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 Essays and Articles on Sixteenth Century
Renaissance English Literature
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| Henry VIII
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Please see Essays and Articles on King Henry VIII
| Sir Thomas More
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Please see Essays and Articles on Sir Thomas More
| John Skelton
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Ambition and Anxiety in The House of Fame and the Garlande of Laurell - Alastair Bennett
"Measure is Treasure": Financial and Political Prudence in Skelton's Magnificence - Tai-Won Kim
Constructing the Sexual Subject of John Skelton - A. W. Barnes
Devils and Vices in English non-cycle Plays: Sacrament and Social Body - John D. Cox
What's in a Name? The Transmission of "John Skelton, Laureate" in Manuscript and Print - Jane Griffiths
[Early Tudor Poetry: John Skelton] - John M. Berdan
Reality -- Mirror -- Allegory: John Skelton - Anna Torti
Conception, flies, and heresy in Skelton's 'Replycacion' - Victor I. Scherb
Skelton's 'Speke Parott': Language, Madness and the Role of the Court Poet - Simon Brittan
Who is Colin Clout? - Jim Nielson
Skelton and Barclay, Medieval and Modern - David R. Carlson
| Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder
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Elizabethan Precursors of Donne's Divine Meditations - William L. Stull
Petrarchan Love and the English Sonnet - Norton Resource Library
Wyatt and Surrey and the New Poetry - Robert H. Fletcher
'Wyatt resteth here': Surrey's Republican Elegy - José María Pérez Fernández .PDF
Thomas Wyatt's epistolary satire: parody and the limitations of rhetorical humanism - Jason Gleckman .PDF
Wyatt's Unstable Dream, According To The Place - Kimberly Laird
Breaking the Vacuum: Ricardian and Henrician Ovidianism - James Simpson
Politics and Print: The Curious Revisions to Tottel's Songes and Sonettes - Paul A. Marquis
Tottel's Miscellany and the English Reformation - Stephen Hamrick
Explication of Wyatt's "They Flee from Me" - John P. Levay
Explication of Wyatt's "Madame, Withouten Many Wordes" - Robert T. Levine
Explication of Wyatt's "Hevyn and erth and all that here me plain" - Barbara Obadashian
Country Mouse and Towny Mouse: Truth in Wyatt - Christopher Z. Hobson
English Court Poets and Petrarchism: Wyatt, Sidney and Spenser - Matthew Griffiths
The Hunter and the Hunted: Wyatt and Agency - Bethany Klassen
Wyatt's Pessimism - Kaisen Lin .PDF
| Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
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Martyrdom in the Literal Sense: Surrey's Psalm Paraphrases - James Simpson
The Erotic Politics of Grief in Surrey's "So crewell prison" - Candace Lines
Elizabethan Precursors of Donne's Divine Meditations - William L. Stull
Petrarchan Love and the English Sonnet - Norton Resource Library
Wyatt and Surrey and the New Poetry - Robert H. Fletcher
'Wyatt resteth here': Surrey's Republican Elegy - José María Pérez Fernández .PDF
Manuscripts of the Verse of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey - A. S. G. Edwards
Breaking the Vacuum: Ricardian and Henrician Ovidianism - James Simpson
Politics and Print: The Curious Revisions to Tottel's Songes and Sonettes - Paul A. Marquis
Tottel's Miscellany and the English Reformation - Stephen Hamrick
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey - John M. Berdan
 
| Sir Philip Sidney
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 Sonnet Literature: Sidney, Spenser, Drayton, Daniel - Richard Firestone [.pdf - ff. p194]
The Truths of a Slippery World: Poetry and Tyranny in Sidney's Defence - Robert E. Stillman
"Goodlie anticke apparrell"?: Sophocles' Ajax at early modern Oxford and Cambridge - Sarah Knight
Critical Thumbprints in Arcadia: Renaissance Pastoral and the Process of Critique - Michael Everton
Book: Sir Philip Sidney and the Arcadia. James Crossley, Esq., 1853. - Google Books
Book: Sir Philip Sidney: Type of English Chivalry in the Elizabethan Age. H.R. Fox Bourne, 1862. - Google Books
Reason, Faith, and Shipwreck in Sidney's New Arcadia - Stephen R. Mentz
Sidney's New Arcadia and the Decay of Protestant Republicanism - Tracey Sedinger
Wife and Widow in Arcadia: Re-envisioning the Ideal - Stephanie Chamberlain
Reflections on "Imitatio" as an Educational Ideal of English Humanism - Jin Sunwoo
Raleigh, Sidney, Oxford, and the Catholics, 1579 - D. C. Peck
[Sidney and Spenser's Shepheardes Calendar] - Edward De Vere Newsletter, 1993 .PDF
(Un)bridled Passion: Chivalric Metaphor and Practice in Sidney's Astrophil and Stella - Elizabeth P. Watson .PDF
Elizabethan Precursors of Donne's Divine Meditations - William L. Stull
Querre-Muhau: Sir Philip Sidney and the New World - Roger Kuin
Castigating Livy: The Rape of Lucretia and 'The Old Arcadia' - Debora Shuger
Charactonymic structures in Sidney's 'Arcadias' - Marvin Hunt
"Bastard Children of Tyranny": The Ancient Constitution and
Fulke Greville's A Dedication to Sir Philip Sidney - Peter C. Herman
The "popular philosopher": Plato, Poetry, and Food in Tudor Aesthetics - Efterpi Mitsi
Astrophil and the Manic Wit of the Abject Male - Catherine Bates
All My Deed But Copying Is: The Erotics of Identity in Astrophil and Stella - Elizabeth M. Hull
The "mannes state" of Philip Sidney: Pre-scripting the Life of the Poet in England - Kevin Pask
The Unauthorized Orpheus of 'Astrophil and Stella' - Maria Teresa Micaela Prendergast
What? How? Female-female Desire in Sidney's New Arcadia - Richard A. Levin
The Passion Signified: Imitation and the Construction of Emotions in Sidney and Wroth - Jacqueline T. Miller
"A pleasant and terrible reverence": Maintenance of Majesty in Sidney's 'New Arcadia' - James Biester
Politics and Shifting Desire in Sidney's New Arcadia - Benjamin Scott Grossberg
Chivalry Unmasked: Courtly Spectacle and the Abuses of Romance in Sidney's 'New Arcadia' - Clare R. Kinney
Exhibiting Class and Displaying the Body in Sidney's 'Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia' - Mary Ellen Lamb
Apologizing for Pleasure in Sidney's 'Apology for Poetry' - Mary Ellen Lamb
Relational Antifeminism in Sidney's Arcadia - Bi-Qi Beatrice Lei
The Passion Signified: Imitation and the Construction of Emotions in Sidney and Wroth - Jacqueline T. Miller
Speaking for the Dead: King Charles, Anna Weamys, and the Commemorations of Sidney's Arcadia - E. A. Spiller
"The Uncanny Stranger on Display": The Female Body in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Love Poetry - M. Baker
Sidney's Arcadia and Wroth's Urania - Dr. Deborah Wyrick
Brothers' Keepers and Philip's Siblings: The Poetics of the Sidney Family - Elizabeth Mazzola
The Lady of May: a Case Study in the Rhetoric of Electronic Text - R. S. Bear
On Sidney's Sonnets - William Minto
Love's Refinement: Metaphysical Expressions of Desire in Philip Sidney and John Donne - Daniel Philip Knauss
English Court Poets and Petrarchism: Wyatt, Sidney and Spenser - Matthew Griffiths
The Delight of Words: the Elizabethan Sonneteers and American Country Lyricists - Jill Tedford
Sidney and Petrarch; Or, The Contemplation of Love - Abraham Avendaño Martínez
Gender and Genre in the Sonnet Sequences of Philip Sidney and Mary Wroth - Jennifer Laws
Structure, theme and convention in Astrophil and Stella - Donna
| Edmund Spenser
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Sonnet Literature: Sidney, Spenser, Drayton, Daniel - Richard Firestone [.pdf - ff. p194]
Spenser out of his Stanza - Paul J. Hecht
The death of the 'new Poete': Virgilian ruin and Ciceronian recollection in The Shepheardes Calender - R. Helfer
Critical Thumbprints in Arcadia: Renaissance Pastoral and the Process of Critique - Michael Everton
Skeltonic Anxiety and Rumination in The Shepheardes Calender - Kreg Segall
Commerce and Cadiz in Spenser's Prothalamion - Judith Owens
Chaucer's mutability in Spenser's Mutabilitie Cantos - Glenn A. Steinberg
Vision, Metamorphosis, and the Poetics of Allegory in the Mutabilitie Cantos - Louise Gilbert Freeman
Spenser, Donne, and the Theology of Joy - Adam Potkay
Looking at Britomart looking at pictures - Adam McKeown
Reading Gender into the Virtue of Courtesy in Book 6 of The Faerie Queene - Jin-Ah Lee
The Prince of Rays: Spectacular Invisibility in Spenser's The Faerie Queene - Lisa Dickson
Britomartis' Heroic Love in The Faerie Queene, Book 3 - Hoyoung Kim
Reflections on "Imitatio" as an Educational Ideal of English Humanism - Jin Sunwoo
The Charmes Backe to Reverse: Deconstructing Architectures in
Books II and III of The Faerie Queene - Crystal Nelson Downing
Spenser's Prothalamion and the Catullan Epithalamic Tradition - Sandra R. Patterson
Spiritual Warfare and The Faerie Queene - Sara Litwiller
Edmund Spenser and English Policy in Ireland - Howard Amos
Spenser and the historical revolution: Briton monuments and the problem of Roman Britain - John E. Curran, Jr.
Spanish lessons: Spenser and the Irish Moriscos - Barbara Fuchs
"Her filthy feature open showne" in Ariosto, Spenser, and 'Much Ado about Nothing' - Melinda J. Gough
Archimago: between text and countertext - Harry Berger, Jr.
From a View to a Discovery: Edmund Spenser, Sir John Davies, and
the Defects of Law in the Realm of Ireland - D. Alan Orr
"Thy temperance invincible": Humanism in The Faerie Queene and Paradise Regained - Sung-Kyun Yim
Spenser's Dialogic Voice in Book 1 of The Faerie Queene - Jennifer C. Vaught
To (Re)fashion a Gentleman: Ralegh's Disgrace in Spenser's Legend of Courtesy - Jeffrey B. Morris
The Politics of Time in Edmund Spenser's English Calendar - Alison A. Chapman
Edmund Spenser, Mary Sidney, and the Doleful Lay - Pamela Coren
Redcrosse's'springingwell' of Scriptural Faith - Thomas A. Dughi
Courteous virtu in Spenser's Book 6 of 'The Faerie Queene' - Bruce Danner
Hellish Work in The Faerie Queene - Maurice Hunt
Spenserian Paralysis - William A. Oram
The Poetics of Accommodation in Spenser's "Epithalamion" - Judith Owens
Poetic Parthenogenesis and Spenser's Idea of Creation in
The Faerie Queene - Elizabeth A. Spiller
Displacing Feminine Authority in 'The Faerie Queene' - Mary Villeponteaux
"Wise Handling and Faire Governance": Spenser's Female Educators - Sarah Plant
The Influence of Spenser's Faerie Queene on Kyd's Spanish Tragedy - Frank Ardolino
The Bower of Bliss and The Garden of Adonis - Ian Mackean
English Court Poets and Petrarchism: Wyatt, Sidney and Spenser - Matthew Griffiths
Who is Colin Clout? - Jim Nielson
The Transformation of Complaint in Spenser's The Ruines of Time - Richard Danson Brown
"In sort as she it sung": Spenser's "Doleful Lay" and the Construction of Female Authorship - Danielle Clarke
Women's Friendship and the Refusal of Lesbian Desire in The Faerie Queene - Tracey Sedinger
Youth Against Age: Generational Strife in Renaissance Poetry [1984] -Steven Marx
The Homosexual Pastoral Tradition: Spenser - Rictor Norton
Translated Geographies: Edmund Spenser's "The Ruines of Time" - Huw Griffiths
Significant Spaces in Edmund Spenser's View of the Present State of Ireland - Joanne Woolway Grenfell
Spenser and the Culture of Place - Joanne Woolway
Studied Barbarity: Johnson, Spenser, and Literary Progress - Jack Lynch
Masters of the Genre: Dante, Spenser, and the Allegorical Tradition - Josh Reid
Spenser's Defence of Queen Elizabeth I and the Church of England in "The Faerie Queene" - Jennifer Sinclair
Recursive Forms in "An Horatian Ode" - Kaye Anfield
The Mystery of the Missing Line: Spenser's Epithalamion stanza 15 - John Hale and Stefan Lane
Notes on Sonnet 75 from Amoretti
| Christopher Marlowe
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Christopher Marlowe and the Succession to the English Crown - Lisa Hopkins
Marlowe, company ownership, and the role of Edward II - Roslyn L. Knutson
"The verie paines of hell": Doctor Faustus and the Controversy over Christ's Descent - Heather A. Hirschfeld
'A world of ground': Terrestrial Space in Marlowe's Tamburlaine plays - Emrys Jones
"Outing" Edward, outfitting Marlowe: Derek Jarman's film of Edward II - Bert Cardullo
Royal Carnality and Illicit Desire in the English History Plays of the 1590s - Charles R. Forker
Marlowe's Staging of Meaning - Leslie Thomson
Marlowe's Texts and Oral Transmission: Towards the Zielform - Thomas Pettitt
The Jew of Malta and the Diabolic Power of Theatrics in the 1580s - Arata Ide
Breeching the Boy in Marlowe's Edward II - Marie Rutkoski
Status, Sodomy, and the Theater in Marlowe's Edward II - David Stymeist
Hero's Afterlife: Hero and Leander and 'lewd unmannerly verse' in the late Seventeenth Century - Roy Booth
"Headdie Ryots" as Reformations: Marlowe's Libertine Poetics - Helga Duncan
Disorder in the House of God: Disrupted Worship in Shakespeare and Others - Bruce Boehrer
Shakespeare's Anxious Epistemology: Love's Labor's Lost and Marlowe's Doctor Faustus - Eric C. Brown
Unpardonable sins: the hazards of performative language in the tragic cases
of Francesco Spiera and Doctor Faustus - Daniel Gates
"Dido I am, unless I be deceived": Female Desire and Ruin in Christopher Marlowe's
Dido, Queen of Carthage (1594) and John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi (1613) - Grace Windsor
The Tragic Mode of Christopher Marlowe's Tamburlaine, Part I - Marc Woodworth
Marlowe's "Edward II" and the Medieval Passion Play - Patrick Ryan
Homophobia and the Regulation of Desire: A Psychoanalytic Reading of Marlowe's Edward II - Viviana Comensoli
Casting Doubt in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus - William M. Hamlin
Fissured Families: A Motif in Marlowe's plays - Lisa Hopkins
"Marlowe's second city": the Jew as Critic at the Rose in 1592 - Lloyd Edward Kermode
Epic Transgression and the Framing of Agency in "Dido Queen of Carthage" - Clare R. Kinney
History, Tragedy, and Truth in Christopher Marlowe's 'Edward II' - Joan Parks
Marlowe's Cambridge Years and the Writing of Doctor Faustus - G.M. Pinciss
Marlowe's Travesty of Virgil: Dido and Elizabethan Dreams of Empire - Donald Stump
Marlowe, The Poet of Love: A Fresh Look at his Amorous Verse and his Sexuality - Mike Frohnsdorff
The Sin of Ignorance - Joan Modlin
The Case for Christopher Marlowe's Authorship of the Works attributed to William Shakespeare - John Baker
Tamburlaine The Great: A Ten-act Renaissance Play? - Stephen D. Rowe
Beyond New Historicism: Marlowe's Unnatural Histories and the Melancholy Properties of the Stage - Drew Milne
Marlowe, Edward II, and the Cult of Elizabeth - Dennis Kay
"And shall I die, and this unconquered?": Marlowe's Inverted Colonialism - Lisa Hopkins
From The Sacred Wood: Notes on the Blank Verse of Christopher Marlowe - T. S. Eliot, 1920.
Comparison of the final moments in the A and B texts of Faustus - Rebecca Bushnell
A Discussion of Morality and Horror in "The Duchess of Malfi" and "Edward II" - Timothy Fox
Dr. Faustus - Selling His Soul to Make a Point - John Larson
Faustus and Women - Kaye Anfield
The Poetry Contest: Sir Walter Ralegh, Christopher Marlowe and John Donne - Janice Greer
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Castiglione vs. Cicero: Political Engagement, or Effeminate Chatter? - Susan Gaylard
The Politics of Effeminacy in Il Cortegiano - Gerry Milligan
Assumed Simplicity and the Critique of Nobility: Or, How Castiglione Read Cicero - Jennifer Richards
"The Ende Therfore of a Perfect Courtier" in Baldassare Castiglione's The Courtier - Douglas A. Northrop
Joking Matters: Politics and Dissimulation in Castiglione's Book of the Courtier - Joann Cavallo
"A wanton trade of living"? Rhetoric, Effeminacy, and the Early Modern Courtier - Jennifer Richards
Bembo's Discourse on Love: a fitting conclusion to The Courtier? - Souvik Mukherjee
| Roger Ascham
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Protestant Theology and Apocalyptic Rhetoric in Roger Ascham's The Schoolmaster - Ryan J. Stark
Saintsbury on Ascham
Ascham's The Scholemaster, Italianate Englishmen, and the Protestant Circe - Thomas G. Olsen [.doc]
Reflections on "Imitatio" as an Educational Ideal of English Humanism - Jin Sunwoo
| John Foxe
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'Writers to solemnise and celebrate ... Actes and memory': Foxe and the Business of Textual Memory - Andrew Hiscock
John Foxe and the Desires of Reformation Martyrology - James C. W. Truman
'The same cause and like quarell': Eusebius, John Foxe, and the Evolution of Ecclesiastical History - G. E. Minton
John Foxe and the Jews - Sharon Achinstein
Foxe's Christus Triumphans - Lynne M. Robertson
The Account of Anne Askew in Foxe's Book of Martyrs - Thomas S. Freeman and Sarah Elizabeth Wall
"The Light of Printing": William Tyndale, John Foxe,John Day, and Early Modern Print Culture - John N. King
"His Apparel Was Done Upon Him": Rites of Personage in Foxe's Book of Martyrs - Laurie Shannon
John Foxe: Exorcist - Kathleen R. Sands
Foxe's Martyrs - Pastor David L. Brown, Th.M.
Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford
The Many Nicknames of the Earl of Oxford - Shakespeare Fellowship
Raleigh, Sidney, Oxford, and the Catholics, 1579 - D. C. Peck
Shaking the Spear at Court: Oxford as "The Knight of the Tree of the Sunne" - Dr. Daniel L. Wright
Lear's Cordelia, Oxford's Susan, and Manningham's Diary - Warren Hope
| Elizabeth I
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Please visit Essays and Articles on Queen Elizabeth I
| George Gascoigne
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Metaphors of the Book as Garden in the English Renaissance - R. L. Anderson
"Set in portraiture": George Gascoigne, Queen Elizabeth, and Adapting the Royal Image - Stephen Hamrick
Androgyny and Linguistic Power in Gascoigne's The Steele Glas - Kevin LaGrandeur
Gascoigne's Poses - Felicity A. Hughes
Elizabethan Court Fiction: George Gascoigne and John Lyly - Dr. Deborah Wyrick
On "The Adventures of Master F. J." - Ray Davis
A Study in Gascoigne's Style in The Adventures of Master F. J. - Shana Marie Hirsch
John Lyly
The Victim of Fashion? Rereading the Biography of John Lyly - Leah Scragg
Old versus new spelling: John Lyly—a special case? - Leah Scragg
Cross-dressing and John Lyly's Gallathea - Christopher Wixson
Elizabeth I's "picture in little": Boy Company Representations of a Queen's Authority - Jeanne H. McCarthy
Saintsbury on Lyly and Euphues
C. S. Lewis on Lyly's Euphues
Lyly's Euphues - Ernest A. Baker
G. K. Hunter on Nashe and Lyly
The Language of Framing - Rayna Kalas
John Lyly as Both Oxford's and Shakespeare's "Honest Steward" - Charles Wisner Barrell
"O unquenchable thirst of gold": Lyly's Midas and the English quest for Empire - Annaliese Connolly
"I would faine serve": John Lyly's Career at Court - Derek B. Alwes
"Swift hart" and "soft heart": Elizabeth I and the Iconography of
Lyly’s Gallathea and Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream - Julia Brown
Elizabethan Court Fiction: George Gascoigne and John Lyly - Dr. Deborah Wyrick
The Healthy Body: Desire and Sustenance in John Lyly's Love's Metamorphosis - Mark Dooley
Thomas Nashe
Authorial Self-Consciousness in Nashe's The Unfortunate Traveller - Wendy Hyman
"Cease Cease to bawle, thou wasp-stung Satyrist:" Writers, Printers, & the Bishops' Ban of 1599 - C. Forshaw
Christs Teares, Nashe's 'forsaken extremities' - Katharine Duncan-Jones
The Heroine as Courtesan: Dishonesty, Romance, and the Sense
of an Ending in The Unfortunate Traveler - Stephen R. Mentz
Thomas Nashe, Thomas Lodge, and Pierce Penilesse - D. Allen Carroll
A New Source for Thomas Nashe's The Choise of Valentines - Michael L. Stapleton
Nashe's "Choise" and Chaucer's Pardoner - Robert C. Evans
Thomas Nashe - Ernest A. Baker
C. S. Lewis on Thomas Nashe
G. K. Hunter on Nashe and Lyly
[Nashe and the Bourgoisie] - Louis B. Wright
Nashe as "Monarch of Witt" and Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet - Joan Ozark Holmer
"Milksop Muses" or Why Not Mary? - Penny McCarthy
Abstract. An Althusserian Reading On Thomas Nashe’s The Unfortunate Traveller - Doohyun Park
| Richard Hooker
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Hooker's apprentice: God, entelechy, beauty, and desire in book one
of Richard Hooker's Lawes of Ecclesiasticall Politie - Patrick D. M. Patterson
Richard Hooker's trinitarian hermeneutic of grace - Barry G. Rasmussen
Prudence and custom: Revisiting Hooker on authority - William H. Harrison
"The reliques and ragges of popish superstition": The Effect of Richard Hooker's
Of the Lawes of Ecclesticall Polity on Book V of The Faerie Queene - Vince P. Redder .PDF
Richard Hooker's Doctrine of the Holy Spirit - Ph.D. Thesis by John K. Stafford .PDF
Richard Hooker and the Ordination of Women to the Priesthood - Stephen Sykes
Scripture, tradition and reason — Hooker's supposed 3-legged stool - Peter Toon
Exploring Issues of Authority in the Tradition of Richard Hooker - Paul Avis
Sacramental Theology in Hooker's Laws : A Structural Perspective - William O. Gregg
Hooker's Criteria for Liturgy - Daniel B. Stevick
Answering "the Known Men": Bishop Reginald Pecock and Mr. Richard Hooker by Charles W. Brockwell, Jr.
Hooker, Ecumenism, and Authority - Robert Rea
Hooker's Discourse on Natural Law in the Context of the Magisterial Reformation - W. J. Torrance Kirby
| Sir Walter Ralegh
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A Shroud for the Mind: Ralegh's Poetic Rewriting of the Self - Miri Tashma-Baum
Raleigh, Sidney, Oxford, and the Catholics, 1579 - D. C. Peck
To (Re)fashion a Gentleman: Ralegh's Disgrace in Spenser's Legend of Courtesy - Jeffrey B. Morris
Ralegh's Early Poetry and its Metrical Context - Carlo M. Bajetta
"Left to the world without a Maister": Sir Walter Ralegh's The History of the World as a Public Text - Anna R. Beer
French and Italian sources for Ralegh's 'Farewell False Love' - Jonathan Gibson
A Contemporary View of Sir Walter Ralegh - John T. Shawcross
Gold on Credit: Martin Frobisher's and Walter Raleigh's Economies of Evidence - William N. West
Bringing "this monstrous birth to the world's light": Colonial Mimicry in Early Modern Writing - Sabine Schülting
Sir Walter Ralegh's Treason: A Prosecution Document - Mark Nicholls
New Pleasures Prove: Evidence of Dialectical Disputatio in Early Modern
Manuscript Culture [Ralegh, Marlowe, Donne, Herbert] - Margaret Downs-Gamble
The Credit of Truth: Thomas Hariot and the Defense of Ralegh - Vance Briceland
What Ralegh Discovered about Guiana - Steven Thomas
The Poetry Contest: Sir Walter Ralegh, Christopher Marlowe and John Donne - Janice Greer
| Thomas Hariot
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The Soft Logic of Thomas Harriot - H. T. Goranson
Bringing "this monstrous birth to the world's light": Colonial mimicry in early modern writing - Sabine Schülting
The Credit of Truth: Thomas Hariot and the Defense of Ralegh - Vance Briceland
| Robert Southwell
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Polemic and Paradox in Robert Southwell's Lyric Poems - Sadia Abbas
N.D. versus O.E.: Anonymity's Moral Ambiguity in Elizabethan Catholic Controversy - Marcy L. North
Robert Southwell teaches us how to survive - Solange Strong Hertz
Southwell's "New Heaven, New Warre" - Karen Batley
The Curious Case of Robert Southwell, Gerard Hopkins and a Princely Spanish Hawk - Gary M. Bouchard
Southwell's "Christ's Bloody Sweat" - Mary Lowe-Evans
Southwell's "A Vale of Tears" : A Psychoanalysis of Form - Gary Kuchar
Southwell and His Idea of Death as a Divine Honor - Antonio S. Oliver
Thomas Campion
"The English Masque" - Felix E.Schelling
Mathematical Musick: The Contrapuntal Formula of Dr. Thomas Campion - Jeff Lee
In the Person of Womankind: Female Persona Poems by Campion, Donne, Jonson - Pamela Coren
Negotiating traditions of English song: performance, text, history - Bruce Horner
The Gentleman: The Songs of Thomas Campion Considered - Wilfrid Mellers
Some unobserved information about John Dowland, Thomas Campion and Philip Rosseter - Kenneth Sparr
Mary (Sidney) Herbert, Countess of Pembroke
Mary Sidney's Antonius and the ambiguities of French history - Anne Lake Prescott
1897 Dissertation: The Countess of Pembroke's 'Tragedy of Antonie' - Alice H. Luce
Pleasurable Spaces: The Re-Writing of Women's Theological Experience
in Mary Sidney's Psalmes - Katherine Larson .PDF
Davies's Astraea and Other Contexts of the Countess of Pembroke's "A Dialogue" - Mary C. Erler
Edmund Spenser, Mary Sidney, and the Doleful Lay - Pamela Coren
"Milksop Muses" or Why Not Mary? - Penny McCarthy
Brothers' Keepers and Philip's Siblings: The Poetics of the Sidney Family - Elizabeth Mazzola
"In sort as she it sung": Spenser's "Doleful Lay" and the Construction of Female Authorship - Danielle Clarke
"Outrage your face": Anti-Theatricality and Gender in Early Modern Closet Drama by Women - K. O. Acheson
"The Wreck of Order" in Early Modern Women's Drama - Irene Burgess
| Sir John Davies
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Book: Philosophy in Poetry: A Study of Sir John Davies's Poem "Nosce Teipsum" (1903) - E. Hershey Sneath
'What fame is this?': Sir John Davies' Epigrammes in Late Elizabethan London - Susanna Hop [.doc]
From a View to a Discovery: Edmund Spenser, Sir John Davies, and
the Defects of Law in the Realm of Ireland - D. Alan Orr
Davies's Astraea and Other Contexts of the Countess of Pembroke's "A Dialogue" - Mary C. Erler
Rival Discourses of Dancing in Early Modern England - Skiles Howard
Sir John Davies - T. S. Eliot
Sir John Davies: More Than A Poet - Dave Horne
| Samuel Daniel
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Sonnet Literature: Sidney, Spenser, Drayton, Daniel - Richard Firestone [.pdf - ff. p194]
Samuel Daniel and Edification - Gregory Kneidel
Ecphrasis and reading practices in Elizabethan narrative verse - Kelly A. Quinn
Samuel Daniel's gifts of books to Lord Chancellor Egerton - John Pitcher
"The English Masque" - Felix E. Schelling
C. S. Lewis on Daniel's Delia
C. S. Lewis on Daniel and Drayton
Hannay on Daniel
Caught Between "virtue" and "memorie": Providential and Political Historiography
in Samuel Daniel's The Civil Wars - Alzada Tipton
Amazon Reflections in the Jacobean Queen's Masque - Kathryn Schwarz
The Form and Cadence of Samuel Daniel's Sonnets - Emily Lu Pearson
On Delia - John Erskine
| Michael Drayton
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Sonnet Literature: Sidney, Spenser, Drayton, Daniel - Richard Firestone [.pdf - ff. p194]
Ecphrasis and reading practices in Elizabethan narrative verse - Kelly A. Quinn
Schelling on Drayton
C. S. Lewis on Drayton's Idea
C. S. Lewis on Daniel and Drayton
The Changing Moods of Michael Drayton's Sonnets - Emily Lu Pearson
Michael Drayton and the Writing of Jacobean Britain - Tristan Marshall
The Politics of Fairylore in Early Modern English Literature - Marjorie Swann
The Sonnets of Michael Drayton - Lemuel Whitaker, 1904.
Elton's Michael Drayton; a Critical Study, 1905 - GB
Sonnet into Epigram: Michael Drayton's Shifting Priorities from
Ideas Mirrour (1594) to Idea. In Sixtie Three Sonnets (1619) - Christopher Lane
Excerpts from Hardin's Michael Drayton and the Passing of Elizabethan England, 1973
Michael Drayton and his "Idea's Mirror" - The Gentleman's Magazine, 1907
The History Never Written: Bards, Druids, and the Problem of Antiquarianism in 'Poly Olbion.' - John E. Curran, Jr.
Explication of "How Many Paltry Foolish Painted Things" - Caitlin Jafolla
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"Bastard Children of Tyranny": The Ancient Constitution and
Fulke Greville's A Dedication to Sir Philip Sidney - Peter C. Herman
Fulke Greville's Caelica and the Calvinist Self - Elaine Y. L. Ho
Fulke Greville's Caelica LVIII - G. A. Wilkes
The Chorus Sacerdotum in Fulke Greville's Mustapha - G. A. Wilkes
The Counsel of Fulke Greville: Transforming the Jacobean "nourish father"
Through Sidney's "nursing father" - Elizabeth A. Spiller
The "mannes state" of Philip Sidney: Pre-scripting the Life of the Poet in England - Kevin Pask
The Earl of Essex, Fulke Greville, and the Employment of Scholars - Paul E. J. Hammer
'Pleasing vices': Machiavelli and Greville on Princely Conduct - William R. Drennan
Fulke Greville and Proportional Form - Tom W. N. Parker
'Divided and Distinguished Worlds': Greville's Religious Poetry - Donald Mackenzie
"The Uncanny Stranger on Display": The Female Body in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Love Poetry - M. Baker
The Pleasures of Restraint: the Mean of Coyness in Cavalier poetry - Joshua Scodel
Greville's Caelica 2: The Mistress as Virgin/Whore - Anniina Jokinen
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Remembering Orpheus in the poems of Aemilia Lanyer - Kari Boyd McBride
"Fast ti'd unto them in a golden Chaine": Typology, Apocalypse, and Woman's Genealogy
in Aemilia Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum - Marie H. Loughlin
A Woman with Saint Peter's Keys?: Aemilia Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum
and the Priestly Gifts of Women
Prophecy and Gendered Mourning in Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum - Elizabeth M. A. Hodgson
An Apology for Knowledge: Gender and the Hermeneutics of Incarnation in the Works of
Aemilia Lanyer and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz - B. R. Siegfried
Breaking "the rule of Cortezia": Aemilia Lanyer's Dedications to Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum - Lisa Schnell
Writing in service: sexual politics and class position in the poetry of Aemilia Lanyer and Ben Jonson - A. B. Coiro
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