Review of Nostradamus astrophile

Review | Contributor(s): Jacques Halbronn

Review of Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Torontonensis. Proceedings of the Seventh International Congress of Neo-Latin Studies. Toronto, 8 August to 13 August 1998

Review | Contributor(s): James McConica

Review of Jonson’s 1616 Folio

Review | Contributor(s): Jean MacIntyre

Review of Theatre and Government under the Early Stuarts

Review | Contributor(s): Jean MacIntyre

Review of Atoms, Pneuma and Tranquillity: Epicurean and Stoic Themes in European Thought

Review | Contributor(s): Henry Heller

Mythologizing the Middle Class: 'Tis Pity She's a Whore and the Urban Bourgeoisie

Article | Contributor(s): Valerie L. Jephson, Bruce Thomas Boehrer

This paper examines the strategies through which John Ford's play validates an image of the rising urban middle class as constitutionally confused and therefore destructive to the social fabric of seventeenth-century London. The portrayal of the middle class as struggling to inhabit signifiers of...

Hamlet et la Préface de Marie de Gournay

Article | Contributor(s): Richard Hillman

Vers 1600, Shakespeare devait se mettre à remanier une pièce démodée sur le sujet de Hamlet, en puisant, d'après un grand nombre de spécialistes, dans les Essais de Montaigne. Pourtant la Préface de Marie de Gournay à l'édition de 1595 des Essais n'a jamais été mise en rapport avec l'oeuvre...

The Tridentine Ruling on the Vulgate and Ecclesiastical Censorship in the 1580s

Article | Contributor(s): William McCuaig

Four works by the historian Carlo Sigonio (1523-1584) were made the target of censures by ecclesiastical authorities in the early 1580s. His works were never put on the index of prohibited books, but the censures reveal the mentality and concerns of the censors more clearly than any other...

Colliding Discourses: John Donne's "Obsequies to the Lord Harington" and the New Historicism

Article | Contributor(s): Ann Hurley

This essay seeks to develop new critical procedures to better serve works like John Donne's "Obsequies to the Lord Harington." It argues that Donne's "Obsequies" is more profitably approached by readings which de-emphasize the valorization of personality and presence which have so dominated Donne...

Review of Love and Death in the Renaissance

Review | Contributor(s): Anne Lake Prescott

Review of La Boétie et Montaigne sur les liens humains

Review | Contributor(s): Maurice Lebel

Review of Prelate as Pastor: The Episcopate of James I

Review | Contributor(s): Jeanne Shami

Review of Cardinal Wolsey, Church, State and Art

Review | Contributor(s): Carl Ericson

Review of From Defence to Resistance: Justification of Violence during the French Wars of Religion

Review | Contributor(s): Arlette Jouanna

Review of Cervantes and the Turks: Historical Reality versus Literary Fiction in "La gran sultana" and "El amante liberal"

Review | Contributor(s): Anthony J. Farrell

Review of I Fiorentini nel 1562. Descritione delle Bocche della Città et Stato di Fiorenza fatta l'anno 1562

Review | Contributor(s): Konrad Eisenbichler

Editorial

Article | Contributor(s): Mark Vessey, Nancy Frelick

Writing the Tragic Self: Richard II's Sad Stories

Article | Contributor(s): Paul Budra

When Shakespeare has Richard II call for the telling of "sad stories" he is not merely alluding to a tradition of medieval de casibus tragedy, but rather engaging with a well-known vision of historical teleology, popularized in Shakespeare's time by narrative historical tragedies. Shakespeare's...

Hamlet hears Marlowe; Shakespeare reads Virgil

Article | Contributor(s): James Black

The excerpt from Aeneas' tale to Dido which Hamlet elicits from the Player is based in part on Marlowe's Dido Queen of Carthage. As a melodramatic description of the culmination of the Trojan war with the slaughter of Priam, the Player's speech appears to be specified by Hamlet because it recalls...

Montaigne's Vanity: Reading Digressions on Travel

Article | Contributor(s): Virginia M. Green

The theme of travel, prominent in the essay "De la Vanité" (III, 9), and the subject of many of its "digressions," serves, in a sense, to disguise the more central and unifying theme of vanity. The question of vanity lies behind all of Montaigne's so-called "digressions" on travel, which are not...