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Beaumont and Fletcher's Rhodes: early modern geopolitics and mythological topography in The Maid's Tragedy
(Humanities Research Centre, Sheffield Hallam University., 2012)
Discussions of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher's Maid's Tragedy have infrequently engaged with the matter of its setting. Nonetheless, as we are frequently reminded within the play, its tragic events are purportedly ...
Louise Hollandine and the Art of Arachnean Critique
(Amsterdam University Press, 2019-07-22)
Louise Hollandine was an artist and student of internationally renowned Dutch painter Gerard van Honthorst. Though relatively few works now survive that can be authoritatively
ascribed to her, Louise Hollandine s artistic ...
“Certaine Amorous Sonnets, Betweene Venus and Adonis”: fictive acts of writing in The Passionate Pilgrime of 1612
(Etudes Epistémè, 2012)
In c. 1599, the London stationer William Jaggard produced
two editions of The Passionate
Pilgrime, a collection of twenty poems best known for its inclusion of
five sonnets by William Shakespeare. Having been lengthened ...
The spectre of the School of Night: former scholarly fictions and the stuff of academic fiction
(Early Modern Literary Studies, 2014)
This article re-examines the fortunes of the School of Night over the past century as it transitioned from a scholarly theory that enjoyed wide acceptance by early modernists to become almost exclusively the stuff of ...
To the tune of "Queen Dido": The spectropoetics of early modern English balladry
(2017-04-12)
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Gower’s slothful Aeneas in Batman’s Christall Glasse of Christian Reformation
(Oxford University Press, 2014-08-01)
ALTHOUGH early modern medievalisms have been the subject of considerable interest in recent scholarship, much work remains to be done on the literary reception and influence of John Gower’s only major vernacular work, ...
Monstrosity, monument and multiplication: The lamenting Lady Margaret of Henneberg (and her 365 children) in Early Modern England
(Cambria Press, 2014-08-28)
Extraordinary and fantastical stories about Margaret of Henneberg, a
cursed thirteenth-century Countess who had allegedly birthed 365 infants in one
day, were popular with early modern English audiences. A range of ...
Teaching Caxton's Prologue to Eneydos as an introduction to Renaissance literary culture
(Michael Boecherer, Ed. & Pub, 2015-06)
Over the past few decades, contemporary scholarship on Renaissance literature has increasingly come to intersect with the concerns of book history and material culture. This has been reflected in the classroom, for instance, ...
Unsoiled soil and "Fleshly Slime": Representations of reproduction in Spenser's Legend of Chastity
(Duquesne University Press, 2017)
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Oenone and Colin Clout
(Edinburgh University Press, 2016-11)
Spenser's Shepheardes Calender was still a new work, not even yet publicly acknowledged by its author, when George Peele made the rather surprising decision to co-opt its central character and reanimate Colin Clout onstage ...