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Aristotelian Criticism in Sixteenth-Century England  

Micha Lazarus

Online publication date:
Sep 2016
Subject:
Literature, Literary Studies - 1500 to 1700, Literary Studies - Plays and Playwrights, Literary Studies - Poetry and Poets, Literary Theory and Cultural Studies, Shakespeare Studies and Criticism
Aristotle’s Poetics has been thought to be inaccessible or misunderstood in sixteenth-century England, but this inherited assumption has drifted far from the primary evidence and lagged ... More

How to Do Things with Rhetoric in Early Modern English Writing  

Katrin Ettenhuber

Online publication date:
Nov 2015
Subject:
Literature, Literary Studies - 1500 to 1700, Literary Studies - Plays and Playwrights, Literary Studies - Poetry and Poets, Shakespeare Studies and Criticism
This article reviews recent scholarly work on the connections between rhetoric and literature in the period 1500–1700. It describes the historicist turn in the wake of Brian Vickers’s In ... More

Performance in Households and Merchant Halls  

Amy Appleford

Online publication date:
Mar 2016
Subject:
Literature, Literary Studies - 1500 to 1700, Literary Studies - Early and Medieval, Literary Studies - Plays and Playwrights, Literary Theory and Cultural Studies, Shakespeare Studies and Criticism
This article discusses the articulation of authority in London merchant hall drama in the early Tudor period. The Drapers’ Company records payments for plays performed, often by ... More

Shakespeare and British History  

Richard Dutton

Print publication date:
Dec 2012
Online publication date:
Jan 2013
Subject:
Literature, Literary Studies - 1500 to 1700, Shakespeare Studies and Criticism
This chapter discusses the influence of Holinshed's Chronicles on two of Shakespeare's plays – King Lear and Cymbeline – both of which follow the spirit of Holinshed's Chronicles, even as ... More

Shakespeare and Medieval History  

Igor Djordjevic

Print publication date:
Dec 2012
Online publication date:
Jan 2013
Subject:
Literature, Literary Studies - 1500 to 1700, Shakespeare Studies and Criticism
This chapter begins by tracing how history plays recover thematic unities from Holinshed's Chronicles. Shakespeare translated into the medium of drama four major political themes and ... More

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