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Article | Contributeur(s): William R. Bowen

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

Article | Contributeur(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 ?

Article | Contributeur(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

Article | Contributeur(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

Article | Contributeur(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

Article | Contributeur(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)

Article | Contributeur(s): Joseph L. Black

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

Article | Contributeur(s): Meaghan J. Brown

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

Article | Contributeur(s): Paul Brown

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

Article | Contributeur(s): Matthew Evan Davis

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

Article | Contributeur(s): Michael Ullyot

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

Article | Contributeur(s): John Lavagnino

Review of Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference: Race and Conduct in the Early Modern World

Review | Contributeur(s): Daniele Laudadio

Review of Condottiero, cardinale, eretico. Federico Fregoso nella crisi politica e religiosa del Cinquecento

Review | Contributeur(s): Marie Barral-Baron

Review of Mirtilla, A Pastoral: A Bilingual Edition

Review | Contributeur(s): Valeria Finucci

Review of Florence in the Age of the Medici and Savonarola, 1464–1498: A Short History with Documents

Review | Contributeur(s): Stefano Dall’Aglio

Review of Women, Food Exchange, and Governance in Early Modern England

Review | Contributeur(s): David B. Goldstein

Review of Robert Garnier in Elizabethan England: Mary Sidney Herbert’s Antonius and Thomas Kyd’s Cornelia

Review | Contributeur(s): Luke Arnason

Review of Reforming Music. Music in the Religious Reformations of the Sixteenth Century

Review | Contributeur(s): Pascale Duhamel

Review of Renaissance Encyclopaedism: Studies in Curiosity and Ambition

Review | Contributeur(s): Janice Liedl