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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 ...
The (lost) tune of ‘Raging Love’ and its reverberations in Isabella Whitney’s Copy of a Letter
(SAGE Publications, 2020-03-30)
This article argues that Isabella Whitney s verse epistles To Her Unconstant Lover and The Admonition in The Copy of a Letter (c. 1566 67) are enmeshed more thoroughly in the early modern English soundscape than previous ...
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 ...
The Judgment (and Women Problems) of Solomon in Greenes Vision (1592)
(Early Modern Literary Studies, 2022-12-22)
Greenes Vision: Written at the Instant of His Death (1592), a work of mock authorial repentance, has often been read alongside a range of other ostensibly expiatory pieces that Robert Greene composed around the turn of the ...
The Maid's Metamorphosis or The Metamorphoses of the Maid?
(Edward's Boys, King Edward VI School, 2024)
Essay included in the 2024 theatre programme for The Maid's Metamorphosis performed by Edward's Boys, King Edward VI School.
Isabella Whitney and George Turberville: Mid-Tudor Heroidean poetry and questions of precedence
(Taylor and Francis, 2024-02-26)
Scholarship on Isabella Whitney often positions her in relation to George Turberville. Her Copy of a Letter is habitually juxtaposed with¿and oftentimes assumed to derive from¿Turberville¿s Heroycall Epistles (i.e. the ...