Recently added articles from Yearbook of English Studies:
Guest editor's preface.(Tudor literature)(Editorial)
Jan 01, 2008; Hiscock, Andrew ... For successive decades Tudor literature has had to fight for its place on the university curriculum. Whilst as a field of academic enquiry it has continued to enjoy lively attention from practising academics, independent researchers, and graduate students, its foothold on the undergraduate ...
Introduction: new lamps for old?(Tudor Literature historical interpretation)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; Pincombe, Mike ... The term 'Tudor literature' is increasingly being used to denote a new period, but it has not yet become certain when this period begins or ends. This chapter argues that there are two ways of interpreting the term: a 'long' Tudor period, which tracks the royal fortunes of the house of ...
Counterfet countenaunce: (mis)representation and the challenge to allegory in sixteenth-century morality plays.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; Griffiths, Jane ... This chapter examines the use of personification allegory in a number of sixteenth-century morality plays, focusing in particular on the vices' use of assumed names in Skelton's Magnyfycence and Udall's Respublica. It argues that these plays manifest a striking self-consciousness about the ...
The defence of religious orthodoxy in John Heywood's The Pardoner and the Frere.
Jan 01, 2008; Caputo, Nicoletta ... In The Pardoner and the Frere an attack on religious abuses is combined with a positive belief in the Church and a defence of the Catholic faith. Corrupt churchmen are satirized and the need for religious reform is stressed, an issue in which King Henry VIII is called upon for support in a ...
Print, patronage, and the reception of continental reform: 1521-1603.
Jan 01, 2008; King, John N. ... English translators, patrons, publishers, and printers played a vital role in the dissemination of continental Protestant reform within England. Their presentation of works by nineteen important continental Protestant reformers underwent notable shifts that mirror changes in official ...
'writers to solemnise and celebrate ... Actes and memory': Foxe and the business of textual memory.
Jan 01, 2008; Hiscock, Andrew ... One of the pervasive thematic interests throughout Foxe's narratives of captivity and torture is how human heroism can be memorialized adequately for succeeding generations who profess the reformist faith. In some prefatory remarks to the Pandectae locorum communium Foxe enquired: 'what ...
Print, patronage, and occasion: translations of Plutarch's Moralia in Tudor England.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; Schurink, Fred ... This chapter examines five Tudor translations of Plutarch's Moralia: Thomas Wyatt's The Quiet of Mind (1528), Thomas Elyot's The Education or Bringing up of Children (1530), John Hales's Plutarch's Precepts for the Preservation of Good Health (1544), Thomas Blundeville's Three Moral ...
Trollers and dreamers: defining the citizen-subject in sixteenth-century cheap print.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; Shrank, Cathy ... This chapter examines two contentions conducted through broadsides and short pamphlets: the first, between Thomas Smyth, William Gray, and others in 1540 reacts to the fall of Cromwell and debates the religious identity of a loyal subject; the second, dating from around 1551, between ...
The healing dialogues of doctor Bullein.(A Dialogue ... Against the Fever Pestilence)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; Maslen, R.W. ... William Bullein's Dialogue against the Fever Pestilence (1564) is widely recognized as one of the most successful literary experiments of its period. This chapter sets the book in the context of Bullein's work as a Protestant writer, physician, and social reformer. It identifies dialogue ...
Placing Tudor Fiction.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; Salzman, Paul ... This chapter addresses some questions about the nature of Tudor/Elizabethan prose fiction. Despite the increasing critical attention that in recent years has been paid to this once neglected genre, some basic aspects about the nature and appearance of Tudor fiction still need to be ...
'Whosoever resisteth shall get to themselfes dampnacioun': tyranny and resistance in Cambises and Horestes.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; Ward, Allyna ... This chapter examines the interplay between Elizabethan discussions of tyranny and obedience and Elizabethan anxieties about damnation in Cambises (1560/1) and Horestes (1567). Both tragedies are important to the development of English Renaissance drama because they offer evidence of the ...
'A world of ground': terrestrial space in Marlowe's Tamburlaine plays.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; Jones, Emrys ... In the Tamburlaine plays Marlowe adapted for dramatic purposes what Jorge Luis Borges termed 'the vast geographies of Ariosto'. These purposes brought the English drama into a close relation with the new cosmography of Ortelius and others. Marlowe was exploiting the growing awareness of ...
Christopher Marlowe and the succession to the English crown.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; Hopkins, Lisa ... This discussion explores a concern that is visible in several of Marlowe's plays: the succession to the English crown. Marlowe seems to have known at least one possible contender for the succession; the question of succession is also explicitly raised at the outset of a work in which he ...
Gismond of Salerne: an Elizabethan and Cupidean tragedy.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; Kingsley-Smith, Jane ... Gismond of Salerne, written by five gentlemen of the Inner Temple and performed before Elizabeth I at Greenwich in 1566-67, has received very little critical attention. This chapter argues for the play's engagement with the Elizabethan succession, maintaining that its Cupidean revenge plot ...
Mary Sidney's Antonius and the ambiguities of French history.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; Prescott, Anne Lake ... Mary Sidney Herbert's translation of Garnier's Marc-Antoine has a trans-Channel context that sharpens and complicates its implications. To remember that Garnier was an official who nevertheless flirted with the radically subversive Holy League and wrote during a three-sided civil war in ...
Reading Tudor writing politically: the case of 2 Henry IV.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; Burrow, Colin ... The first section presents a schematic model of early modern citizenship, which emphasizes the multiple dispersed centres of authority and allegiance of which members of the Tudor commonwealth would be aware. It argues that political readings of texts from this period should take more ...
English: Meaning and Culture.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; Mugglestone, Lynda ... English: Meaning and Culture. By Anna Wierzbicka. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 2006. ix + 352 pp. 17.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN: 978-0-19-517475-5. Anna Wierzbicka's new book is a thoughtful, thought-provoking, and often illuminating work on the distinctive ...
Ancient Privileges: 'Beowulf', Law, and the Making of Germanic Antiquity.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; Breeze, Andrew ... Ancient Privileges: 'Beowulf ', Law, and the Making of Germanic Antiquity. By Stefan Jurasinski. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press. 2006. x + 183 pp. $45. isbn: 978-0-937058-98-5. Ancient Privileges discusses Germanic law and the editing of Beowulf, two subjects with ...
The Mabinogion.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; Breeze Andrew ... The Mabinogion. Trans. by Sioned Davies. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2007. xxxviii + 293 pp. 12.99. [pounds sterling] isbn: 978-0-19-283242-9. The Mabinogion is the inaccurate, but convenient, name of a collection of Welsh stories, the oldest dating from the eleventh ...
The Oxford Guide to Arthurian Literature and Legend.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; Archibald, Elizabeth ... The Oxford Guide to Arthurian Literature and Legend. Ed. by Alan Lupack. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2005. xiv + 496 pp. 11.99 [pounds sterling]. isbn: 978-0-19-921509-6. A survey of Arthurian literature and legend poses major organizational problems, since the material ...
