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Marlowe's Ovid

The Elegies in the Marlowe Canon

By: M. L. Stapleton

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Marlowe's Ovid

The Elegies in the Marlowe Canon

By: M. L. Stapleton

The first book of its kind, Marlowe's Ovid explores and analyzes in depth the relationship between the Elegies-Marlowe's translation of Ovid's Amores-and Marlowe's own dramatic and poetic works. Stapleton carefully considers Marlowe's Elegies in the context of his seven known dramatic works and his epyllion, Hero and Leander, and offers a different way to read Marlowe. Stapleton employs Marlowe's rendition of the Amores as a way to read his seven dramatic productions and his narrative poetry while engaging with previous scholarship devoted to the accuracy of the translation and to bibliographical issues. The author focuses on four main principles: the intertextual relationship of the Elegies to the rest of the author's canon; its reflection of the influence of Erasmian humanist pedagogy, imitatio and aemulatio; its status as the standard English Amores until the Glorious Revolution, part of the larger phenomenon of pan-European Renaissance Ovidianism; its participation in the genre of the sonnet sequence. He explores how translating the Amores into the Elegies profited Marlowe as a writer, a kind of literary archaeology that explains why he may have commenced such an undertaking. Marlowe's Ovid adds to the body of scholarly work in a number of subfields, including classical influences in English literature, translation, sexuality in literature, early modern poetry and drama, and Marlowe and his milieu.

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1317100336

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9781317100331

Christopher Marlowe the Craftsman

Lives, Stage, and Page

By: M.L. Stapleton

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Christopher Marlowe the Craftsman

Lives, Stage, and Page

By: M.L. Stapleton

Contributions to this volume explore the idea of Marlowe as a working artist, in keeping with John Addington Symonds' characterization of him as a "sculptor-poet." Throughout the body of his work-including not only the poems and plays, but also his forays into translation and imitation-a distinguished company of established and emerging literary scholars traces how Marlowe conceives an idea, shapes and refines it, then remakes and remodels it, only to refashion it further in his writing process. These essays necessarily overlap with one another in the categories of lives, stage, and page, which signals their interdependent nature regarding questions of authorship, theater and performance history, as well as interpretive issues within the works themselves. The contributors interpret and analyze the disputed facts of Marlowe's life, the textual difficulties that emerge from the staging of his plays, the critical investigations arising from analyses of individual works, and their relationship to those of his contemporaries. The collection engages in new ways the controversies and complexities of its subject's life and art. It reflects the flourishing state of Marlowe studies as it shapes the twenty-first century conception of the poet and playwright as master craftsman.

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1317166450

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The Pilgrims' Complaint

A Study of Popular Thought in the Early Tudor North

By: M. L. Bush

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The Pilgrims' Complaint

A Study of Popular Thought in the Early Tudor North

By: M. L. Bush

Thanks to its character as a rising of the commons, and the survival of extensive documentary evidence, the Pilgrimage of Grace offers a fascinating insight into how the people of the north of England, on the eve of the Reformation, thought about religion, social relations and politics. In this book, Michael Bush opens up an alternative and dynamic means of exploring the popular mentality of the time through an examination of the wide variety of sources generated by the rebels, rather than relying on the social, political and religious views set out in contemporary treaties and sermons towing the government's line.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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0754667855

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9780754667858

death is Always With Us

a john holmes johnson mystery: looking back to the past

By: m. l. spurgeon

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death is Always With Us

a john holmes johnson mystery: looking back to the past

By: m. l. spurgeon

This book, death is Always With Us, is the fifth to be published in a series of John Holmes Johnson mysteries. It looks back at the background of John Holmes in order to clarify who he is and the key role played by an interesting roster of characters.during his childhood. These are the people, places and experiences that created the rare blend of characteristics that identify the man himself. He was born in London, raised in the South Downs between Lewes and Dover. The bright, inquisitive boy grew to be an intelligent, curious investigator of all sorts of mysteries. His boyhood is fraught with peril as he watches his family go through many man-instigated hells in the course of nine years. The nature of this book is such that it could quite easily have served as a Pre-quel to death is Belligerent, however, John Holmes himself pieced this material together, using notes left to him by his late Uncle John. Death is Always With Us is a unique mixture of personalities come together on a wide variety of life and death struggles, whose very scars built stronger than strong ties. You will meet them all in this book.

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678

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AuthorHouse

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1449095348

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Bioethics in America

Origins and Cultural Politics

By: M. L. Tina Stevens

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Bioethics in America

Origins and Cultural Politics

By: M. L. Tina Stevens

In Bioethics in America, Tina Stevens challenges the view that the origins of the bioethics movement can be found in the 1960s, a decade mounting challenges to all variety of authority. Instead, Stevens sees bioethics as one more product of a "centuries-long cultural legacy of American ambivalence toward progress," and she finds its modern roots in the responsible science movement that emerged following detonation of the atomic bomb. Rather than challenging authority, she says, the bioethics movement was an aid to authority, in that it allowed medical doctors and researchers to proceed on course while bioethicists managed public fears about medicine's new technologies. That is, the public was reassured by bioethical oversight of biomedicine; in reality, however, bioethicists belonged to the same mainstream that produced the doctors and researchers whom the bioethicists were guiding.

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JHU Press

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0801876974

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9780801876974

The Pilgrimage of Grace

A Study of the Rebel Armies of October 1536

By: M. L. Bush

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The Pilgrimage of Grace

A Study of the Rebel Armies of October 1536

By: M. L. Bush

Operating principally from original sources, it revises the standard work of the Dodds and appraises the research produced in the subject over the last thirty years.

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Manchester University Press

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0719046963

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Marlowe's Ovid

The Elegies in the Marlowe Canon

By: M. L. Stapleton

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The Elegies in the Marlowe Canon

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1317100328

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Spenser's Ovidian Poetics

By: M. L. Stapleton

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Spenser's Ovidian Poetics

By: M. L. Stapleton

No history of the longstanding critical tradition of exploring the Spenser-Ovid relationship has been written. In this book Professor Stapleton constructs such a critical history: the annotations of E. K. in The Shepheardes Calender (1579), the Enlightenment editions of The Faerie Queene, the philological mode of the Spenser Variorum (1932-57), and the recent, innovative work of Harry Berger and Colin Burrow. Aside from occasional articles, no truly comprehensive analysis of their kinship as love poets exists, either. The author explores Spenser's emulation of Ovid's amatory poetics. His humanist education trained him to find or construct analogues and etiological patterns in classical texts. Therefore, his early study of translation, intensive reading, and "versifying" as an interrelated process guaranteed a densely allusive, metamorphic Ovidian poetics as a natural result. The author's predecessors focus almost exclusively on the Metamorphoses as intertext, but do not often distinguish between early modern Latin editions of the poem and translations such as Arthur Golding's. Although Spenser read Ovid in his native language, during the quarter-century of his writing career, his countrymen such as Shakespeare, Donne, and Lodge imitate and recast the ancient author. During this English aetas Ovidiana, a translation industry arises simultaneously so that the entire corpus is rendered into English, from Golding's Metamorphoses (1567) to Wye Saltonstall's Ex Ponto (1638). Since the sixteenth century did not often read or hear a Roman poet in prose renditions, the author uses Renaissance poetical verse translations (with the Latin text) to explore Spenser's variegated use of Ovid: how he sounded as early modern English poetry. The introduction traces a history of the Spenser-Ovid site then accounts for the importance of imitatio and moralization to Spenser's developing poetics. The first four chapters analyze the influence of the Tristia, Heroides, and Metamorphoses on the 1590 Faerie Queene and The Shepheardes Calender. The concluding chapters demonstrate the presence of the Ars amatoria and Amores in Amoretti and Epithalamion and Fowre Hymnes. Spenser's Ovidian Poetics is intended to complement works such as Leonard Barkan's The Gods Made Flesh, Jonathan Bate's Shakespeare and Ovid, Raphael Lyne's Ovid's Changing Worlds: English Metamorphoses 1567-1632, and important essays by Colin Burrow. In the words of Paul Alpers, Professor Stapleton does not wish "to oppose the historical aesthetic" but to understand Spenser's "claim to relative autonomy" in his emulation and reconfiguration of his predecessors.

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Christopher Marlowe the Craftsman

Lives, Stage, and Page

By: M.L. Stapleton

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Christopher Marlowe the Craftsman

Lives, Stage, and Page

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Admired and Understood

The Poetry of Aphra Behn

By: M. L. Stapleton

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Admired and Understood

The Poetry of Aphra Behn

By: M. L. Stapleton

Admired and Understood analyzes Behn's only pure verse collection, Poems upon Several Occasions (1684), and situates her in her literary milieu. Her book demonstrates her desire for acceptance in her literary culture, to be 'admired and understood, ' the antithesis of what many surmise from reading her other works that she saw herself primarily as a guerilla critic of her culture's views on race, class, and gender. Although the collapse of the market for new plays in the 1680s probably drove Behn to poetry and later to fiction, other factors explain her devotion to her collection. One may have been the status associated with writing poetry as opposed to plays and stories. The title of poet was her culture's ultimate literary currency. She apparently never wished to be seen as a 'woman writer, ' and viewed such labels as reductive, unfair, and inaccurate. Published in 1684, playwright Aphra Behn's Poems Upon Several Occasions is her only collection of pure verse. In this study, Stapleton analyzes these poems and situates Behn in her literary milieu. Topics include the influence of Abraham Cowley on Behn's poetics, Behn's understanding of libertinism, and the textual history of 'On a Juniper-Tree.

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Marlowe's Ovid

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The Pilgrimage of Grace

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Marlowe's Ovid

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Spenser's Ovidian Poetics

Spenser's Ovidian Poetics

Christopher Marlowe the Craftsman

Christopher Marlowe the Craftsman

Admired and Understood

Admired and Understood

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