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Translating Ovid's Metamorphoses in Tudor balladry
(University of Chicago Press, 2019-06-05)
This article provides the first sustained overview and analysis of the reception of Ovid s Metamorphoses in sixteenth-century English ballad culture. It highlights a significant tradition of translating materials from this ...
Impregnable towers and pregnable maidens in early modern english drama
(Western Michigan University, Department of English, 2019)
A young, marriageable, and implicitly pregnable woman s imprisonment in a purportedly impregnable tower (usually somewhere in Italy) is a recurrent motif in early modern English drama. Pertinent examples can be found in ...
Speech, silence, and Shakespearean quotation in The Sounding (2017)
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-10-25)
This article examines Catherine Eaton s The Sounding (2017). It uses the polarised critical interpretations that have emerged in response to Isabella s wordlessness in Act 5 of Shakespeare s Measure for Measure as a useful ...