Special Issue 18 Abstract George Gascoigne, the most inventive and influential poet of his generation,... -
Introduction: ‘Thus Much I Adventure to Deliver to You’: the Fortunes of George Gascoigne
Posted on March 17, 2010 | No CommentsIntroduction: ‘Thus Much I Adventure to Deliver to You’: the Fortunes of George Gascoigne Hamrick, Stephen Early Modern Literary Studies 14.1/Special Issue 18 Abstract Four hundred thirty years after his... -
Milton’s Titles
Posted on March 16, 2010 | No CommentsMilton’s Titles Hale, John K. Early Modern Literary Studies 13.1 (May, 2007) Abstract Milton’s titling practices are examined from four main standpoints. First, ideas about titling as a speech-act are... -
The Golden Man and the Golden Age: The Relationship of English Poets and the New World Reconsidered
Posted on March 16, 2010 | No CommentsThe Golden Man and the Golden Age: The Relationship of English Poets and the New World Reconsidered McInnis, David Early Modern Literary Studies 13.1 (May, 2007) Abstract George Chapman’s De... -
Mourning Eve, Mourning Milton in Paradise Lost
Posted on March 15, 2010 | No CommentsMourning Eve, Mourning Milton in Paradise Lost Hodgson, Elizabeth M. A. Early Modern Literary Studies 11.1 (May, 2005) Abstract Hamlet’s mourning black seems to be a form of armour which... -
A Shroud for the Mind: Ralegh’s Poetic Rewriting of the Self
Posted on March 8, 2010 | No CommentsA Shroud for the Mind: Ralegh’s Poetic Rewriting of the Self Tashma-Baum, Miri Early Modern Literary Studies 10.1 (May, 2004) Abstract Sir Walter Ralegh’s longest, most complex, and probably unfinished... -
“Thy temperance invincible”: Humanism in Book II of The Faerie Queene and Paradise Regained
Posted on March 8, 2010 | No Comments“Thy temperance invincible”: Humanism in Book II of The Faerie Queene and Paradise Regained Sung-Kyun, Yim Early Modern Literary Studies 9.1 (May 2003) Abstract This essay argues that Spenser and... -
“The Legend of the Bischop of St. Androis Lyfe” and the Survival of Scottish Poetry
Posted on March 8, 2010 | No Comments“The Legend of the Bischop of St. Androis Lyfe” and the Survival of Scottish Poetry Parkinson, David J. Early Modern Literary Studies 9.1 (May 2003) Abstract Their favoured manner readily... -
Common-words frequencies, Shakespeare’s style, and the Elegy by W. S.
Posted on March 7, 2010 | No CommentsCommon-words frequencies, Shakespeare’s style, and the Elegy by W. S. Craig, Hugh Early Modern Literary Studies 8.1 (May 2002) Abstract In a 1989 book Donald W. Foster presented evidence that... -
The Laureate Dunces and the Death of the Panegyric
Posted on February 25, 2010 | No CommentsThe Laureate Dunces and the Death of the Panegyric Heaney, Peter F. Early Modern Literary Studies 5.1 (May, 1999) Abstract The final, 1743 version of The Dunciad, included amongst its... -
Colon and Semicolon in Donne’s Prose Letters: Practice and Principle
Posted on February 24, 2010 | No CommentsColon and Semicolon in Donne’s Prose Letters: Practice and Principle Roth-Schwartz, Emma Early Modern Literary Studies 3.1 (May 1997) Abstract Empirical study of John Donne’s colon and semicolon usage reveals... -
Isabella Whitney’s “Lamentation upon the death of William Gruffith”
Posted on February 24, 2010 | No CommentsIsabella Whitney’s “Lamentation upon the death of William Gruffith” Martin, Randall Early Modern Literary Studies 3.1 (May 1997) Abstract In two notes published several years ago, R.J. Fehrenbach speculated that... -
Marvell’s Now
Posted on February 23, 2010 | No CommentsMarvell’s Now Raman, Shankar Early Modern Culture, No. 6 (2007) Abstract If the subsequent line — “So restless Cromwell could not cease” — identifies the “forward youth” with the man... -
The Sonnet in Ruins: Time and the Nation in 1599
Posted on February 23, 2010 | No CommentsThe Sonnet in Ruins: Time and the Nation in 1599 Griffiths, Huw Early Modern Culture, No. 6 (2007) Abstract With this essay, I want to think about an English history... -
A Case for Credit: Isabella Whitney’s “Wyll and Testament” and the Mock Testament Tradition
Posted on February 23, 2010 | No CommentsA Case for Credit: Isabella Whitney’s “Wyll and Testament” and the Mock Testament Tradition Ingram, Jill P. Early Modern Culture, No. 5 (2006) Abstract The speaker in Isabella Whitney’s “Wyll... -
Satire and Domesticity in Late Eighteenth-Century Women’s Poetry: Minding the Gap
Posted on February 17, 2010 | No CommentsSatire and Domesticity in Late Eighteenth-Century Women’s Poetry: Minding the Gap Johns-Putra, Adeline Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Vol. 33 No. 1 (2010) Abstract This article examines the work of four... -
Why Poetry?
Posted on January 21, 2010 | No CommentsWhy Poetry? Keith, Jennifer The Eighteenth Century, Volume 48, Number 1, Spring 2007 Abstract In a cultural climate and scholarly marketplace that increasingly marginalize poetry, especially eighteenth-century poetry, relatively few... -
The Faerie Queene, II. i-ii: Amavia, Medina, and the Myth of Lucretia
Posted on January 7, 2010 | No CommentsThe Faerie Queene, II. i-ii: Amavia, Medina, and the Myth of Lucretia Canadas, Ivan Medieval and Early Modern English Studies, Volume 15 No. 2 (2007) Abstract There is critical consensus... -
Her cruell hands: Love as Predation in Amoretti
Posted on January 6, 2010 | No CommentsHer cruell hands: Love as Predation in Amoretti Jeong, In-ju Medieval and Early Modern English Studies, Volume 16 No. 1 (2008) Abstract Although Edmund Spenser’s Amoretti has long been considered... -
“Remembering Cynthia: The Legacy of Elizabeth I in the Poetry of Aemilia Lanyer and Diana Primrose”
Posted on January 3, 2010 | No Comments“Remembering Cynthia: The Legacy of Elizabeth I in the Poetry of Aemilia Lanyer and Diana Primrose” Kim, Younkyung Medieval and Early Modern English Studies, Volume 15 No. 1 (2007) Abstract... -
“Constable’s Spirituall Sonnettes and the Three Spiritual Ways”
Posted on January 3, 2010 | No Comments“Constable’s Spirituall Sonnettes and the Three Spiritual Ways” Engels, William Medieval and Early Modern English Studies ,Volume 14 No. 2 (2006) Abstract Spirituall Sonnettes:To the honour of God and hys... -
“Imagining Self and Inwardness: Towards the Invention of Poetic Subjectivity in the Sonnets of Sidney and Shakespeare”
Posted on January 3, 2010 | No Comments“Imagining Self and Inwardness: Towards the Invention of Poetic Subjectivity in the Sonnets of Sidney and Shakespeare” Kim, Tai-Won Medieval and Early Modern English Studies Volume 14 No. 2 (2006)... -
Questioning Men’s Love in Sir Philip Sidney’s Astrophil and Stella and Lady Mary Wroth’s Pamphilia to Amphilanthus
Posted on January 3, 2010 | No CommentsQuestioning Men’s Love in Sir Philip Sidney’s Astrophil and Stella and Lady Mary Wroth’s Pamphilia to Amphilanthus Cañadas, Ivan Medieval and Early Modern English Studies, Volume 13 (2005) Abstract The... -
Measure is Treasure: Financial and Political Prudence in John Skelton’s Magnificence
Posted on January 1, 2010 | No CommentsMeasure is Treasure: Financial and Political Prudence in John Skelton’s Magnificence Kim, Tai-Won Medieval English Studies, vol.10 (2002) No.1 Abstract John Skelton’s Magnificence (ca. 1515-21), the only extant play of... -
Britomartis’ Heroic Love in Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, Book 3
Posted on December 30, 2009 | No CommentsBritomartis’ Heroic Love in Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, Book 3 Kim, Hoyoung Medieval English Studies, vol. 9 (2001) No. 1 Abstract Each book of The Faerie Queene is not a... -
Googe Is Scrooge: Barnaby Googe and Poetic Asceticism
Posted on December 30, 2009 | No CommentsGooge Is Scrooge: Barnaby Googe and Poetic Asceticism Hong, Kyongjoo Medieval English Studies, vol. 8 (2000) Abstract When we examine the tradition of Renaissance poetry in England, our attention diverges... -
The End Is Not Yet: Monarchy, Choice, and the Problematic Binaries of Representation
Posted on December 30, 2009 | No CommentsThe End Is Not Yet: Monarchy, Choice, and the Problematic Binaries of Representation Rogers, William Early English Studies, vol. 1 (2007) Abstract Ten years before the publication of Edmund Spenser’s... -
Reflections: Spenser, Elizabeth I, and Mirror Literature
Posted on December 30, 2009 | No CommentsReflections: Spenser, Elizabeth I, and Mirror Literature Dark, Rebecca Early English Studies, vol. 1 (2007) Abstract In Book Three of Spenser’s Faerie Queen frequently, the magical mirror in which Britomart...