Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 articles from March 2005

Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 archives from March 2005

Playing at maturity in John Redford's Wit and Science.
March 22, 2005... The boys of St. Paul's School first acted Wit and Science during the second half of Henry VIII's reign. The original performers were probably drawn from two sources: the humanist school founded by John Colet, and the singing school whose...

Time and talk in Richard III I.iv.
March 22, 2005... Clarence's murder is more important in Shakespeare than in Raphael Holinshed. Holinshed, like other historians of the period, focuses only on the detail of the malmsey butt: "finallie the duke was cast into the Tower, and therewith adiuged for...

Shakespeare's carved saints.
March 22, 2005... Following a scene in which Henry Bolingbroke shows largesse to those who have plotted against his life and preceding a scene in which Bolingbroke's men deprive Richard II of his own, occurs a short exchange between Sir Piers Exton and a...

Performing cross-class clandestine marriage in The Shoemaker's Holiday.
March 22, 2005... A year before The Shoemaker's Holiday was performed, Sir John Spencer, his daughter Elizabeth, and her suitor enacted a courtship closely resembling the main marriage plot in the play. (1) In 1598, Elizabeth, the unmarried and well-dowered...

Authorship, indebtedness, and the children of the king's revels.
March 22, 2005... Renaissance plays were owned by their playing companies. This is an ownership, Joseph Loewenstein has claimed, reflected in the way dramatic prologues and epilogues acknowledge--or fail to acknowledge--the writer or writers of the playscripts...

The Alchemist and the emerging adult private playhouse.
March 22, 2005... I have considered, our whole life is like a Play: wherein every man, forgetfull of himselfe, is in travaile with expression of another. (1) --Ben Jonson Although the earliest recorded performance of The Alchemist took place in...

Civic humanism and gender politics in Jonson's Catiline.
March 22, 2005... I Most intellectual and cultural historians accept J. G. A. Pocock's claim that civic humanist discourse petered out in England after the middle of the sixteenth century, to return in a republican form only in the 1640s. (1) Markku...

Space, violence, and bodies in Middleton and Cary.(The Tragedy of Mariam)(Women Beware Women)(Thomas Middleton)(Elizabeth Cary)
March 22, 2005... In early modern England, the varied acts of brutality within an endless repertoire of violence all carried with them different interpretations; as Fredson Bowers explains, "an open killing in hot blood" was readily excused, but murder that was...

Staging passion in Ford's The Lover's Melancholy.(John Ford)
March 22, 2005... John Ford's tragicomedy The Lover's Melancholy (first published in 1629) appears to have been his first independently written play. In it, a number of themes and motifs that became established as typically Fordian appear inflected in a rather...

A conversation with Sir Frank Kermode.(Interview)
March 22, 2005... The ten-page article "Some Recent Studies in Shakespeare and Jacobean Drama" by Frank Kermode appeared in the first volume of SEL in the spring of 1961. Kermode, already highly admired in the scholarly world generally, but with the Arden...

Recent studies in Tudor and Stuart drama.
March 22, 2005... I have no grand narrative. Items are simply grouped in order to provide a degree of structure and coherence. I am aware that several works might well have appeared under other categories, so innovatively mixed are they in their concerns:...

Books received.
March 22, 2005... Aebischer, Pascale. Shakespeare's Violated Bodies: Stage and Screen Performance. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2004. Pp. xiv + 226. $65.00. ISBN 0-521-82935-6. Alexander, Catherine M. S., ed. Shakespeare and Language. Cambridge:...