The use of Italian culture in the Jacobean theatre was never an isolated gesture. In considering the ideological repercussions of references to Italy in prominent works by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, Michael J. Redmond argues that early modern intertextuality was a dynam…
"This book considers melancholy as an "assemblage," as a network of dynamic, interpretive relationships between persons, bodies, texts, spaces, structures, and things. In doing so, it parts ways with past interpretations of melancholy. Tilting the English Renaissance against the…
The period from the Reformation to the English Civil War saw an evolving understanding of social identity in England. This book uses four illuminating case studies to chart a discursive shift from mid-sixteenth-century notions of an individually generated, spiritually motivated …
English mercuries -- Men, money, iron, and bread -- Thomas Churchyard's "Valiant soldiers" and the "Public state"--A tale of two cities: George Gascoigne's Antwerp and Alarum for London -- John Donne's Emblem of war -- John Harington's Journey home -- Remembering soldiers: Ben J…
A soldier/scholar vividly describes the conditions for Elizabethan soldiers and how they wrote about their deployments.
A soldier/scholar vividly describes the conditions for Elizabethan soldiers and how they wrote about their deployments.
This revisionary study of the origins of courtly poetry reveals the culture of spectatorship and voyeurism that shaped early Tudor English literary life. Through research into the reception of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, it demonstrates how Pandarus became the model of the e…
