English Renaissance Literature

The Orwin publications of George Ripley's Compound of Alchemy (1591) and the English Faust Book (1592): A coincidental John Dee-Edward Kelley connection, intentional suppression, or both?

by Teresa Burns

Paper presented at the April 20, 2012 Science and the Occult Conference held at Purdue.
The Powerpoint... more Paper presented at the April 20, 2012 Science and the Occult Conference held at Purdue.
The Powerpoint presentation associated with the paper is uploaded in the "Talks" section. I'm re-editing the paper for the conference proceedings and will upload the final draft here.

http://uwplatt.academia.edu/TeresaBurns/Talks/80898/The_Orwin_publications_of_George_Ripleys_Compound_of_Alchemy_1591_and_the_English_Faust_Book_1592_A_coincidental_John_Dee-Edward_Kelley_connection_intentional_suppression_or_both

“Tuning My Defame": The Medieval Complaint in Shakespeare′s "The Rape of Lucrece"

by Rebecca Munson

Written for the Shakespeare Association of America seminar on Shakespeare and Medieval Poetry. (Chicago, 2010.)

Is Simpatico Possible in Translation? The 1620 Translation of the Decameron and the Case for Similarity.

by Anna Strowe

The Translator 17.1 (April 2011), 51-75.

Boccaccio’s Afterlife: Historical simpatico and the 1620 translation of the Decameron

by Anna Strowe

Crossroads Graduate Conference in Comparative Literature. University of Massachusetts; Amherst, MA. 2008.

Translation and Similarity: Simpatico and the 1620 Decameron

by Anna Strowe

Nida School for Translation Studies. Murcia, Spain. 2010.

Review of The Cambridge Companion to Bunyan

by David Parry

Published in The Glass, 24 (2012), 57-63

Review of Anne Dunan-Page (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Bunyan (Cambridge University Press, 2010)

Shakespeare, sound and sense

by Katherine Butler

Book Review

(co-edited with James Kearney) Criticism 54, Special Issue on "Shakespeare and Phenomenology" (2012)

by Kevin Curran

Contributors: Bruce R. Smith, Julia Reinhard Lupton, Kevin Curran, James Kearney, Michael Witmore, Ken Jackson, Paul Kottman, James Knapp, Jennifer Bates, Jennifer Waldron

Violence and Distance: A Psychoanalytic Study of the Theatricalism of T̲h̲e̲ S̲p̲a̲n̲i̲s̲h̲ T̲r̲a̲g̲e̲d̲y̲

by Dianne Hunter

'Representations of Queen Elizabeth in the Private Poetry of Mildmay Fane, Second Earl of Westmorland (1601-1666)', in Queen and Country, ed. A. Petrina and L. Tosi (New York: Peter Lang, 2011), pp. 239-5

by Sara Trevisan

'Mildmay Fane’s Masque Raguaillo D'Oceano (1640): Royalism, Puritanism and Sea Voyages', Renaissance Studies (DOI: 10.1111/j.1477-4658.2011.00771.x)

by Sara Trevisan

“‘The murmuring woods euen shuddred as with feare’: Deforestation in Michael Drayton’s Poly-Olbion,” The Seventeenth Century 26 (2011), 240-63.

by Sara Trevisan

'Lady of the Lake or Queen of the Ocean? The Role of Female Power in Prince Henry’s Barriers and Tethys’ Festival', in Representations of Elizabeth I in Early Modern Culture, ed. A. Petrina and L. Tosi, intr. S. Orgel (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), pp. 158-71

by Sara Trevisan

'The Singing Vice: Music and Mischief in Early English Drama'

by Maura Giles-Watson

Early Theatre 12.2 (2009), 57-90.

Thomas More's Richard III: probing the limits of humanism

by Hanan Yoran

"The Talking Brass Head as a Symbol of Dangerous Knowledge in Friar Bacon and in Alphonsus, King of Aragon"

by Kevin LaGrandeur

This article is a re-publication. It was selected for inclusion in the Gale Library Reference Series titled Literature Criticism From 1400-1800, vol. 185. Ed. Lawrence J. Trudeau. Detroit: 2011. The link will take you to a preview of the article.

Debate in Paradise Lost: the function of rhetoric as a means for good or evil

by Rod Missaghian

Not enough is written about "Paradise Lost", one of the greatest pieces of English Literature ever written.

Not many people think of rhetoric as a force for evil. So many politicians today use debate to fuel their moral or... more Not many people think of rhetoric as a force for evil. So many politicians today use debate to fuel their moral or political propaganda. But Milton, using the vehicle of scripture shows us that debate can be used for both good and evil. This poem of epic proportions should be studied by everyone. What Milton reveals is that so much of what we know to be truth can be distorted, if we engage in circular thinking, and mistake lofty  assumptions and baseless arguments as absolute truth. It is arguable that in some aspects, Milton uses the character of Satan as a parody of his political contemporaries- Milton was actively engaged in politics himself.

The deployment of artificial and natural beards in the plays of Richard Brome

by Eleanor Rycroft

Comus (souvenir programme)

by David Parry

PDF of a souvenir programme I edited for a performance of Milton's Comus and a contemporary ‘reply’ masque by the Australian poet John Kinsella. This performance formed part of the Milton anniversary celebrations at Christ’s College, Cambridge, in 2008. Includes articles on Comus and its performance through the centuries.

The" Root of Civil Conversion": Redefining Courtesy in Book VI of the Faerie Queene

by Michelle Golden