Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 articles from March 1995

Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 archives from March 1995

Marlowe and the disordered face of French history. (playwright Christopher Marlowe)
March 22, 1995... In the final scene of Marlowe's disfigured portrait of contemporary French history, the silent English agent - the only English character in the play - takes the stage to hear the dying Henry III pledge his love for Queen Elizabeth and his hatred...

"Marlowe's second city": the Jew as critic at the Rose in 1592.
March 22, 1995... When the London theatergoers of the 1590s made the short river trip to the South Bank, they left behind them a place which displayed certain fixed features (infrastructure, Protestant Christian ideology), and a place where the lives of the...

Male bonds and marriage in 'All's Well' and 'Much Ado.' (William Shakespeare's plays 'All's Well that Ends Well' and 'Much Ado About Nothing)
March 22, 1995... Bertram also demands a good actor, if the spectator is to perceive that this is a man capable of rewarding efforts so great on the part of a woman . . . That this unsentimental youth has a heart . . . is indeed read in his scanty words, but few...

The Whore of Babylon and Shakespeare's 'Julius Caesar.'
March 22, 1995... Julius Caesar is an odd mix of elements. It contains no apparent love interest and, with two exceptions, is populated wholly by men. Its monolithic maleness encompasses the minor characters as well as the major ones, from the Cobbler to the Poets...

Thomas Dekker's political commentary in 'The Whore of Babylon.'
March 22, 1995... Written shortly after the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot (5 November 1605), Thomas Dekker's The Whore of Babylon - a long allegorical account of the various assassination attempts on Queen Elizabeth (Titania) by representatives of Roman...

Amazon reflections in the Jacobean Queen's masque.
March 22, 1995... Objects in mirror may be closer than they appear. Mirror warning, General Motors For six years, from 1604 through 1609, Jacobean court masques stage the bodies and the intentions of women. Four masques in those five years claim Queen Anne as...

Gender and the political subject in 'The Tragedy of Mariam.'
March 22, 1995... When Elizabeth Cary was only ten years old, her father took her to a trial in which he was judging a woman accused of witchcraft: But the child, seeing the poor woman in so terrible a fear, and in so simple a manner confess all, thought fear...

'Bartholomew Fair' and Jonsonian tolerance.
March 22, 1995... By the time Bartholomew Fair was staged in 1614, Ben Jonson understood from more first-hand experience than most of his fellow playwrights the dangers of stage censorship. The bitter memories of his entanglement with the authorities over The Isle...

Giving and taking in Massinger's tragicomedies. (Philip Massinger)
March 22, 1995... In Philip Massinger's The Renegado (1624), a romantic tragicomedy about impetuous love, the rescue of a captive maiden, and hairbreadth escapes, the hero begins the play disguised as a shopkeeper. When a Tunisian princess first sees and falls in...

Recent studies in Tudor and Stuart drama.
March 22, 1995... I shall begin with a few words on procedure. Because of the volume of material I needed to read, I did not consider reissued books, since readers of SEL can presumably recover accounts of them from previous years' reviews. I also decided early on...