Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 articles from March 1993

Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 archives from March 1993

Marlowe's Cambridge years and the writing of Doctor Faustus. (author Christopher Marlowe)
March 22, 1993... I "Contrition, prayer, repentance: what of them?" Faustus asks, and the question Marlowe wrote for his hero echoed the uncertainty over religious beliefs and practices felt by many of Queen Elizabeth's subjects. Indeed, in writing Doctor...

Wrestling as play and game in As You LIke It. (Shakespeare's play)
March 22, 1993... at the Shakespeare Association of America meeting in Philadelphia, April 1990. My work was supported by a Faculty Development Endowment grant from Rhodes College. I would like to acknowledge the helpful comments and advice of Bruce Boehrer,...

Social role and the making of identity in Julius Caesar. (Shakespeare's play)
March 22, 1993... In an essay that has been widely ignored, Robert Weimann focuses attention on an aspect of Shakespeare's dramatic art that itself has been widely ignored--"the social, as distinct from the psychological, dimension of Shakespeare's...

"Slander in an allow'd fool": Twelfth Night's crisis of the aristocracy. (Shakespeare's play)
March 22, 1993... In Twelfth Night demarcations between male and female, master and servant, libertine and moralist come into festive--and not so festive--collision. Typical readings of the play have focused on its misrule and topsy-turvy as serving ultimately to...

Woman's wit and woman's will in When You See Me, You Know Me. (Samuel Rowley's play)
March 22, 1993... Samuel Rowley's When You See Me, You Know Me (1605) has interested scholars--when it has interested scholars--primarily as the source play dismissed by the Prologue of Shakespeare's Henry VIII as a "merry bawdy play," mere "fool and fight."(1)...

Shakespeare's politics of loyalty: sovereignty and subjectivity in Antony and Cleopatra.
March 22, 1993... What might Antony and Cleopatra tell us about English political culture of around 1606, and what might it tell us about Shakespeare's theater's relationship with that culture?(1) In this essay, I want to suggest answers to these questions in...

The trickster-figure in Jacobean city comedy.
March 22, 1993... Well, how should a man live now, that ha's no living; hum? why are there not a million of men in the world, that onely sojourne upon their braine, and make their wittes their Mercers; and I but one amongst that Million and cannot thrive upon't;...

Mistris Hic and Haec: representations of Moll Frith.
March 22, 1993... In Nathan Field's Amends for Ladies, the notorious Moll Cutpurse puts in a cameo appearance, one seemingly unmotivated and inconsequential, at least from the point of view of the plot.(1) The most likely explanation for her intrusion into a story...

The multiple plot in Fletcherian tragicomedies.
March 22, 1993... Eugene Waith's study of the tragicomedy of Beaumont and Fletcher (1952) has stood for years as the authoritative word on the subject.(1) Indeed, for some time few other words were spent on the work of these collaborators: in his 1981 survey of...

Recent studies in Elizabethan and Jacobean drama. (includes bibliography)
March 22, 1993... "Pageantry, Hosts, and Parasites" (the longest and in many ways the most original and provocative chapter) Palmer reads Kempe's Nine Days' Wonder as a capitalist appropriation not only of a progress as an event but of progress narratives as a...