Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies articles from September 2005

Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies archives from September 2005

From the editors.(English modern culture)
September 22, 2005... This issue of JEMCS--our pre-1660 issue for 2005--returns us to one of the journal's perennial interests: Shakespeare in particular and the early English drama in general. Recognizing the very fluid historical circumstances that underlie the...

Ruthless power and ambivalent glory: the rebel-labourer in 2 Henry VI.
September 22, 2005... "If the feet knew their strength as well as we know their oppression, they would not bear as they do." --Fulke Greville to the House of Commons, 1596 Some of the "feet" did know their strength in the tumultuous late sixteenth century,...

Fugitive explorations in Romeo and Juliet: transversal travels through R&Jspace.
September 22, 2005... Every time I tell you I'm a real Romeo, It fills my soul and heart with anger, pain and sorrow. Sublime, "Romeo" (1) The lyrics from the punk/ska/reggae band Sublime s song Romeo a e indicative of popular conceptions of Romeo and...

Jephthah's kin: the sacrificing father in The Merchant of Venice.
September 22, 2005... And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the Lord, and said, If thou shalt deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands, then that thing that commeth out of the doors of mine house to meet me, when I come home in peace from the children of Ammon, shall...

Laborless London: comic form and the space of the Town in Caroline Covent Garden.
September 22, 2005... Richard Brome's 1632 comedy The Weeding of Covent Garden opens with one of the early modern stage's most densely layered descriptions of a city scene. The play begins with Cockbrain, a neighborhood constable, and Rooksbill, a wealthy builder,...

Early modern European travel writing after orientalism.(Asian Travel in the Renaissance)(Before Orientalism: London's Theater of the East, 1576-1626)(The Rise of Oriental Travel: English Visitors to the Ottoman Empire, 1580-1720)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... GERALD MACLEAN, The Rise of Oriental Travel: English Visitors to the Ottoman Empire, 1580-1720. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, 267 pp. $59.95. RICHMOND BARBOUR, Before Orientalism: London's Theater of the East 1576-1626. Cambridge:...

Antonio Vignali, La Cazzaria / The Book of the Prick.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... ANTONIO VIGNALI, La Cazzaria / The Book of the Prick. Ed. and Trans. Ian Frederick Moulton. New York: Routledge, 2003. 181 pp. $18.95 La Cazzaria, a Sienese dialogue written sometime between 1525 and 1527, is a dirty little book. As...

Rebecca Bushnell. Green Desire: Imagining Early Modern English Gardens.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... REBECCA BUSHNELL. Green Desire: Imagining Early Modern English Gardens. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003. x+198 pp. $29.95. Rebecca Bushnell's Green Desire: Imagining Early Modern English Gardens is as much about writing and reading...