Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600 Books

Book SynopsisThe final two volumes in the CWE contain an edition and translation of Erasmus's poetry. For Erasmus scholars this work affords the first opportunity to evaluate and analyse Erasmus' poems in English. And for those interested in Renaissance and Reformation poetry in general, these offer an intriguing look at the work of one of the towering figures of the period writing in a genre that was, for him, unusual.The annotations include a path-breaking commentary piece by Harry Vredeveld on Erasmus' most famous poem, `Poem on the Trouble of Old Age.' Another important feature is the appearance of the original Latin of each poem alongside the English translation.Volumes 85 and 86 of the Collected Works of Erasmus series – Two-volume set.

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Book SynopsisThis collection of original essays uses contemporary theory to examine Renaissance writers' reworking of Ovid's texts in order to analyze the strategies in the construction of the early modern discourses of gender, sexuality, and writing.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Ovid and the Renaissance Body Goran V. Stanivukovic, Saint Mary’s University Part I: Identification and Desire Ovidian Subjectivities in Early Modern Lyric: Identification and Desire in Petrarch and Louise Labé Carla Freccero, University of California at Santa Cruz Imagining Heterosexuality in the Epyllia Jim Ellis, University of Calgary Inversion, Metamorphosis, and Sexual Difference: Female Same-Sex Desire in Ovid and Lyly Mark Dooley, University of Teesside A Garden of Her Own: Marvell’s Nymph and the Order of Nature Morgan Holmes, Wilfrid Laurier University ‘Male deformities’: Narcissus and the Reformation of Courtly Manners in Cynthia's Revels Mario Digangi, CUNY. Arms and the Women: The Ovidian Eroticism of Harington’s Ariosto Ian Frederick Moulton, Arizona State University Part II: Speech, Voice, and Embodiment Localizing Disembodied Voice in Sandys’s Englished ‘Narcissus and Echo’ Gina Bloom, Lawrence University The Ovidian Hermaphrodite: Moralizations by Peend and Spenser Michael Pincombe, University of Newcastle upon Tyne Ovid and the Dilemma of the Cuckold in English Renaissance Drama Bruce Boehrer, Florida State University Part Ill: Textualization Lyrical Wax in Ovid, Marlowe, and Donne Raphael Lyne, New Hall, Cambridge Engendering Metamorphoses: Milton and the Ovidian Corpus Elizabeth Sauer, Brock University The Girl He Left Behind: Ovidian imitatio and the Body of Echo in Spenser’s ‘Epithalamion’ Judith Deitch, University of Toronto ‘If that which is lost be not found’: Monumental Bodies, Spectacular Bodies in The Winter’s Tale Lori Humphrey Newcomb, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Afterword Valerie Traub, University of Michigan Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisLeading Shakespeare scholars from around the world gathered at the First World Shakespeare Congress held in Vancouver in August 1971. This volume presents a carefully selected edition of twenty of the papers presented at the Congress, including all available papers in the plenary sessions, a few of the pecial sessions papers, 'an address at a banquet,' and the reports of the chairmen of the Investigative Committees. The contributors focus on eight general themes: C. Walter Hodges and Herbert Berry on the Elizabethan playhouse; M.C. Bradbrook, Charlton Hinman, and Fredson Bowers on text and canon; Jonas A. Barish and G.R. Hibbard on verse and prose; Norman Rabkin on critical approaches to Shakespeare; David Bevington and Wolfgang Clemen on Shakespeare and his Elizabethan contemporaries; H.D.F. Kitto and Michel Grivelet on Shakespeare and the dramatists of other ages; Jean Jacquiot and R.W. Ingram on Shakespeare and other arts, and Grigori Kozintsev and Bernard Beckerman on Shakespea

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Book SynopsisThe idea that the world is a theatre in which each individual human being plays out the part assigned to him by God, who is both the playwright and the producer of the drama of life, was one of the great commonplaces of the Renaissance and one to which Shakespeare alluded frequently.Shakespeare’s plays, however, transformed this familiar notion from a cliché to a fertile source of invention. In the past two decades, and especially since the publication of Anne Righter’s Shakespeare and the Idea of the Play in 1962, the idea has received considerable critical attention. This new work supplements and extends recent studies by examining in detail the function of the histrionic metaphors, both verbal and other, in Shakespeare’s plays.In Role-playing in Shakespeare, Professor Van Laan argues that the theatrical allusions, disguises, impersonations, and conscious or unconscious self-misrepresentations which abound in these plays exemplify a basic concern

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Book SynopsisPatricia Vicari demonstrates Burton’s control over rhetorical strategies and selection of materials in one of the great prose works of the English Renaissance, The Anatomy of Melancholy. She argues that Burton’s aim of curing melancholy is both pastoral and therapeutic, since melancholy is both a disease and the state of unregeneracy, but the ultimate authorial presence is that of the preacher trying to bring about conversion. One of his major strategies is to disguise that presence. Throughout much of the book attention is directed toward worldly matters and secular knowledge. The immediate authorial presence therefor is that of ‘Robert the experienced,’ another victim of melancholy, offering the record of his own self-cure as a main persuasive tactic.Vicari examines the kinds of knowledges that Burton exhibits to the reader in three chapters dealing with nature, God, and man. In each Vicari singles out for more detailed discussion special

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Book SynopsisWhen at the age of twenty-three Barnabe Googe allowed the publication of his Ecologues, Epitaphs, and Sonnets, he became the first English author to publish personal poetry during his lifetime. His ecologues are, with Barclay's, the first examples of the form in English, anticipating in several respects Spenser's Shepheardes Calendar. He was the first writer to introduce into English literature Montemayor's pastoral romance Diana, later an important source for Sidney, Spenser, and Shakespeare.  His short lyrics, many of them occasional, provides an image of the society of the time, and have been admired by modern critics as representative of the native plain style.The small volume of 1563 was last edited by Edward Arber in 1871. In this new edition Judith Kennedy offers a modernized text, with introduction, commentary, and textual apparatus. The volume has been designed for students with little knowledge of the period, offering them a readable

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Book SynopsisThe Italian scholar and poet Francesco Petrarch (13041374) is best remembered today for vibrant and impassioned love poetry that helped to establish Italian as a literary language. Petrarch inspired later Renaissance writers, who produced an extraordinary body of work regarded today as perhaps the high-water mark of poetic productivity in the European West. These Petrarchan poets were self-consciously aware of themselves as poetsas craftsmen, revisers, and professionals. As William J. Kennedy shows in Petrarchism at Work, this commitment to professionalism and the mastery of poetic craft is essential to understanding Petrarch's legacy.Petrarchism at Work contributes to recent scholarship that explores relationships between poetics and economic history in early-modern European literature. Kennedy traces the development of a Renaissance aesthetics from one based upon Platonic intuition and visionary furor to one grounded in Aristotelian craftsmanship and techniqueTrade ReviewKennedy's command of the source materials and close readings of poetic variants are exceptional. With Petrarchism at Work he has written another authoritative and original study of Petrarch's legacy that will greatly impact theeld. * Renaissance Quarterly *Invites debate, reflection, and further contributions on a widening variety of textual corpora. This fine book has much to recommend it, especially to English-language students of Renaissance literature and history who seek to weigh the importance of one of Renaissance Europe's principal literary idioms as its distinctive forms appear in a representative variety of national contexts. * Renaissance and Reformation *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Marketplace of Mercury Part One: Petrarch and Italian Poetry1. Petrarch as Homo Economicus 2. Making Petrarch Matter: The Parts and Labor of Textual Revision 3. Jeweler's Daughter Sings for Doge: Gaspara Stampa’s Entrepreneurial Poetics 4. Incommensurate Gifts: Michelangelo and the Economy of Revision Part Two: Pierre De Ronsard and Pléiade Aesthetics1. Polished to Perfection: Ronsard’s Investment in Les Amours 2. Ronsard Furieux: Interest in Ariosto 3. Passions and Privations: Writing Sonnets like a Pro in Les Amours de Marie4. The Smirched Muse: Commercializing Sonnets pour Hélène Part Three: Shakespeare’s Sonnets and the Economy of Petrarchan Aesthetics1. To Possess Is Not to Own: The Cost of the Dark Lady and the Young Man 2. Polish and Skill: Will’s Interest and Self-Interest in Sonnets 61–99 3. Owning Up to Furor: The "Poets’ War" and Its Aftermath in Sonnets 100–1264. Shakespeare as Professional: The Economy of Revision in Sonnets 1–60 Conclusion: Mercurial Economies

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Book SynopsisEchoes of Desire variously invokes and interrogates a number of historicist and feminist premises about Tudor and Stuart literature by examining the connections between the anti-Petrarchan tradition and mainstream Petrarchan poetry. It also addresses some of the broader implications of contemporary critical methodologies. Heather Dubrow offers an alternative to the two predominant models used in previous treatments of Petrarchism: the all-powerful poet and silenced mistress on the one hand and the poet as subservient patron on the other.Trade ReviewDubrow’s attempt to renegotiate a definition of Petrarchism and its counterdiscourses ultimately succeeds because she insists on the value of traditional literary formalism, including attention to epigram and the treatment of literary genres as ‘metaphors for perspectives and attitudes. Her sensitive and nuanced close readings of verse reveal quite specifically how diacritical desire functions within these poems and how these poems, in turn, participate in a critical dialogue. This thoughtful and thought- provoking book deserves our attention. -- Jeffrey N. Nelson * Sixteenth Century Journal *This book is packed with research and revelations about the Renaissance lyric tradition, set forth in a consummate critical style. * Clio *

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Book SynopsisRepresentations of the mind have a central place in Shakespeare's artistic imagination, as we see in Bottom struggling to articulate his dream, Macbeth reaching for a dagger that is not there, and Prospero humbling his enemies with spectacular illusions. Phantasmatic Shakespeare examines the intersection between early modern literature and early modern understandings of the mind's ability to perceive and imagine. Suparna Roychoudhury argues that Shakespeare's portrayal of the imagination participates in sixteenth-century psychological discourse and reflects also how fields of anatomy, medicine, mathematics, and natural history jolted and reshaped conceptions of mentality. Although the new sciences did not displace the older psychology of phantasms, they inflected how Renaissance natural philosophers and physicians thought and wrote about the brain's image-making faculty. The many hallucinations, illusions, and dreams scattered throughout Shakespeare's works exploit this epistTrade Review[A] shrewd analysis of [Shakespeare's] verse and drama.... Roychoudhury's study makes a compelling contribution to the field of cognitive theory and embodied experience in early modern drama.... The strength of the book resides in its close reading of Shakespeare's language of imagination which Roychoudhury teases out with dexterity and tenderness. * The Review of English Studies *Roychoudhury's study makes a compelling contribution to the field of cognitive theory and embodied experience in early modern drama. * The Review of English Studies *This is...a book that feels necessary and innovative in its renewed attention to early modern psychological models, not in order to reduce them to material bases but rather to demonstrate the poetic power of their irreconcilability. * Modern Philology *Ultimately Rouchoudhury contributes a much-needed addition to the corpus of mental studies in Shakespeare...Most of all, however, this work serves as an important reference point for scholars looking to consider interdisciplinary Shakespeare studies in a new way. * EARLY MODERN LITERARY STUDIES *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Theseus, Phantasia, and the Scientific Renaissance 1. Between Heart and Eye: Anatomies of Imagination in the Sonnets 2. Children of Fancy: Academic Idleness and Love's Labor's Lost 3. Of Atoms, Air, and Insects: Mercutio's Vain Fantasy 4. Seeming to See: King Lear's Mental Optics 5. Melancholy, Ecstasy, Phantasma: The Pathologies of Macbeth 6. Chimeras: Natural History and the Shapes of The Tempest Epilogue: The Rude Fantasticals Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisUnfixable Forms explores how theatrical form remakesand is in turn remade byearly modern disability. Figures described as deformed, lame, crippled, ugly, sick, and monstrous crowd the stage in English drama of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In each case, such a description distills cultural expectations about how a body should look and what a body should doyet, crucially, demands the actor''s embodied performance. In the early modern theater, concepts of disability collide with the deforming, vulnerable body of the actor. Reading dramatic texts alongside a diverse array of sources, ranging from physic manuals to philosophical essays to monster pamphlets, Katherine Schaap Williams excavates an archive of formal innovation to argue that disability is at the heart of the early modern theater''s exploration of what it means to put the body of an actor on the stage. Offering new interpretations of canonical works by William Shakespeare, Ben JoTrade ReviewUnfixable Forms marks a milestone in disability studies. It is an essential book that prompts readers to think about, and cultivate a desire for, human difference. * Modern Philology *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Unfixing Early Modern Disability 1. Deformed: Wanting to See Richard III 2. Citizen Transformed: Being the Lame Soldier 3. Performing Cripple in Theatrical Exchange 4. Changing the Ugly Body 5. Playing Time, or Sick of Feigning 6. Making the Monster Coda: Inviting Performance

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Book SynopsisBlotted Lines rebuffs centuries of mythologization about the creative processthe idea that William Shakespeare never blotted out lineto argue that by studying how early modern writers faced the challenges of writing poetry, instructors today can empower their students'' approaches to critical writing. Adhaar Noor Desai offers deeply researched accounts of how poetic labor intersected with early modern rhetorical theory, material culture, and social networks.Tracing the productive struggles of such writers as George Gascoigne, Philip Sidney, John Davies of Hereford, Lady Anne Southwell, and Shakespeare across their manuscripts, Desai identifies in their work instances of discomposition: frustration, hesitation, self-doubt, and insecurity. Inspired to unmake their poems so that they might remake them, these poets welcomed discomposition because it catalyzed ongoing thinking and learning. Blotted Lines brings literary scholarship into conversation witTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Style: George Gascoigne's "Patched Cote" Reflection: The Academic Death Penalty 2. Invention: Philip Sidney's "Fear of Maybe" Reflection: Released into Language 3. Revision: John Davies of Hereford's "Rough Hewings" Reflection: Teaching without Judging 4. Editing: Anne Southwell's "Extent of Paper" Reflection: Generous Thinking 5. Performance Anxiety: William Shakespeare's "Perfectness" Reflection: Ars Amateuria

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Book SynopsisThomas Wyatt didn't publish "They Flee from Me." It was written in a notebook, maybe abroad, maybe even in prison. Today it is in every poetry anthology. How did it survive? That is the story Peter Murphy tells—in vivid and compelling detail—of the accidents of fate that kept a great poem alive across 500 turbulent years. Wyatt's poem becomes an occasion to ask and answer numerous questions about literature, culture, and history. Itself about the passage of time, it allows us to consider why anyone would write such a thing in the first place, and why anyone would care to read or remember the person who wrote it. From the deadly, fascinating circles of Henry VIII's court to the contemporary classroom, The Long Public Life of a Short Private Poem also introduces us to a series of worlds. We meet antiquaries, editors, publishers, anthologizers, and critics whose own life stories beckon. And we learn how the poem came to be considered, after many centuries of neglect, a model of the "best" English has to offer and an ideal object of literary study. The result is an exploration of literature in the fine grain of the everyday and its needs: in the classroom, in society, and in the life of nations.Trade Review"We take great poems to have survived history by virtue of their excellence. Peter Murphy shows how wrong we are. He tells a vivid, compelling story of one poem's survival across five centuries of reckless printers, contentious critics, warring editors, and devoted readers, and of all the good luck that's kept it alive." -- Jeff Dolven * Princeton University *"Murphy turns the story of a single work into a moving, lyrical meditation on the vicissitudes of poetry as it enters the unpredictable worlds of readers, collectors, editors, and scholars. Beautifully attuned to what can and cannot be known about a poem's history, this book provides a model for understanding what it means for literature to endure." -- Andrew Elfenbein * University of Minnesota *"Beautifully written and utterly original, Peter Murphy's study of Wyatt's 'They Flee From Me' as it passes through the hands and minds of readers from the sixteenth century to the present is a profound meditation on how we remember and forget the past, on everything that makes us truly human." -- John Guillory * New York University *"Peter Murphy's superb book takes Wyatt's perhaps most famous poem, "They flee from me,' and turns it into a parable of loss, rediscovery, and the fragility and chance of how the lyric poem's small proportions generate capacious meaning over time and vastly different cultural contexts. Murphy's work is admirable in so many ways it is hard to know where to begin....[It] provides singular access to the 'vse of Poesie' as the original cause for what it means to be human." -- Daniel Fischlin * Renaissance and Reformation *"Murphy's study and style are subtly and pleasurably convincing in their discussion of fine prosodic and stylistic distinctions....[One] of the most interesting provocations in the English Renaissance this year." -- Ryan Netzley * Studies in English Literature *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsPart I: Thomas Wyatt Writes a Poem and Shows It to Others chapter abstractThe first section of the First Part is about the making of "They Flee from Me" and its participation in the daily life of people nearby. It focuses on the manuscript books in which "They Flee from Me" is first recorded, the "Egerton" and "Devonshire" manuscripts, and describes the performance and transformation of traditional poetic modes that Thomas Wyatt accomplishes. It then moves to a discussion of the first printing of the poem in Tottel's Miscellany. This part ends with a discussion of the poem's lapsing out of culture and memory, conducted by considering a seventeenth-century user of the Egerton manuscript who wrote over and crossed out many of the poems. Broader questions about the functions of poetry are raised through a consideration of some algebra written next to the poem and a comparison of the languages of poetry and mathematics. Part II: A Century of Learning, and the Invention of Literature chapter abstractThe Second Part begins by discussing the first reprinters of Thomas Wyatt's poetry, circa 1720, and uses these reprintings to present the many challenges and impossibilities involved in trying to represent the past accurately. It then moves to the story of the main focus of the Second Part, the eighteenth-century cleric and editor Thomas Percy, whose career provides an opportunity to show how reprinting old poetry gets entangled with the eighteenth-century project of nation and empire building. The troubled nature of Percy's work is dramatized through his bitter conflict with Joseph Ritson, a rival editor and a fierce, contrarian Jacobin. Percy also writes on the page in the Egerton manuscript on which "They Flee from Me" appears, and meditation on this use of the manuscript allows for broader consideration of issues of editing, printing, poetry, and personal ambition. Part III: More Learning, the British Library, and the Song of the Professor chapter abstractThe Third Part traces the profound reanimation of old poetry that coincides with the invention of English Literature as a school subject. The first section of this part concerns George Frederic Nott, a gifted editor who comprehensively reprinted Wyatt's poetry and "They Flee from Me" along the way. Further reflection on the life of the Egerton manuscript provides a context for the entry of the manuscript into the British Library, its current home. This part concludes by discussing the work of Arthur Quiller-Couch, the editor of the Oxford Book of English Verse and the first Professor of English at Cambridge University. The modern University and its associated culture is depicted as a new kind of Court, and the Professor as a new kind of (cultural) courtier, using poetry as the subject and object of ambition. Part IV: Coming to America and Making it Big chapter abstractIn the twentieth century "They Flee from Me" becomes the Wyatt poem people know and reprint, when it becomes a kind of hero of the burgeoning industry of English teaching. This Part describes the full maturation of academic culture in the twentieth-century United States and the important place the study of old poetry was given in this culture. It focuses on Cleanth Brooks, a Yale English Professor who put "They Flee from Me" in his profoundly influential first textbook, in 1936. This Part argues that while methods have changed since the demise of Brooks and his "New" criticism, the reading and reprinting of old poetry are still primarily driven by the elaborate culture of testing, evaluation, and moral instruction, both for Professors and for students, resident in the contemporary education industry. The last reprinting considered at length is that of Stephen Greenblatt, in his era-creating Renaissance Self-Fashioning. Conclusions chapter abstractThe final part meditates on several of the big questions that have been in play throughout the book. Is an old poem a form of heritable knowledge? Do people get "better" at poetry? Is it possible to be "right" when saying what an old poem is about and what function it had in the past? What kind of object does an old poem become when it is the target of schooling and evaluation? It argues that the reprinting of old poetry is always instrumental and always both wrong and right about the abject and triumphant individual old poem. It argues that "They Flee from Me" survived because it functions so well in the environment of the school and university—and that is because this environment is so similar to the (deadly, interesting) environment of Henry VIII's court.

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Book SynopsisThomas Wyatt didn't publish "They Flee from Me." It was written in a notebook, maybe abroad, maybe even in prison. Today it is in every poetry anthology. How did it survive? That is the story Peter Murphy tells—in vivid and compelling detail—of the accidents of fate that kept a great poem alive across 500 turbulent years. Wyatt's poem becomes an occasion to ask and answer numerous questions about literature, culture, and history. Itself about the passage of time, it allows us to consider why anyone would write such a thing in the first place, and why anyone would care to read or remember the person who wrote it. From the deadly, fascinating circles of Henry VIII's court to the contemporary classroom, The Long Public Life of a Short Private Poem also introduces us to a series of worlds. We meet antiquaries, editors, publishers, anthologizers, and critics whose own life stories beckon. And we learn how the poem came to be considered, after many centuries of neglect, a model of the "best" English has to offer and an ideal object of literary study. The result is an exploration of literature in the fine grain of the everyday and its needs: in the classroom, in society, and in the life of nations.Trade Review"We take great poems to have survived history by virtue of their excellence. Peter Murphy shows how wrong we are. He tells a vivid, compelling story of one poem's survival across five centuries of reckless printers, contentious critics, warring editors, and devoted readers, and of all the good luck that's kept it alive." -- Jeff Dolven * Princeton University *"Murphy turns the story of a single work into a moving, lyrical meditation on the vicissitudes of poetry as it enters the unpredictable worlds of readers, collectors, editors, and scholars. Beautifully attuned to what can and cannot be known about a poem's history, this book provides a model for understanding what it means for literature to endure." -- Andrew Elfenbein * University of Minnesota *"Beautifully written and utterly original, Peter Murphy's study of Wyatt's 'They Flee From Me' as it passes through the hands and minds of readers from the sixteenth century to the present is a profound meditation on how we remember and forget the past, on everything that makes us truly human." -- John Guillory * New York University *"Peter Murphy's superb book takes Wyatt's perhaps most famous poem, "They flee from me,' and turns it into a parable of loss, rediscovery, and the fragility and chance of how the lyric poem's small proportions generate capacious meaning over time and vastly different cultural contexts. Murphy's work is admirable in so many ways it is hard to know where to begin....[It] provides singular access to the 'vse of Poesie' as the original cause for what it means to be human." -- Daniel Fischlin * Renaissance and Reformation *"Murphy's study and style are subtly and pleasurably convincing in their discussion of fine prosodic and stylistic distinctions....[One] of the most interesting provocations in the English Renaissance this year." -- Ryan Netzley * Studies in English Literature *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsPart I: Thomas Wyatt Writes a Poem and Shows It to Others chapter abstractThe first section of the First Part is about the making of "They Flee from Me" and its participation in the daily life of people nearby. It focuses on the manuscript books in which "They Flee from Me" is first recorded, the "Egerton" and "Devonshire" manuscripts, and describes the performance and transformation of traditional poetic modes that Thomas Wyatt accomplishes. It then moves to a discussion of the first printing of the poem in Tottel's Miscellany. This part ends with a discussion of the poem's lapsing out of culture and memory, conducted by considering a seventeenth-century user of the Egerton manuscript who wrote over and crossed out many of the poems. Broader questions about the functions of poetry are raised through a consideration of some algebra written next to the poem and a comparison of the languages of poetry and mathematics. Part II: A Century of Learning, and the Invention of Literature chapter abstractThe Second Part begins by discussing the first reprinters of Thomas Wyatt's poetry, circa 1720, and uses these reprintings to present the many challenges and impossibilities involved in trying to represent the past accurately. It then moves to the story of the main focus of the Second Part, the eighteenth-century cleric and editor Thomas Percy, whose career provides an opportunity to show how reprinting old poetry gets entangled with the eighteenth-century project of nation and empire building. The troubled nature of Percy's work is dramatized through his bitter conflict with Joseph Ritson, a rival editor and a fierce, contrarian Jacobin. Percy also writes on the page in the Egerton manuscript on which "They Flee from Me" appears, and meditation on this use of the manuscript allows for broader consideration of issues of editing, printing, poetry, and personal ambition. Part III: More Learning, the British Library, and the Song of the Professor chapter abstractThe Third Part traces the profound reanimation of old poetry that coincides with the invention of English Literature as a school subject. The first section of this part concerns George Frederic Nott, a gifted editor who comprehensively reprinted Wyatt's poetry and "They Flee from Me" along the way. Further reflection on the life of the Egerton manuscript provides a context for the entry of the manuscript into the British Library, its current home. This part concludes by discussing the work of Arthur Quiller-Couch, the editor of the Oxford Book of English Verse and the first Professor of English at Cambridge University. The modern University and its associated culture is depicted as a new kind of Court, and the Professor as a new kind of (cultural) courtier, using poetry as the subject and object of ambition. Part IV: Coming to America and Making it Big chapter abstractIn the twentieth century "They Flee from Me" becomes the Wyatt poem people know and reprint, when it becomes a kind of hero of the burgeoning industry of English teaching. This Part describes the full maturation of academic culture in the twentieth-century United States and the important place the study of old poetry was given in this culture. It focuses on Cleanth Brooks, a Yale English Professor who put "They Flee from Me" in his profoundly influential first textbook, in 1936. This Part argues that while methods have changed since the demise of Brooks and his "New" criticism, the reading and reprinting of old poetry are still primarily driven by the elaborate culture of testing, evaluation, and moral instruction, both for Professors and for students, resident in the contemporary education industry. The last reprinting considered at length is that of Stephen Greenblatt, in his era-creating Renaissance Self-Fashioning. Conclusions chapter abstractThe final part meditates on several of the big questions that have been in play throughout the book. Is an old poem a form of heritable knowledge? Do people get "better" at poetry? Is it possible to be "right" when saying what an old poem is about and what function it had in the past? What kind of object does an old poem become when it is the target of schooling and evaluation? It argues that the reprinting of old poetry is always instrumental and always both wrong and right about the abject and triumphant individual old poem. It argues that "They Flee from Me" survived because it functions so well in the environment of the school and university—and that is because this environment is so similar to the (deadly, interesting) environment of Henry VIII's court.

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Book SynopsisAnnual collection of essays, this year treating works by Donne, Shakespeare, Marvell, and Spenser, among other topics. Renaissance Papers is a collection of the best scholarly essays submitted each year to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference. The conference accepts papers on all subjects relating to the Renaissance -- music, art, history, literature, etc. -- from scholars all over North America and the world. Of the nine essays in the 2002 volume, three have to do with John Donne; among the topics here are Donne and Pietro Aretino, Donne and "All the World," andauthorial intention in the Holy Sonnets. Two essays deal with Shakespeare, specifically the discourse of dilution in 2 Henry IV and the Ovidian underworld in Othello. Other essays treat Marvell and the temporality of paranoia; poetry, patronage, and identity in Spenser's The Faerie Queene; and the visual culture of the Elizabethan prodigy house. Contributors: Nicholas Crawford, Dennis Flynn, Heather Hirschfeld, Pamela Royston Macfie, Anne E. McIlhaney, Graham Roebuck, Gary Stringer, James M. Sutton, Alzada Tipton. M. Thomas Hester is professor of English at North Carolina State UniversityTable of ContentsPastoral Community and the Hooks of Memory: The Mnemonic Landscape of Izaak Walton's Compleat Angler (1653)Compleat Angler (1653) - Anne E. McIlhaney Marvell and the Temporality of Paranoia - Heather Hirschfeld Familiar Letters: Donne and Pietro Aretino - Dennis A. Flynn The Discourse of Dilution in 2 Henry IV - Nicholas Crawford John Donne and "All the World" - Graham Roebuck Poetry, Patronage, and Identity in the Dance of the Graces, Book VI of The Faerie Queene - Alzada Tipton The "Allurement of Liking" and the "Contention of the Eyes": Decoding the Visual Culture of the Elizabethan Prodigy House - James M. Sutton Discovering Authorial Intention in the Manuscript Sequences of Donne's Holy Sonnets - Gary Stringer

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Book SynopsisNewest annual volume of selected essays on aspects of the Renaissance. Renaissance Papers is a collection of the best scholarly essays on all aspects of the Renaissance submitted each year to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference, organized originally in the early 1950s by scholars at Duke University and the universities of North and South Carolina. This year's annual volume, the forty-sixth to be published by the Conference and the fourth by Camden House, is the most substantial ever, containing twelve articles. Five articles on Shakespeare range from alchemy and hermaphroditism in Sonnet 20 to Leontes and skepticism in The Winter's Tale. There are two pieces on Milton, one involving his feminine representation of himself as author, the other attempting a breakthrough in interpretation of Samson Agonistes. There are also literary studies of Mucedorus, the most popular play in the English Renaissance, and of Spenser's two female protagonists, Britomart and Amoret. There are also an examination of the power struggles in an Italian convent, a new assessment of Stephen Gardiner's role in the Counter-Reformation in England, and a study of the early characteristics of Cromwellin the press of the English Civil War.Table of ContentsFamily and Faction in a Milanese Convent, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries - `The King's Good Servant, But God's First': Stephen Gardiner and the Early English Reformation - Karen Guest Britomart and Amoret: Reading Escape in Spenser's Mysticism - Melinda Spencer Hortensio's Role in Closing The Taming of the Shrew's Induction - Mary Free Mucedorus's Wild Man: Disorderly Acts on the Early Modern Stage - Abigail Scherer `A Madman's epistles are no gospels': Alienation in Twelfth Night and Anti-Martinist Discourse - L. Caitlin Jorgensen Goodly Physic: Disease, Purgation, and Anatomical Display in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida - Christopher J. Crosbie Sex in a Bottle: The Alchemical Distillation of Shakespeare's Hermaphrodite in Sonnet 20 - Peggy Munoz Simonds Bearing Parts: Leontes' Skeptical Delivery of Perdita in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale - Connie Snyder Mick `The Valiant Champion Lieut-General Cromwell'; `So perfect a hater of images': Oliver Cromwell and the Civil War Press - Vivienne S. Johnson Arrested Spiritual Development in Milton's Samson Agonistes - Kent R. Lehnhof

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Book SynopsisEleven articles on aspects of the Renaissance, chief among them women writers, art, and drama. Renaissance Papers is a collection of the best scholarly essays submitted each year to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference. Organized and sponsored in the early 1950s by Duke University and the universities of South Carolina and North Carolina, the annual meeting is now hosted by various colleges and universities across the southeastern United States. The conference accepts papers on all subjects relating to the Renaissance -- music, art, history, literature, etc. -- from scholars all over North America and Europe. This is the forty-seventh volume of Renaissance Papers. It includes articles on 15th-c. Florentine wedding chests, called cassoni, on Isabella Whitney, on Spenser's 'April' woodcut, on Cervantes' El Trato del Argel, on Thomas Nashe's Christ's Tears over Jerusalem, on the crone as type in English Renaissance drama, on female speech and disempowerment in Marlowe's Tamberlane I, on Shakespeare's Richard II and Marlowe's Edward II, on Chaucer's contribution to The Tempest, and on echoes of Ovid in Donne's elegies. T. H. HOWARD-HILL and PHILIP ROLLINSON are professors of English at the University of South Carolina.Table of ContentsCassoni: The Inside Story - Jo-Kate Collier "We Are Not All Alyke nor of Complexion One": Truism and Isabella Whitney's Multiple Readers - Boyd M. Berry Allusive Resonance in the Woodcut in Spenser's "April" - Hugh Davis El Trato del Argel: A First Step Towards the Creation of a Masterpiece - Pamela Peek Voices of Prophecy and Prayer in Thomas Nashe's Christ's Tears Over Jerusalem - Catherine I. Cox Types of the Crone: The Nurse and the Wise Woman in English Renaissance Drama - Jeanne A. Roberts "Divine Zenocrate," "Wretched Zenocrate": Female Speech and Disempowerment in Tamberlane I - Pam Whitfield Narrativity: Edward II and Richard II - George L. Geckle Chaucer's Contribution to The Tempest: A Reappraisal - Lewis Walker "Over Reconing" the "Undertones": A Preface to "Some Elegies" by John Donne - M. Thomas Hester A Partial Liberty: Gender and Class in Jane Cavendish and Elizabeth Brackley's The Concealed Fancies - Robin O. Warren

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Book SynopsisThe current volume contains nine articles reflecting a wide range of approaches to Renaissance literary performance and theory. Renaissance Papers is a collection of the best scholarly essays submitted each year to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference. The nine articles in this volume reflect a wide range of approaches to Renaissance literary performance and theory. The first four essays seek reasons for the success of various Renaissance plays: Christopher Cobb examines how Thomas Heywood casts heroic action in a positive light in his romantic dramas, whereas Lucas Erneurges that Thomas Kyd's Spanish Tragedy owes its success to its Christian portrait of Heironimo's unsuccessful attempt to recognize a benevolent deity. Robert Reeder looks at Renaissance educational manuals in order to clarify views on precocity in Richard III, Bartholomew Fair, and Twelfth Night; and Thomas L. Martin and Duke Pesta investigate and refute postmodern claims about a "transvestite stage." Scott Lucas shows how several sonnets of Fulke Greville's Caelica disorient the reader, underscoring the poet's doubts about human reason and perception; and Pamela Macfie illustrates how Marlowe's ghostly allusions to Ovid's Heroides in Hero andLeander darken the portrayal of the tragic lovers' frustration. The final three essays concern the 17th-century literary giants Donne and Milton: Jay Stubblefield shows Donne's 1619 sermon to the Virginia Company to be a uniquely Thomistic commentary on the conflicting motives behind England's exploits in the New World; and John Wall and John T. Shawcross explore the effects of John Milton's poems on Renaissance and modern readers. M. Thomas Hester is professor of English at North Carolina State University.Table of ContentsHeywood and the Politics of Admiration - Christopher Cobb Thomas Kyd's Christian Tragedy - Lukas Erne "You are now out of your text": The Performance of Precocity on the Early Modern Stage - Robert Reeder Boy Actors and the Semiotics of Renaissance Stagecraft - Thomas L. Martin and Duke Pesta The Ovidian Underworld in Othello 3.3 - Pamela Royston Macfie Marlowe's Ghost-Writing of Ovid's Heroides - Pamela Royston Macfie "In Abused Sense Truth Oft Miscarries": Enacting the Limits of Human Knowledge in Fulke Greville's Caelica - Scott Lucas "I have taken a contrary way": Identity and Ambiguity in John Donne's Sermon to the Virginia Company - Jay Stubblefield The Milton Effect - John N. Wall Humor, Paradise Lost, and Its Reader - John T. Shawcross

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Book SynopsisFresh essays on the works of the most significant -- and readable -- German Baroque author. Hans Jacob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (ca. 1621-1676) is the most significant (and still readable) author of seventeenth-century German novels. His Abenteuerlicher Simplicius Simplicissimus remains the one German novelof its time that has attained the stature of "world literature": its unique mix of violent action and solitary reflection, its superlative humor, its realistic portrayal of a peasant turned soldier turned hermit has made it the longest-running bestseller in German literature. Read by students and scholars in comparative literature, history, and German, and by those interested in the development of the picaresque novel in Europe, the work and its "Continuations" have increasingly occupied scholars around the world, who have in recent years shown it to be a work of subtle structure and characterization, bearing the imprint of the most advanced political thinking of the time, and showing the influences of some of the most significant works of world literature, including Cervantes' Don Quixote and Barclay's Argenis. This volume of essays by leading Grimmelshausen scholars from Germany, the UnitedStates, and England provides analyses of significant topics in his life and works, including questions of genre, structure, satire, allegory, narratology, political thought, religion, morality, humor, realism, and mortality. Contributors: Christoph E. Schweitzer, Italo Michele Battafarano, Klaus Haberkamm, Rosmarie Zeller, Andreas Solbach, Dieter Breuer, Lynne Tatlock, Peter Hess, Shannon Keenan Greene, and Alan Menhennet. Karl F. Otto is Professor of German at the University of Pennsylvania and has written extensively on German Baroque literature.Trade ReviewThe quality of analysis of the 12 contributors is consistently high, and the essays are very readable. The volume constitutes an excellent contribution to the study of the most relevant German author of the Baroque. * CHOICE *[A] valuable contribution to the broader study of early modern German literature. For the first time in English we have a scholarly .... compendium offering a variety of theoretical and historical perspectives on one of the best-known authors of the German Baroque. * MONATSHEFTE *Otto has compiled a different kind of 'companion' volume.... He has crafted a book that opens fascinating pathways into understanding key aspects of [Grimmelshausen's texts], both in the context of 17th century thought and by addressing issues that resonate today.... [A]n innovative reference work for Grimmelshausen scholars and an accessible introduction for the novice. * GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW *Table of ContentsIntroduction - Karl F. Otto Problems in the Editions of Grimmelshausen's Works - Christoph E Schweitzer Grimmelshausen's "Autobiographies" and the Art of the Novel - Italo Michele Battafarano Allegorical and Astrological Forms in the Works of Grimmelshausen with Special Emphasis on the Prophecy Motif - Klaus Haberkamm Grimmelshausen and the Picaresque Novel - Christoph E Schweitzer Grimmelshausen's Ewig-währender Calendar: A Labyrinth of Knowledge and Reading - Rosmarie Zeller Grimmelshausen's Non-Simplician Novels - Andreas Solbach Grimmelshausen's Trails: The "Afterlife" of Simplicissimus and Grimmelshausen - Dieter Breuer Engendering Social Order: From Costume Autobiography to Conversation Games in Grimmelshausen's Simpliciana - The Poetics of Masquerade: Clothing and the Construction of Social, Religious, and Gender Identity in Grimmelshausen's SimplicissimusSimplicissimus - Peter Hess "To see from these black lines": The Mise en Livre of the Phoenix Copperplate and Other Grimmelshausen Illustrations - Shannon Keenan Greene The Search for Freedom: Grimmelshausen's Simplician Weltanshauung - Mr. D. Menhennet

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Book SynopsisAnnual volume of the best essays submitted to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference, this year with an emphasis on English drama, particularly Jonson and Marlowe. Renaissance Papers collects the best scholarly essays submitted each year to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference. The 2014 volume opens and closes with essays on historically based explorations of identity: the first onthe circle of Jane Scroop in Skelton's Philip Sparrow, and the last on dogs and horses as symbols of national identity in early modern England. The heart of this year's journal is English drama, especially Jonson and Marlowe: there are essays on Puritan logic in Jonson's Bartholomew Fair; grotesque sex in Jonson's Volpone; the role of anti-Catholicism in the creation of Marlowe's Dr. Faustus; and the relationship between puppetry and the Faust legend. Marlowe and Jonson also surface in two reconsiderations of their non-dramatic works; first an essay on Ovidian resonances in Marlowe's Hero and Leander, and second a reflection on Spenserian echoesin Jonson's Epode. The next essay shifts to the poetics of religious literature, arguing for clothing as an important metaphor for renewal in Herbert's The Temple, and the penultimate essay addresses imaginative resources in the Martin Marprelate pamphlets. Contributors: William Coulter, Philip Goldfarb, Chris Hill, Joanna Kucinski, Pamela Macfie, Sara Mayo, Barry Shelton, Emily Stockard, Lisa Ulevich, Emma Annette Wilson. The journal is edited by Jim Pearce of North Carolina Central University and Ward Risvold of the University of Georgia.Table of ContentsWho Was Jane Scrope? "All is but Hinnying Sophistry": The Role of Puritan Logic in Bartholomew Fair Grotesque Sex: Hermaphroditism and Castration in Jonson's Volpone The Devil, Not the Pope: Anti-Catholicism and Textual Difference in Doctor Faustus "Straunge Motion": Puppetry, Faust, and the Mechanics of Idolatry The Ovidian Recusatio in Marlowe's Hero and Leander "To catchen hold of that long chaine": Spenserian echoes in Jonson's "Epode" Devotion in the Present Progressive: Clothing and Lyric Renewal in The Temple Dost thou see a Martin who is Wise in his own Conceit? There is more hope in a fool than in him. English Dogs and Barbary Horses: Horses, Dogs, and Identity in Renaissance England Review Section

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Book SynopsisAnnual volume of the best essays submitted to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference, this year with an emphasis on English drama and the cultural anxieties it expresses. Renaissance Papers collects the best scholarly essays submitted each year to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference. The 2015 volume features essays from the conference held at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as well as essays submitted directly to the journal. The volume opens with a trio of reconsiderations of the impact of patronage on theater under the Stuarts, the role of the audience in Hamlet, and the role of King Arthur in The Faerie Queene. The heart of this year's journal is English drama, featuring essays on anxieties about nationhood in The Spanish Tragedy, generic anomalies and Chaucerian echoes in All's Well That Ends Well, the inversion of the hagiographical tradition in Shakespeare's Richard III, and the complexities coalescing around authorial identity under the Stuarts. In the penultimate essay, the focus shifts to the non-dramatic with a reconsideration of Milton's Paradise Regained and its relationship to the court masque. The last offering is a historical essay on the intersection of the personal and the political in John Wray's The Pilgrim'sJournal. The volume concludes with four book reviews. Contributors: David M. Bergeron, William A. Coulter, Timothy D. Crowley, Melissa Geil, Lainie Pomerleau, Robert Lanier Reid, Emily Stockard, Lewis Walker, John N. Wall. The journal is edited by Jim Pearce of North Carolina Central University and Ward Risvold of the University of Georgia.Table of ContentsThe Stuart Brothers and English Theater "You would pluck out the heart of my mystery": The Audience in Hamlet Spenser's Reformation Epic: Gloriana and the Unadulterated Arthur Nationhood as Illusion in The Spanish Tragedy The Wife of Bath and All's Well That Ends Well A Necessary Evil: The Inverted Hagiography of Shakespeare's Richard III Deny, Omit, and Disavow: Becoming Ben Jonson "What strange parallax or optic skill": Paradise Regained and the Masque A Protestant Pilgrim in Rome, Venice, and English Parliament: Sir John Wray Book Reviews

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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

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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.

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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

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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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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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