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Neeland Media The Complete Essays of Michel de Montaigne
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Conflict and Soldiers Literature in Early Modern Europe
Book SynopsisPaul Scannell is currently serving as a Canadian Regular Army officer and has a PhD in history from The Open UniversityTrade ReviewPaul Scannell is to be congratulated for his timely and worthwhile contribution to our understanding of the largely grim experiences of early modern British soldiers fighting overseas. * European History Quarterly *Scannell provides a provocative interpretation of military writings through the lens of the "public sphere" that reflects the latest historiographical trends in the field. * Mark Fissel, Professor of History Emeritus, Georgia Regents University, USA *Paul Scannell helps to fill the void that has until now existed between studies of late medieval warfare and the English Civil Wars. In a fascinating and straightforward way he explores the war experiences of soldiers themselves, demonstrating that these sources offer a wealth of valuable detail which is frequently absent from the more official sources traditionally drawn upon by historians. From now on, historians and the general reader will turn to this book before plunging into the literature of historical debates about Elizabethan and early Stuart warfare. * Rosemary O'Day, Emeritus Professor of History, The Open University, UK *This is an impressively comprehensive account of British soldiers’ experiences of war on the European continent from the time of the Dutch revolt until the Thirty Years War. Clearly written, and refreshingly free of jargon, Scannell’s book will be of interest to scholar and general reader alike. It has valuable things to say about a variety of topics: professional versus mercenary soldiers, the rivalry between horse and foot, battlefield motivation, the new military technology, wounds, medical treatment, turncoats, and the continuing importance of honour for soldiers and officers alike. He shows convincingly that few of those who recorded their experiences were motivated by profit or plunder. Indeed, a number of officers financed their own expeditions. Of far greater importance were loyalty, a Calvinist zeal to overthrow international Roman Catholicism, and not least, a desire to win honour and glory. * Ian Gentles, Professor of History, Tyndale University College, Canada *Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. The published works of soldiers 3. The categories of soldiers 4. The motivation of soldiers 5. The experience of soldiers 6. Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Benediction Classics The Complete Essays of Michel de Montaigne
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd A Companion to Cervantes's Novelas Ejemplares
Book SynopsisThis edited volume of fourteen specially commissioned essays written from a variety of critical perspectives by leading Cervantine scholars seeks to provide an overview of Cervantes's Novelas ejemplares which will be of interest to a broad academic readership. This edited volume of fourteen specially commissioned essays written from a variety of critical perspectives by leading cervantine scholars seeks to provide an overview of Cervantes's Novelas ejemplares which will be of interest to a broad academic readership. An extensive general Introduction places the Novelas in the context of Cervantes's life and work; provides basic information about their content, composition, internal ordering, publication, and critical reception, gives detailed consideration to the contemporary literary-theoretical issues implicit in the title, and outlines and contributes to the key critical debates on their variety, unity, exemplarity,and supposed "hidden mystery". After a series of chapters on the individual stories, the volume concludes with two survey essays devoted, respectively, to the understanding of eutrapelia implicit in the Novelas, andto the dynamics of the character pairing that is one of their salient features. Detailed plot summaries of each of the stories, and a Guide to Further Reading are supplied as appendices. Stephen Boyd is a lecturer in the Department of Hispanic Studies of University College Cork.Trade ReviewThe contributions successfully situate the Novelas in the context of Cervantes's life and works, and the world in which he lived. * BRITISH BULLETIN OF PUBLICATIONS ON LATIN AMERICA *Table of ContentsCervantes's Exemplary Prologue - Stephen Boyd Enchantment and Irony: Reading La gitanilla - William Clamurro The Play of Desire: El amante liberal and El casamiento engañoso y El coloquio de los perros - Peter Dunn Language as Object of Representaion in Rinconete y Cortadillo - A K G Paterson Now you see it, now you... see it again? The Dynamics of Doubling in La española inglesa - Soldiers and Satire in El licenciado Vidriera - Stephen Rupp Exemplary Rape: The Central Problem of La fuerza de la sangre - Anthony John Lappin Remorse, Retribution and Redemption in La fuerza de la sangre : Spanish and English Perspectives [with Trudi Darby] - B. W. Ife Remorse, Retribution and Redemption in La fuerza de la sangre : Spanish and English Perspectives [with Trudi Darby] - T L Darby Free Thinking in El celoso extremeño - Paul Lewis-Smith Performances of Pastoral in La ilustre fregona: Games within the Game - D. Gareth Walters Cervantine Traits in La dos doncellas and La señora Cornelia - Idoya Puig The Peculiar Arrangement of El casamiento engañoso and El coloquio de los perros - E.T. Aylward Eutrapelia and Examplarity in the Novelas ejemplares - Colin Thompson `Entre parejas anda el juego'/`All a Matter of Pairs': Reflections on Some Characters in the Novelas ejemplares - Jose Montero Reguera
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Shakespeare Text
Book SynopsisShakespeare / Text sets new agendas for the study and use of the Shakespearean text. Written by 20 leading experts on textual matters, each chapter challenges a single entrenched binary such as book/theatre, source/adaptation, text/paratext, canon/apocrypha, sense/nonsense, extant/ephemeral, material/digital and original/copy that has come to both define and limit the way we read, analyze, teach, perform and edit Shakespeare today. Drawing on methods from book history, bibliography, editorial theory, library science, the digital humanities, theatre studies and literary criticism, the collection as a whole proposes that our understanding of Shakespeare and early modern drama more broadly changes radically when ''either/or'' approaches to the Shakespearean text are reconfigured. The chapters in Shakespeare / Text make strong cases for challenging received wisdom and offer new, portable methods of treating ''the text'', in its myriad instantiations, that will be useful Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION SHAKESPEARE / TEXT by Claire M. L. Bourne I INCLUSIVE / EXCLUSIVE 1. FAIR / FOUL by B. K. Adams (Arizona State University, USA) 2. TEXT / PARATEXT by Hannah August (Massey University, New Zealand) 3. PUBLIC / PRIVATE by Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich (Ohio State University, USA) 4. EDITION / TRANSLATION by Régis Augustus Bars Closel (Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Brazil) 5. CANON / APOCRYPHA by Aleida Auld (University of Geneva, Switzerland) II BEFORE / AFTER 6. NOW / THEN by Andy Kesson (University of Roehampton, UK) 7. MISCELLANY / SEQUENCE by Megan Heffernan (DePaul University, USA) 8. ORIGINAL / COPY by Dianne Mitchell (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA) 9. SOURCE / ADAPTATION by Sujata Iyengar (University of Georgia, USA) 10. LIFE / AFTERLIFE by Margaret Jane Kidnie (University of Western Ontario, Canada) III AUTHORIZED / UNAUTHORIZED 11. BOOK / THEATRE by Holger Schott Syme (University of Toronto, Canada) 12. TEXT-BASED / CONCEPT-DRIVEN by Katherine Steele Brokaw (University of California, Merced, USA) 13. SENSE / NONSENSE by Rebecca L. Fall (Independent Scholar, USA) 14. FACT / FICTION by Adam G. Hooks (University of Iowa, USA) 15. PART / WHOLE by Paul Salzman (La Trobe University, Australia) IV PRESENT / ABSENT 16. BLACK / WHITE by Miles P. Grier (Queens College, City University of New York, USA) 17. EXTANT / EPHEMERAL by Scott A. Trudell (University of Maryland, USA) 18. LOST / FOUND by Misha Teramura (University of Toronto, Canada) 19. PAPER / INK by Emma Depledge (University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland) 20. MATERIAL / DIGITAL by Zachary Lesser & Whitney Trettien (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Bibliography Index
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Rowman & Littlefield Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 47: Studies in
Book SynopsisSince its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies. Since 1970, a new series, sponsored by the Modern Language Association of America and edited by an international board of distinguished scholars and critics, has published interdisciplinary articles. In yearly hardcover volumes, the new series publishes significant scholarship, criticism, and reviews treating all facets of medieval and Renaissance culture: history, art, literature, music, science, law, economics, and philosophy.Volume 47 showcases a variety of transnational and translingual perspectives, analyzing the works of humanist authors from across Europe, and how language can affect the interpretation of the literature. It expands beyond the Eurocentric appraisal of medieval works and takes into consideration a broader response.
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Rowman & Littlefield Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 48: Studies in
Book SynopsisSince its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies. Since 1970, a new series, sponsored by the Modern Language Association of America and edited by an international board of distinguished scholars and critics, has published interdisciplinary articles. In yearly hardcover volumes, the new series publishes significant scholarship, criticism, and reviews treating all facets of medieval and Renaissance culture: history, art, literature, music, science, law, economics, and philosophy.Volume 48 is a special issue that presents the outcome of an international workshop (“Transnational Aspects of Early Modern Drama”) held (virtually) at Ruhr-Universität Bochum in June 2021. The conference was hosted by Jan Bloemendal, one of the most distinguished scholars in the field. This volume contains six transnational and/or translingual case studies of early modern theatre and four reviews which cover various epochs, genres and discourses.
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Verso Books The Sultan's Court: European Fantasies of the East
Book SynopsisEdward Said's Orientalism (1978) has justly attracted great respect and attention for its account of Western perceptions and representations of the Orient, but the English-speaking world has for too long been unaware of another classic in the same field which appeared in France only a year later. Alain Grosrichard's The Sultan's Court is a fascinating and careful deconstruction of Western accounts of "Oriental despotism" in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, focusing particularly on portrayals of the Ottoman Empire and the supposedly enigmatic and opaque structure of the despot's power and his court of viziers, janissaries, mutes, dwarfs, eunuchs and countless wives.Drawing on the writings of travelers and philosophers such as Montesquieu, Rousseau and Voltaire, Grosrichard goes further than merely cataloguing their intense fascination with the vortex of capriciousness, violence, cruelty, lust, sexual perversion and slavery which they perceived in the seraglio. Deftly and subtly using a Lacanian psychoanalytic framework, he describes the process as one in which these leading Enlightenment figures were constructing a fantasmatic Other to counterpose to their project of a rationally based society. The Sultan's Court seeks not to refute the misconceptions but rather to expose the nature of the fantasy and what it can reveal about modern political thought and power relations more generally.Trade ReviewWhat Said's Orientalism achieves in breadth, The Sultan's Court provides in depth: the precise outline-the elementary formula-of the sexual-political fantasy of 'Oriental Despotism' which structures our perception of the Muslim countries from the seventeenth century to our own times, and on to which Western ideology projects its own inconsistencies and repressed traumas. Combining French elegance and clarity of style with the highest conceptual stringency, this immensely readable book demonstrates the extraordinary potential of Lacanian pyschoanalysis for social analysis. A classic of the theory of ideology, to be ranged with the greatest achievements of Adorno, Foucault or Jameson! -- Slavoj Zizek
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The University of Chicago Press The Renaissance Rediscovery of Intimacy
Book SynopsisExplores the way ancient epistolary theory and practice were understood and imitated in the European Renaissance. This study is of interest to students and scholars in a number of areas, including classical, Renaissance, and early modern studies; comparative literature; and the history of reading, rhetoric, and writing.Trade Review"The Renaissance Rediscovery of Intimacy is very well written, lucid, and consistently engaging. Kathy Eden has very carefully woven together the warp and woof of her major concerns in each chapter, anticipating what will follow and looking back to what has preceded, offering signposts and summaries, forecasts and conclusions, all with authority and verve. There are many 'eureka' moments here, and Eden allows her reader to participate fully in discovering them. A wonderful achievement." (William Kennedy, Cornell University)"
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The University of Chicago Press The Renaissance Rediscovery of Intimacy
Book SynopsisIn 1345, when Petrarch recovered a lost collection of letters from Cicero to his best friend Atticus, he discovered an intimate Cicero, a man very different from either the well-known orator of the Roman forum or the measured spokesman for the ancient schools of philosophy. It was Petrarch's encounter with this previously unknown Cicero and his letters that Kathy Eden argues fundamentally changed the way Europeans from the fourteenth through the sixteenth centuries were expected to read and write. The Renaissance Rediscovery of Intimacy explores the way ancient epistolary theory and practice were understood and imitated in the European Renaissance.Eden draws chiefly upon Aristotle, Cicero, and Seneca but also upon Plato, Demetrius, Quintilian, and many others to show how the classical genre of the familiar letter emerged centuries later in the intimate styles of Petrarch, Erasmus, and Montaigne. Along the way, she reveals how the complex concept of intimacy in the Renaissance leveraging the legal, affective, and stylistic dimensions of its prehistory in antiquity pervades the literary production and reception of the period and sets the course for much that is modern in the literature of subsequent centuries. Eden's important study will interest students and scholars in a number of areas, including classical, Renaissance, and early modern studies; comparative literature; and the history of reading, rhetoric, and writing.
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The University of Chicago Press Montaigne in Motion
Book SynopsisA study of the Essais of Montaigne, whose deceptively plainspoken meditations have entranced readers and philosophers since their first publication.Trade Review"The most important contribution to Montaigne studies since Friedrich's work.... It will be the critical framework in which scholars will discuss Montaigne in the years to come." - Choice "Starobinski brings Montaigne to life by treating him as our contemporary and asking him modern questions." - Hudson Review "Reading Jean Starobinski's book, one experiences some of the same excitement and delight as when one reads Montaigne." - Natalie Zemon Davis, New York Review of Books"
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The University of Chicago Press Lost Property The Woman Writer English Literary
Book SynopsisExamining the history of the representations of women writers from Margery Kemp and Christine de Pizan to Elizabeth I and Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, this volume shows how the woman writer came to embody alienation from tradition.
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Columbia University Press Putting History to the Question Power Politics and Society in English Renaissance Drama
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Pennsylvania State University Press Forgiving the Gift The Philosophy of Generosity
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Pennsylvania State University Press Paradise Lost A Poem Written in Ten Books
Book SynopsisThis authoritative text of the first edition of John Milton's Paradise Lost transcribes the original 10-book poem, records its textual problems and numerous differences from the second edition, and discusses in critical commentary the importance of these issues.
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Pennsylvania State University Press Paradise Lost A Poem Written in Ten Books
Book SynopsisAppearing in tandem with the publication of an authoritative text of the first edition of John Milton's Paradise Lost, these insightful essays by ten Miltonists establish the significant differences between the text, context, and effect of the poem's first edition (1667) and those of the now-standard second edition. In bringing together essays by various hands, editors Michael Lieb and John T. Shawcross seek to map what may be termed a new frontier in Milton studies, one that acknowledges the importance of what Milton himself considered to be the work of a lifetime when he offered Paradise Lost to readers in 1667. While the scholars writing here do not claim that the first edition of Milton's epic should be viewed as supplanting the second and later editions, they do seek to demonstrate the importance of coming to terms with the original ten-book edition both as a work with its own identity and value and as a source of fundamental insight into the nature of the editions that would follow in its wake. Paradise Lost cannot be fully understood without an awareness of the dynamic and ever-changing nature of the forces through which it made its first and subsequent appearances in the world at large.Table of ContentsPreface1. Back to the Future: Paradise Lost 1667Michael Lieb2. “More and More Perceiving”: Paraphernalia and Purpose in Paradise Lost, 1668, 1669Joseph Wittreich3. Simmons’s Shell Game: The Six Title Pages of Paradise LostStephen B. Dobranski4. Milton’s 1667 Paradise Lost in Its Historical and Literary ContextsAchsah Guibbory5. The Emperor’s New Clothes: The Royal Fashion of Satan and Charles IIRichard J. DuRocher6. “Now let us play”: Paradise Lost and Pleasure Gardens in Restoration LondonLaura Lunger Knoppers7. “[N]ew Laws thou see’st impos’d”: Milton’s Dissenting Angels and the Clarendon Code, 1661–65Bryan Adams Hampton8. Poetic Justice: Plato’s Republic in Paradise Lost (1667)Phillip J. Donnelly9. The Mysterious Darkness of Unknowing: Paradise Lost and the God Beyond NamesMichael Bryson10. “That which by creation first brought forth Light out of darkness!”: Paradise Lost, First Edition John T. ShawcrossNotesAbout the ContributorsIndex
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Yale University Press How Shakespeare Put Politics on the Stage
Book SynopsisA masterful, highly engaging analysis of how Shakespeare's plays intersected with the politics and culture of Elizabethan EnglandTrade Review“Subtle and insightful readings . . . The high point of Mr. Lake’s book is his masterly analysis of Henry V. . . . Anyone interested in Shakespeare should make the effort to read this book. Even someone intimately familiar with the plays will discover much that is new, from details of historical background to interpretations of specific passages.”—Paul A. Cantor, Wall Street Journal“In this huge chronologically ordered study, Peter Lake coalesces the English Histories with Shakespeare’s Roman plays to argue that the history plays reflect a distinct trace left by the real political manoeuvrings of the period, and provides a wealth of historical information to underpin his case.”—Rene Weis, BBC History“Well deserving of a space on readers’ shelves” —Marisa R. Cull, American Historical Review“[T]he scholarship on display is admirable, and the arguments clear and well-constructed. Those with an interest in the political dynamics which drove Shakespeare to shape his plays as he did, and who wonder just how he managed to balance the expression on stage of radical ideas about kingship, the rule of law and the will of the people with living in the uncertain and often violent political reality of late Elizabethan England...will find this book deeply thought-provoking.”—Paul Flux, Albion Magazine'An immensely learned and deeply insightful monograph disguised as a page-turner. Lake offers the most lucid and believable account to date of, as the title promises, how Shakespeare put politics on the stage. Required reading not only for all Shakespeareans but for anyone interested in how literature speaks to and is shaped by its historical moment.' - Debora Shuger, author of Political Theologies in Shakespeare's England 'Even as Shakespeare’s histories illuminate his times, his times cast light upon those plays. Peter Lake, whose grasp of the Elizabethan political scene is exceptional, illuminates both Shakespeare’s world and works. Historians and literary scholars alike will find this a deeply engaging and comprehensive study.'—James Shapiro, author of The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606'Peter Lake has written an astonishing book, even for Peter Lake. Learned, lively, provocative and often surprising, How Shakespeare Put Politics on the Stage is a brilliant account of Elizabethan politics and Shakespeare’s extraordinary mediation of them. It is a wonderfully sensitive and supple work of literary criticism as well as a deeply engaged account of how Shakespeare’s England (which only retrospectively became “his”) thought about the most urgent political issues of the day.' - David Scott Kastan, author of A Will to Believe: Shakespeare and Religion
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The University of Michigan Press Gaming the Stage
Book SynopsisRich connections between gaming and theatre stretch back to the 16th and 17th centuries. In the first book-length exploration of gaming in the early modern period, Gina Bloom shows that theatres succeeded in London's new entertainment marketplace largely because watching a play and playing a game were similar experiences.Trade ReviewA smart, invigorating intervention into early modern theatre history and historiography. Not only specialists in Renaissance Drama, but also cultural historians, game and gaming scholars, and specialists in performance studies will find this book accessible and engaging. Bloom moves masterfully across scholarly registers, showing how theatre remembers and reconstitutes the chanciness of everyday life."" - Ellen MacKay, University of Chicago""Bloom's central argument concerns the ways the strategies of playing different kinds of games are worked into the action of early modern drama, and how the affectual and kinesthetic structure of playing/watching these games provides an index into the plays' potential theatrical experience . . . a deeply researched, well-conceived, thoroughly engrossing book."" - W. B. Worthen, Barnard College, Columbia University
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University of California Press Mans Estate
Book SynopsisThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1981.
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University of California Press The BalladDrama of Medieval Japan
Book SynopsisThe Ballad-Drama of Medieval Japan delves into the kowaka, a ballad-drama genre that flourished during Japan's tumultuous Medieval Era, a period shaped by samurai culture and the heroic values of loyalty and chivalry. Emerging in the 16th century, kowaka captured the martial exploits and epic struggles of the early Medieval Era, including the famed Genji-Heike conflict. Despite its initial popularity among samurai, the kowaka faded into obscurity during the Edo Period, only to be rediscovered in modern times. This study aims to reconstruct the history, artistry, and literary significance of kowaka, drawing on Japanese scholarship, field observations in Kyushu's Oe Village (where the tradition endures), and textual analysis. The book is divided into two parts. The first examines kowaka as a performing art, detailing its historical development, influences, and stylistic elements while highlighting the author's original fieldwork and critiques of prior research. The second part focuses
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Chaucer to Spenser
Book Synopsis* Provides first--hand understanding of two centuries of literary culture. * Gives representation to all kinds of writing that is of a literarya interest. * Offers a transgression of the a great dividea of medieval and Renaissance, and ignores conventional periodization. .Trade Review"The true proof of an anthology is its classroom performance. . .Pearsall's smorgasbord of short extracts, dressed with first-rate contextualizing commentary and references to just the right secondary literature, inspire much independent investigation and a joyous crop of non- repetitive termpapers." "Above all, it is a pleasure to work with a volume annotated from a lifetimes's learning and leavened by rare, companionable humour. Many moments linger." Medium AevumTable of ContentsAplphabetical List of Authors and Works. Introduction. Acknowledgements. List of Abbreviations and Short Titles. Chronological Table of Dates. Map. 1. Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400). The Parliament of Fowls. From Troilus and Criseyde. From The Canterbury Tales. Minor Poems. 2. William Langland (1375-1380). From The Vision of Piers Plowman (c-text). 3. The Letters of John Ball (1381). 4. John Trevisa (1402). 5. The Wycliffite Bible (1380-1400). 6. 'The Gawain-Poet' (1390). From Sir Gawain and The Green Knight. From Patience. 7. John Gower 91408). From Confessio Amantis. 8. Mandeville's Travels (1390-1400). 9. The Cloud of Unknowing (1390-1400). 10. Julian of Norwich (1342-14180. From The Revelations of Divine Love. 11. The Alliterative Morte Arthure. 12. William Thorpe. From The Testimony of William Thorpe. 13. Nicholas Love (1410). 14. Thomas Hoccleve (1368-1426). From La Male Regle De T. Hoccleve. From The Regement of Princes. From 'The Series'. 15. John Lydgate (1371-1449). From The Troy-Book. From The Siege of Thebes. From The Life of Our Lady. From The Dance Macabre. From The Fall of Princes. Letter to Gloucester. From The Testament of Dan John Lydgate. 16. Maragret Kempe (1373-1440). From The Book of Margery Kempe. 17. Charles of Orleans 91394-1465). 18. Anonymous Songs and Short Poems, Religious, Comic and Amatory. 19. Love-Poems (By Women?) From The Findern Manuscript. 20. Popular Ballads. 21. Reginald Pecock (1392/5- 1460). 22. The Paston Letters. 23. Sir John Fortescue (1395-1477). From The Governance of England. 24. Sir Thomas Malory (1410-1471). From Morte D'Arthur. 25. William Caxton (1422-14920. 26. Robert Henryson (1430-1505). The Testament of Cresseid. From The Fables. 27. William Dunbar (1456-15150. Meditation in Winter. Christ in Triumph. From The Golden Targe. From The Treatise of the Two Married Women and the Widow. 28. Gavin Dougles (1475-1522). From The Aeneid-Translation. 29. Stephen Hawes (1521). From The Pastime of Pleasure. 30. John Skelton (1460-1529). 31. The First English Life of Henry V (1513). 32. Sir Thomas More (1478-1535). From The History of King Richard III. From Utopia. From A Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation. 33. Sir Thomas Elyot (1490-1546). From The Book Named the Governor. 34. William Tyndale (1494-1536). From The Prologue to the New Testament. From The New Testament. From The Obedience of a Christian Man. 35. Simon Fish (1500-1531). 36. William Roper (1496-1577). 37. Sir David Lindsay (1486-1555). From Squire Meldrum. 38. George Cavendish (1499-1562). From The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey. From Metrical Visions. 39. Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542). 40. John Leland (1506-15520. 41. Henry Howard, Earl Of Surrey (1517-1547). 42. High Latimer (1491-1555). From The 'Sermon of the Plougher'. 43. Roger Ascham (1515-1568). From Toxophilus, or, The School of Shooting. From The Schoolmaster. 44. A Mirror fro Magistrates (1563). 45. John Foxe (1517-1587). From The Acts and Monumnets of Martyrs. 46. George Gascoigne (1539-1578). From The Steel Glass. From The Spoil of ANtwerp. 47. Edmund Spenser (1552-1599). Textual Variants. Glossary of Common Hard Words. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Chaucer to Spenser
Book Synopsis* Provides first--hand understanding of two centuries of literary culture. * Gives representation to all kinds of writing that is of a literarya interest. * Offers a transgression of the a great dividea of medieval and Renaissance, and ignores conventional periodization. .Trade Review"The true proof of an anthology is its classroom performance. . .Pearsall's smorgasbord of short extracts, dressed with first-rate contextualizing commentary and references to just the right secondary literature, inspire much independent investigation and a joyous crop of non- repetitive termpapers." "Above all, it is a pleasure to work with a volume annotated from a lifetimes's learning and leavened by rare, companionable humour. Many moments linger." Medium AevumTable of ContentsAlphabetical List of Authors and Works xiii Introduction xv Acknowledgements xix List of Abbreviations and Short Titles xx Chronological Table of Dates xxiii Map xxvi Geoffrey Chaucer (C.1343–1400) 1 The Parliament Of Fowls 2 From Troilus And Criseyde 20 The wooing of Criseyde (from Book II) 21 The winning of Criseyde (from Book III) 44 The loss of Criseyde (from Book V) 69 The epilogue (from Book V) 76 From The Canterbury Tales 79 The General Prologue 80 The Miller’s Prologue and Tale 99 The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale 116 The Franklin’s Prologue and Tale 143 The Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale 164 Minor Poems Adam Scriveyn 177 Truth 177 The Envoy to Scogan 178 The Complaint of Chaucer to his Purse 180 William Langland (Fl. 1375–1380) 182 From The Vision Of Piers Plowman (C-Text) The Field Full of Folk (Prologue) 182 Meed at Westminster (from Passus III) 187 Will’s ‘apologia pro vita sua’ (from Passus V) 189 The Confession of the People (from Passus VI) 192 Piers Plowman and the Search for Saint Truth (from Passus VII) 196 The Ploughing of the Half-Acre (from Passus VIII) 200 The Pardon sent from Truth (from Passus IX) 207 The Beginning of the Search for Dowel (from Passus X) 213 The Crucifixion and the Harrowing of Hell (from Passus XX) 214 The Coming of Antichrist (from Passus XXII) 222 The Letters Of John Ball (1381) 227 John Trevisa (D. 1402) 230 From His Translation Of Higden’s Polychronicon The languages of Britain 230 The Wycliffite Bible (c.1380–c.1400) 232 The parable of the great supper (Luke 14:12–24) 232 The nature of charity (1 Cor. 13) 232 ‘The Gawain-Poet’ (Fl. 1390) 234 From Sir Gawain And The Green Knight Fits Three And Four 235 From Patience Jonah And The Whale 266 John Gower (D. 1408) 273 From Confessio Amantis The lover’s business (from Book IV) 273 The Tale of Tereus and Procne (from Book V) 276 Mandeville’s Travels (C.1390–1400) 287 The holy places west of Jerusalem (chap. 11) 287 The people of Dundeya (chap. 22) 288 The approach to the land of Prester John (chap. 30) 289 The fools of despair (chap. 31) 289 The Brahmins (chap. 32) 290 The Earthly Paradise (chap. 33) 291 The Cloud Of Unknowing (c.1390–1400) 292 The plan of campaign (chap. 3) 292 The cloud of unknowing and the cloud of forgetting (chaps 4–7) 293 False contemplatives (chap. 53) 295 Nowhere is everywhere (chap. 68) 296 Julian (Juliana) Of Norwich (1342–C.1418) 297 From The Revelations Of Divine Love (Longer Version) The bodily sickness and the first revelation (chaps 3–4) 297 The second revelation (chap. 10) 299 The seventh revelation (chap. 15) 300 The eighth revelation (chap. 16) 301 The thirteenth revelation (chap. 27): Sin is behovely 301 Jesus as Mother (chap. 60) 302 The Alliterative Morte Arthure 304 Arthur’s fight with the giant of St Michael’s mount 304 William Thorpe (Fl. 1407) 308 From The Testimony Of William Thorpe 308 Nicholas Love (Fl. 1410) 313 From The Mirror Of The Blessed Life Of Jesus Christ (1410) The purpose of this work (chap. 40) 313 The scourging (chap. 41) 314 The crucifixion (chap. 43) 315 The seven last words from the Cross (chap. 44) 317 Thomas Hoccleve (1368–1426) 319 From La Male Regle De T. Hoccleve Living it up in London 319 From The Regement Of Princes The sleepless night and meeting with the old man 322 Hoccleve’s troubles 327 Hoccleve’s hard life as a scribe 329 Chaucer is dead 331 A way to remember Chaucer 333 From The ‘Series’ From The Complaint of Hoccleve 334 From Dialogue with a Friend 339 John Lydgate (1371–1449) 343 From The Troy-Book Lamentation upon the fall of Troy (from Book IV) 344 From The Siege Of Thebes Prologue 345 From The Life Of Our Lady The Commendation of Our Lady at the Nativity (from Book III) 350 From The Dance Macabre 353 From The Fall Of Princes The letter of Canace to her brother 362 Exclamation on the death of Cyrus 365 Letter To Gloucester 366 From The Testament Of Dan John Lydgate 367 Margery Kempe (C.1373–C.1440) 369 From The Book Of Margery Kempe Her first childbirth, and first vision of Christ (chap. 1) 369 Her contract with her husband, 23 June 1413, on the road to Bridlington (chap. 11) 371 Among the monks at Canterbury (chap. 13) 372 Wedded to the Godhead (chap. 36) 373 Before the archbishop of York (chap. 52) 374 Her husband’s last illness (chap. 76) 376 Charles Of Orleans (1394–1465) 378 Ballade 48: ‘To longe, for shame’ 378 Ballade 70: ‘In the forest of Noyous Hevynes’ 379 Ballade 72: ‘Whan fresshe Phebus’ 380 Roundel 35: ‘Take, take this cosse’ (with the text of Charles’s French original) 381 Roundel 37: ‘I prayse nothing’ 381 Roundel 57: ‘My gostly fadir’ 382 Charles meets his new lady (5219–5351) 382 Ballade 96: ‘Syn hit is so we nedis must depart’ 385 Anonymous Songs And Short Poems, Religious, Comic And Amatory 387 ‘Adam lay ibowndyn’ 387 ‘I syng of a mayden’ 387 ‘Ther is no rose’ 388 ‘Lully, lulla, thow litel tiny child’ 389 ‘A God and yet a man’ 389 ‘Who cannot wepe come lerne at me’ 390 ‘In a tabernacle of a toure’ 391 The Corpus Christi Carol 393 Christ Triumphant 394 ‘Farewell, this world’ 394 ‘Kyrie, so kyrie’ 395 ‘I have a gentil cok’ 396 ‘I dar not seyn’ 397 ‘Care away for evermore’ 397 The Schoolboy’s Lament 398 Against Blacksmiths 399 ‘Alone walkyng’ 400 ‘Myn hertys joy’ 401 ‘Westren wynde’ 401 Love-Poems (By Women?) From The Findern Manuscript 402 1 ‘As in yow restyth my joy and comfort’ 402 2 ‘What-so men seyn’ 402 3 ‘My woofull hert, thus clad in payn’ 403 4 (a) ‘Come home, dere herte, from tarieng’ 404 (b) ‘To you, my joye and my worldly plesaunce’ 404 (c) ‘There may areste me no pleasance’ 405 (d) ‘Welcome be ye, my sovereine’ 405 5 ‘Continuaunce / Of remembraunce’ 405 Popular Ballads 406 Saint Steven 406 The Hunting of the Cheviot 407 Robin Hood and the Monk 413 Reginald Pecock (C.1392/5–C.1460?) 423 From The Repressor Of Overmuch Blaming Of The Clergy Images not a form of idolatry 423 The Paston Letters 425 Margaret Paston to Sir John Paston II 425 Elizabeth Brews to John Paston III 427 The same 427 Margery Brews to John Paston III 427 The same 428 Sir John Fortescue (C.1395–C.1477) 429 From The Governance Of England Jus regale and Jus politicum et regale 429 Sir Thomas Malory (C.1410–1471) 431 From The Morte D’arthur, Book 8, ‘The Moste Pyteuous Tale Of The Morte Arthure Saunz Gwerdon’ The accusation and rescue of Guenevere 432 The vengeance of Sir Gawain 440 The combat of Lancelot and Gawain 449 The last battle and the death of Arthur 452 The death of Guenevere and of Lancelot 459 William Caxton (C.1422–1492) 465 Prologue To Malory’s Morte D’arthur 465 Prologue To Eneydos 467 Robert Henryson (C.1430–C.1505) 469 The Testament Of Cresseid 469 From The Fables 484 The Cock and the Fox 485 The Fox and the Wolf 490 The Wolf and the Wether 495 The Wolf and the Lamb 498 William Dunbar (C.1456–C.1515) 503 Meditation In Winter 503 Christ In Triumph 504 From The Golden Targe 505 From The Treatise Of The Two Married Women And The Widow 508 ‘Timor Mortis Conturbat Me’ 515 Gavin Douglas (C.1475–1522) 519 From The Aeneid-Translation Book II, chapter 9 520 (with Latin of Aeneid, II.544–58) Book VII, Prologue (1–96) 522 Book XIII, Prologue 524 Stephen Hawes (D. After 1521) 529 From The Pastime Of Pleasure Dedication 529 How Graunde Amour met with Fame 530 The Tower of Doctrine 533 The nature of poetic style 534 Farewell to the world 535 Farewell to his book 535 John Skelton (C.1460–1529) 536 From The Bowge Of Court 536 From The Book Of Philip Sparrow 542 From The Tunning Of Elinor Rumming 556 From Colin Clout 560 From The Garland Of Laurel 565 The First English Life Of Henry V (1513) 571 The prince of Wales presents himself to his father, Henry IV 571 Sir Thomas More (1478–1535) 573 From The History Of King Richard Iii The fall of lord Hastings 573 Shore’s wife 575 The duke of Buckingham has Richard acclaimed king 576 From Utopia 578 Restrictions on travel among the Utopians 579 How the Utopians regard gold 579 How the Utopians wage war 580 The superiority of the Utopian commonwealth 581 From A Dialogue Of Comfort Against Tribulation How the Christian prepares himself to die for his faith 583 Sir Thomas Elyot (C.1490–1546) 585 From The Book Named The Governor The importance of beginning Latin early 585 Why gentlemen’s children are seldom properly educated 586 An illustration of the virtue of placability 586 William Tyndale (1494–1536) 588 From The Prologue To The New Testament 588 From The New Testament The parable of the great supper (Luke 14:12–24) 589 The nature of love (1 Cor. 13) 589 From The Obedience Of A Christian Man That the scripture ought to be in the English tongue 590 Why they will not have the scripture in English 591 Blind mouths 591 Simon Fish (C.1500–1531) 592 From A Supplication For The Beggars (1529) 592 William Roper (1496–1577) 594 From The Life Of Sir Thomas More The testimony of master Rich 594 Sir David Lindsay (C.1486–1555) 596 From Squire Meldrum Prologue 596 The sea-fight 598 The wooing of the lady of Gleneagles 600 George Cavendish (C.1499–C.1562) 603 From The Life And Death Of Cardinal Wolsey Wolsey’s last journey 603 From Metrical Visions The Complaint of Cardinal Wolsey 605 Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503–1542) 607 1 ‘The longe love, that in my thought doeth harbar’ 608 (with Italian of Petrarch, Sonnet 107) 2 ‘Who-so list to hunt, I knowe where is an hynde’ 609 3 ‘Farewell, Love, and all thy lawes for ever’ 609 4 ‘My galy charged with forgetfulnes’ 609 5 ‘Madame, withouten many wordes’ 610 6 ‘They fle from me that sometyme did me seke’ 610 7 ‘What no, perdy, ye may be sure!’ 611 8 ‘Marvaill no more’ 611 9 ‘Tho I cannot your crueltie constrain’ 612 10 ‘To wisshe and want and not obtain’ 613 11 ‘Some-tyme I fled the fyre that me brent’ 614 12 ‘The furyous gonne in his rajing yre’ 614 13 ‘My lute, awake!’ 614 14 ‘In eternum’ 615 15 ‘Hevyn and erth and all that here me plain’ 616 16 ‘To cause accord or to agre’ 617 17 ‘Th’answere that ye made to me, my dere’ 618 18 ‘You that in love finde lucke and habundaunce’ 619 19 ‘What rage is this? what furour of what kynd?’ 619 20 ‘Is it possible?’ 620 21 ‘And wylt thow leve me thus?’ 621 22 ‘Forget not yet the tryde entent’ 621 23 ‘Blame not my lute’ 622 24 ‘What shulde I saye?’ 623 25 ‘Spight hath no powre to make me sadde’ 624 26 ‘Wyth serving still’ 624 27 ‘I abide and abide and better abide’ 625 28 ‘Stond who-so list upon the slipper toppe’ 625 29 ‘Throughout the world, if it wer sought’ 626 30 ‘In court to serve decked with freshe aray’ 626 31 Satire 1: ‘Myne owne John Poynz’ 626 32 Paraphrase of Ps. 130: De profundis clamavi 629 John Leland (C.1506–1552) 630 From A New Year’s Gift To Henry Viii 630 Henry Howard, Earl Of Surrey (1517–1547) 632 1 ‘When ragyng love with extreme payne’ 632 2 ‘The soote season, that bud and blome furth bringes’ 633 3 ‘Set me wheras the sonne doth perche the grene’ 633 4 ‘Love, that doth raine and live within my thought’ 634 5 ‘Alas, so all thinges nowe do holde their peace’ 634 6 ‘Geve place, ye lovers, here before’ 635 7 ‘O happy dames, that may embrace’ 635 8 ‘Good ladies, you that have your pleasure in exyle’ 637 9 ‘When Windesor walles sustained my wearied arme’ 638 10 ‘So crewell prison howe could betyde, alas’ 638 11 ‘W. resteth here, that quick could never rest’ 640 12 ‘Th’Assyrans king, in peas with fowle desyre’ 641 13 ‘Marshall, the thinges for to attayne’ 641 From The Aeneid-Translation Book II (ll. 654–729) 642 Hugh Latimer (1491–1555) 644 From The ‘Sermon On The Plougher’ 644 Roger Ascham (1515–1568) 646 From Toxophilus, Or, The School Of Shooting Why he writes in English (from the Preface) 646 The wind on the snow 646 From The Schoolmaster How Italian books and Arthurian romances corrupt the young 647 A Mirror For Magistrates (Second Edition, 1563) 649 From The Induction To The Complaint Of Henry, Duke Of Buckingham, By Thomas Sackville (1536–1608) 649 From The Tragedy Of Lord Hastings, By John Dolman (C.1540–C.1602) 652 John Foxe (1517–1587) 654 From Acts And Monuments Of Martyrs Concerning Simon Fish 654 The behaviour of doctor Ridley and master Latimer at the time of their death (16 October 1555) 655 George Gascoigne (1539–1578) 659 From The Steel Glass Exhortation to knights, squires and gentlemen 659 Pray for ploughmen 660 From The Spoil Of Antwerp The seizing of the town 661 Edmund Spenser (1552–1599) 663 January, From The Shepherd’s Calendar 663 Textual Variants 666 Glossary of Common Hard Words 672 Index 676
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Chaucer to Spenser
Book SynopsisThis collection of previously published essays acts as a companion to Chaucer to Spenser: An Anthology of Writings in English 1375 -1575. It pays particular attention to those critics who have had the most powerful recent impact on our reading of the texts of the period.Table of ContentsPreface. Notes on Contributors. 1. The Humanity of Christ: Reflections on Orthodox Late Medieval Representations and The Humanity of Christ: Representations in Wycliffite Texts and Piers Plowman: David Aers. 2. The Wife of Bath and the Painting of Lions: Mary Carruthers. 3. Eunuch Hermeneutics: Carolyn Dinshaw. 4. Misogyny and Economic Person in Skelton, Langland, and Chaucer: Elizabeth Fowler. 5. At the Table of the Great: More's Self-Fashioning and Self-Cancellation: Stephen Greenblatt. 6. The Colonial Wyatt: Contexts and Openings: Roland Greene. 7. Price and Value in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Jill Mann. 8. William Langland's Kynde Name: Authorial Signature and Social Identity in Late Fourteenth-Century England: Anne Middleton. 9. Historical Criticism and the Claims of Humanism: Lee Patterson. 10.'Abject odious': Feminine and Masculine in Henryson's Testament of Cresseid: Felicity Riddy. 11. Prison, Writing, Absence: Representing the Subject in the English Poems of Charles d'Orléans: A. C. Spearing. 12. False Fables and Historical Truth: Paul Strohm. Index.
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