Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 articles from March 2009

Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 archives from March 2009

Jacob and Esau and the iconoclasm of merit.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2009... John E. Curran Jr., Jacob and Esau and the Iconoclasm of Merit This article contends that the mid-Tudor interlude Jacob and Esau, long known to have a Protestant slant, promotes a Calvinistic doctrine of election consonant with Edwardian...

Allusion and sacrifice in Titus Andronicus.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2009... Danielle A. St. Hilaire, Allusion and Sacrifice in Titus Andronicus This essay defends Shakespeare's character Titus Andronicus against recent criticism by arguing that the calamitous events in Titus Andronicus are not caused by Titus...

Making "Young Hamlet".(Critical essay)
March 22, 2009... Matthew Harkins. Making "Young Hamlet" While youth's subordinate position in Hamlet has played a vital role within the play's critical tradition, this tradition has not questioned the ideological processes that create "youth" as a social...

Music and the crisis of meaning in Othello.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2009... Erin Minear, Music and the Crisis of Meaning in Othello The Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice has been called Shakespeare's most musical tragedy, but critics examining the role of music in the play have tended to use the word in very...

Dramatic nostalgia and spectacular conversion in Dekker and Massinger's: the virgin Martyr.(Thomas Dekker and Philip Massinger)(Critical essay)
March 22, 2009... Holly Crawford Pickett. Dramatic Nostalgia and Spectacular Conversion in Dekker and Massinger's The Virgin Martyr Critical debates about Thomas Dekker and Philip Massinger's The Virgin Martyr (1620) often center on the play's Protestant or...

Staging the Jesuitess in A Game at Chess.(Mary Ward)(Critical essay)
March 22, 2009... Caroline Bicks, Staging the Jesuitess in A Game at Chess This essay explores early modern reactions to the "Jesuitess" Mary Ward's theatrical training of English girls in her Catholic schools on the Continent. I argue that the negative...

Recent Studies in Tudor and Stuart Drama.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2009... Paul Whitfield White, Recent Studies in Tudor and Stuart Drama An assessment of recent scholarly work treating the literature of Tudor and Stuart drama and some general observations on the state of the profession. A full bibliography and...

Books received.
March 22, 2009... Adelman, Janet. Blood Relations: Christian and Jew in "The Merchant of Venice." Chicago and London: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2008. Pp. xii + 228. $35.00. ISBN 978-0-226-00681-9. Anderson. Judith H. Reading the Allegorical Intertext: Chaucer,...