Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 articles from March 2001

Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 archives from March 2001

Cross-Dressing and John Lyly's Gallathea.(Elizabethan author)(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2001... A Broadway revival of Blake Edwards's gender-bending comedy Victor Victoria caps off a flurry of contemporary critical and popular interest in cross-dressing, the most recent expressions of which range from the sensational thrills of The Crying...

Casting Doubt in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus.(Renaissance playwright, Christopher Marlowe)(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2001... He that casts all doubts shall never be resolved. English Renaissance proverb It will come as news to no one that Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus can be and has been deemed a skeptical play. [1] More than a century ago, the...

As You Like It, Rosalynde, and Mutuality.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2001... Over the years, critics have noted a variety of thematic oppositions in As You Like It: fortune versus nature, country versus court, a view of time "as the medium of decay" versus time "as the medium of fulfillment," "contrary notions of...

Questioning History in Cymbeline.(play by William Shakespeare)(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2001... I The First Folio of William Shakespeare's works misclassifies Cymbeline with vigor, including the play in the table of contents under "Tragedies" and setting the running title, "The Tragedie of Cymbeline," over the play text. Of course,...

Knowledge and Belief in The Winter's Tale.(play by William Shakespeare)(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2001... At the narrative moment immediately preceding the animation of Hermione's statue, Paulina exhorts Leontes, "It is requir'd / You do awake your faith." [1] Faith in what? For Leontes, it is faith in the reality of miracles, the coming back to...

The Discourse of Prayer in The Tempest.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2001... Ferdinand. My language! Heavens! (I.ii. 431) Caliban. You taught me language, and my profit on't Is I know how to curse. The red plague rid you For learning me your language! (I.ii. 365-7) I Few critics today would attach...

Rape and the Romanticization of Shakespeare's Miranda.(character from William Shakespeare's play, The Tempest)(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2001... In 1981, Jean Elshtain issued a plea that political philosophy recognize female agency as a valid focus of study: "The feminist political thinker aims to transform her discipline as well as her social world in important ways. This necessitates...

The Performing Heir in Jonson's Jacobean Masques.(playwright Ben Jonson)(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2001... When the Prince of Wales, in the film version of Alan Bennett's The Madness of King George, pleads for "something to do," his father replies: "Follow in my footsteps, that's what you should do." [1] In Prince Henry's Barriers (1610), Ben...

The Widow Hunt on the Tudor-Stuart Stage.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2001... Early in Ben Jonson's Bartholomew Fair (1614), the gallant Quarlous advises a friend against seeking his fortune through "thy exercise of widdow-hunting": There cannot be an ancient Tripe or Trillibub i' the Towne, but thou art straight...

Recent Studies in Tudor and Stuart Drama.
March 22, 2001... Reading an entire year's worth of books on Tudor and Stuart drama is a burden, of course (enter here the usual tropes of agony and ordeal), but it has also been an enlightening privilege, and I have a few general observations to make. First,...