Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 articles from March 2002

Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 archives from March 2002

Commodity and Commonwealth in Gammer Gurton's Needle.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2002... Though Gammer Gurton's Needle (1550-53) is frequently anthologized and routinely taught in surveys of non-Shakespearean drama, it has received comparatively little critical attention. (1) The reasons for this neglect are not difficult to...

The public, the private, and the Shaming of the Shrew.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2002... Relatively late in the action of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew (1592), Tranio tells the pedant of a fictional private quarrel that has been made public, and is, therefore, a potential threat to the pedant's safety in the city of Padua:...

Jack Cade's legal carnival.(Cade Rebellion in Henry IV Part II)(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2002... C. L. Barber was one of the first critics to recognize that Shakespeare portrays the Cade Rebellion of Henry VI Part II as carnival: "an astonishingly consistent expression of anarchy by clowning: the popular rising is presented throughout as a...

Landholding, leasing, and inheritance in Richard II.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2002... A recent description of the rules of succession to the throne in modern Britain states that "under the common law, the Crown descends on the same basis as the inheritance of land." (1) It is evident that Richard II takes for granted an analogy...

History and the nation in Richard II and Henry IV.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2002... I The past, in the figure of the murdered King Richard, haunts the protagonists of the Henry IV plays. The relation between the Richard they remember or merely imagine and the Richard of Richard II is fraught with emotional, moral, and...

The politics of French language in Shakespeare's history plays.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2002... Amid his arduous and apparently superfluous wooing of Princess Katherine of France, Shakespeare's King Henry V exclaims, "It is as easy for me, Kate, to conquer the kingdom as to speak so much more French." (1) Since he has just conquered the...

Coriolanus, the Union controversy, and access to the Royal Person.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2002... While the metaphor of the body politic preoccupied Shakespeare throughout his career, only Coriolanus (1608) with is fable of the belly subjects the body politic to explicit scrutiny as a theoretical problem, and as a discourse peculiar to the...

Thomas Heywood and the cultural Politics of play Collections.
March 22, 2002... Thomas Heywood never managed to publish a collection of his plays, but not for lack of trying. In 1632 he prefaced The Second Part of the Iron Age with a note announcing a future reprint: "If the three former Ages (now out of Print,) bee added...

Defending the king in Cartwright's the Lady-Errant (1636-37).(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2002... In his article, "Entertaining the Palatine Prince: Plays on Foreign Affairs 1635-1637," Martin Butler describes the theatrical campaign waged by the queen and her supporters to put pressure on the king to enter the European war against Spain....

Recent studies in Tudor and Stuart drama.
March 22, 2002... PROLOGUE Enter AUTHOR (sweeping stage): Let's get it over with, the SEL review opening gambit: humility (with feeling) before the range and quality of this year's scholarship, art which well exceeds my scope; surprise (muted) at the...

Books received.
March 22, 2002... Adamson, Sylvia. Lynette Hunter, Lynne Magnusson, Ann Thompson, and Katie Wales, eds. Reading Shakespeare's Dramatic Language: A Guide. Arden Shakespeare (Third Series). London: Arden Shakespeare, 2001. Pp. xii + 321. $19.95 paper. ISBN...