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

Review | Contribuidor(es): Konrad Eisenbichler

Editorial

Article | Contribuidor(es): Mark Vessey, Nancy Frelick

Writing the Tragic Self: Richard II's Sad Stories

Article | Contribuidor(es): 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 | Contribuidor(es): 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 | Contribuidor(es): 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...

Making Religion of Wonder: The Divine Attribution in Renaissance Ethnography and Romance

Article | Contribuidor(es): William M. Hamlin

Drawing on the concept of "autoethnography" as defined by Mary Louise Pratt, this paper argues that representations of cross-cultural encounter in Renaissance travel narratives often bear striking resemblances to moments of encounter and reunion in Spenserean and Shakespearean romance. Focusing...

Distributed Donne: A Response to the Problem of His Titles

Article | Contribuidor(es): Janis Lull

Most of the titles traditionally associated with Donne's poems probably did not originate with the biographical Donne. When modern editors use these titles, they expand Donne's authorial "self" to include the literary judgments of the poet's first readers as well as their own literary judgments....

Review of Lexique de la prose latine de la Renaissance

Review | Contribuidor(es): Roland Galibois

Review of Plain Lives in a Golden Age: Popular Culture, Religion and Society in Seventeenth-Century Holland

Review | Contribuidor(es): Gary K. Waite

Review of War and Government in the French Provinces. Picardy 1470-1560

Review | Contribuidor(es): Michel De Waele

Review of Epic and Empire: Politics and Generic Form from Virgil to Milton

Review | Contribuidor(es): Christopher Ivic

Review of Contemplation of Created Things: Science in Paradise Lost

Review | Contribuidor(es): J. Michael Richardson

Review of Old Comedy in the French Renaissance (1576-1620)

Review | Contribuidor(es): Nerina Clerici Balmas

The Sexual Identities of Moll Cutpurse in Dekker and Middleton’s The Roaring Girl and in London

Article | Contribuidor(es): Susan E. Krantz

Moll Cutpurse dramatically demonstrates the insufficiency of gender categories both in The Roaring Girl and in her life. The fictional Moll’s sex/gender ambiguity is explored through three distinct sexual identities (prostitute, hermaphrodite, bisexual ideal) and is further complicated through...

Du “conseil des muetz” au “taire parlier”: Le langage du geste chez Rabelais et Montaigne

Article | Contribuidor(es): Guylaine Fontaine

Cet article traite de la réflexion renaissante sur le langage gestuel telle que cette réflexion s'articule dans les textes de Rabelais et Montaigne. Ces oeuvres apparaissent en effet comme de précieuses balises de la période 1540-1580 où se serait manifesté, selon des études récentes, un tournant...

Celebrations held in Siena during the Government of the Nine

Article | Contribuidor(es): Gordon Moran, Michael Mallory

In fourteenth-century Siena the government of the Nine functioned very much within alliances with the leading Guelf powers. This article studies celebrations of Guelf victories in Siena, as depicted in the famous castle cycle of the Palazzo Pubblico and described in the writings of Benvoglienti.

Figuring Justice: Imperial Ideology and the Discourse of Colonialism in Book V of The Faerie Queene and A View of the Present State of Ireland

Article | Contribuidor(es): Walter S. H. Lim

Edmund Spenser is a vocal spokesman for the colonization of Ireland. In A View of the Present State of Ireland, he provides one of the most sustained imperialist articulations in Elizabethan England. And in Book V of The Faerie Queene, he promulgates a vision of justice that is necessary for...

Review of The First Jesuits

Review | Contribuidor(es): Nicholas Terpstra

Review of Le messager des étoiles

Review | Contribuidor(es): Louis Valcke

Review of The Court Artist: On the Ancestry of the Modern Artist; Art and Patronage in the Caroline Courts

Review | Contribuidor(es): Ilse E. Friesen