Towards a history of parliamentary culture in the early modern world: concept, geopolitical scope, and method
July 2024
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Journal article
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Parliaments, Estates and Representation
FFR
Early modern parliamentary studies: Overview and new perspectives
January 2023
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Journal article
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History Compass
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
Interdisciplinary Research: Opportunities and Challenges
January 2022
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Chapter
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In Search of Academic Excellence: Social Sciences and Humanities in Focus: Volume 1
This essay argues for the importance of interdisciplinary research. It discusses the recent initiatives to foster inter- and trans-disciplinary approaches (EU's SHAPE-ID) and create a collective identity for non-STEM subjects (UK's SHAPE Social Sciences, Humanities, and the Arts for People and the Economy), and highlights the precarious situation of the Arts and Humanities in the UK. With special reference to early modern studies, it explores the various possible avenues towards mastering the perspectives and methodologies of literature and history, identifies some of the challenges for instance, the demands on time, and illustrates the value of interdisciplinary research for specific projects.
Introduction: Ancient Rome in English Political Culture, ca. 1570–1660
December 2020
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Journal article
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Huntington Library Quarterly
This essay introduces a special issue: “Ancient Rome in English Political Culture, ca. 1570–1660,” ed. Paulina Kewes, Huntington Library Quarterly 83, no. 3 (2020).
FFR
Translations of state: Ancient Rome and late Elizabethan political thought
December 2020
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Journal article
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Huntington Library Quarterly
This essay reconsiders late Elizabethan political thought by scrutinizing the significance of the Roman state in the passionate controversy about the royal succession. It explains the varied and often contradictory polemical utility of Roman history in contemporary discussions in England and Europe of monarchy and imperial expansion, and then analyzes its deployment in the most daring contemporary succession tract: the Jesuit Robert Persons’s A Conference about the Next Succession to the Crowne of Ingland (1595). While A Conference has been traditionally under-stood to advocate limited elective kingship, this essay demonstrates that its theoretical first part, in which the Roman example underpins a case for popular sovereignty, was open to far more radical readings. Persons’s treatise attracted widespread charges of antimonarchism and, in the following century, served republican and Whig enemies of the Stuarts
popular sovereignty, John Hayward, Catholicism, Tacitus, antimonarchism, Elizabethan succession, republicanism, FFR, Roman history, Robert Persons, SJ
A world well lost?
December 2019
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Journal article
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English Literary Renaissance
FFR
Stuart Succession Literature: Moments and Transformations
January 2019
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Edited book
Moments of royal succession, which punctuate the Stuart era (1603-1714), occasioned outpourings of literature. Writers, including most of the major figures of the seventeenth century from Jonson, Daniel, and Donne to Marvell, Dryden, and Behn, seized upon these occasions: to mark the transition of power; to reflect upon the political structures and values of their nation; and to present themselves as authors worthy of patronage and recognition. This volume of essays explores this important category of early modern writing. It contends that succession literature warrants attention as a distinct category: appreciated by contemporaries, acknowledged by a number of scholars, but never investigated in a coherent and methodical manner, it helped to shape political reputations and values across the period. Benefitting from the unique database of such writing generated by the AHRC-funded Stuart Successions Project, the volume brings together a distinguished group of authors to address a subject which is of wide and growing interest to students both of history and of literature. It illuminates the relation between literature and politics in this pivotal century of English political and cultural history. Interdisciplinary in scope, the volume will be indispensable to scholars of early modern British literature and history as well as undergraduates and postgraduates in both fields.
History
Stuart Succession Literature
January 2019
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Book
Introduction
December 2018
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Chapter
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Stuart Succession Literature: Moments and Transformations
The Idol of State Innovators and Republicans
December 2018
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Chapter
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Stuart Succession Literature: Moments and Transformations
'The Idol of State Innovators and Republicans': Robert Persons's A Conference About the Next Succession (1594/5) in Stuart England
December 2018
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Chapter
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Stuart Succession Literature: Moments and Transformations
Parliament and the Principle of Elective Succession in Elizabethan England
July 2018
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Chapter
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Writing the history of parliament in Tudor and early Stuart England
History
The 1553 Succession Crisis Reconsidered
February 2017
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Journal article
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Historical Research
This article offers a new perspective on the context and significance of the 1553 succession crisis precipitated by the Protestant Edward VI's abortive bid to exclude his Catholic sister Mary in favour of his evangelical cousin Jane. Challenging the view of Jane's coup as an evangelical crusade, and of Mary's victory as the only successful Tudor rebellion, it analyses the constitutional principles behind the new settlement of succession, demonstrates how it was justified to the public and uncovers its Elizabethan legacy. By closely reading a series of key texts, it reshapes our understanding of this seminal event in Tudor history.
'Jerusalem thou dydst promyse to buylde up': kingship, counsel and early Elizabethan drama
December 2016
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Conference paper
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The Politics of Counsel in England and Scotland, 1286-1707
Historians of counsel have mostly shied away from early Elizabethan drama, while literary critics have not fully taken on board the recent advances in the historiography. This chapter makes a case for a more holistic, interdisciplinary approach to both counsel and the drama. It argues that early Elizabethan plays, both elite and popular, constituted an important form of counsel to the monarch and the ruling classes. An overview of how the plays engaged with counsel is followed by a fresh contextual reading of a popular biblical interlude, Kyng Daryus (1565), which is demonstrated to have formed an integral part of the godly campaign for further reformation. Appearing at the height of the Vestiarian Controversy, Kyng Daryus is shown to invoke the promised restoration of the Jerusalem Temple to promote the ideal of godly counsel, effectively mobilising the wider public in its defence.
Elizabeth I, languages of counsel, the godly, godly counsel, early Elizabethan drama, politics of popularity, Vestiarian Controversy, scripture
"Plesures in lernyng" and the politics of counsel in early Elizabethan England: royal visits to Cambridge and Oxford
September 2016
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Journal article
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English Literary Renaissance
This essay provides a close contextual analysis of Elizabeth I's visits to Cambridge in 1564 and Oxford in 1566. Getting beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries, it reconstructs the polemical pitches of all manner of scholarly exercises—plays, sermons, orations, and academic disputations. At the forefront of national politics, religion and the succession dominated the two royal visits, their often‐provocative treatment revealing tensions within the universities and the Elizabethan regime. In 1566, Oxford made a more reformed and orthodox showing than Cambridge two years earlier, even though Cambridge, fount of the evangelical movement, had less distance to travel. Both visits illustrate the degree to which the councillors and courtiers hoped to use the suasive powers of the universities to manage the young Queen and her policies. Yet far from a scene of one‐way traffic in advice dispensation, such occasions also helped forge closer links between the country's political, clerical, and intellectual elites.
FFR
Roman History, Essex and Late Elizabethan Political Culture
April 2016
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Chapter
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The Oxford Handbook of the Age of Shakespeare
"‘I ask your voices and your suffrages’: The Bogus Rome of Peele and Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus"
January 2016
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Journal article
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Review of Politics
This essay provides a contextual reading of Titus Andronicus, paying close attention to the play’s collaborative authorship. Peele and Shakespeare are shown to have manufactured a superficially compelling but in reality utterly fake image of the Roman state as an imaginary laboratory for political ideas, especially the elective principle. Topical allusions and deliberate anachronisms encourage the audience to relate the subject matter to the present, viz., late Elizabethan England in the throes of a succession crisis and rent by confessional divisions. Unlike Peele’s solo works, which exhibit a potent anti-Catholic bias, Titus remains confessionally aloof. The play invites the audience to reflect on the viability of particular modes of succession without committing itself either way, and shows that it is not institutional structures and processes but those who use and abuse them that make the difference to the state of the polity.
‘A mere historian’: Patrick Collinson and the Study of Literature
October 2015
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Journal article
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History
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
Doubtful and Dangerous: The Question of Succession in Late Elizabethan England
December 2014
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Edited book
Doubtful and dangerous examines the pivotal influence of the succession question on the politics, religion and culture of the post-Armada years of Queen Elizabeth's reign. Although the earlier Elizabethan succession controversy has long commanded scholarly attention, the later period has suffered from relative obscurity. This book remedies the situation. Taking a thematic and interdisciplinary approach, individual essays demonstrate that key late Elizabethan texts - literary, political and polemical - cannot be understood without reference to the succession. The essays also reveal how the issue affected court politics, lay at the heart of religious disputes, stimulated constitutional innovation, and shaped foreign relations. By situating the topic within its historiographical and chronological contexts, the editors offer a novel account of the whole reign.
Interdisciplinary in scope and spanning the crucial transition from the Tudors to the Stuarts, the book will be indispensable to scholars and students of early modern British and Irish history, literature and religion.
Introduction: A Historiographical Perspective
December 2014
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Chapter
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Doubtful and Dangerous: The Question of Succession in Late Elizabethan England
The Earlier Elizabethan Succession Question Revisited
December 2014
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Chapter
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Doubtful and Dangerous: The Question of Succession in Late Elizabethan England
The Puritan, the Jesuit, and the Jacobean Succession
December 2014
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Chapter
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Doubtful and Dangerous: The Question of Succession in Late Elizabethan England
Doubtful and Dangerous: The Question of Succession in Late Elizabethan England
January 2014
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Edited book
Marlowe, History, and Politics
July 2013
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Chapter
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Christopher Marlowe in Context
This collection sets Marlowe's plays and poems in their historical context, exploring his world and his wider cultural influence. Chapters by leading international scholars discuss both his major and lesser-known works.
Literary Criticism
History Plays and the Royal Succession
December 2012
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Chapter
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The Oxford Handbook of Holinshed's Chronicles
The Handbook brings together forty articles by leading scholars of history, literature, religion, and classics, in the first full investigation of the significance of Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (1577, ...
History
The Oxford Handbook of Holinshed's Chronicles
December 2012
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Book
The Handbook brings together forty articles by leading scholars of history, literature, religion, and classics, in the first full investigation of the significance of Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland
History
"A fit memoriall for the times to come...": Admonition and Topical Application in Mary Sidney's Antonius and Samuel Daniel's Cleopatra
April 2012
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Journal article
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The Review of English Studies: the leading journal of English literature and language
The Exclusion Crisis of 1553 and the Elizabethan Succession
June 2011
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Chapter
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Mary Tudor: Old and New Perspectives
Catholic England under Mary Tudor (New Haven, Conn. and London, 2009), pp.
Biography & Autobiography
Henry Savile's Tacitus and the Politics of Roman History in Late Elizabethan England
January 2011
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Journal article
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Huntington Library Quarterly: studies in English and American history and literature
Godly Queens: The Royal Iconographies of Mary and Elizabeth
January 2010
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Chapter
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Tudor Queenship: The Reigns of Mary and Elizabeth
Two Queens, One Inventory: The Lives of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor
January 2008
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Chapter
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Writing Lives: Biography and Textuality, Identity and Representation in Early Modern England
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
July 2007
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Internet publication
Gerard Langbaine the Younger
http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/16007?docPos=2
John Downes
http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/7974?docPos=7
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Acts of Oblivion, Acts of Remembrance: Rhetoric, Law, and National Memory in Early Restoration England
January 2006
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Chapter
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Ritual, Routine, and Regime: Institutions of Repetition in Euro-American Cultures, 1650-1832
The Uses of History in Early Modern England
January 2006
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Book
The essays give the history of both religion and politics their proper place, and put historical writing in the context of other literary activities.
History
French Drama
January 2005
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Chapter
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The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English
But early modern English translation often finds its setting within far busier scenes of worldly life - on the London stage, as a bid for patronage, for purposes polemical, political, hortatory, instructional, and as a way of making a ...
Literature
Greek and Roman Drama
January 2005
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Chapter
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The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English
But early modern English translation often finds its setting within far busier scenes of worldly life - on the London stage, as a bid for patronage, for purposes polemical, political, hortatory, instructional, and as a way of making a ...
Literature
Jewish History and Christian Providence in Elizabethan England: The Contexts of Thomas Legge’s Solymitana Clades (The Destruction of Jerusalem), c. 1579-88
January 2005
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Chapter
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Style: Essays on Renaissance Poetics and Culture
Contemporary Europe in Elizabethan and Stuart Drama
August 2004
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Chapter
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Shakespeare And Renaissance Europe
This collection of essays explores the diverse ways in which Shakespeare and his contemporaries experienced and imagined Europe.
Literary Criticism
Dryden’s Theatre and the Passions of Politics
May 2004
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Chapter
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The Cambridge Companion to John Dryden
John Dryden has come down to us through the exemplary practices of literary editing: a large number of uniform volumes, learnedly prefaced, packed with history and explanatory notes. Who first thought of The Works of John Dryden?
Literary Collections
Plagiarism in Early Modern England
January 2003
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Book
The Elizabethan History Play: A True Genre?
January 2003
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Chapter
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A Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Volume II The Histories
This four-volume Companion to Shakespeare's Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism.
Literary Criticism
Julius Caesar in Jacobean England
September 2002
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Journal article
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The Seventeenth Century
43 History, Heritage and Archaeology, 47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4303 Historical Studies, 4705 Literary Studies
Roman History and Early Stuart Drama: Thomas Heywood's The Rape of Lucrece
March 2002
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Journal article
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English Literary Renaissance
47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4705 Literary Studies
Otway, Lee and the Restoration History Play
January 2002
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Chapter
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A Companion to Restoration Drama
The three sections of the volume address the diverse aspects of Restoration Drama.
Literary Criticism
Historicising Plagiarism
January 2002
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Chapter
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Plagiarism in Early Modern England
Shakespeare’s Lives in Print, 1662-1821
January 2002
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Chapter
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Lives in Print: Biography and the Booktrade, ed. Michael Harris, Giles Mandelbrote, and Robin Myers
Plays as Property, 1660-1710
August 2001
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Chapter
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A Nation Transformed England after the Restoration
Highlights the ways in which England became a modern society 1640-1700.
History
"A Play, which I presume to call original”: Appropriation, Creative Genius, and Eighteenth-Century Playwriting
January 2001
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Journal article
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Studies in the Literary Imagination
"The State Is out of Tune": Nicholas Rowe's "Jane Shore" and the Succession Crisis of 1713-14
January 2001
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Journal article
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Huntington Library Quarterly
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
Rochester’s Satyre Against Reason and Mankind from Page to Stage
December 2000
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Chapter
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That Second Bottle Essays on the Earl of Rochester
Exploring the work of the Earl of Rochester, these essays discuss interpretations of love and friendship in Rochester's poems and letters, the satiric significance of the famous monkey portrait of the poet, and the major satires.
Biography & Autobiography
Dryden and the Staging of Popular Politics
January 2000
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Chapter
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John Dryden Tercentenary Essays
This volume is designed to celebrate and re-assess the work of John Dryden (1631-1700) in the tercentenary year of his death.
Literary Criticism
John Dryden
January 2000
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Chapter
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The Oxford Companion to English Literature
American literature
Shakespeare and New Drama
January 2000
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Chapter
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A Companion to Literature From Milton to Blake
Prologue
January 1999
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Chapter
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Knowledge Engineering and Management
Authorship and Appropriation Writing for the Stage in England, 1660-1710
January 1998
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Book
Authorship and Appropriation is the first full-length study of the cultural and economic status of playwriting in the later seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, and argues that the period was a decisive one in the transition from ...
Drama
Between the “Triumvirate of wit” and the Bard: The English Dramatic Canon, 1660-1720
December 1997
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Chapter
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Texts and Cultural Change in Early Modern England
Literary Criticism
GERARD LANGBAINE'S 'VIEW OF PLAGIARIES' THE RHETORIC OF DRAMATIC APPROPRIATION IN THE RESTORATION1
February 1997
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Journal article
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The Review of English Studies
47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4703 Language Studies, 4705 Literary Studies
“Give me the sociable Pocket-books”: Humphrey Moseley’s Serial Publication of Octavo Play Collections
January 1995
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Journal article
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Publishing History: the social, economic and literary history of book, newspaper, and magazine publishing
The Politics of the Stage and the Page: Source Plays for George Powell’s A Very Good Wife (1693) in their Production and Publication Contexts
January 1994
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Journal article
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Zagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich
Intratextual Text Interaction and Cultural Reinterpretation: Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
January 1992
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Journal article
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Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
Three Novels of Afro-American Women: Literary Patterns
January 1992
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Journal article
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Zeszyty Naukowe Wydziału Humanistycznego
“To quote or not to quote?”: A Postmodernist’s Generic Dilemma in Edward Bond’s Restoration
January 1992
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Journal article
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Zagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich
George Farquhar’s “revenge” Comedy: The Constant Couple; or a Trip to the Jubilee
January 1989
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Journal article
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Zeszyty Naukowe Wydziału Humanistycznego
Savile’s Tacitus, the Earl of Essex, and International Politics
Conference paper
The Exclusion Crisis of 1553 and the Elizabethan Succession
Conference paper
The Politics of Roman History in Late Elizabethan England: Henry Savile’s Tacitus