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Bradley Irish deposited Vengeance, Variously: Revenge Before Kyd in Early Elizabethan Drama in the group
LLC 16th-Century English on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThough it is a critical commonplace that English revenge tragedy began with Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy, there has been little systematic discussion of how revenge fared as a dramatic theme before Kyd’s inaugural work. This essay reexamines the importance of revenge in early Elizabethan drama, by broadly surveying its thematic and rhe…[Read more]
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Bradley J. Irish's profile was updated on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months ago
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Bradley Irish deposited The Literary Afterlife of the Essex Circle: Fulke Greville, Tacitus, and BL Additional MS 18638 on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months ago
The friends, followers, and fans of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, made no small contribution to the world of early modern English letters. This essay contributes to our growing understanding of the Essex circle’s literary afterlife by contextualizing BL Additional MS 18638, an early seventeenth-century manuscript containing a partial English…[Read more]
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Bradley Irish deposited Writing Woodstock: The Prehistory of Richard II and Shakespeare’s Dramatic Method on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months ago
In Shakespeare’s Richard II, the dramatic function of Thomas of Woodstock (King Richard’s murdered uncle) has long been a source of contention and confusion. This essay argues that Woodstock’s role in the play cannot be understood without reference to Richard II’s “prehistory”: the complex series of political circumstances and events that predat…[Read more]
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Bradley Irish deposited Vengeance, Variously: Revenge Before Kyd in Early Elizabethan Drama on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months ago
Though it is a critical commonplace that English revenge tragedy began with Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy, there has been little systematic discussion of how revenge fared as a dramatic theme before Kyd’s inaugural work. This essay reexamines the importance of revenge in early Elizabethan drama, by broadly surveying its thematic and rhe…[Read more]
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Ellen MacKay's profile was updated on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months ago
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Bradley Irish deposited Gender and Politics in the Henrician Court: The Douglas-Howard Lyrics in the Devonshire Manuscript (BL Add 17492) in the group
LLC 16th-Century English on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoBL Additional MS 17492, the so-called Devonshire Manuscript of Henrician courtly verse, is a prime example of how social and cultural phenomena contributed to early modern manuscript culture. Among the treasures of the Devonshire MS is a series of lyrics that chronicles a fascinating courtly intrigue of the 1530s: the illicit, clandestine marriage…[Read more]
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Bradley Irish deposited Gender and Politics in the Henrician Court: The Douglas-Howard Lyrics in the Devonshire Manuscript (BL Add 17492) in the group
British History on Humanities Commons 7 years, 11 months agoBL Additional MS 17492, the so-called Devonshire Manuscript of Henrician courtly verse, is a prime example of how social and cultural phenomena contributed to early modern manuscript culture. Among the treasures of the Devonshire MS is a series of lyrics that chronicles a fascinating courtly intrigue of the 1530s: the illicit, clandestine marriage…[Read more]
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Bradley Irish deposited Gender and Politics in the Henrician Court: The Douglas-Howard Lyrics in the Devonshire Manuscript (BL Add 17492) on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months ago
BL AdditionalMS 17492, the so-called DevonshireManuscript of Henrician courtly verse, is a prime example of how social and cultural phenomena contributed to early modern manuscript culture. Among the treasures of the Devonshire MS is a series of lyrics that chronicles a fascinating courtly intrigue of the 1530s: the illicit, clandestine marriage…[Read more]
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Kyle Frackman's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 11 months ago
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Cristina León Alfar's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 11 months ago
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Kyle Frackman's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 11 months ago
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Steve Mentz deposited “The Fiend Gives Friendly Counsel”: Laucelot Gobbo and Polyglot Economics in The Merchant of Venice in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 8 years agoA focus on Launcelot Gobbo as middleman and unfaithful servant enables an expanded reading of discourses of economics in The Merchant of Venice. In addition to the mercantile modes of Antonio and Shylock, the play also includes a transactional perspective in Launcelot as well as Portia’s fantasy of cornucopia. The chapter is part of Linda…[Read more]
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Steve Mentz deposited “The Fiend Gives Friendly Counsel”: Laucelot Gobbo and Polyglot Economics in The Merchant of Venice in the group
LLC 16th-Century English on MLA Commons 8 years agoA focus on Launcelot Gobbo as middleman and unfaithful servant enables an expanded reading of discourses of economics in The Merchant of Venice. In addition to the mercantile modes of Antonio and Shylock, the play also includes a transactional perspective in Launcelot as well as Portia’s fantasy of cornucopia. The chapter is part of Linda…[Read more]
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Steve Mentz deposited “The Fiend Gives Friendly Counsel”: Laucelot Gobbo and Polyglot Economics in The Merchant of Venice in the group
Global Shakespeares on MLA Commons 8 years agoA focus on Launcelot Gobbo as middleman and unfaithful servant enables an expanded reading of discourses of economics in The Merchant of Venice. In addition to the mercantile modes of Antonio and Shylock, the play also includes a transactional perspective in Launcelot as well as Portia’s fantasy of cornucopia. The chapter is part of Linda…[Read more]
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Steve Mentz deposited “The Fiend Gives Friendly Counsel”: Laucelot Gobbo and Polyglot Economics in The Merchant of Venice on Humanities Commons 8 years ago
A focus on Launcelot Gobbo as middleman and unfaithful servant enables an expanded reading of discourses of economics in The Merchant of Venice. In addition to the mercantile modes of Antonio and Shylock, the play also includes a transactional perspective in Launcelot as well as Portia’s fantasy of cornucopia. The chapter is part of Linda…[Read more]
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