This essay discusses how the gardening methodology of Capability Brown is used as an aesthetic model for the inherently georgic process of Dryden’s poetic translation. I use ‘Brownian georgics’ in order to stylistically analyse John Dryden’s translation of Virgil’s Georgics (prefaced by Joseph Addison’s ‘Essay’). This is accomplished by…[Read more]

This essay discusses the early modern prologue as a register of authorial anxiety. Specifically, I analyse the unique case of the armed prologue as an authorial method and how the prologue of Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida acts as a threshold into the theatrical. The prologue wearing armor prepares the audience for an ironic interpretation…[Read more]

This dissertation explores the ways in which mirrors manifested and functioned on the
early modern English stage as a property. In an effort to recall human interaction with this
significant object, I rely primarily on original stage directions, focusing my analysis on those
dramatic instances in which the mirror was actively used. The…[Read more]