Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600 Books
St Augustine's Press Shakespeare′s Politic Comedy
Book SynopsisWill Morrisey again considers the political dimensions of literary classics, as previously seen in Melville’s Ship of State (2019). His attention to Shakespeare’s comedies is a reader’s and playgoer’s delight. INTRODUCTORY NOTE: The Politic Character of Shakespeare’s Comedy PART ONE: THREE REGIMES: OLIGARCHY, ARISTOCRACY, MONARCHY Chapter One: Shakespearean Comedy: Two Points on the Compass Chapter Two: Gentlemen and Gentlemanliness Chapter Three: Royal Dreaming PART TWO: THE RULE OF LAW Chapter Four: Comic Errors, Legal Slapstick Chapter Five: What Will You? PART THREE: THE COMEDY OF MORALS Chapter Six: Taming Our Shrewishness Chapter Seven: What Does Shakespeare Mean When He Says, “As You Like It”? PART FOUR: THE COMEDY OF POLITICS Chapter Eight: Is All Well That Ends Well? Chapter Nine: The Geopolitics of Love Chapter Ten: The Wisest Beholder SHAKESPEARE’S POLITIC MERRIMENT
£28.00
Chelsea House Publishers John Donne
Book SynopsisThe poetry of John Donne, Andrew Marvell, George Herbert, Robert Herrick, and Richard Crashaw has fascinated critics for centuries. Ambivalently received but inescapably influential, their tradition can be traced through some of the best poets of our time. This new volume from the ""Bloom's Classic Critical Views"" series features insightful essays from the 17th and early 20th centuries that offer students of literature historical insights into these significant poets.
£38.21
Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Faust Tales of Christoph Rosshirt: A Critical
Book SynopsisThe first cohesive Faust narrative in facsimile form, German transcription, and (first-ever) English translation, plus a history of Faust illustrations and an assessment of Faust's historicity. The Faust legend, which has come down to us most famously in Goethe's tragedy but also in countless other incarnations since the late sixteenth century, was first collected and presented as a cohesive narrative (in manuscript) byChristoph Rosshirt during the 1570s. Rosshirt was also the first to provide illustrations of Faust, hand-colored by Rosshirt himself. This book offers a critical edition of Rosshirt's six tales, including an introductory chapter,a facsimile of the manuscript, a transcription and first-ever English translation on facing pages, as well as a history of Faust illustrations, with Rosshirt's own illustrations and other examples up through Delacroix, the most complete survey of such illustrations to date. A final chapter rounds out the study with an assessment of Rosshirt's significance for the Faust tradition, a review of the evidence for a historical Faust, and a rejection of his historicity (because it is unprovable) in favor of his existence only in his story - a story Rosshirt helped to tell - and in our imaginations that animate that story. J. M. van der Laan is Professor Emeritus of German at Illinois State University.Trade Review[E]nriches Faust philology . . . through a reliable edition of one its early textual sources. -- Dieter Martin * GERMANISTIK *The time is . . . ripe for what the editor calls a "corrective to our understanding of the sixteenth-century character known as Faust" (4). [This is a] handsomely produced volume . . . with [a]ttractive reproductions of the illustrations in their surprisingly well-preserved original colours [, which] lead on to an extensive review of visualizations of Faustus across the centuries. The edition concludes with an attempt to situate Rosshirt within literary history and a meticulous review of the evidence for and against seeing Doctor Faustus as a historical figure. -- Osman Durrani * FOLKLORE *J. M. van der Laan . . . presents a critical edition of the six Faust tales contained in Rosshirt's extensive manuscript. The edition consists of a high-quality facsimile print of Rosshirt's manuscript (21-59), followed in synoptic presentation by a diplomatic transcription of the early New High German text and a modern English translation (60-137). A commentary on the text, which provides both lexical explanations and historical contexts, is found in the footnotes. The edition is flanked by an extensive introduction (1-17), which provides information on the sparse biographical data on Christoph Rosshirt, on the language and content of his manuscript, a detailed description of the manuscript, and notes on the edition and translation that follow. The book is followed by two essays, one on the illustrations in Rosshirt's manuscript, the other on the vehement discussion that has been going on for decades about the data on the historical Faust. -- Joana van de Löcht * DAPHNIS *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Faust, Christoph Rosshirt, and His Manuscript PART I. CHRISTOPH ROSSHIRT'S FAUST TALES Facsimile Edition Annotated German Transcription with English Translation PART II. COMMENTARY Faust Illustrated from Rosshirt to Delacroix and Beyond Faust's Identity and the Significance of Rosshirt's Tales about Him Bibliography
£89.10
Boydell & Brewer Ltd Renaissance Papers 2021
Book SynopsisEssays on a wide range of topics including the role of early modern chess in upholding Aristotelian virtue; readings of Sidney, Wroth, Spenser, and Shakespeare; and several topics involving the New World. Renaissance Papers collects the best scholarly essays submitted each year to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference. The present volume opens with an essay on early modern chess, arguing that it covertly upheld an Aristotelian concept of virtue against the destabilizing ethical views of writers such as Machiavelli. This provocative opening is followed by iconoclastic discussions of Sidney's Astrophil and Stella, Wroth's Urania, and Spenser's Fairie Queen. The next essay investigates the mystery surrounding editorship of the 1571 printing of The Mirror for Magistrates. The essays then pivot into the exotic world of Hermetic "statue magic" in Shakespeare's Winter's Tale and the even more exotic worlds of alchemy, Aztec war gods, and conversion in sixteenth-century Mexico. Two further essays remain in the New World, the first examining the representational connections between the twelve Caesars and the twelve Inca kings, the second taking stock of Thomas Harriot's contribution to the understanding of Amerindian languages. The penultimate essay looks at Holbein's depiction of Henry VIII's ailing body, and the volume concludes with a complex analysis of guilt and shame in Molière's L'École des Femmes. Contributors: Jean Marie Christensen, William Coulter, Christopher Crosbie, Shepherd Aaron Ellis, Scott Lucas, Fernando Martinez-Periset, Timothy Pyles, Rachel Roberts, Jesse Russell, Janet Stephens, Weiao Xing. The journal is edited by Jim Pearce of North Carolina Central University and Ward Risvold of Georgia College and State University.Table of Contents"Strange Serious Wantoning:": Early Modern Chess Manuals and the Ethics of Virtuous Subterfuge Christopher Crosbie "Both Use and Art:" Motifs and Method in Astrophil and Stella William A. Coulter Embodied Love(rs): Injury and Comedy in Mary Wroth's Urania Rachel M. De Smith Roberts Edmund Spenser's Automaton Alchemy: The Case of False Florimell Jesse Russell Who Edited the 1571 Mirror for Magistrates? Scott C. Lucas Statues Living and Conscious: Hermetic Statue-Magic in The Winter's Tale Timothy Pyles Transmutation and Refinement: The Metaphysics of Conversion and Alchemy in Renaissance Spain Shepherd Aaron Ellis The Twelve Inka and the Twelve Caesars: Reflections on an Early Modern Visual Theme in the Art of Colonial Peru Janet G. Stephens Linguistics and Epistemology in Thomas Harriot's North Atlantic World Weiao Xing Assembling the King's Body: Examining Holbein's Portrait Techniques and the Fashioning of Henry VIII's Image in the English Renaissance Jean Marie Christensen Molière's L'École des Femmes between Shame and Guilt Fernando Martinez-Periset
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Renaissance Papers 2022
Book SynopsisRenaissance Papers collects the best scholarly essays submitted each year to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference. The theme of this year's volume is "sacred places, secular spaces." It begins with a "who is it" mystery, examining two portraits by Raphael that embody the sacred and the profane, respectively. The next essay engages both the sacred and pictorial innovationsin Holbein's predella The Dead Christ; while the following one views the sacred through the critical lens of race, arguing that Northern European churchmen normalized views on race by strategically placing racialized artifacts in their churches. The scene then shifts to 16th century Venice, where the Greek community contended with local authorities over the right to establish a sacred site for interring their dead. The next two essays swing the pendulum toward the secular: an essay on ecocriticism suggests that the early modern period expelled the sacred from nature and presents a Rabelaisian antidote, while an essay on Spenser's The Faerie Queene presents it as a blueprint for colonization. The volume concludes with Contributors: Julie Fox-Horton, Lorenz A. Hindrichsen, Heather Hirschfeld, Elizabeth Lisot-Nelson, Jesse Russell, Victor Velázquez, John N. Wall, Jennifer Wu. The journal is edited by Jim Pearce of North Carolina Central University and Ward Risvold of Georgia College and State University.Table of ContentsThe Space of Hell, the Place of Print in Early Modern London Heather Hirschfeld The Jewish Bride and Oriental Concubine: Raphael's Donna Velata and La Fornarina Elizabeth Lisot-Nelson Into the Abyss: Hans Holbein the Younger's Dead Christ Jennifer Wu Racialized Sacred Spaces: Narratives of Exclusion and Inclusion in Northern European Churches Lorenz A. Hindrichsen Place for Our Dead: Sacred Space and the Greek Community in Early Modern Venice Julie Fox-Horton Pantagruelion, Debt and Ecology: Ecocriticism and Early Modern French Literature in Conversation Victor Velázquez Race before Race in Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene Jesse Russell Materializing Lost Time and Space: Implications for a Transformed Scholarly Agenda John N. Wall
£72.03
Arc Humanities Press Jewish Theatre Making in Mantua, 1520–1650
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£120.42
Arc Humanities Press Literature, Emotions, and Pre-Modern War:
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£128.33
Arc Humanities Press Bishop John Vitez and Early Renaissance Central
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£128.33
University of Delaware Press Ordering Customs: Ethnographic Thought in Early
Book SynopsisOrdering Customs explores how Renaissance Venetians sought to make sense of human difference in a period characterized by increasing global contact and a rapid acceleration of the circulation of information. Venice was at the center of both these developments. The book traces the emergence of a distinctive tradition of ethnographic writing that served as the basis for defining religious and cultural difference in new ways. Taylor draws on a trove of unpublished sources—diplomatic correspondence, court records, diaries, and inventories—to show that the study of customs, rituals, and ways of life not only became central in how Venetians sought to apprehend other peoples, but also had a very real impact at the level of policy, shaping how the Venetian state governed minority populations in the city and its empire. In contrast with the familiar image of ethnography as the product of overseas imperial and missionary encounters, the book points to a more complicated set of origins. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1 The Study of Customs 2 Ambassadors as Ethnographers 3 Ethnography and the Venetian State 4 Reading Ethnography in Early Modern Venice 5 Ethnography, the City, and the Place of Religious Minorities Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£107.20
Iter Press New Technologies and Renaissance Studies III
Book SynopsisThese essays explore problems with digital approaches to analog objects and offer digital methods to study networks of production, dissemination, and collection. Further, they reflect on the limitations of those methods and speak to a central truth of digital projects: unlike traditional scholarship, digital scholarship is often the result of collective networks of not only disciplinary scholars but also of library professionals and other technical and professional staff as well as students. Table of ContentsIntroductionMatthew Evan Davis and Colin Wilder Challenges and OpportunitiesThe King’s Cabinet Splintered: The King’s Cabinet Opened and Digital MediationTravis Mullen Lost in Pools of Data: Text Reuse in the Emblem Genre and the Nature of Humanities Research DataPeter Boot Digital Approaches to Analyzing and Understanding Baroque LiteratureClaudia Resch Methods and InsightsA Tale of Two Collectors: Using nodegoat to Map the Connections Between the Manuscript Collections of Thomas Phillipps and Alfred Chester BeattyToby Burrows TL;DR: An Experimental Application of Text Analysis and Network Analysis to the Study of Historical Library Collections, in Particular the Title Catalogs of Four Libraries in the Western Holy Roman Empire in the Period 1606–1796, Accompanied by Some Methodological Speculations and Ideas for Further ResearchColin Wilder The Implications of Image Manipulation Tools for Petrarch’s PhilologyAlessandro Zammataro Translation and Print Networks in Seventeenth-Century Britain: From Catalog Entries to Digital VisualizationsMarie-Alice Belle and Marie-France GuénetteCollaborationWhat’s in a Name? Six Degrees of Francis Bacon and Named-Entity RecognitionJessica Marie Otis Remixing the Canon: Shakespeare, Popular Culture, and the Undergraduate EditorAndie Silva Digital Interventions: Towards the Study of Women Artists in the Early Modern CourtsTanja Jones Contributors
£53.20
Iter Press Elizabethan Poetry in Manuscript – An Edition of
Book SynopsisThis volume presents the first printed edition of a late sixteenth-century poetic miscellany and provides invaluable insight into understanding the literature of the period. Its owner and principal scribe, Humfrey Coningsby, drew on texts circulating in manuscript , predominantly by contemporary writers of the time—including Philip Sidney, Edward Dyer, Arthur Gorges, Walter Ralegh, Elizabeth I, the Earl of Oxford, Nicholas Breton, George Peele, and Thomas Watson. Coningsby also added at least two of his own compositions, along with anonymous poems not found in any other manuscripts or printed books. This edition preserves the appearance, spelling, and punctuation of the original manuscript while expanding antiquated contractions to provide an easily readable text. Textual notes appear on the page, and in-depth contextual notes and word glosses are provided in the commentary section. The analyses add to our knowledge of early modern manuscript culture and literary manuscript transmission, and a substantial introduction provides context for the compilation of the anthology.Table of ContentsAbbreviations and conventionsList of illustrationsIntroductionPhysical descriptionThe hands: A-GThe identity of the compilerOxford University (November 1581 to September 1583)Inns of Court (ca. 1584)The travels Padua and Hungary: April 1594-98Constantinople: February? 1599-April 1600Final journeysOther people associated with HyRobert AllottSt Loe KnivetonJoyce JeffreysThe poets and scribal communitiesEdward Dyer and Philip SidneySpenser, Ralegh, and GorgesThe Earl of Oxford and his client-poetsNicholas BretonThe “Holborn set”: the metropolitan literary milieuVerse forms and featuresSubjects, themes, and genresOrganization and headingsDating the anthology Scribal habitsAuthorial and other attributionsEntries subscribed with the compiler’s initialsEntries identified as balletsCorrecting and perfectingEditorial conventionsNote on the collationsNote on the cypherText of BL Harl. MS 7392(2)CommentaryAppendices 1-4Bibliography of Manuscripts with Poems in HyEarly Modern Printed Books Cited in Full in This EditionWorks Cited in This Edition by Author-Date SystemIndex of First Lines ModernizedAuthor Index
£60.80
Bucknell University Press,U.S. Dystopias of Infamy: Insult and Collective
Book SynopsisInsults, scorn, and verbal abuse—frequently deployed to affirm the social identity of the insulter—are destined to fail when that language is appropriated and embraced by the maligned group. In such circumstances, slander may instead empower and reinforce the collective identity of those perceived to be a threat to an idealized society. In this innovative study, Irigoyen-Garcia examines how the discourse and practices of insult and infamy shaped the cultural imagination, anxieties, and fantasies of early modern Spain. Drawing on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literary works, archival research, religious and political literature, and iconographic documents, Dystopias of Infamy traces how the production of insults haunts the imaginary of power, provoking latent anxieties about individual and collective resistance to subjectification. Of particular note is Cervantes’s tendency to parody regulatory fantasies about infamy throughout his work, lampooning repressive law for its paradoxical potential to instigate the very defiance it fears.Trade Review"Extremely well-researched and well-written, Dystopias of Infamy is bound to be of interest not just to Hispanists, but also to cultural anthropologists and scholars interested in issues of identity formation among both dominant and marginalized groups."— Anthony J. Cascardi, author of Cervantes, Literature, and the Discourse of Politics "Dystopias of Infamy shows convincingly how the discourse and practices of insult shaped the cultural imagination, anxieties, and fantasies of early modern Iberia. The significance of Irigoyen-García’s study lies in an innovative approach that reveals infamy’s resilience as much as its liabilities, its foreseeable victims as much as its unexpected mutations. Through the recuperation of little-known historical documents and incisive interpretation of well-established texts, this book provides fresh, nuanced insights into the social workings of both the dominant and marginalized in pre-modern Spain."— Paul Michael Johnson, author of Affective Geographies: Cervantes, Emotion, and the Literary MediterraneanTable of ContentsIntroduction: “Names full of vituperations” 1. Insulting as a Social Speech Act: Communities of Affronters 2. Self-deprecation and Social Existence 3. Dystopias of Infamy 4. Fancy sambenitos: The Ethnicization of Infamy 5. “They did not bray in vain”: History, Insult, and Collective Identity Epilogue: Spanish History as sambenito Acknowledgments Bibliography Index
£23.39
Boydell & Brewer Ltd Ghosts in Enlightenment Scotland
Book SynopsisAn examination of how and why Scotland gained its reputation for the supernatural, and how belief continued to flourish in a supposed Age of Enlightenment. SHORTLISTED for the Katharine Briggs Award 2019 Scotland is famed for being a haunted nation, "whare ghaists and houlets nightly cry". Medieval Scots told stories of restless souls and walking corpses, but after the 1560Reformation, witches and demons became the focal point for explorations of the supernatural. Ghosts re-emerged in scholarly discussion in the late seventeenth century, often in the guise of religious propagandists. As time went on, physicians increasingly reframed ghosts as the conjurations of disturbed minds, but gothic and romantic literature revelled in the emotive power of the returning dead; they were placed against a backdrop of ancient monasteries,castles and mouldering ruins, and authors such as Robert Burns, James Hogg and Walter Scott drew on the macabre to colour their depictions of Scottish life. Meanwhile, folk culture used apparitions to talk about morality and mortality. Focusing on the period from 1685 to 1830, this book provides the first academic study of the history of Scottish ghosts. Drawing on a wide range of sources, and examining beliefs across the social spectrum, it shows howghost stories achieved a new prominence in a period that is more usually associated with the rise of rationalism. In exploring perceptions of ghosts, it also reflects on understandings of death and the afterlife; the constructionof national identity; and the impact of the Enlightenment. MARTHA MCGILL completed her PhD at the University of Edinburgh.Trade ReviewMcGill's thorough examination of the archive concerning ghosts in Enlightenment Scotland demonstrates the value of careful cultural historical work. * EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FICTION *[A] pioneering study. [...] McGill has produced an extensive and well researched exploration of ghost lore. [A] welcome contribution to scholars across a wide variety of fields. -- INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF SCOTTISH STUDIES[An] excellent study. * FOLKLORE *An excellent book that provides a new and effective approach to a complicated topic. * SCOTTISH CHURCH HISTORY *[A]n impressive entrylevel book into the cultural importance of ghosts in Scottish history and a most welcome addition to academic studies of the supernatural. * PRETERNATURE *An enticing, well researched study composed of five carefully structured chapters, each possessing a conclusion that elegantly synthesizes its main points. * REVIEW OF ENGLISH STUDIES *Martha McGill's beautifully written study of ghosts as cultural signifiers provides an important contribution to a growing number of studies into the social and cultural significance of belief in the paranormal. . . . For those readers unconvinced of the value of studying belief in the supernatural as a way into understanding societies and cultures, I would encourage you to sit down with this book. If it does not change your mind, nothing will. And, even if your mind remains unchanged, it is a thoroughly enjoyable read. -- Christopher Partridge * Journal of British Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction Medieval and Reformation Ghosts Evangelising Ghosts Scepticism and Debate Gothic and Romantic Ghosts Ghosts in Popular Culture Conclusion Bibliography Index
£70.00
Liverpool University Press Thomas Hoccleve: Religious Reform, Transnational
Book SynopsisThis book explores the work of the late-medieval English writer Thomas Hoccleve. It highlights Hoccleve’s role, throughout his works, as a religious writer: an individual who engages seriously with the dynamics of heresy and ecclesiastical reform, who contributes to traditions of vernacular devotional writing, and who raises the question of how Christianity manifests on personal as well as political levels. It suggests a role for Hoccleve as a poetic mediator, capable of mediating between the increasingly militant English church and an incipient English literary tradition, and it highlights Hoccleve’s role in transforming the figure of Chaucer in the first decades of the fifteenth century. It argues that the version of Chaucer presented in Hoccleve’s Regiment of Princes – august, devout, and conspicuously religious – is not a pre-formed artifact, but rather a Hocclevian invention; and it indicates the ecclesiastical, political, and literary contexts that make this version of Chaucer both possible and necessary. This study also situates Hoccleve’s accomplishments in a transnational poetic context – offering French and Italian precedents for Hoccleve’s moralization of Chaucer, while examining the influence of contemporary French poetry on Hoccleve’s work. It positions us to reconsider Hoccleve’s role within English literary tradition, and to better understand the way heresy and religious reform surface in late medieval poetry; and it affords us a more nuanced context for Chaucer’s positioning as a literary 'father' figure in this period.Trade Review‘For nearly 40 years Thomas Hoccleve toiled at the Privy Seal, a professional scribe stooping and staring ‘upon the sheepes skyn’ […] Langdell convincingly moves his rehabilitation forward with this thoughtful, wide-ranging and learned reassessment.' Jane Roberts, The Review of English Studies‘The emphasis on Hoccleve’s influence in the conclusion, while quickly spelled out here, is of great importance and will hopefully serve to inspire other scholars; in particular, using Hoccleve’s religious identity to connect him with Lydgate—specifically to the Life of Our Lady—is a promising avenue of research that many others may want to pursue, and thank Langdell as they do.’R. D. Perry, Speculum 'Langdell’s book is rich in textual comparison and includes a productive analytical range with close readings based on surviving paleographical evidence and imagery, as well as more traditional forms of textual analysis.' J. A. T. Smith, The New Chaucer SocietyTable of ContentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1. “What world is this? How vndirstande am I?”: Reading and Moralization in the Series 2. Vice, Virtue, and Poetic Mediation in the Epistle of Cupid 3. “What shal I calle thee? What is thy name?”: Hoccleve, Chaucer, and the Architectonics of Fame4. Reforming Thought: The Making of “Thomas Hoccleve”5. Hoccleve’s EucharistConclusion: The Matter of Hocclevian Influence BibliographyIndex
£109.50
Liverpool University Press Tyranny and Usurpation: The New Prince and
Book SynopsisIn the middle years of the sixteenth century, English drama witnessed the emergence of the ‘tyrant by entrie’ or the usurper, who supplanted earlier ‘tyrant by the administration’ as the main antihero of political drama. This usurper or, in Machiavellian terms principe nuove, was the prince without dynastic claims who creates his sovereignty by dint of his own ‘virtù’ and through an act of ‘lawmaking’ violence. Early Tudor morality plays were exclusively concerned with the legitimate monarch who becomes a tyrant; in the political drama of the first half of the sixteenth century, we do not encounter a single instance of usurpation among the texts that are still available to us. In contrast, the historical and tragic plays of the late Elizabethan and Jacobean periods teem with illegitimate monarchs. Almost all of Shakespeare’s history plays, at least four of his ten tragedies, and even a few of his comedies feature usurpation or potential usurpation of sovereign power as a crucial plot device. Why and how does usurpation emerge as a preoccupation in English theatre? What are the political, historical, legal, and dramaturgical transformations that influence and are influenced by this moment of emergence? As the first book-length study devoted exclusively to the study of usurpation and tyranny in sixteenth-century drama and politics, Tyranny and Usurpation: The New Prince and Lawmaking Violence will challenge existing disciplinary boundaries in order to engage with these critical questions.Trade ReviewReviews'Original scholarship of significant value to the academic study of the intersections between drama and politics in the early modern period; its strengths lie in its wide coverage of dramatic texts, from political moralities to Senecan tragedies, and from university dramas to histories of the commercial stage; its combination of these dramatic texts with the analysis of a variety of political materials; and its dual focus on the historical and political contexts of both England and Scotland.'Dr Clare Egan, Lancaster University'[A] perceptive study... [Majumder] examines a span of English and Scottish works, from John Skelton’s Magnificence, through David Lindsay’s Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis and George Buchanan’s literary and polemical work, to the Richard III plays of the late 1500s, identifying a crucial shift in the ways in which tyranny and its relationship to usurpation were represented.'Lucy Munro, SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900Doyeeta Majumder [provides] a refreshing approach to what has become one of the most discussed topics in Shakespearean studies—that of the expression and negotiation of authority on the stage. [...] It is the final chapter that offers a truly original approach to the issues of tyranny and usurpation in its consideration of three versions of Richard III. [...] Majumder’s analysis takes into consideration the particular audiences and literary conceits employed in each play and offers nuanced and intelligent readings that expose the constant contestation and fluidity of supreme authority.'Ben Haworth, The Year's Work in English Studies Table of ContentsNote on Spellings and AbbreviationsIntroductionChapter One: The Kingly Vice: The Tyrant in Early Tudor DramaChapter Two: Sovereignty, Counsel, and Consent in Scotland: Ane Satyre of the Thrie EstaitisChapter Three: Artful Construction of the Political Realm: Buchanan and the Legitimacy of ResistanceChapter Four: Gorboduc: Absolutist Decision and the Two Bodies of the KingChapter Five: Tyranny Added to Usurpation: Richardus Tertius, The True Tragedy, and Richard IIIEpilogueBibliographyIndex
£109.50
Liverpool University Press Thomas Hoccleve: Religious Reform, Transnational
Book SynopsisThis book explores the work of the late-medieval English writer Thomas Hoccleve. It highlights Hoccleve’s role, throughout his works, as a religious writer: an individual who engages seriously with the dynamics of heresy and ecclesiastical reform, who contributes to traditions of vernacular devotional writing, and who raises the question of how Christianity manifests on personal as well as political levels. It suggests a role for Hoccleve as a poetic mediator, capable of mediating between the increasingly militant English church and an incipient English literary tradition, and it highlights Hoccleve’s role in transforming the figure of Chaucer in the first decades of the fifteenth century. It argues that the version of Chaucer presented in Hoccleve’s Regiment of Princes – august, devout, and conspicuously religious – is not a pre-formed artifact, but rather a Hocclevian invention; and it indicates the ecclesiastical, political, and literary contexts that make this version of Chaucer both possible and necessary. This study also situates Hoccleve’s accomplishments in a transnational poetic context – offering French and Italian precedents for Hoccleve’s moralization of Chaucer, while examining the influence of contemporary French poetry on Hoccleve’s work. It positions us to reconsider Hoccleve’s role within English literary tradition, and to better understand the way heresy and religious reform surface in late medieval poetry; and it affords us a more nuanced context for Chaucer’s positioning as a literary 'father' figure in this period.Trade Review‘For nearly 40 years Thomas Hoccleve toiled at the Privy Seal, a professional scribe stooping and staring ‘upon the sheepes skyn’ […] Langdell convincingly moves his rehabilitation forward with this thoughtful, wide-ranging and learned reassessment.' Jane Roberts, The Review of English Studies‘The emphasis on Hoccleve’s influence in the conclusion, while quickly spelled out here, is of great importance and will hopefully serve to inspire other scholars; in particular, using Hoccleve’s religious identity to connect him with Lydgate—specifically to the Life of Our Lady—is a promising avenue of research that many others may want to pursue, and thank Langdell as they do.’R. D. Perry, Speculum 'Langdell’s book is rich in textual comparison and includes a productive analytical range with close readings based on surviving paleographical evidence and imagery, as well as more traditional forms of textual analysis.' J. A. T. Smith, The New Chaucer SocietyTable of ContentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1. “What world is this? How vndirstande am I?”: Reading and Moralization in the Series 2. Vice, Virtue, and Poetic Mediation in the Epistle of Cupid 3. “What shal I calle thee? What is thy name?”: Hoccleve, Chaucer, and the Architectonics of Fame4. Reforming Thought: The Making of “Thomas Hoccleve”5. Hoccleve’s EucharistConclusion: The Matter of Hocclevian Influence BibliographyIndex
£32.95
Liverpool University Press Tyranny and Usurpation: The New Prince and
Book SynopsisIn the middle years of the sixteenth century, English drama witnessed the emergence of the ‘tyrant by entrie’ or the usurper, who supplanted earlier ‘tyrant by the administration’ as the main antihero of political drama. This usurper or, in Machiavellian terms principe nuove, was the prince without dynastic claims who creates his sovereignty by dint of his own ‘virtù’ and through an act of ‘lawmaking’ violence. Early Tudor morality plays were exclusively concerned with the legitimate monarch who becomes a tyrant; in the political drama of the first half of the sixteenth century, we do not encounter a single instance of usurpation among the texts that are still available to us. In contrast, the historical and tragic plays of the late Elizabethan and Jacobean periods teem with illegitimate monarchs. Almost all of Shakespeare’s history plays, at least four of his ten tragedies, and even a few of his comedies feature usurpation or potential usurpation of sovereign power as a crucial plot device. Why and how does usurpation emerge as a preoccupation in English theatre? What are the political, historical, legal, and dramaturgical transformations that influence and are influenced by this moment of emergence? As the first book-length study devoted exclusively to the study of usurpation and tyranny in sixteenth-century drama and politics, Tyranny and Usurpation: The New Prince and Lawmaking Violence will challenge existing disciplinary boundaries in order to engage with these critical questions.Trade ReviewReviews'Original scholarship of significant value to the academic study of the intersections between drama and politics in the early modern period; its strengths lie in its wide coverage of dramatic texts, from political moralities to Senecan tragedies, and from university dramas to histories of the commercial stage; its combination of these dramatic texts with the analysis of a variety of political materials; and its dual focus on the historical and political contexts of both England and Scotland.'Dr Clare Egan, Lancaster University'[A] perceptive study... [Majumder] examines a span of English and Scottish works, from John Skelton’s Magnificence, through David Lindsay’s Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis and George Buchanan’s literary and polemical work, to the Richard III plays of the late 1500s, identifying a crucial shift in the ways in which tyranny and its relationship to usurpation were represented.'Lucy Munro, SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900Doyeeta Majumder [provides] a refreshing approach to what has become one of the most discussed topics in Shakespearean studies—that of the expression and negotiation of authority on the stage. [...] It is the final chapter that offers a truly original approach to the issues of tyranny and usurpation in its consideration of three versions of Richard III. [...] Majumder’s analysis takes into consideration the particular audiences and literary conceits employed in each play and offers nuanced and intelligent readings that expose the constant contestation and fluidity of supreme authority.'Ben Haworth, The Year's Work in English Studies Table of ContentsNote on Spellings and AbbreviationsIntroductionChapter One: The Kingly Vice: The Tyrant in Early Tudor DramaChapter Two: Sovereignty, Counsel, and Consent in Scotland: Ane Satyre of the Thrie EstaitisChapter Three: Artful Construction of the Political Realm: Buchanan and the Legitimacy of ResistanceChapter Four: Gorboduc: Absolutist Decision and the Two Bodies of the KingChapter Five: Tyranny Added to Usurpation: Richardus Tertius, The True Tragedy, and Richard IIIEpilogueBibliographyIndex
£31.86
Arc Humanities Press Medieval and Early Modern Jewish Romance
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Renaissance Historical Fiction: Sidney, Deloney,
Book SynopsisFirst full study of the use made by Renaissance writers of the past in their prose fiction. Davis's study could scarcely be more timely or invigorating. SEAN KEILEN, College of William and Mary. Williamsburg VA A majority of the fiction composed in England in the second half of the sixteenth century was set inthe past. All the major prose writers of the period (Thomas Lodge, Sir Philip Sidney, Thomas Nashe, Thomas Deloney, Robert Greene) produced historical fiction, with settings ranging from the ancient world (as in Sidney's Arcadia) to the time of Henry VIII (in Nashe's The Unfortunate Traveller). Yet while studies of the historical drama of the period abound, the historical bias of prose fiction has so far escaped any sort of sustained critical consideration. Renaissance Historical Fiction is the first book-length study of this important topic. It argues for the complex ways in which these prose fictions engage with an idea of the past, and of their power to destabilize some of our dominant models for understanding the period of 'the Renaissance'. The wide range of texts discussed includes Lodge's Robin the Devil; Greene's Ciceronis Amor; John Lyly's Euphues and his England; and the anonymous Famous History of Friar Bacon. In addition, a chapter apiece is devoted to three key authors (Sidney, Deloney and Nashe) whose work best represents the imaginative richness and thematic complexity of the historical fiction of the late sixteenth century. Alex Davis is Lecturer in English at the University of St Andrews.Trade ReviewMakes impressive contributions to criticism on Renaissance historiography and deserves recognition for its role in establishing historical fiction as a Renaissance genre worthy of further excellent analysis. * ENGLISH STUDIES *The achievement of this study... remains substantial in setting out an agenda for future research. * TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT *Alex Davis's imaginative, articulate study of Renaissance prose fiction's engagements with history deserves a wide readership. * RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY *Offers subtle complex readings of a number of works [and] makes an excellent argument that historical fiction was an important literary genre in the period. * CHOICE *[M]akes a compelling claim for the special status of prose fiction in this period, a status that has not thus far been recognized. [...] The achievement of this study [...] remains substantial [...] for future research. * TLS *Alex Davis's imaginative, articulate study of Renaissance prose fiction's engagements with history deserves a wide readership. * RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY *Table of ContentsIntroduction Seven Historical Fictions 'The Web of His Story': Philip Sidney's Arcadia 'Out of the Dust of Forgetfulnesse': Thomas Deloney Ravelling Out: The Unfortunate Traveller in History Bibliography
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Elizabethan Invention of Anglo-Saxon England:
Book SynopsisThe writings of two influential Elizabethan thinkers testify to the influence of Old English law and literature on Tudor society and self-image. Full of fresh and illuminating insights into a way of looking at the English past in the sixteenth century... a book with the potential to deepen and transform our understanding of Tudor attitudes to ethnic identity and the national past. Philip Schwyzer, University of Exeter. Laurence Nowell (1530-c.1570), author of the first dictionary of Old English, and William Lambarde (1536-1601), Nowell's protégé and eventually the first editor of theOld English Laws, are key figures in Elizabethan historical discourses and in its political and literary society; through their work the period between the Germanic migrations and the Norman Conquest came to be regarded as a foundational time for Elizabethan England, overlapping with and contributing to contemporary debates on the shape of Elizabethan English language. Their studies took different strategies in demonstrating the role of early medieval history in Elizabethan national -- even imperial -- identity, while in Lambarde's legal writings Old English law codes become identical with the "ancient laws" that underpinned contemporary common law. Their efforts contradict the assumption that Anglo-Saxon studies did not effectively participate in Tudor nationalism outside of Protestant polemic; instead, it was a vital part of making history "English". Their work furthers our understanding of both the history of medieval studies and the importance of early Anglo-Saxon studies to Tudor nationalism. Rebecca Brackmann is Assistant Professor of English, Lincoln Memorial University.Trade ReviewA sound, scholarly study. * PARERGON *An excellent book containing a wealth of information on Tudor England's intellectual engagement with Anglo-Saxon England. . I recommend it highly to Anglo-Saxon scholars, Renaissance scholars, and also general readers with an interest in the development of the English language. * SIXTEENTH CENTURY JOURNAL *Meticulously researched and engagingly written. * NOTES AND QUERIES *Offers a fresh perspective on the historiography of Old English studies in the sixteenth century. . An excellent, interesting book which is a must-read for anyone interested in the mediaeval and the early modern approaches to the history of Old English Studies. * ANGLIA, 2013, 131 (1) *An excellent place to begin for background information on the earliest Anglo-Saxonists and the role of Anglo-Saxon studies in early modern England. * MEDIEVALLY SPEAKING *The invention of Anglo-Saxon England, then [...] was an integral part of a nationalistic movement that went beyond religious polemic. Brackmann's book shows why ignoring the Anglo-Saxons is a myopic enterprise. It has obscured the real and complex contours of what the Elizabethans thought constituted English identity and the English past. * RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY *[S]imultaneously expansive in scope and painstaking in detail. Brackmann negotiates the delicate balance with meticulous care, and her conclusions are appropriately cautious when evidence warrants. * THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW *Table of ContentsThe Anglo-Saxonists and Their Books: Print, Manuscript, and the Circulation of Scholarship The AbcedariumGlossary: Sources and Methods of Nowell's Old English Lexicography Inkhorns, Orthographers, and Antiquaries: Standardized English and the Dawn of Anglo-Saxon Studies Somewhere in Time: The Abcedarium Place-Name Index Putting the Past in Place: Lambarde's Alphabetical Description and Perambulation of Kent Images and Imaginings of England "The Saxons, our Ancestors": Ancient Law and Old English Laws Conclusion: The Invention of Anglo-Saxon English Bibliography
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Pain and Compassion in Early Modern English
Book SynopsisAn examination of the themes of pain and compassion in key Renaissance writers, at a time when religious attitudes to suffering were changing. A deeply original work of scholarship. Through fine close readings of primary and secondary texts, the author offers the fullest account we have of the related phenomena of pain, sympathy, and sensation in early modern culture.Michael Schoenfeldt, John R. Knott, Jr., Professor of English, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor In late medieval Catholicism, pain was seen as a way of imitating Christ, and as an avenue to salvation. During the earlymodern period, Protestant theologians came to reject these assumptions, and attempted to redefine and circumscribe the spiritual meaning of suffering. The rethinking of the meaning of pain during the early modern era is the central theme of this book. The author pays particular attention to how literary writers explored the issue of pain, by placing their work in a broad context of devotional, theological, philosophical and medical texts on suffering. In detailed readings of Alabaster, Donne, Herbert, Crashaw, Lanyer, Spenser, Milton and Montaigne, he shows that early modern culture located the meaning of pain in its capacity to elicit compassion in others - yet the nature of thiscompassion was also fiercely contested. Dr JAN FRANS VAN DIJKHUIZEN is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Leiden.Trade ReviewTimely and illuminating.... An intelligent and thought-provoking book that opens up many avenues for further research. * MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW *An excellent and thought-provoking book. * STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900 *Wonderfully wide-ranging. ... One wonders why a study of this kind has not appeared earlier. ... Van Dijkhuizen does a consummate job of meeting the more historically focussed requirements of his project while also hinting at further areas of investigation. * REVIEW OF ENGLISH STUDIES *[This] excellent study of pain and compassion in early modern English literature and culture will be of great interest to all scholars concerned with the relationship between embodiment and its various cultural codings. * RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY *Table of ContentsIntroduction Early Modern Religious Discourses of Pain Religious Pain from Alabaster to Donne The Theology of Physical Suffering in Herbert Poetry and the Passion of Christ in Crashaw and Lanyer Pain, Compassion and Community from Spenser to Milton Pain and Compassion in the Essais of Montaigne Afterword Bibliography
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry
Book SynopsisThis collection of seventeen original essays by leading authorities offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the significant authors and important aspects of fifteenth-century English poetry. This collection of seventeen original essays by leading authorities offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the significant authors and important aspects of fifteenth-century English poetry. The major poets of thecentury, John Lydgate and Thomas Hoccleve, receive detailed analysis, alongside perhaps lesser-known authors: John Capgrave, Osbern Bokenham, Peter Idley, George Ashby and John Audelay. In addition, several essays examine genres and topics, including romance, popular, historical and scientific poetry, and translations from the classics. Other chapters investigate the crucial contexts for approaching poetry of this period: manuscript circulation, patronageand the influence of Chaucer. Julia Boffey is Professor of Medieval Studies at Queen Mary, University of London; A.S.G. Edwards is Professor of Medieval Manuscripts at the University of Kent. Contributors: Anthony Bale, Julia Boffey, A.S.G. Edwards, Susanna Fein, Alfred Hiatt, Simon Horobin, Sarah James, Andrew King, Sheila Lindenbaum, Joanna Martin, Carol Meale, Robert Meyer-Lee, Ad Putter, John Scattergood, Anke Timmermann, DanielWakelin, David Watt.Trade ReviewThe fine scholarship and the deft writing ensure that this collection will stimulate and facilitate further expansions of the field and will remain an essential Companion. * SHARP NEWS *An impressive display of careful attention and mature scholarly interest. * THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW *[T]he Companion will certainly prove useful to fifteenth-century specialists and nonspecialists alike. . . . In short, this is a worthy volume, which manages at once to establish an authoritative perspective on the current state of fifteenth-century studies and to point the field in some new directions. * SPECULUM *Table of ContentsIntroduction - A S G Edwards The Patronage of Poetry - Carol Meale Forms of Circulation - Simon Horobin Thomas Hoccleve - Sheila Lindenbaum Thomas Hoccleve's Regiment of Princes - David Watt John Lydgate's Major Poems - Robert J Meyer-Lee John Lydgate's Religious Poetry - Anthony Bale John Lydgate's Shorter Secular Poems - Joanna Martin John Capgrave and Osbern Bokenham: Verse Saints' Lives - Sarah James Peter Idley and George Ashby - John Scattergood John Audelay and James Ryman - Susanna Fein Fifteenth-Century Chaucerian Visions - Ad Putter Historical and Political Verse - Alfred Hiatt Classical and Humanist Translations - Daniel Wakelin Romance - Andrew King Scientific and Encyclopaedic Verse - Anke Timmermann Popular Verse Tales - Julia Boffey Beyond the Fifteenth Century - A S G Edwards
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd A Critical Companion to John Skelton
Book SynopsisIntroduces Skelton and his work to readers unfamiliar with the poet, gathers together the vibrant strands of existing research, and opens up new avenues for future studies. John Skelton is a central literary figure and the leading poet during the first thirty years of Tudor rule. Nevertheless, he remains challenging and even contradictory for modern audiences. This book aims to provide an authoritative guide to this complex poet and his works, setting him in his historical, religious, and social contexts. Beginning with an exploration of his life and career, it goes on to cover all the major aspects of his poetry, from the literary traditions in which he wrote and the form of his compositions to the manuscript contexts and later reception. SEBASTIAN SOBECKI is Professor of Medieval English Literature and Culture at the University of Groningen; JOHN SCATTERGOOD is Professor (Emeritus) of Medieval and Renaissance English at Trinity College, Dublin. Contributors: Tom Betteridge, Julia Boffey, John Burrow, David Carlson, Helen Cooper, Elisabeth Dutton,A.S.G. Edwards, Jane Griffiths, Nadine Kuipers, Carol Meale, John Scattergood, Sebastian Sobecki, Greg WaiteTrade ReviewOverall, the collection is a rigorous and generous portrait of a man whose creative vernacularizing force was instrumental in both defying and moulding his own time. -- PARERGONThe book does an excellent job of situating Skelton in his literary, political, and cultural milieus. The essays are concise and accessible, and will serve as excellent springboards for more detailed study. Highly recommended. * CHOICE *This volume provides a much needed critical introduction to the important early Tudor poet John Skelton. * MEDIUM AEVUM *the chapters here strike an excellent balance between providing security, in the form of contextual scaffolding, and providing sharper edges, in the form of fresh or vivid accounts of how to understand Skelton's work. * CAMBRIDGE QUARTERLY *Skelton's myriad contradictions often frustrate rather than engage readers, so this concise but rewarding Critical Companion, featuring contributions from a dozen heavyweight scholars, sheds welcome light on this perplexing writer's perplexing paradoxes. The volume elucidates Skelton's quirks and peculiarities by locating him squarely in the intellectual climate that informs his writing. Cogency, polish, and organizing design-virtues rarely associated with Skelton-are the signature characteristics of this collection, an indispensable volume for any reader of Skelton. * SPECULUM *Table of ContentsIntroduction - Sebastian Sobecki John Skelton (?1460-1529): A Life in Writing - John Scattergood Religion - Thomas Betteridge Law and Politics - Sebastian Sobecki Classical Literature - John Scattergood Humanism - David R. Carlson Satires and Invectives - John A. Burrow Lyrics and Short Poems - Julia Boffey Skelton's Voice and Performance - Elisabeth Dutton Literary Tradition - Jane Griffiths Skelton and the English Language - Greg Waite Skelton's English Works in Manuscripts and Print - Carol Meale Skelton's English Canon - A S G Edwards Reception and Afterlife - Helen Cooper A Skelton Bibliography - Nadine Kuipers
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd François Villon in English Poetry: Translation
Book SynopsisResponses from the nineteenth century onwards to the medieval French poet. Medieval Paris' paradigmatic poet, François Villon, has long captured the imaginations of creative writers. Attracted by his beguilingly pseudo-autobiographical literary persona and a body of work that moves seamlessly between bawdy humour, bitterness, devotion, and regret, Villon's heirs have been many and varied. A veritable "poet's poet", his oeuvre has appealed to fellow versifiers in particular, providing a rich source for translation and imitation. This book explores creative responses to Villon by British and North American poets, focusing on translations and imitations of his work by Algernon Swinburne, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Ezra Pound, Basil Bunting, and Robert Lowell. They are presented as exemplary of the greater trend of rendering Villon into English, transporting the reader from the first verse translations of his work in the nineteenth century, to post-modern adaptations and parodies ofVillon in the twentieth. By concentrating on the manner in which individual poets have reacted to Villon, and to one another, the study unravels multiple layers of poetic relations. It argues that the relationships that exist between the translated or imitated texts are collaborative as much as they are competitive, establishing a canon of Villon in English poetry whose allusions are not only to the French source, but to the parallel corpus of English translations and imitations. CLAIRE PASCOLINI-CAMPBELL holds degrees in medieval and comparative literatures from the University of St Andrews and University College London.Trade ReviewBy concentrating on the manner in which individual poets have reacted to Villon, and to one another, the study unravels multiple layers of poetic relations. * CHOICE *François Villon in English Poetry: Translation and Influence is a taut, enticing, and precise study with appeal to readers interested not only in the reception of medieval literature, but also in poetry and poetics, Translation Studies, and Comparative Literature. * TRANSLATION AND LITERATURE *Chapter 4 addresses Pound, and especially his opera, Le Testament de Villon: it is a pleasure, to see attention paid to a work so little known, and Pascolini-Campbell's analysis is illuminating. * FRENCH STUDIES *Table of ContentsIntroduction Then and Now: The Legend of Villon in the Middle Ages and in Modernity Villon and Swinburne: Finding and Singing Villon Villon and Rossetti: Poetics of Strangeness Villon and Pound: Modernity and the 'Mediaeval Dream' Villon and Bunting: Prison-Writing and Parody Villon and Lowell: Imitation and the Visible Translator Conclusion Appendices Bibliography
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Early Modern Military Identities, 1560-1639:
Book SynopsisAn investigation into how soldiers of this period considered and presented themselves. Within the large-scale historiography of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century warfare and the early modern military revolution there remain many unanswered questions about the individual soldier and their relationship to the profession of arms. What was it that distinguished a soldier from the rest of society? How was the military life perceived in this period by those with first-hand experience of soldiery, or who represented soldiers on the page and stage?How were nationality, class, and gender used to construct military identities? And how were such identities also shaped by classical and medieval models? This book examines how early modern fighting men and their peers viewed and represented themselves in military roles, and how they were viewed and fashioned by others. Focusing on English, Irish and Anglo-Irish soldiers active between the 1560s and 1630s, and using sources including poetry, petitions, sermons, military treatises and manuals, campaign records, and plays by Shakespeare, Middleton and their contemporaries, a combination of historians and literary scholars offer new investigations into the construction, representation and interpretation of military identity, and consider the personal and political implications of martial self-fashioning. Drawing on a variety of disciplines and methodologies, the essays here demonstrate how the study of military identity-and military identities-intersects with that of life-writing, digital humanities, gender, disability, the history of emotions, and the relationship between early modern literature and martial culture. MATTHEW WOODCOCK is Professor of Medieval and Early Modern Literature, University of East Anglia; CIAN O'MAHONY is an Independent Scholar. Contributors: Angela Andreani, Benjamin Armintor, Ruth Canning, David Edwards, Andrew Hadfield, Andrew Hiscock, Adam McKeown, Philip Major, Cian O'Mahony, James O'Neill, Vimala Pasupathi, Clodagh Tait, David Trim, Matthew Woodcock.Trade Review[T]his is an interesting and compelling volume, which demonstrates convincingly the centering of military identity and anxiety in early modern Britain. * CHOICE *[T]hey offer a new perspective on both soldierly identity in dramatic texts and the ways in which distant and close reading can be fused in a single project. * Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 *Table of ContentsIntroduction 'Warlike prowesse and manly courage': Martial Conduct and Masculine Identity in Late Tudor and Early Stuart England - David Trim 'The Breviarie of Soldiers': Julius Caesar's Commentaries and the Fashioning of Early Modern Military Identity - Matthew Woodcock 'Souldiers or Clarkes or both': Ralph Knevet and the Fashioning of Military Identity through Print and Performance in Caroline Norwich - Cian O'Mahony Thomas, First Lord Fairfax and 'The Highway to Heidelberg' - Philip Major The Clergy and the Military in Early Modern Ireland - Angela Andreani and Andrew Hadfield 'Trust, Desert, Power and skill to serve': The Old English and Military Identities in Late Elizabethan Ireland - Ruth Canning Artifice in Ormonius: Why a Renaissance Latin Epic Falsified the Military History of a Tudor Irish General - David Edwards Irish Savage and English Butcher: Military Identities and Tyrone's Rebellion, 1593-1603 - James O'Neill 'A print in my body of this day's service': Finding Meaning in Wounding During and After the Nine Years War - Clodagh Tait Othello and the Braggart Soldier in the Context of Elizabethan War Veterans - Adam McKeown 'Lay by thine Arms and take the Citie then': Soldiery and City in the Drama of Thomas Middleton - Samuel Rogers / Reviews 'Sometimes a figure, sometimes a cipher': Dramatic Assertions of Martial Identity, 1580-1642 - Benjamin Armintor 'Sometimes a figure, sometimes a cipher': Dramatic Assertions of Martial Identity, 1580-1642 - Vimala Pasupathi Afterword: The Way Ahead Bibliography
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Prodigality in Early Modern Drama
Book SynopsisExamination of the motif of the prodigal son as treated in early modern drama, from Shakespeare to Beaumont and Fletcher. Why is it bad to spend too much money? In early modern England, the concept of prodigality governed all forms of financial excess and misuse, from gambling away your family estate to buying too much food. To be prodigal was not only to lack self-discipline but to be immorally excessive. Prodigals were foolish, reckless, and sinful, but their lives were also ones of excitement, lust, luxury, and intrigue. Ambivalently positioned between conservative financial ideals and increasingly popular economic indulgences, prodigals embodied a nation's anxieties about the advent of early capitalism. This book analyses the prodigal youth archetype in early modern drama, examining plays byShakespeare, Middleton, Jonson, Randolph, Chapman, Marston, Beaumont and Fletcher, Davenport, Gascoigne, Heywood, as well as anonymous works and morality plays. The theatres, which were so often criticised for financial excess, became the perfect setting for the rebellious exploits of prodigal youths, and their rises and falls were dramatised with increasing glamorisation between 1500 and 1642. By discussing humanist education practices, Aristotelian ethics, urban change, cuckoldry, usury, and sex work, the author offers the first examination of prodigality and the ways in which England at first condemned, then tolerated, and then eventually came to celebrate excessive spending. EZRA HORBURY is Lecturer in Renaissance/Early Modern Literature at the University of York.Trade ReviewThey are illuminating on the social, ethical, and economic background of the ways in which prodigality was depicted on stage, and they offer detailed responses to some of the key figures within this tradition, such as city prodigals, usurers, harlots, and bawds. * SEL *Horbury's analyses are excellent, the book's integration of a wide variety of critical perspectives is extremely impressive, and its contribution to literary studies is significant. [...] Prodigality in Early Modern Drama generates a series of important and useful perspectives on the limitations of this thinking [economic austerity as fundamentally virtuous], and gestures in the direction of models of liberal - and perhaps "escessive" - spending that describe very different and more outward-looking systems of virtue. * Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme *Table of ContentsIntroduction Sparing the Rod and Hating the Son: Early Plays, 1513-1588 The sacred wholsome lore: Aristotle and Prodigality London Prodigals: Spending in the City Fathers of Destruction: The Villainous Usurer Wasted Goods, Wasted Flesh: The Prodigal's Harlots and Mother Bawds Coda Bibliography
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Royal Genealogy in the Age of Shakespeare
Book SynopsisFirst full-length investigation of Elizabethan and Jacobean genealogy, showing how it could be manipulated to legitimise - and oppose. Shakespeare lived in an age when royal genealogy mattered. Queen Elizabeth succeeded her father despite accusations of illegitimacy after Anne Boleyn's beheading. As she defied suitors and potential spouses, and refused not only to produce but even to nominate an heir, factions arose siding with the numerous candidates, particularly Mary Queen of Scots. When, upon Elizabeth's death, James VI, the king of Scotland, prepared to ascend for the first time in history to the English throne, it became paramount that he should fashion himself as an English monarch as well. In this game of thrones, royal genealogy was the instrument that could best represent, distort, create, favour orundermine the ancestral right of the current ruler and their potential successors. In the form of scrolls, charts, books, paper rags and even maps, the genealogies of Elizabeth I, James I, and the main pretenders were circulatedin Britain and Europe in manuscript and print, officially or surreptitiously. This book - the first systematic study of this subject - explores the most fascinating examples of royal genealogy in this era, from the rooms of Whitehall to the pockets of Jesuits in London prisons. Most of these texts are here reproduced in print for the first time, with lavish illustrations; they reveal the political divisions, concerns, treasons and celebrations that lurked behind their splendour.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter One: Blood and virtue Chapter Two: Elizabeth's pedigree Chapter Three: Subversive genealogies Chapter Four: James and print Chapter Five: 'Greater Britain' Chapter Six: Genealogical Maps Epilogue: The Year 1625 Bibliography
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Marguerite de Navarre: A Critical Companion
Book SynopsisA new exploration of the complexities and resolutions at play in the writings of Marguerite de Navarre, offering insights into how her work reflected the turbulence, uncertainties, and assurances of her historical period. Marguerite de Navarre was a Renaissance princess, diplomat, and mystical poet. She is arguably best known for The Heptameron, an answer to Boccaccio's Decameron, a brilliant and open-ended collection of short stories told by a group of men and women stranded in a monastery. The stories explore love, desire, male and female honour, individual salvation, and the iniquity of Franciscan monks, while the discussions between the storytellers enact and embody the tensions, ideologies, and prejudices underlying the stories. Marguerite herself was deeply involved in the debates and conflicts of her time. Her work reflects the turbulence, uncertainties, and assurances of her historical period, as the Renaissance re-imagined the past and the Reformation re-made the church, and represents her original and sometimes provocative position on these questions. This book presents The Heptameron and its investigations into gender relations, the nature of love, and the nature of religious faith in the context of the intellectual, religious, and political questions of the sixteenth century, setting it alongside Marguerite's other writings: her poetry, plays, and diplomatic letters. In chapters on communities, religion, politics, gender relationships, desire, and literary technique, it explores the complexities and resolutions of Marguerite's writing and her world. It aims to offer a guide to the critical tradition on Marguerite's work along with new readings of her texts, revealing both the historical specificity of her writing and its continuing relevance.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Note on Names and Editions Editions of Reference Introduction: A Brief Literary and Historical Chronology Chapter 1 Communities Chapter 2 Religion Chapter 3 Politics Chapter 4 Women and Men Chapter 5 Desire Chapter 6 Form and Technique Conclusion: Print and Public Bibliography Index
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Anne de Graville and Women's Literary Networks in
Book SynopsisFirst detailed reconstruction of Anne de Graville's library, establishing her as one of the most well-read and erudite poets of the period. In the 1520s, the French noblewoman Anne de Graville composed two poetic works, based on older, canonical, male-authored texts: Giovanni Boccaccio's Teseida and Alain Chartier's Belle dame sans mercy. The first, the Beau roman, she offered to Claude, queen of France and wife of Francis I, and the second, the Rondeaux, to the king's mother, Louise of Savoy. With the pro-feminine spin of her rewritings, Anne developed the legacy of another woman writer from 100 years earlier, Christine de Pizan, by entering the on-going debate known as the querelle des femmes. Like Christine, Anne sought to redress the negative view of women found in much contemporary popular literature and to offer role models for both men and women at the court of Francis I. This book is the first detailed reconstruction and interpretation of Anne's library and her collecting practice, showing how they relate to her own writings and her literary milieu. It also teases out her links to other women writers of the time interested in the querelle, such as Catherine d'Amboise and Margaret of Navarre. Paying close attention to literary, manuscript, and artistic sources, it establishes Anne's reputation as one of the most erudite poets of the period, and one keenly attuned to the position of women in society as well as to the political sensitivities of the French court.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements A Note on Citations, Translations and Transcriptions List of Abbreviations Introduction: 'Une femme d'excellence en vertus, ma dame d'Entraigues': Anne de Graville's Life and Works Part I: Anne de Graville: Reader and Collector Chapter 1: J'en garde un leal: Reconstructing Anne de Graville's Library Chapter 2: 'A vos yeulx, un peu de recreation': Translation, Translatio Studii and Self-Fashioning in Anne de Graville's Chaldean Histories Chapter 3: The Rouen Connection: The Puy, Poetry and Petrarch Part II: From Reading to Writing: Anne as Author Chapter 4: Musas natura, lachrymas fortuna: Anne de Graville, Christine de Pizan and Women's Shaping of the querelle des femmes Chapter 5: Love, Amazons and Fortune in the Beau roman for Claude of France Chapter 6: Debating with 'Maistre Allain': Chartier, Blois and Poetic Form in the Rondeaux for Louise of Savoy Conclusion: 'Celle la qui porte le regnon': A Last Word on Anne de Graville Appendix A: Books Inherited, Acquired, Commissioned or Associated with Anne de Graville Appendix B: Inventory of the d'Urfé Library at La Bâtie, c. 1780 Appendix C: Manuscripts Containing Works by Anne de Graville Bibliography
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd A Companion to Golden Age Theatre
Book SynopsisThis Companion is a readable and up-to-date guide to all aspects of the extraordinary flowering of theatre in Early-Modern Spain. Spain's artistic Golden Age produced Cervantes's great novel, Don Quijote, the sublime poetry of Quevedo and Góngora, and nurtured the prodigious talent of Velázquez, and yet it was the theatre that captured the imaginationof its people. Men and women of all social classes flocked to the new playhouses to see and hear the latest offerings of their favourite dramatists, and to be seen and heard. As well as dealing with the lives and major works of the most significant playwrights of the period - Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina, Miguel de Cervantes, Calderón de la Barca - the Companion focusses on other aspects of the growth and maturing of Golden Age theatre, reflecting the interests and priorities of modern scholarship. These include: the sixteenth-century origins of the comedia nueva; the lesser-known dramatists, including women playwrights; life in the theatre; the Corpus Christi street theatre and minor genres; performance studies; and the critical reception of the drama. The Companion also contains a guide to comedia versification, a full bibliography and advice on further reading. JONATHAN THACKER is a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford.Trade ReviewA highly valuable tool for Hispanists and those interested in early modern theatre. * MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES *Jonathan Thacker accomplishes what few are able to achieve by publishing and original and valuable study relevant to varying levels of comedia studies. A practical pedagogical resource that the most seasoned of professors will find simply outstanding. [...] It should most definitely be a required text of any graduate student of the comedia. Without hesitation, I would recommend that serious comedia scholars secure a copy for their collection, for this work is a vademecum of the first order. Its unique compilation of historical development with performance studies and helpful appendices makes this compilation top notch. * BULLETIN OF THE COMEDIANTES *The book fulfils its purpose well. * HISPANIC RESEARCH JOURNAL *Demonstrates a solid command of the material and a sense of the audience. [...]I strongly recommend A Companion to Golden Age Theatre. [...] A superb reference tool. * BULLETIN OF HISPANIC STUDIES *Table of ContentsThe Emergence of the comedia nueva Lope de Vega Cervantes, Tirso de Molina, and the First Generation Calderón and the comedia's Second Generation Staging and Performance Types of comedia and other Forms of Theatre A Brief History of Reception
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Invention of the Sequel: Expanding Prose
Book SynopsisThis book proposes a new way of tracing the history of the Early Modern Spanish novel through the prism of literary continuation. It identifies and examines the Golden Age narratives that invented the sequel and the narrative genres that the sequel in turn invented. This book proposes a new way of tracing the history of the Early Modern Spanish novel through the prism of literary continuation. It identifies and examines the Golden Age narratives that invented the sequel and the narrative genres that the sequel in turn invented. The author explores the rivalries between apocryphal and authorized sequelists that forged modern notions of authorship and authorial property. The book also defines the sequel's forms and functions, filling a major gap in literary theory in general and Peninsular literary studies in particular. Notably, the author demonstrates that the sequel develops first and foremost in Early Modern Spain, an unacknowledged and unexamined contribution to Western letters. With its panoramic scope, this study serves as an introduction to the central novelistic genres and texts of Early Modern Spain. From this foundational starting point, it alsooffers a general framework for understanding imaginative expansion in subsequent time periods and literary traditions. William H. Hinrichs is a founding faculty member and Assistant Professor of Modern Languages at Bard High School Early College, Queens.Trade ReviewBravo for this book ... This book, through a series of carefully chosen and beautifully studied cases, combines impeccable research with intelligent close reading. * BULLETIN OF SPANISH STUDIES *Hinrichs's analysis of the sequel is both readable and well researched, providing a wealth of information to scholars and students especially in the discussion of little known works. It is also illuminative in both the questions it raises as well as the answers it provides. * RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY *Table of ContentsThe Birth of the Sequel: The Celestina's Maculate Conception From Knights Errant to Errant Women: The Sequels of Feliciano de Silva A Cannon Shot from the Margins: The Segundo Lazarillo's Unexamined Role in the Story of the Sequel and the Picaresque The Author Strikes Back: Alemán's Picaresque Revenge From the Galatea to the Quijote: Cervantes' Quest for Closure
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Cultural Capital, Language and National Identity
Book SynopsisA study of the cultural mechanisms in early modern Spain that led to the translation, imitation and selective adoption of the values embodied by the Italian Renaissance. This innovative study examines the cultural mechanisms in early modern Spain that led to the translation, imitation and selective adoption of the values embodied by the Italian Renaissance. These mechanisms served to delineate a national tradition that addressed the needs of a changing society and gave a "Spanish" physiognomy to the Italian experience, which ultimately led to the Golden Age. By examining such important texts as the sentimental fictions of Diego de San Pedro and Juan de Flores, the Spanish translation of Orlando Furioso, Don Quixote, and the Polifemo, Binotti first describes the conditions imposed on book production by both the expectationsof an elite audience and the limitations of the printing market while outlining the process of the creation of an expressive poetic language and the quest for literary models. She then looks at Ambrosio de Morales' chronicles andBernardo de Aldrete's Del Origen, showing how a cultural discourse founded on foreign scholarship paved the way for the establishment of innovative-and autochtonous-methods of historical and scientific analysis in the early seventeenth-century. LUCIA BINOTTI is an associate professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Trade ReviewValuable ... and interesting approaches to the cultural relationships between Spain and the Italian Renaissance, and the construction of national cultural identities. * THE YEAR'S WORK IN MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES *Offers a variety of interesting approaches to the cultural relationships between Spain and the Italian Renaissance, and the construction of national cultural identities. * BULLETIN OF SPANISH STUDIES *Thought provoking ... Lucia Binotti offers a well executed and informative contribution to the on-going analysis of Spanish nation-formation. * REVISTA DE ESTUDIOS HISPANICOS DEPARTMENT OF ROMANCE LANGUAGES & LITERATURES, November 2013 *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction The Italian Appropriation of Sentimental Fiction Shaping Cultural Capital away from Home: Literature and Canon Formation from Ariosto to Cervantes Visual Eroticism, Poetic Voyeurism: Ekphrasis and the Complexities of Patronage in Góngora's Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea Creating Identity: Ambrosio de Morales and the Re-writing of Spanish History Historicizing Language, Imagining People: Aldrete and Linguistic Politics Conclusion Works Cited
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Los géneros poéticos del Siglo de Oro: centros y
Book SynopsisEste volumen de estudios, que contiene artículos escritos por algunos de los más prestigiosos siglodoristas en el ámbito internacional, ofrece un análisis abarcador de las formas poéticas del Siglo de Oro. ENGLISH TRANSLATIONThis volume of essays by some of the most prestigious international scholars offers a comprehensive analysis of the poetic forms of the Spanish Golden Age.Table of ContentsIntroduccíon: Géneros, centros, periferias La épica áurea como poesía Estatuto y lenguaje del género lírico entre Garcilaso y Góngora La humilde sumisión de ornato huye.Epíistola y poesía lírica en el Siglo de Oro Aproximación al ethos del locutor burlesco Invenciones cancioneriles y tradición emblemática: de la sutileza cuatrocentista a la agudeza áurea Poesía y emblemática en el Siglo de Oro Poesía y retórica en el Siglo de Oro: cuestiones en torno al estilo culto Un epilio barrocoL el Polifemo y su género La imitación del discurso gongorino de la cetrería: primeras calas Amante en durezas tierno: la Fabula de Polifemo de Antonio López de Vega La glorificación de la periferia del Nuevo Mundo: representaciones de Cabeza de Vaca en La Argentina (1602) de Martín del Barco Centenera y otros textos fundacionales del Río de la Plata Sujetos periféricos, diálogos parnasianos: la voz femenina y la epístola en la poesía colonial La crucifixión como materia poética en la América colonial: Hernando Domínguez Camargo y su romance A la pasión de Cristo Pautas y razones de las formas de transmisión de la poesía en el Siglo de Oro: el caso de Sevilla Conceptualización de la naturaleza creativa: Góngora y Luis Martín de la Plaza en Flores de poetas ilustres (1605) Imitaciones, integraciones y academias: estrategias poéticas en el Pusilipo de Cristóbal Suárez de Figueroa Bibliografía Indice
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Love Poetry in the Spanish Golden Age: Eros, Eris
Book SynopsisLove poetry in the Spanish Golden Age redefines the lyric poetry that is located at the centre of Imperial Spanish culture's own self-image and self-definition. This work engages with a broader evaluation of early modern poetics that foregrounds the processes rather than the products of thinking. The locus of the study is the Imperial 'home' space, where love poetry meets early modern empire at the inception of a very conflicted national consciousness, and where the vernacular language, Castilian, emerges in the encounter as a strategic site of national and imperial identity. The political is, therefore, a pervasive presence, teased out where relevant in recognition of the poet's sensitivity to the ideologies within which writing comes into being. But the primary commitment of the book is to lyric poetry, and to poets, individually and intheir dynamic interconnectedness. Moving beyond a re-evaluation of critical responses to four major poets of the period (Garcilaso de la Vega, Herrera, Góngora and Quevedo), this study disengages respectfully with the substantialbody of biographical research that continues to impact upon our understanding of the genre, and renegotiates the Foucauldian concept of the 'epistemic break', often associated with the anti-mimetic impulses of the Baroque. This more flexible model accommodates the multiperspectivism that interrogated Imperial ideology even in the earliest sixteenth-century poetry, and allows for the exploration of new horizons in interpretation. Isabel Torres isProfessor of Spanish Golden Age Literature and Head of Spanish and Portuguese Studies at Queen's University, Belfast.Trade ReviewOne of the greatest values of this study is its seamless coverage of each poet. By singling out the poems that seem best to exemplify their thematics, the author adeptly brings up for review past and current criticism, from the poets' contemporaries to the most recent studies by international scholars, jettisoning tired polemics in the process. Vigorously questioning and challenging conventional interpretations, Torres's richly elaborated analyses revision Spanish Renaissance lyrics from a fresh, new perspective that resituates the poets both aesthetically and historically. Her love for poetry has everything to do with it. * MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Garcilaso de la Vega [c. 1501-1536]: Transfiguration and Transvaluation Garcilaso de la Vega: Luz de nuestra nación? Fernando de Herrera [1534-1597]: 'Righting' the middle - Centres, Circles and Algunas Obras [1582] Luis de Góngora y Argote [1561-1627]: Into the dark Luis de Góngora y Argote: Out of the dark: emulative poetry in motion Francisco de Quevedo Villegas [1580-1645]: Metaphor, Materiality and Metaphysics Bibliography
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Luis de Góngora and Lope de Vega: Masters of
Book SynopsisTraces the processes and paradoxes at work in the late parodic poetry of Luis de Góngora and Lope de Vega, illuminating correlations and connections. Co-Winner of the 2014 Publication Prize awarded by the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland Kerr traces the processes and paradoxes at work in the late parodic poetry of Luis de Góngora and Lope de Vega, illuminating the correlations and connections between two poets who have more often than not been presented as enemies.The analysis follows the parallel development of the complex parodic genre through Góngora's late mythological parody, from his 1589 Hero and Leander romance through to his culminating parody, La fábula de Píramo y Tisbe (1618) and Lope de Vega's alter ego Tomé de Burguillos, whose anthology, Rimas humanas y divinas del licenciado Tomé de Burguillos, was published a year before Lope's death, in 1634. Working from the premise that parody provides a Derridean supplément to exhausted, dominant genres (e.g. pastoral, lyric, epic), this study asks: what do these texts achieve by their supplementarity, and how do they achieve it?, and, the overarching question, why do these erudite poets turn to parody in an age of decline? Lindsay Kerr received her PhDin Spanish at Queen's University Belfast.Trade ReviewProfoundly post-Derridean, militant with a love for critical theory, beautifully researched and carefully and elegantly written, this book delivers much more than what it promises to prove. * RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY *Table of ContentsIntroduction Parodic Beginnings La fábula de Píramo y Tisbe Las Rimas de Tomé de Burguillos La Gatomaquia Last Laughs Bibliography
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Studies on Spanish Poetry in Honour of Trevor J.
Book SynopsisA collection of essays on Spanish poetry honouring a distinguished British Hispanist. Trevor J. Dadson is a British Hispanist of international distinction whose remarkable scholarly range has resulted in a published output that embraces cultural, literary and social history, textual editing, literacy, book ownership and literary criticism. The twelve essays of the present volume pay tribute to his distinctive interventions in the field of Spanish poetry (early modern and contemporary); collectively they recognize the catalytic role of Professor Dadson's original research while opening up to dialogues beyond it, aiming to inspire new conversations around the topics he has inspired generations of scholars to pursue. Represented in the volume are former doctoralstudents, former colleagues and international collaborators, all of whom are also distinguished authorities in their fields. Javier Letrán is Senior Lecturer in Spanish at the University of St Andrews. Isabel Torres is Professor of Spanish Golden Age Literature at Queen's University Belfast.Table of ContentsContributors Introduction Voicing Time: The Temporal Textures of Garcilaso de la Vega. Luis de León and the Moriscos: a close reading of Ode XXII (La cana y alta cumbre Conde de Salinas: Poesías atribuidas o disputadas Horacio en Quevedo: principios retóricos del arte de la imitación El nuevo Olimpo de Gabriel Bocángel y Aragón Imaging Women: The Portrait Poems of Catalina Clara Ramírez de Guzmán La sublimidad del septentrión: paisajes de la poesía romántica española Antonio Machado as cynic: "Fantasía de una noche de abril" as Pastiche of Espronceda Hamlet without the Prince: Denunciation and Surveillance in Vicent Andrés Estellés's Testimoni d'Horaci Poetry and Crisis in Spain after 2008 Contexto, texto e intertexto en Cuaderno de vacaciones (2014), de Luis Alberto de Cuenca La lírica en los tiempos del neoliberalismo: reflexiones sobre Balada en la muerte de la poesía de Luis García Montero Appendix A : The Publications of Trevor J. Dadson Bibliography Index
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Épica y conflicto religioso en el siglo XVI:
Book SynopsisRepresentations of religious conflict in sixteenth-century Spanish epic poetry Este libro analiza un corpus de textos épicos y propagandísticos que se escriben en las fronteras del imperio español en el siglo XVI. Examina la representación del conflicto religioso en Inglaterra, Alemania y Holanda durante losreinados de Carlos V y Felipe II, y se centra en tres episodios, difundidos capilarmente en la cultura visual y emocional europea y en torno a los cuales cristaliza la narración heroica: los martirios de cartujos y jesuitas en Inglaterra; la guerra de Esmalcalda; y el asedio de Amberes. El volumen considera las estrechas relaciones entre épica e historia; entre épica y cultura visual; y entre la poesía épica hispánica y la historia y la cartografíaiosa de Europa en unos años críticos en los que se construye la Iglesia Anglicana y se afianza el luteranismo en Alemania. This book analyses a corpus of epic and propagandistic texts written at the margins of the Spanish empire in the sixteenth century. It examines the representation of religious conflict in England, Germany and Holland during the reigns of Charles V and Philip II, centring on three episodes widely disseminated in European visual and emotional culture and around which certain foundational Spanish heroic narratives emerged: the martyrdom of the Carthusians and Jesuits in England; the Schmalkaldic War; and the siege of Antwerp. The volume considers the close relationships between epic and history; between epic and visual culture; and between Hispanic epic poetry and the history and religious cartography of Europe during the critical years in which the Anglican Church was evolvingand Lutheranism gaining strength in Germany.Table of ContentsIntroducción: Épica hispánica y reforma religiosa - María José Vega and Javier Burguillo La victoria más grande de Carlos V. Historia, épica y propaganda de la Guerra de Alemania - Cesc Esteve "En la Germania el gran César venido". La guerra contra la Liga de Esmalcalda en la épica sobre Carlos V - Lara Vilà Épica y Reforma en Inglaterra: Cristóbal Tamariz y los mártires cartujos - Álvaro Alonso Primeras notas sobre la Historia del glorioso martirio de Edmundo Campiano , poema épico escrito en Perú hacia 1588 - Javier Burguillo El hereje desde la "épica de la pólvora": los rebeldes de Flandes vistos por los tercios españoles - Paolo Pintacuda Ceremonia y propaganda. Las exequias fúnebres en tiempos de María Tudor como expresión del conflicto religioso inglés - Jesús F. Pascual Molina La herejía en las tablas: economía y doctrina en la Farsa sacramental de la moneda del Códice de autos viejos - Jimena Gamba Corradine La exaltación eucarística como estrategia antiluterana en el Códice de autos viejos - Miguel M. García-Bermejo Giner
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Love in the Poetry of Francisco de Aldana: Beyond
Book SynopsisPlaces the warrior-poet Aldana in the appropriate poetic and philosophical context of the Spanish Golden Age and the European Renaissance. This study explores the love lyric of one of the greatest, yet oft-neglected, warrior-poets of the Spanish Golden Age - Francisco de Aldana (1537-78). Hailed for his skill by Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Quevedo, and the Generation of27's Cernuda alike, Aldana's lyric is the unique result of his Florentine education and interactions with the Medici family as well as Benedetto Varchi's literary circle. Aldana died young, fighting in the Battle of Alcazaquivirin the service of Portugal's Sebastian I. His brother, Cosme, subsequently edited and published his poetry in three volumes between 1589-93. Perhaps the most alluring aspect of Aldana's poetry is his exploration of the natureof love via the reconciliation of seemingly opposing and discordant elements of physical love with the Neoplatonic spirituality more common to sixteenth-century poetry, especially as portrayed by the Petrarchan tradition. Throughclose examination of Aldana's lyric -religious, philosophical, pastoral, and mythological- this study reveals how Aldana exploits the gaps in Petrarchism, Neoplatonism, and contemporary poetic models to communicate his belief inthe importance of the physical in our search for those fleeting moments of transcendental bliss on the earthly plane. Paul Joseph Lennon is Lecturer in Spanish and Comparative Literature at the University of St Andrews,UK.Trade ReviewThis book will be indispensable to future scholars of Aldana, and contains significant findings for those interested in love lyric, Italian-Iberian literary connections, and Neoplatonism more broadly. * MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction The Complexities of Love The Temerity to Love The Nature of Love (De)mythologising Love Coda Works Cited
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Criminal Baroque: Lawbreaking, Peacekeeping,
Book SynopsisA close examination of the representation of criminals in the understudied theatrical genres of the jácara and comedias de valentones. Early Modern Spanish theatre is viewed by many scholars as entertaining propaganda that channelled the emotions and beliefs of the masses into mechanisms for social control. This book questions such an interpretation by examining the portrayal of criminal heroes on stage and public spectacles of law enforcement outside of the playhouse. The book is structured in a way that moves between analyses of theatre, crime, and law enforcement while covering the intersections between these three phenomena. Through examples that range from dancing pimps to brawling kings, this study reveals that the propaganda power of early modern Spanish spectacle has been vastly overstated.Table of ContentsIntroduction: What Is the Criminal Baroque? The Theatrical Jácara and the Celebration of 'Desórdenes Públicos' The Alguaciles as Theatrical Peacekeepers and Lawbreakers The Criminal Leading Man as Brawler and Soldier Criminality, Theatricality and Nobility, Part I: Corpus Christi Chaos in Seville Criminality, Theatricality and Nobility, Part II: The Spectacular Fall of Don Rodrigo Calderón Criminality and Kingship on Stage Conclusion
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd A Companion to the Spanish Picaresque Novel
Book SynopsisWritten by an international group of scholars, this edited collection provides an overview of the Spanish picaresque from its origins in tales of lowborn adventurers to its importance for the modern novel, along with consideration of the debates that the picaresque has inspired. The term picaresque describes a specific set of early modern Spanish narratives relating the life story of a lowborn adventurer in a realist, ironic, and often humorous manner. The protagonist, the picaro or pícara (rascal), seeks upward mobility in a resolutely hierarchical society determined to prevent his - or her - ascent, and both are rich targets of satire. Spanish pícaros inspired Anglo-French rogues including Gil Blas and Tom Jones and paved the way for the modern novel. Written by an international group of scholars, this edited collection provides an overview of the Spanish picaresque novel from its origins to the present day, along with a treatment of the debates that the picaresque has inspired. After introductory chapters on the picaresque genre and the origin of the phenomenon, the book analyses canonical texts and their role in the picaresque spectrum. Further chapters then turn to critical approaches to the genre and manifestations of the picaresque in Hispanic America, France, England, and modern Spain. Overall, the book affords readers a broad sense of the range of this rich tradition and an in-depth view of the field and its major texts.Table of ContentsList of Contributors Forward 1. The Picaresque as a Genre Edward H. Friedman 2. On the Picaresque and Its Origins Anne J. Cruz 3. Francisco Delicado, La lozana andaluza Marta Albalá Pelegrín 4. Lazarillo de Tormes J. A. Garrido Ardila 5. Mateo Alemán, Guzmán de Alfarache Howard Mancing 6. Francisco de Quevedo, La vida del buscón Edward H. Friedman 7. La pícara Justina Brian M. Phillips 8. Alonso Jerónimo de Salas Barbadillo, La hija de Celestina Enrique García Santo-Tomás 9. Miguel de Cervantes and the Picaresque Vicente Pérez de León 10. Vicente Espinel, Marcós de Obregón John C. Parrack 11. Carlos García, La desordenada codicia de los bienes agenos Antón García-Fernández 12. Estebanillo González Faith S. Harden 13. Critical Approaches to the Picaresque Hilaire Kallendorf 14. The Picaresque in Spanish America José Luis Gastañaga Ponce de León 15. Continuations: France and England Richard Squibbs 16. Continuity of the Picaresque: Spain Andrés Zamora Bibliography
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