All That Glitters: Devaluing the Gold Standard in the Utopias of Thomas More, Francis Bacon, and Margaret Cavendish

Contributor(s): Catherine Gimelli Martin

Francis Bacon’s and Margaret Cavendish’s ideal societies unexpectedly follow Thomas More’s Utopia in eliminating the exchange value of gold and replacing it with a knowledge economy. Bacon’s New Atlantis (1627) and Cavendish’s Blazing World (1666) similarly pursue new “light” and shun selfish...

More, Huxley, Eggers, and the Utopian/Dystopian Tradition

Contributor(s): Peter C. Herman

From its inception in Plato’s Republic and revival in Thomas More’s Utopia, the concept of a perfect (or as More originally put it in a qualification often lost, “best”) form of a republic has been dogged by the spectres of hypocrisy, contradiction, and authoritarianism. However, the matter...

Editor’s Note

Contributor(s): William R. Bowen

“My Own Worst Enemy”: Translating Hamartia in Sixteenth-Century Italy

Contributor(s): Bryan Brazeau

This article considers the ways in which Aristotle’s notion of hamartia (ἁμαρτία) in the Poetics—the tragic fault that leads to the protagonist’s downfall—was rendered in sixteenth-century translations and commentaries produced in Italy. While early Latin translations and commentaries initially...

L’Inquiétante tradition de La Strega de Lasca. Variantes d’auteur ou réécriture éditoriale ?

Contributor(s): Michel Plaisance

In the 1976 edition of Anton Francesco Grazzini’s La Strega, the author of this article found reason to suspect the textual differences between the Magl. VII 1385 autograph version and the 1582 editions published by the Giunti of Venise in 12° and in 8°. M. Durante has since sought to...

Exploring Verbal Relations between Arden of Faversham and John Lyly’s Endymion

Contributor(s): Darren Freebury-Jones

Several scholars, utilizing traditional reading-based methods, have highlighted intertextual links between the anonymous domestic tragedy Arden of Faversham (1590) and John Lyly’s comedy Endymion, The Man in the Moon (1588). The authorship of Arden of Faversham is fiercely contested: Brian...

Hurried to Destruction: Reprobation in Arden of Faversham and A Woman Killed with Kindness

Contributor(s): Glenn Clark

This essay demonstrates that Arden of Faversham and A Woman Killed with Kindness explore important tensions in the Elizabethan understanding of the lived experience of the damned. Calvinist theologians tended to describe reprobation in terms that unintentionally suggested direct divine agency and...

“A Virgine and a Martyr both”: The Turn to Hagiography in Heywood’s Reformation History Play

Contributor(s): Gina M. Di Salvo

This article considers the narrative and theatrical strategies used by Thomas Heywood to sanctify Elizabeth I as a virgin martyr saint in the remarkable, yet understudied, Reformation history play If You Know Not Me, You Know Nobody, Part I, or the Troubles of Queen Elizabeth (ca. 1605). I...

Greengrass, Mark, project dir. The Unabridged Acts and Monuments Online (TAMO)

Contributor(s): Joseph L. Black

Hunter, Michael, project dir. Bpi:1700: British Printed Images to 1700. Digital library

Contributor(s): Meaghan J. Brown

Knutson, Roslyn L., David McInnis, and Matthew Steggle, eds. The Lost Plays Database

Contributor(s): Paul Brown

McGann, Jerome, project dir. Juxta. Open-source tool and web service

Contributor(s): Matthew Evan Davis

Mueller, Martin, and Bill Parod, project leads. WordHoard. App

Contributor(s): Michael Ullyot

Stringer, Gary A., gen. ed. DigitalDonne: The Online Variorum, vol. 6

Contributor(s): John Lavagnino

Introduction

Contributor(s): Renée-Claude Breitenstein, Tristan Vigliano

Un silence assourdissant à la césure : les guerres larvées de l’e caduc entre oedipiens, misogynes et glottophobes

Contributor(s): David Moucaud

Widely studied from the “natural” perspective of a generational tabula rasa, the formalist shift in poetic technique known as the abolition of the coupe feminine, which occurred around 1515, is a thorny issue much more complicated than it would first appear. This formal silence, imposed upon the...

Livres polyglottes et conflits linguistiques au XVIe siècle : l’exemple de l’occitan

Contributor(s): Michel Jourde

In the sixteenth century, the linguistic situation in southern France was characterized by the existence of several languages, each given a significantly different valuation. What relationship can be established between this environment of linguistic conflicts and the multilingual nature of...

Le conflit des publics dans le théâtre tragique imprimé de Théodore de Bèze et de Louis Des Masures

Contributor(s): Louise Frappier

In the second half of the sixteenth century, with the revival of ancient theatrical forms, new readerships emerged for theatrical texts. Indeed, French tragedy is directed to a readership educated, or at least interested, in the literature of classical Antiquity. But the tragic genre also...

L’assassinat de François de Lorraine (1563) et la polarisation des publics

Contributor(s): François Rouget

The assassination of François de Guise by Poltrot de Méré on 24 February 1563 exercised a considerable impact on public opinion. While Protestants celebrated, Catholics paid homage to the deceased in the form of verses written in French and Latin. His tribute was orchestrated by the de Guise...

Le conflit des publics dans le Dialogue du Manant et du Maheustre (1593) : un dialogue de sourds de la fin des guerres de religion

Contributor(s): Grégoire Holtz

This article seeks to examine the representations of audiences in conflict in the abundant pamphleteer literature that flourished during the Wars of Religion. Drawing on Marc Angenot’s work on polemical rhetoric, as well as on the analyses of historians and literary critics, we are interested...