Renaissance poetry and drama in context : essays for Christopher Wortham / edited by Andrew Lynch and Anne M. Scott.

Renaissance Poetry and Drama in Context is a stimulating refereed collection of new work dedicated to Emeritus Professor Christopher Wortham of The University of Western Australia. The essays provide a rich context for the interdisciplinary study of the E.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Wortham, Christopher, 1940-, Lynch, Andrew, Scott, Anne M.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, 2008.
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Table of Contents:
  • Chris Wortham: an appreciation / Geoffrey Cooper and Robert White
  • Shakespeare and the medieval theatre of cruelty / Ann Blake
  • Magnificent money: wealth and nobility in 'Magnificence' and 'Gentleness and nobility' / Karina Welna
  • Cosmos and history: Shakespeare's representation of nature and rebellion in 'Henry IV part one' / Alicia Marchant
  • The plague of Christendom: discord and chastity in 'Othello' / Helen Vella Bonavita
  • Othello's exsufflations / Graham Bradshaw
  • Bearded women and the cultural moment in 'Macbeth' / Brett D. Hirsch
  • Sam Johnson corrected: 'As you like it' IV. 2 / Alan Brissenden
  • Marlowe, maps, and might / Paige Newmark
  • Ben Jonson and 'the proper passion of Mettalls' / Anthony Miller
  • Madness in 'A Yorkshire tragedy' and 'The pilgrim' / Joost Daalder
  • Les 'contraires seiours': Scève's use of the Diana myth in the 'Délie' of 1544 / Jane Southwood
  • Playing with worldly things: the dialogues of the Little Academy at Little Gidding / Kate Riley
  • Seeking a voice: Lady Grace Mildmay and the constraints of conduct literature / Philippa Kelly
  • Paradises lost: invaded houses in Donne's poetry / Heather Dubrow
  • Marvell's 'Horatian Ode on Cromwell's return from Ireland' and the context of the engagement controversy / Conal Condren
  • Andrew Marvell and the Tree of Life / Victoria Bladen
  • The double strand of Cleopatra plays / Kay Gilliland Stevenson
  • 'Disgrace' as J.M. Coetzee's 'Tempest' / Laurence Wright
  • 'King Lear' and film genres / Robert White
  • Fragments recollected from two lives / Christpher and Anne Wortham.