Renaissance Quarterly back issues from June 1999:
The Renaissance novella as justice.
Jun 22, 1999; ... Philosophers writing recently in the United States and Canada, such as Martha Nussbaum, Alisdair MacIntyre, and Charles Taylor, although they are in fundamental disagreement on many points, especially on many political and theological issues, affirm the desirability of a re-reading of ...
Shakespeare's Dionysian prince: drama, politics, and the "Athenian" history play.(Renaissance English dramatist; King Henry V)
Jun 22, 1999; ... In Shakespeare's Festive Comedy, C. L. Barber notes Falstaff's likeness to Bacchus, the "festival lord," as Bacchus was represented in Erasmus's Praise of Folly.(1) Robin Headlam Wells and Alison Birkinshaw also note the "distinctly Dionysian character" of Falstaff's "musical ...
Touching touchets: Perkin Warbeck and the Buggery Statute.(character in Renaissance English dramatist John Ford's 1634 play 'The Chronicle History of Perkin Warbeck')
Jun 22, 1999; ... At first sight, The Chronicle History of Perkin Warbeck seems to be the only one of John Ford s plays that is not pointedly and openly concerned with sexual deviation. Both 'Tis Pity She's a Whore and The Broken Heart feature either actual incest or the fear of it. The Lover's Melancholy ...
"Pleasure reconciled to virtue": William Cavendish, Ben Jonson, and the decorative scheme of Bolsover Castle.
Jun 22, 1999; ... After many years of public and scholarly neglect, Bolsover Castle is coming to be recognized as perhaps "the most beautiful house in England, and one of the treasures of western Europe."(1) This is as it should be, for Bolsover was designed to delight and intrigue its visitors. Planned and ...
Exotic allies: the Dutch-Chilean encounter and the (failed) conquest of America.
Jun 22, 1999; ... A curious vignette decorates the title page of a Dutch pamphlet produced circa 1600 [ILLUSTRATION FOR FIGURE 1 OMITTED]. Published in the final years of the Dutch Revolt and within the context of the virulently anti-Habsburg mood that pervaded the Netherlands, the Spanish and Aragonese ...
Plagues, healers and patients in early modern Europe.
Jun 22, 1999; ... The pandemic that descended upon western Europe in 1347 and continued virtually unbroken through the end of the seventeenth century has generated an enormous historical literature. Plagues were a constant presence in the lives of medieval and early modern people, causing fear, terror, and ...
The Great Pox: The French Disease in Renaissance Europe.(Review)
Jun 22, 1999; ... Jon Arrizabalaga, John Henderson, and Roger French. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997. xv + 352 pp. illus. $35. ISBN: 0-300-06934-0. The pandemic that descended upon western Europe in 1347 and continued virtually unbroken through the end of the seventeenth ...
Healers and Healing in Early Modern Italy.(Review)
Jun 22, 1999; ... David Gentilcore. (Social and Cultural Values in Early Modern Europe.) Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1998. xvi + 240 pp. illus. $79.95. ISBN: 0-7190-4199-6. The pandemic that descended upon western Europe in 1347 and continued virtually unbroken through ...
The Black Death and the Transformation of the West.(Review)
Jun 22, 1999; ... David Herlihy. Ed. with an introduction by Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997. vi + 117 pp. $12. ISBN: 0-674-07613-3. The pandemic that descended upon western Europe in 1347 and continued virtually unbroken through the end of the seventeenth ...
Plague? Jesuit Accounts of Epidemic Disease in the 16th Century.(Review)
Jun 22, 1999; ... A. Lynn Martin. (Sixteenth Century Studies, 28.) Kirksville, Mo: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, 1996. xiv + 268 pp. $35. ISBN: 0-940474-30-1. The pandemic that descended upon western Europe in 1347 and continued virtually unbroken through the end of the seventeenth ...
Contracting a Cure: Patients, Healers, and the Law in Early Modern Bologna.(Review)
Jun 22, 1999; ... Gianna Pomata. Trans. by the author, with Rosemarie Foy and Anna Taraboletti-Segre. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. xx + 294 pp. $42.50. ISBN: 0-8018-5858-5. The pandemic that descended upon western Europe in 1347 and continued virtually unbroken ...
Medical Ethics in the Renaissance.(Review)
Jun 22, 1999; ... Winfried Schleiner. Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1995. xvi + 230 pp. illus. $55. ISBN: 0-87840-593-3. The pandemic that descended upon western Europe in 1347 and continued virtually unbroken through the end of the seventeenth century has generated an enormous ...
La Peste di Milano del 1630: La cronica e le testimonianze del tempo del Cardinale Federico Borromeo.(Review)
Jun 22, 1999; ... Armando Torno, ed. Trans. Ilaria Solari. Milan: Rusconi, 1998. 219 pp. illus. IL 39,000. ISBN: 88-18-12185-5. The pandemic that descended upon western Europe in 1347 and continued virtually unbroken through the end of the seventeenth century has generated an enormous historical ...
I Mali e i rimedi della Serenissima.(Review)
Jun 22, 1999; ... Nelli-Elena Vanzan Marchini. (Fonti per la Storia della Sanita, 2). Vicenza: Neri Pozza Editore, 1995. 302 pp. illus. IL 35,000. ISBN: n.a. The pandemic that descended upon western Europe in 1347 and continued virtually unbroken through the end of the seventeenth century has ...
Savonarola studies in Italy on the 500th anniversary.(Italian monk and religious reformer Girolamo Savonarola, who was burned at the stake for heresy in 1498)
Jun 22, 1999; ... The five-hundredth anniversary of Girolamo Savonarola's death (1498-1998) was observed by scholarly, cultural, and religious communities in Italy with a variety of conferences, publications, exhibitions and even concerts. In Tuscany, in particular, the three communities joined forces and, ...
Studi savonaroliani: Verso il V centenario.(Review)
Jun 22, 1999; ... Gian Carlo Garfagnini, ed. (Savonarola e la Toscana, Atti e documenti, 1.) Firenze: SISMEL Edizioni del Galluzzo, 1996. xviii + 344 pp. n.p. ISBN: 88-87027-01-3. The five-hundredth anniversary of Girolamo Savonarola's death (1498-1998) was observed by scholarly, cultural, and ...
Savonarola e la politica.(Review)
Jun 22, 1999; ... Gian Carlo Garfagnini, ed. (Savonarola e la Toscana, Atti e documenti, 2.) Firenze: SISMEL Edizioni del Galluzzo, 1997. xviii +269 pp. n.p. ISBN: 88-87027-01-3. The five-hundredth anniversary of Girolamo Savonarola's death (1498-1998) was observed by scholarly, cultural, and ...
Vita di Hieronimo Savonarola (Volgarizzamento anonimo).(Review)
Jun 22, 1999; ... Giovanfrancesco Pico della Mirandola. (Volgarizzamento anonimo). Ed. Raffaella Castagnola. Preface by Gian Carlo Garfagnini. (Savonarola e la Toscana, Atti e documenti, 4.) Firenze: SISMEL Edizioni del Galluzzo, 1998. xxxiii + 98 pp. n.p. ISBN: 88-87027-21-8. The five-hundredth ...
Savonarola rivisitano: 1498-1998.(Review)
Jun 22, 1999; ... Massimiliano G. Rosito, O.F.M., ed. (I maestri di ieri e di oggi, 13.) Firenze: Edizioni Citta di Vita, 1998. 229 pp. n.p. ISBN: n.a. The five-hundredth anniversary of Girolamo Savonarola's death (1498-1998) was observed by scholarly, cultural, and religious communities in Italy ...
Fede e speranza di un profeta: Pagine scelte.(Review)
Jun 22, 1999; ... Girolamo Savonarola. Introduction, translation and notes by Adriana Valerio. Milano: Paoline Editoriale, 1998. 213 pp. n.p. ISBN: n.a. The five-hundredth anniversary of Girolamo Savonarola's death (1498-1998) was observed by scholarly, cultural, and religious communities in ...
"Se tu non hai carita, tu non sei vero cristiano.": Tre prediche.(Review)
Jun 22, 1999; ... Girolamo Savonarola. Ed. Paolo Viti. Iconographic research and comment by Ludovica Sebregondi. Firenze: Ordo Equestris Sancti Sepulchri Hierosolymitani and Le Lettere, 1998. 159 pp. n.p. ISBN: 88-7166-412-4. The five-hundredth anniversary of Girolamo Savonarola's death ...
Sermones in primam divi Ioannis epistolam secondo l'autografo: Testo latino con traduzione italiana a fronte.(Review)
Jun 22, 1999; ... Girolamo Savonarola. Ed. Armando E Verde and Elettra Giaconi. (Savonarola e la Toscana, Atti e documenti, 3.) Firenze: SISMEL Edizioni del Galluzzo, 1998. xxxii + 312 pp. n.p. ISBN: 88-87027-09-9. The five-hundredth anniversary of Girolamo Savonarola's death (1498-1998) was ...
Tommaso Campanella and the Transformation of the World.(Review)
Jun 22, 1999; ... John M. Headley, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997.7 pls. + xxv + 399 pp. $55. ISBN: 0-691-02679-3. Tommaso Campanella - rebel, philosopher, prophet, poet, and prisoner - is surely one of the most extraordinary figures of the late Italian Renaissance. His extensive ...
Lodovico Dolce: Renaissance Man of Letters.(Review)
Jun 22, 1999; ... Ronnie H. Terpening, Toronto and London: University of Toronto Press, 1997. vii +310 pp. $55. ISBN: 0-8020-4159-0. Tommaso Campanella - rebel, philosopher, prophet, poet, and prisoner - is surely one of the most extraordinary figures of the late Italian Renaissance. His ...
Divine Domesticity: Augustine of Thagaste to Teresa of Avila.(Review)
Jun 22, 1999; ... Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle, (Studies in the History of Christian Thought, 74.) Leiden and New York: E.J. Brill, 1997. x + 295 pp. $103.50. ISBN: 90-04-10675-8. The domestic household underwent a sanctification in the nineteenth century when the cult of family values became a stable ...
Authorizing Petrarch.(Review)
Jun 22, 1999; ... William J. Kennedy, Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1994. 301 pp. $36.50. ISBN: 0-8014-2947-9. Authorizing Petrarch offers a remarkably erudite study of Petrarch's complex interpretive legacy. This book explores the intersection between Petrarch's Rime sparse and a ...
Marsilio Ficino, Pietro Bembo, Baldassare Castiglione: Philosophical, Aesthetic, and Political Approaches in Renaissance Platonism.(Review)
Jun 22, 1999; ... Christine Raffini, (Renaissance and Baroque: Studies and Texts, 21.) New York and Washington, D.C.: Peter Lang, 1998. xii + 174 pp. $41.95. ISBN: 0-8204-3023-4. These two books present examinations of two different facets of Renaissance philosophical speculation, the Platonic ...
L'etica del Rinascimento tra Platone e Aristotele.(Review)
Jun 22, 1999; ... Antonino Poppi, (II pensiero e la storia, 29.) Naples: La Citta del Sol, 1997. 303 pp. IL 40,000. ISBN: 8886521-65-0. These two books present examinations of two different facets of Renaissance philosophical speculation, the Platonic and the Aristotelian. Raffini offers a study ...
Half-serious Rhymes: The Narrative Poetry of Luigi Pulci.(Review)
Jun 22, 1999; ... Mark Davie, Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1998. 199 pp. $39.50. ISBN: 0-7165-2601-8. The poetic achievement of Luigi Pulci (1432-1484) has suffered a long period of relative neglect in the English-speaking world. That neglect in part occurred because no complete translation of ...
The Epic Adventures of Orlando and His Giant Friend Morgante.(Review)
Jun 22, 1999; ... Luigi Pulci, Morgante: Trans. Joseph Tusiani. Intro. and notes, Edoardo A. Lebano. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998. xxxiii + 975 pp. $49.95. ISBN: 0-253-33399-7. The poetic achievement of Luigi Pulci (1432-1484) has suffered a long period of relative neglect in the ...
The Orlando furioso: A Stoic Comedy.(Review)
Jun 22, 1999; ... Clare Carroll, Tempe, AZ: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1997. x + 246 pp. $26. ISBN: 0-86698-215-9. This study of Ariosto's Orlando furioso in the light of Stoic ethics and cosmology makes strong claims for itself as a comprehensive reading of the poem, in ...
Remembering the Renaissance: Humanist Narratives of the Sack of Rome.(Review)
Jun 22, 1999; ... Kenneth Gouwens, (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 85). Leiden and Boston: Brill, 1998.2 pls. + xix + 232 pp. $85.50. ISBN: 90-04-10969-2. Kenneth Gouwens's book examines the mind-set of four curial humanists following the Sack of Rome in 1527. Provoked by Clement VII's ...
Gender and the Italian Stage from the Renaissance to the Present Day.(Review)
Jun 22, 1999; ... Maggie Gunsberg, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 6 pls. + xi + 275 pp. $59.95. ISBN: 0-521-59028-0. Both these volumes deal with Renaissance and early modern writings only in relatively small sections, but the pertinent essays can be said to offer together an ...
Italian Women Writers from the Renaissance to the Present.(Review)
Jun 22, 1999; ... Maria Omella Marotti, ed., University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996. ix + 285 pp. $19.95. ISBN: 0-271-01505-5. Both these volumes deal with Renaissance and early modern writings only in relatively small sections, but the pertinent essays can ...
The Dominion of the Eye: Urbanism, Art, and Power in Early Modern Florence.(Review)
Jun 22, 1999; ... Marvin Trachtenberg, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 240 illus. + xx + 358 pp. $65. ISBN: 0-521-55502-7. These volumes are assured an immediate and substantial impact in the fields of urban and architectural history and, in the case of the Trachtenberg ...
The Este Monuments and Urban Development in Renaissance Ferrara.(Review)
Jun 22, 1999; ... Charles M. Rosenberg, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.60 pls. + xvi + 329 pp. $75. ISBN: 0-521-56139-6. These volumes are assured an immediate and substantial impact in the fields of urban and architectural history and, in the case of the Trachtenberg ...
The Sculptures of Andrea del Verrocchio.(Review)
Jun 22, 1999; ... Andrew Butterfield, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998.60 color pls.+ 200 b/w illus. + 288 pp. $65. ISBN: 0-300-07194-9. Andrew Butterfield's book provides a long-needed authoritative reevaluation of Verrocchio's sculptures. It is composed of seven chapters on ...
Michelangelo's Last Judgement: The Renaissance Responses.(Review)
Jun 22, 1999; ... Bernadine Barnes, (Discovery Series, 5.) Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1998.8 color pls. + 70 b/w pls. + xix + 171 pp. $45. ISBN: 0-520-20549-9. Bernadine Barnes argues in this problematic book that Michelangelo's Last Judgment is best understood in ...
Lorenzo Lotto.(Review)
Jun 22, 1999; ... Peter Humfrey, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997.81 plates + 82 b/w illus. + xiii + 193 pp. $45. ISBN: 0-300-06905-7. Peter Humfrey's book is the first comprehensive study in English of Lorenzo Lotto's work since Bernard Berenson's monograph, originally published ...
Titian's Women.(Review)
Jun 22, 1999; ... Rona Goffen, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997. 60 color pls. + 109 b/w pls. + 342 pp. $60. ISBN: 0-300-06846-8. In this important but flawed book Rona Goffen challenges those critics who see Titian's depictions of women as little more than high class ...
Defining the Renaissance "Virtuosa": Women Artists and Language of Art History and Criticism.(Review)
Jun 22, 1999; ... Fredrika H. Jacobs, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 32 pls. + xii + 229 pp. $60. ISBN: 0-521-57270-3. These books make ambitious inquiries into sixteenth-century Italian art theory; they have, in common, a desire to determine what is meant by the ...
Art, Theory, and Culture in Sixteenth-Century Italy: From Techne to Metatechne.(Review)
Jun 22, 1999; ... Robert Williams, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. x + 243 pp. $60. ISBN: 0-521-49599-7. These books make ambitious inquiries into sixteenth-century Italian art theory; they have, in common, a desire to determine what is meant by the terminology that ...
Women in Italian Renaissance Art: Gender, Representation, Identity.(Review)
Jun 22, 1999; ... Paola Tinagli, Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1997, 206 pp. $59.95(cl). ISBN: 0-7190-4053-1. $19.95(pbk). ISBN: 0-7190-4054-X. The conclusion to Paola Tinagli's Women in Italian Renaissance Art: Gender, Representation, Identity begins with a brief ...
Women and Art in Early Modern Europe: Patrons, Collectors, and Connoisseurs.(Review)
Jun 22, 1999; ... Cynthia Lawrence, ed., University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997. 259 pp. $42.50. ISBN: 0-271-01568-3. The conclusion to Paola Tinagli's Women in Italian Renaissance Art: Gender, Representation, Identity begins with a brief revisiting of Joan ...
Guido Reni's "Abduction of Helen": The Politics and Rhetoric of Painting in Seventeenth-Century Europe.(Review)
Jun 22, 1999; ... Anthony Colantuono, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 8 color pls. + 56 halftones + 4 line drawings + xiv + 304 pp. $75. ISBN: 0-521-56397-6. Guido Reni was among the most famous artists in seventeenth-century Europe, and in his own lifetime the appellation "divine" ...
The "Divine" Guido: Religion, Sex, Money and Art in the World of Guido Reni.(Review)
Jun 22, 1999; ... Richard E. Spear, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997. 25 color pls. + 125 halftones + 430 pp. $60. ISBN: 0-300-07035-7. Guido Reni was among the most famous artists in seventeenth-century Europe, and in his own lifetime the appellation "divine" put him on a par ...
Spain's Golden Fleece: Wool Production and the Wool Trade from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century.(Review)
Jun 22, 1999; ... Carla Rahn Phillips and William D. Phillips, Jr., Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. xviii + 441 pp. $49.95. ISBN: 0-8018-5518-7. These two studies on economic and social history represent the best current work in the field. Both books, resting on massive ...
The Venetian Money Market: Banks, Panics, and the Public Debt, 1200-1500.(Review)
Jun 22, 1999; ... Reinhold C. Mueller, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. xxvii + 711 pp. $65. ISBN: 0-8018-5437-7. These two studies on economic and social history represent the best current work in the field. Both books, resting on massive amounts of archival research, will define their ...
The Anatomical Renaissance: The Resurrection of the Anatomical Projects of the Ancients.(Review)
Jun 22, 1999; ... Andrew Cunningham, Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1997.46 illus. + xiv + 283 pp. $76.95. ISBN: 1-85728-338-1. Although both of these books focus on Italian medical writing in the sixteenth century, it is difficult to imagine two more divergent treatments. Siraisi offers a nuanced and ...
The Clock and the Mirror: Girolamo Cardano and Renaissance Medicine.(Review)
Jun 22, 1999; ... Nancy G. Siraisi, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. 1 illus. + xiv + 362 pp. $49.50. ISBN: 0-691-01189-3. Although both of these books focus on Italian medical writing in the sixteenth century, it is difficult to imagine two more divergent treatments. Siraisi offers a ...
Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe: Gunpowder, Technology, and Tactics.(Review)
Jun 22, 1999; ... Bert S. Hall, (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology.) Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. xiii + 300 pp. $29.95. ISBN: 0-8018-5531-4. Recently the idea of a "military revolution" in early modern times, first advanced by Michael Roberts ...
The Quest for Compromise: Peacemakers in Counter-Reformation Vienna.(Review)
Jun 22, 1999; ... Howard Louthan, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xvi + 185 pp. $59.95. ISBN: 0-521-58082-X. Howard Louthan has written a study of irenicism within the Habsburg court during the second half of the sixteenth century. Although the concept is a slippery one, eluding easy ...
Beyond the Persecuting Society: Religious Toleration Before the Enlightenment.(Review)
Jun 22, 1999; ... John Christian Laursen and Cary J. Nederman, eds., Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. vii + 288 pp. $39.95 (cl). ISBN: 0-8122-3331-X. $19.95 (pbk). ISBN: 0-8122-1567-2. Each of these books highlights a theme, admittedly marginal in medieval and early modern ...
Imagining Peace: A History of Early English Pacifist Ideas, 1340-1560.(Review)
Jun 22, 1999; ... Ben Lowe, University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997. xiv + 367 pp. $60 (cl). ISBN: 0-271-016884. $19.95 (pbk). ISBN: 0-271-01689-2 Each of these books highlights a theme, admittedly marginal in medieval and early modern thought, urging its revaluation: religious ...
Les Langues occultes de la Renaissance: Essai sur la crise intellectuelle de l'Europe au XVIeme siecle.(Review)
Jun 22, 1999; ... Pierre Behar, Paris: Editions Desjonqueres, 1996. 44 illus. + 352 pp. FF 220. ISBN: 2-904227-97-0. From the twilight of the Middle Ages to the dawn of the modern era, magic, divination, astrology, and other forms of what moderns dismiss as occultism experienced a notable revival ...
Magic and Divination at the Courts of Burgundy and France: Text and Context of Laurens Pignon's Contre les devineurs (1411).(Review)
Jun 22, 1999; ... Jan R. Veenstra, Leiden and New York: Brill, 1998. xii + 433 pp. n.p. ISBN: 90-04-10925-0. From the twilight of the Middle Ages to the dawn of the modern era, magic, divination, astrology, and other forms of what moderns dismiss as occultism experienced a notable revival in ...
Se dire a la Renaissance: Les Momoires au XVIe siecle.(Review)
Jun 22, 1999; ... Nadine Kuperty-Tsur, (De Petrarque a Descartes, 65). Paris: Vrin, 1997. 223 pp. FF 198. ISBN: 2-7116-1326-7. Sixteenth-century French memoirs, I had always thought, were essentially boring, and useful only for the occasional retrieval of historical information. This revised ...
Women Mystics Confront the Modern World: Marie de l'Incarnation (1599-1672) and Madame Guyon (1648-1717).(Review)
Jun 22, 1999; ... Marie-Florine Bruneau, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. x + 279 pp. $19.95. ISBN: 0-7914-3662-4. Until recently, women in the colonial empires of Spain and especially France had received little attention from scholars. This is changing dramatically, as shown by ...
The Mystic of Tunja: Thw Writings of Madre Castillo, 1671-1742.(Review)
Jun 22, 1999; ... Kathryn Joy McKnight, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997. 11 pls. + xviii + 284 pp. $45. ISBN: 1-55849-974-4. Until recently, women in the colonial empires of Spain and especially France had received little attention from scholars. This is changing dramatically, as ...
Courtly Letters in the Age of Henry VIII: Literary Culture and the Arts of Deceit.(Review)
Jun 22, 1999; ... Seth Lerer, (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, 18.) Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xiv + 252 pp. $59.95. ISBN: 0-521-59001-9. This is a valuable book. If its thesis of ubiquitous Pandaric impersonation in the court of Henry VIII ...
The Culture of Slander in Early Modern England.(Review)
Jun 22, 1999; ... M. Lindsay Kaplan, (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, 19). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xii + 148 pp. n.p. ISBN: 0-521-58408-6. Although these two studies deal with related fields, they are very different. Lindsay Kaplan is mainly ...
Press Censorship in Elizabethan England.(Review)
Jun 22, 1999; ... Cyndia Susan Clegg, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xv + 296 pp. n.p. ISBN: 0-521-57312-2. Although these two studies deal with related fields, they are very different. Lindsay Kaplan is mainly interested in the use of literary devices to reduce the credibility and ...
The Marketplace of Print: Pamphlets and the Public Sphere in Early Modern England.(Review)
Jun 22, 1999; ... Alexandra Halasz, (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, 17). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 240 pp. $59.95. ISBN: 0-521-58209-1. This original and ingenious study makes a substantial contribution to current discussions of early modern cultural ...
English Drama, 1586-1642: The Age of Shakespeare.(Review)
Jun 22, 1999; ... G. K. Hunter, (The Oxford History of English Literature, VI.) Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. xiii + 623 pp. $65. ISBN: 0-19-812213-6. These two weighty volumes are both histories of early English drama, but radically different from each other. Hunter's study is the last volume ...
A New History of Early English Drama.(Review)
Jun 22, 1999; ... John D. Cox and David Scott Kastan, eds., New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. ix +565 pp. $49.50. ISBN: 0-231-10242-9. These two weighty volumes are both histories of early English drama, but radically different from each other. Hunter's study is the last volume to be ...