Texas Studies in Literature and Language articles from March 2001

Texas Studies in Literature and Language archives from March 2001

Monstrous regiment: Spenser's Ireland and Spenser's Queen.(Renaissance Review: Wyatt, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Heywood)(English author Edmund Spenser)(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2001... In Spenser's View of the Present State of Ireland Ireneus, an authority on Irish affairs whose knowledge is based on his experience, describes for his interlocutor, Eudoxus, the origins of the Irish people and the effects of those origins on...

Thomas Wyatt's epistolary satire: parody and the limitationsof rhetorical humanism.(Renaissance Review: Wyatt, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Heywood)(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2001... Thomas Wyatt's writing regularly engages the tensions underlying early-sixteenth-century humanist rhetoric. While works such as his 1527 rendition of Plutarch's the Quyete of Mynde and his 1541 Defence on charges of treason tend to convey a...

The ill kill'd deer: poaching and social order in 'The Merry Wives of Windsor'.(Renaissance Review: Wyatt, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Heywood)(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2001... Nicholas Rowe once asserted that the young Shakespeare was caught stealing a deer from Sir Thomas Lucy's park at Charlecote. The anecdote's truth-value is clearly false, yet the narrative's plausibility resonates from the local social customs in...

A 'Remedy' for Heywood?(Renaissance Review: Wyatt, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Heywood)(Thomas Heywood)
March 22, 2001... In his preface to his mythological pageant play The Brazen Age (1613), Thomas Heywood complains bitterly of an act of literary piracy perpetrated against him by one Henry Austin, a shadowy itinerant figure in the netherworld of the Jacobean book...