Browsing English (Scholarly Articles) by Author "Reid, Lindsay Ann"
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Arachne in Marlowe’s ‘Ad amicam corruptam’ (Amores 2.5)
Reid, Lindsay Ann (Oxford University Press, 2018-09-20)When, at the close of the sixteenth century, Christopher Marlowe’s rendition of Amores 2.5 posthumously appeared in All Ovids Elegies (the earliest vernacular translation of this work to have been published in Europe and ... -
Beaumont and Fletcher's Rhodes: early modern geopolitics and mythological topography in The Maid's Tragedy
Reid, Lindsay Ann (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 ... -
“Certaine Amorous Sonnets, Betweene Venus and Adonis”: fictive acts of writing in The Passionate Pilgrime of 1612
Reid, Lindsay Ann (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 ... -
Diana, Dido, and The Fair Maid of Dunsmore: classical precursors, common tunes, and the question of consent in seventeenth-century balladry
Reid, Lindsay Ann (Taylor & Francis, 2017-11-24)The tragedy of Isabel of Dunsmore an English shepherd s daughter who commits suicide after being impregnated by a social superior is recounted in two similar, yet lyrically distinct seventeenth-century ballads: The ... -
Gower’s slothful Aeneas in Batman’s Christall Glasse of Christian Reformation
Reid, Lindsay Ann (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, ... -
Impregnable towers and pregnable maidens in early modern english drama
Reid, Lindsay Ann (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 ... -
Isabella Whitney and George Turberville: Mid-Tudor Heroidean poetry and questions of precedence
Reid, Lindsay Ann (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 ... -
The Judgment (and Women Problems) of Solomon in Greenes Vision (1592)
Reid, Lindsay Ann (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 (lost) tune of ‘Raging Love’ and its reverberations in Isabella Whitney’s Copy of a Letter
Reid, Lindsay Ann (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 ... -
Oenone and Colin Clout
Reid, Lindsay Ann (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 ... -
Ovidian retro-metamorphosis on the Elizabethan stage
Reid, Lindsay Ann (McMaster University Library Press and Becker Associates, 2018-11-02)Although Ovid dedicated his Metamorphoses to the subject of change, the vast majority of the corporeal alterations catalogued in this ancient Roman poem are singular, permanent transformations. In contrast, dramatists ... -
Resurrecting Shakespeare's ghost plays
Reid, Lindsay Ann (Oxford University Press, 2018-09-04)This article draws attention to a group of remarkably similar novels published between 2003 and 2009: William Martin s Harvard Yard, Jennifer Lee Carrell s The Shakespeare Secret (also known as Interred with Their Bones), ... -
The spectre of the School of Night: former scholarly fictions and the stuff of academic fiction
Reid, Lindsay Ann (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 ... -
Speech, silence, and Shakespearean quotation in The Sounding (2017)
Reid, Lindsay Ann (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 ... -
Teaching Caxton's Prologue to Eneydos as an introduction to Renaissance literary culture
Reid, Lindsay Ann (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, ... -
Translating Ovid's Metamorphoses in Tudor balladry
Reid, Lindsay Ann (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 ...