Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 articles from March 1998

Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 archives from March 1998

Staging the vernacular: language and nation in Thomas Kyd's 'The Spanish Tragedy.'
March 22, 1998... The familiar physiognomy of a word, the feeling that it has taken up its meaning into itself, that it is an actual likeness of its meaning - there could be human beings to whom all this was alien. - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical...

Children of the mind: miscarried narratives in 'Much Ado about Nothing.'
March 22, 1998... An a for a short story about people in Manhattan who are constantly creating these real unnecessary neurotic problems for themselves 'cause it keeps them from dealing with more unsolvable, terrifying problems about the universe. - Woody Allen,...

Shakespeare and Harsnett: "pregnant to good pity"?
March 22, 1998... Ever since Lewis Theobald's connection of Samuel Harsnett's Declaration of Egregious Popish Impostures and Shakespeare's King Lear in the eighteenth century, scholars have been aware of Harsnett's influence on Shakespeare and have worked to...

Maintaining hierarchy in 'The Tragedie of King Lear.'
March 22, 1998... In tracing the theater's role in eliciting social change in early modern England, many recent critics have focused upon King Lear as a central text, citing the breakdown of authority and service within the play as evidence of its subversive...

Middleton, 'The Revenger's Tragedy,' and crisis literature. (Thomas Middleton)
March 22, 1998... The question of who wrote The Revenger's Tragedy has experienced a tortured history. Since 1926, when E. H. C. Oliphant compiled his tentative speculations favoring Thomas Middleton's authorship, evidence has been collected demonstrating to a...

Refashioning society in Ben Jonson's 'Epicoene.'
March 22, 1998... Englishmen in the early modern period were obsessed with their bloodlines. "One of the most striking features of the age," writes Lawrence Stone, "was a pride of ancestry which now reached new heights of fantasy and elaboration."(1) Although...

'The Roman Actor,' censorship, and dramatic autonomy.
March 22, 1998... The crowning of Charles I in 1625 was but one of several significant changes that took place during the mid-1620s. In 1623, for instance, Sir Henry Herbert brought a confident attitude and the patronage of the Lord Chamberlain to the office of...

Sir John Oldcastle and the construction of Shakespeare's authorship.
March 22, 1998... Let vs returne vnto the Bench againe, And there examine further of this fray. - Sir John Oldcastle, I.i. 124-5 A decade ago the editors of the Oxford William Shakespeare: The Complete Works replaced the name of the character called Falstaff...

Recent studies in Tudor and Stuart drama.
March 22, 1998... Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh, or so saith the preacher. But my own experience in reading this past year has been that the making of books demands commitment, resourcefulness, and abundant...