Emelia's retort, 'That's better than a sheep' (14.159),21 is, as Pamela Brown has commented, without referring to this context, an apt proverb for female rhetorical use.22 This sturdy, no-nonsense put-down not only gives the lie to the ...
Such Brooks are welcome to me , that o'erflows such liquor ' ( II . ii . 134–6 ) . The word - play puts it beyond doubt that Shakespeare originally intended Ford to adopt the pseudonym Brook , and not Broome , as is printed in the folio ...
... 11–29 Bednarz, James, Shakespeare and the Poets' War (New York and Chichester: Columbia University Press, 2001) Bentley, G. E., The Jacobean and Caroline Stage, 7 vols. ... Jonson on Satire', in Clifford Leech and J. Bibliography 278.
In relation to the spectrum of royalist discourse, it is important also to see the continuities between a pre-1640 ... 2 For example, David L. Smith, Constitutional Royalism and the Search for Settlement, c.1640–1649 (Cambridge: ...
In this study of revenge tragedies - notably by Thomas Kyd, William Shakespeare, Thomas Middleton, John Marston and John Webster - Janet Clare suggests that genres are not passively inherited,...
The five texts, three of which have been edited for the first time, include The Tragedy of that Famous Roman Orator Marcus Tullius Cicero (Anonymous), Cupid and Death by James Shirley; and William Davenant's The Siege of Rhodes, The Cruelty ...
Hearty Good Wishes: Coastal Quilts
Filled with her own drawings and sketches, many of which double as templates, this delightful book offers inspiring ideas with a quilter’s sketchbook feel.
... English at Linnaeus University, Sweden. His latest book is Representing Masculinity in Early Modern English Satire, 1590–1603 (2020), which will be followed in 2021 by the anthology Satire and the Multiplicity of Forms: Textual and ...
Explores the diffuse impact of the civil wars and the Republic on the Restoration
Explores the diffuse impact of the civil wars and the Republic on the Restoration.