Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 articles from March 1996

Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 archives from March 1996

Rethinking gender and genre in the history play.(Tudor and Stuart Drama)
March 22, 1996... Two concepts that have exercised considerable influence over criticism of Elizabethan drama in the past fifteen years are what might be called the hegemony of genre - that is, the idea that the ideological content of a play is predetermined and...

Alice Arden's freedom and the suspended moment of 'Arden of Faversham.'(Tudor and Stuart Drama)
March 22, 1996... The title page of the 1592 edition of Arden of Faversham tells us that the ensuing action will portray the "Trve Tragedie" of Master Arden of Faversham Who was most wickedlye murdered, by the meanes of his disloyall and wanton wyfe, who for...

Spectacles of torment in 'Titus Andronicus.'(Tudor and Stuart Drama)
March 22, 1996... In its reliance on spectacles of death, Shakespeare's early Roman tragedy, Titus Andronicus, resembles The Spanish Tragedy, though unlike Thomas Kyd's play, which exploits the theatrical value of the hanged body as entertainment, Titus also...

Juliet's taming of Romeo.(Tudor and Stuart Drama)
March 22, 1996... Shakespeare's Juliet has received divergent critical appraisals. Early criticism, in particular, of Romeo and Juliet largely overlooks Juliet, viewing the play as being primarily about Romeo and treating Juliet as a subsidiary, underdeveloped...

The end(s) of discord in 'The Shoemaker's Holiday.'(Tudor and Stuart Drama)
March 22, 1996... The Shoemaker's Holiday (1599) is one of only three Elizabethan comedies named after specific festive occasions.(1) While most critics have duly noted the importance of the festival to the play's structural and thematic design, their accounts...

The political consciousness of Shakespeare's 'As You Like It.'(Tudor and Stuart Drama)
March 22, 1996... the purpose of playing. . . [is] to hold as 'twere the mirror up to nature: to show virtue her feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Hamlet (III.ii.20-4) When in As You Like It the...

Bastardy, counterfeiting, and misogyny in 'The Revenger's Tragedy.'(Tudor and Stuart Drama)
March 22, 1996... We must coin. / Women are apt you know to take false money. - The Revenger's Tragedy, I.i.102-3 We are all bastards . . . Some coiner with his tools made me a counterfeit. - Cymbeline, II.v.2-6 As the sign and currency of exchange, the...

Strategies of submission: Desdemona, the Duchess, and the assertion of desire.(Tudor and Stuart Drama)
March 22, 1996... Chaste, silent, shamefast, and obedient - these have become the buzz words in feminist discussions of early modern women: the dictates of an anxious patriarchal network, intent on regulating inevitably unruly female voices and bodies; the signs...

W[illiam] S[hakespeare]'s "Funeral Elegy" and the turn from the theatrical.(Tudor and Stuart Drama)
March 22, 1996... In memory of my father Ben Abrams On 25 January 1612 in Exeter, after a day's drinking with two friends, a thirty-year-old Devonshire country gentleman, William Peter, was murdered. Nineteen days later in London, Thomas Thorpe, the publisher...

Thomas Middleton and Anthony Munday: artistic rivalry?(Tudor and Stuart Drama)
March 22, 1996... Artistic lives have intersected in varied, challenging, and sometimes productive ways, whether T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville, or Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth. In the early seventeenth...

Recent studies in Tudor and Stuart drama.(Tudor and Stuart Drama)
March 22, 1996... The object of this article is to examine a few recent books in this field not for themselves alone, but in order to obtain a view - so far as the limited and arbitrary selection validates a view - of the general situation in such studies at the...