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| King James VI & I (1566-1625)
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King James and the Union - Bryan Bevan
The accession of King James I and English religious poetry - James Doelman
Assessing Cultural Influence: James I as Patron of the Arts - Leeds Barroll
James VI& I - Jenny Wormald
Macbeth, King James and the Witches - Edward H. Thompson
The 'Candie-souldier,' Venice, and James VI's advice on monarchic dress in 'Basilicon Doron - Daniel Fischlin
 The Stewarts: An Historical Essay - Russ Jimeson
| Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626)
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Lancelot Andrewes' Doctrine of the Incarnation - Rev. Davidson R. Morse [.pdf]
Writings of English Cathedral Clergy, 1600-1700: I. Devotional Literature and Sermons - Stanford Lehmberg
'The Feast in the Text,' Lancelot Andrewes on the task and art of preaching - David A. deSilva
Lancelot Andrewes and Language - Peter E. McCullough
An introduction to The Preces Privatae of Lancelot Andrewes - F. E. Brightman
Bishop Andrewes' Sermons - James Bowling Mozley
The Pulpit - George Philip Krapp
Lancelot Andrewes, Plagiarism, and Pedagogy at Hampton Court in 1606 - P. J. Klemp
Preaching pastor versus custodian of order: Donne, Andrewes, and the Jacobean church - Daniel W. Doerksen
Lancelot Andrewes and Prayer - Dr Marianne Dorman
Andrewes' and English Catholics' Response to Cranmer's Prayer Books of 1549 and 1552 - Dr Marianne Dorman [pdf]
Andrewes and the Caroline Divines' Teaching on the Blessed Virgin Mary - Dr Marianne Dorman [pdf]
Lancelot Andrewes—Prelate, Preacher, Pastor - Dr Marianne Dorman [pdf]
The Preces Privatae of Lancelot Andrewes: A Spiritual and Devotional Classic - Joel Stephen Williams
Vox Piscis: or The Book-Fish: Providence and the Uses of the Reformation Past in Caroline Cambridge - Alexandra Walsham
| John Donne (1572-1631)
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 Donne's "dialogue of one" - Paul Dean
Religious criticism, the verse epistle, and Donne's daring discretion - Gregory Kneidel
Madrigal mystery tour - Ian Irvine
John Donne - T. S. Eliot
Criticism by Terry G. Sherwood
Criticism by A. Alvarez
John Donne's strategies for discreet preaching - Marla Hoffman Lunderberg
Alchemical augmentation and primordial fire in Donne's "The Dissolution" - Roberta Albrecht
Spenser, Donne, and the Theology of Joy - Adam Potkay
The Erotology of Donne's "Extasie" and the Secret History of Voluptuous Rationalism - Catherine Gimelli Martin
John Donne and Music: Paths to an Opera - Chris Jarrett
Poetry as Language Presentation: John Donne, Poet, Preacher, Craftsman - Anca Rosu
Elizabethan Precursors of Donne's Divine Meditations - William L. Stull
Emergence of the Rakish Character in 17th-century Literature - Diss. by Julia A. Bowen [.pdf]
John Donne: Bulimic Bore? - Veronica Chater
The Metaphysical Sonnets of John Donne and Mikolaj Sep Szarzynski: A Comparison - Magdalena Kay 
In the Person of Womankind: Female Persona Poems by Campion, Donne, Jonson - Pamela Coren
Writings of English Cathedral Clergy, 1600-1700: I. Devotional Literature and Sermons - Stanford Lehmberg
Jonson and Carew on Donne: Censure into Praise - John Lyon
Heaven's Net: The Meeting of John Donne and Johannes Kepler - Jeremy Bernstein
Completing the Conversation: Donne and Lady Mary Wroth - Maureen Quilligan
Donne's "Elegy 19": the busk between a pair of bodies - Sandy Feinstein
The meaning of "rage" in "The Canonization" - Rodney Stenning Edgecombe
"Lines which circles do contain": circles, the cross, and Donne's dialectic scheme of salvation - Alan Fischler
John Donne and the Baroque Doubt - Kathleen Raine
John Donne and Elizabethan economic theory - Coburn Freer
Can't buy me love: money, gender, and colonialism in Donne's erotic verse - Shankar Raman
Love, Poetry, and John Donne in the Love Poetry of John Donne - R. V. Young
The Religious Poetry of John Donne - Helen Gardner
Talking to a Silent God: Donne's Holy Sonnets and the Via Negativa - Lawrence Beaston
John Donne and Scholarly Melancholy - Trevor Douglas
Severed Hair from Donne to Pope - Erik Gray
The "press and the fire": print and manuscript culture in Donne's circle - Richard B. Wollman
Donne, The Rainbow, and The Lady of the Camellias - Rodney Stenning Edgecombe
Donne's Body - Nancy Selleck
'Hebdomada Mortium': the structure of Donne's last sermon - Jonquil Bevan
Preaching pastor versus custodian of order: Donne, Andrewes, and the Jacobean church - Daniel W. Doerksen
John Donne the Divine and Mundane - Yoshiko Fujito
"miserrimum dictu": Donne's Epitaph for his Wife - M. Thomas Hester
Donne and the Court of Wards - M. Thomas Hester
The Titles/Headings of Donne's English Epigrams - M. Thomas Hester
Moses, Dante, and the Visio Dei of Donne's "Going to Bed" - Raymond-Jean Frontain
Donne's Imperfect Resurrection - Raymond-Jean Frontain
The Plot of Donne's Anniversaries - James Andrew Clark
The Act of Preaching and the Art of Prophesying - Bryan Crockett
Donne's Atomies and Anatomies: Deconstructed Bodies and
the Resurrection of Atomic Theory - David A. Hedrich Hirsch
Love "Elemented" in John Donne's "Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" - Edgar S. Laird
Gold in the Washes: Donne's Last Going Into Germany - Jeffrey Johnson
An Occasion for John Donne's 'The Lamentations of Jeremy' - William B. Hunter
Theology and Spirituality: Notes on the Mystical Christology of John Donne - Mark A. Mcintosh
Plato in John Donne's 'The Good Morrow' - Christopher S. Nassaar
Memory, Reason, and the Quest for Certainty in the Sermons of John Donne - Elizabeth Tebeaux
The 'Well Wrought Urne' as Competitive Trope - Ceri Sullivan
"Forget the Hee and Shee": Gender and Play in John Donne - Susannah B. Mintz
"In whom love wrought new Alchimie": The Inversion of Christian Spiritual
Resurrection in "A nocturnall upon S. Lucies day" - Mary E. Zimmer
Radical Donne: "Satire III" - Richard Strier
A History of Donne's "Canonization" from Izaak Walton to Cleanth Brooks - Dayton Haskin
Depicting Lesbian Desire: Contexts for John Donne's 'Sapho to Philaenis' - C. Annette Grise
'Batter My [Flaming] Heart': Male Masochism in the Religious Lyrics of Donne and Crashaw - Lisa S. Starks
John Donne, Richard Crashaw, and the Mystery of God's Grace - R. V. Young
Under the Sign of Donne - Judith Scherer Herz
Love'sRefinement: Metaphysical Expressions of Desire in Philip Sidney and John Donne - Daniel Philip Knauss
Colon and Semi-Colon in Donne's Prose Letters: Practice and Principle - Emma L. Roth-Schwartz
Donne, Herbert, and the Worm of Controversy - Louis L. Martz
W[illiam] S[hakespeare]'s A Funeral Elegy and the Donnean Moment - Claude J. Summers
John Donne's "Lamentations" and Christopher Fetherstone's Lamentations.... - Ted-Larry Pebworth
"The strangest pageant, fashion'd like a court": John Donne and Ben Jonson to 1600 - William F. Blissett
"I launch at paradise, and saile toward home" : The Progresse of the Soule as Palinode - Wyman H. Herendeen
"I haue often such a sickly inclination": Biography and the Critical Interpretation
of Donne's Suicide Tract, Biathanatos - R. G. Siemens
"Witness this Booke, (thy Emblem)": Donne's Holy Sonnets and Biography - Diana Treviño Benet
Trumpet Vibrations: Theological Reflections on Donne's Doomsday Sonnet - G. Richmond Bridge
Britten and Donne: Holy Sonnets Set to Music - Bryan N. S. Gooch
Dr. Donne & Sir Edmund Gosse - Jeremy Bernstein
Rhetoric in English Baroque Literature - Rolf Lessenich
Oral Sex: A Theme in Donne and Some Cavalier Poets - Prof. David Renaker
A Quick and Rough Explication of Donne's Holy Sonnet 10: Death Be Not Proud - Anniina Jokinen
John Donne and the "Anthropomorphic Map" Tradition - Noam Flinker
Two Examples of Poetic Parallelism between John Donne and Lope de Vega - Jesús Cora
The Circle of Souls in John Donne's "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning" - Cynthia A. Cavanaugh
Teaching in the School of Donne: Metaphysical Poetry and English Composition - Steven Marx
'Let them sleepe': Donne's personal allusion in 'Holy Sonnet IV.' - M. Thomas Hester
Cunning elements: water, fire, and sacramental poetics in 'I am a little world.' - Theresa M. Di Pasquale
Carew's response to Jonson and Donne - Scott Nixon
John Donne's Use of Space - Lisa Gorton
Evidence of Dialectical Disputatio in Early Modern Manuscript Culture - Margaret Downs-Gamble
Empson on Donne
Explication of Holy Sonnet 14 - Craig Payne
Explication of Holy Sonnet 18 - Paul R. Rovang
Explication of Devotion 14 - Meenakshi Venkatasubramanian
Explication of Elegy 8, "The Comparison" - Gregory Machacek
Explication of "The Sunne Rising" - M. E. Rickey
Explication of "The Indifferent" - Gregory Machacek
Explication of "The Ecstasy" - Stephen Farmer
Explication of "Nocturnal Upon S. Lucy's Day" - Rodney Stenning Edgecombe
Explication of "To his Mistress Going to Bed" ll.33-35 - Robert H. Ray
The exemplification of love through the use of geometric conceits
in the poetic works of Donne, Vaughan, Marvell and Herbert - Natalie Sparke
Donne’s Sermons: His (Un)Reason from the Renaissance Episteme - Clarissa Lee Ai Ling
Galvanized, Erotic Love Refined: An Explication of John Donne's "The Ecstasy" - Ken Thompson
Political and Social Criticism in "The Calme" by John Donne - John De Stefano
Views of Death in Donne’s Poetry - Antonio S. Oliver
The Petrarchan Tradition and the Female Object in Donne's Songs and Sonets - Sylvie Crane
Societal Discourse in the Poetry of John Donne - Jon Etter
The Cultural Politics of John Donne: A Bibliographic Essay - Patricia Webb
On Donne's "Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day" - Susan Siferd
John Donne and the Tradition of English Literature - Bill Morgan
Donne and Metaphor in A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning - William Ames
Love and Gender in the Poetry of John Donne - John Larson
Religion and Politics in Satyre III - Bryan Herek
Companion Poems: Donne's "To His Mistris Going to Bed" & Hope's "The Elegy" - Kaye Anfield
Conceits in "The Flea" - Kaye Anfield
The Love Poetry of John Donne - Ian Mackean
| Ben Jonson (1572-1637)
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A "double Portion of his Father's Art": Congreve, Dryden, Jonson
and the Drama of Theatrical Succession - Harold Weber
The Alchemist and the Emerging Adult Private Playhouse - Anthony J. Ouellette
The Poet of Labor: Authorship and Property in the Work of Ben Jonson - Bruce Thomas Boehrer
Jonson's Masque Markets and Problems of Literary Ownership - Alison V. Scott
Troping prostitution: Jonson and "The Court Pucell" - Victoria E. Price
Performing Devotion in The Masque of Blacknesse - Molly Murray
The Trickster-figure in Jacobean City Comedy - William R. Dynes
"The English Masque" - Felix E.Schelling
Jonson and Carew on Donne: Censure into Praise - John Lyon
A Study of Ben Jonson - Algernon Charles Swinburne
The Poetry of Ben Jonson - G. A. E. Parfitt
Tradition and Ben Jonson - L. C. Knights
The Tone of Ben Jonson's Poetry - Geoffrey Walton
Ben Jonson's Poetry: Pastoral, Georgic, Epigram - Harris Friedberg
Jonson the Master: Stones Well Squared - Fred Inglis
The Prose of Poets: Ben Jonson - Francis Thompson
Ben Jonson's 'Civil Savages.' - Rebecca Ann Bach
The Progress of Trickster in Ben Jonson's "Volpone" - Don Beecher
Liberty and History in Jonson's Invitation to Supper - Robert Cummings
Horatian satire in Jonson's "On the Famous Voyage" - Bruce Boehrer
"Things like truths, well feigned": mimesis and secrecy in Jonson's Epicoene - Reuben Sanchez
The Puritan Dialectic of Law and Grace in Bartholomew Fair - Ian McAdam
The Widow Hunt on the Tudor-Stuart Stage - Ira Clark
"Honesty and vulgar praise": the Poet's War and the literary field - Edward Gieskes
Jonson's Volpone and Dante - Christopher Baker and Richard Hart
The classical context of Ben Jonson's "other youth" - Bruce Boehrer
Disorder in the house of God: disrupted worship in Shakespeare and others - Bruce Boehrer
Marketing Luxury at the New Exchange: Jonson's Entertainment at Britain's Burse and the Rhetoric of Wonder - Alison V. Scott
Appropriating and Attributing the Supernatural in the Early Modern Country House Poem - A. D. Cousins and R. J. Webb
"On forfeit of your selves, think nothing true": Self-Deception in Ben Jonson's Epicoene - J. A. Jackson
Ben Jonson's Beastly Comedy: Outfoxing the Critics, Gulling the Audience in Volpone - Clifford Davis
In Changèd Shapes: The Two Jonsons' Volpones and Textual Editing - Karen Pirnie
"In his gold I shine": Jacobean Comedy and the Art of the Mediating Trickster - Alizon Brunning
"Powdered with Golden Rain": The Myth of Danae in Early Modern Drama - Julie Sanders
In the Person of Womankind: Female Persona Poems by Campion, Donne, Jonson - Pamela Coren
Ben Jonson and the 'Traditio Basiorum': Catullan imitation in 'The Forrest' 5 and 6 - Bruce Boehrer
Restoring Astraea: Jonson's masque for the fall of Somerset - Martin Butler and David Lindley
The Setting of "Volpone" - Ralph A. Cohen
Ben Jonson's 'On My First Son' and the common prayer catechism - Jonquil Bevan
"Volpone"and the Old Comedy - P. H. Davison
Microhistory and Cultural Geography: Ben Jonson's "To Sir Robert Wroth" and the Absorption of Local Community in the Commonwealth - Martin Elsky
Masculine silence: 'Epicoene' and Jonsonian stylistics - Douglas Lanier
The Performing Heir in Jonson's Jacobean Masques - Jean E. Graham
Pirating Spain: Jonson's commendatory poetry and the translation of empire - Barbara Fuchs
Jonson and the neo-Classical rules in 'Sejanus' and 'Volpone.' - David Faley-Hills
"Man to man": self-fashioning in Jonson's "To William Pembroke" - William Kolbrener
Unity of Theme in "Volpone" - Dorothy E. Litt
Ben Jonson's Poems: Notes on the Ordered Society - Hugh MacLean
Volpone's "sport" and the structure of Jonson's 'Volpone.' - James D. Redwine, Jr.
The appropriation of pleasure in 'The Magnetic Lady.' - Helen Ostovich
'Bartholomew Fair' and Jonsonian tolerance - G.M. Pinciss
Refashioning society in Ben Jonson's 'Epicoene.' - Marjorie Swann
Jonson's Every Man Out and commentators on Terence - Matthew Steggle
Afterlife: Jonson's "To the Memory... of Shakespeare" - Crystal Bartolovich
Ben Jonson's Head - Jeffrey Masten
Explication of a part of The Alchemist - Nathan Cervo
Amazon Reflections in the Jacobean Queen's Masque - Kathryn Schwarz
Thomas Hobbes in Ben Jonson's 'The King's Entertainment at Welbeck.' - A. P. Martinich
Literature as Equipment for Living: Ben Jonson and the Poetics of Patronage - Robert C. Evans
Erasmus's 'Beggar Talk' and Jonson's Alchemist - Eric Sterling and Robert C. Evans
Fane on Jonson and Shakespeare - Joseph T. Roy, Jr., and Robert C. Evans
'I Exscribe Your Sonnets': Jonson and Lady Mary Wroth - R.E. Pritchard
'A silenc'st bricke-layer': an allusion to Ben Jonson in Thomas Middleton's 'Masque.' - Jerzy Limon
Collaborating with the forebear: Dryden's reception of Ben Jonson - Jennifer Brady
The pleasures of restraint: the mean of coyness in Cavalier poetry - Joshua Scodel
From Common Wealth to Commonwealth: the Alchemy of "To Penshurst" - Hugh Jenkins
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? Reinterpreting Formalism and the Country House Poem - Heather Dubrow
Jonson's Stoic Politics: Lipsius, the Greeks, and the "Speach According to Horace" - Robert C. Evans
The Rhetoric of Place in Ben Jonson's 'Chorographical' Entertainments and Masques - Thomas Worden
'Wardrobe Stuffe': Clothes, Costume and the Politics of Dress in Ben Jonson's The New Inn - Julie Sanders
Some Uses for Romance: Shakespeare's Cymbeline and Jonson's The New Inn - Andrew Stewart
The Problem in the Middle: Liminality in the Jonsonian Masque - Gregory A. Wilson
The Law versus the Marketplace: Spontaneous Order in Jonson's Bartholomew Fair - Paul A. Cantor .pdf
Poetomachia and The Early Jonson: The Aesthetics of Topical Satire - David Cope
Cross Dressing with a Difference: The Roaring Girl and Epicoene - David Cope
"By Lucan driv'n about": A Jonsonian Marvell's Lucanic Milton - Andrew Shifflett
Jonson at the Fair: A Playwright's Career in Review - David Reinheimer
Jonson and the Classics - Stephen Dailly
Ben Jonson Unmasked - Kathleen A. Prendergast
Jonson, Translation, and Horatian Lyric - Daniel Hooley
Ben Jonson: Volpone and The Alchemist - Roy Underwood
Ben Jonson y Cervantes - Yumiko Yamada
Ben Jonson and Cervantes - Yumiko Yamada
Ben Jonson and His Folio - Clifford Stetner
Ben Jonson and The First Folio - W. Lansdown Goldsworthy
Jonson, Marlowe, and Epigram 77 - John Baker
Beauty and the Beast : Images of Whiteness and Blackness. From Jonson's The Masque of Blackness (1605) to
Richard Brome's The English Moor, or The Mock-Marriage (1637) - Athéna Efstathiou-Lavabre
Jonson's Romish Foxe: Anti-Catholic Discourse in Volpone - Alizon Brunning
"The strangest pageant, fashion'd like a court": John Donne and Ben Jonson to 1600 -- Parallel Lives - William F. Blissett
"But Worth pretends": Discovering Jonsonian Masque in Lady Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus - Anita M. Hagerman
Jonson and the Motives of Print - Richmond Barbour
Revaluating Ben Jonson - Laurence Raw
Volpone: The Art of Deception - Miranda Johnson-Haddad
Clockwork Comedy: Time and The Alchemist - Ian Donaldson
Imagining Alchemists and Magicians in New Atlantis, The Tempest, and The Alchemist - David Hurley
Writing in service: sexual politics and class position in the poetry of Aemilia Lanyer and Ben Jonson - Ann Baynes Coiro
Carew's response to Jonson and Donne - Scott Nixon
The (Self)-Fashioning of Ezekiel Edgworth in Jonson's Bartholomew Fair - Jean MacIntyre
"On the Famous Voyage": Ben Jonson and Civic Space - Andrew McRae
Marking his Place: Ben Jonson's Punctuation - Sara van den Berg
T. S. Eliot's 1920 essay on Ben Jonson
Epicoene's Cosmetic Contingencies - Mary Elizabeth Brooks and Jenna Henshaw Sharp
The Women of Ben Jonson - John Cornett
Volpone and Stage Androgyny in the English Renaissance - Celeste Collins
"Native Dyes": Race and Politics in the Jacobean Masque - Weidner & Walravens
"There are no accidents" : Ben Jonson's construction of "Poet" - Joshua Messer
Volpone: Jonson's experimentation with Comedy - Michael Williams
Antitheatricalism in Light of Ben Jonson's Volpone - Joel Culpepper
Shakespeare's Othello Compared to Jonson's Volpone - Jason
| Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
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Islomania? Insularity? The myth of the island in British science fiction - Paul Kincaid
Bacon and the politics of the prudential imagination - Todd Butler
Humanism and the Scientific Revolution: Bacon's Rejection of Aristotle - Stephen Varvis
The Clue to the Labyrinth: Francis Bacon and the Decryption of Nature - Peter Pesic
The Bell & The Buzzer: On the Meaning of Science - Peter Pesic
"Pruning by study": Self-cultivation in Bacon's Essays - John J. Miller
Design Argument in Scientific Discourse: Historical-Theological
Perspective from the Seventeenth Century - John C. Hutchison
Bacon, Shakspere, and the Rosicrucians - Manly P. Hall
Francis Bacon's Theory of Communication and Media - Eric McLuhan
In Defense of Bacon - Alan Soble
Describing Machiavel: How Bacon Adapted Machiavelli - David Hurley
Magi Imaginationis: Imagining Alchemists and Magicians in
New Atlantis, The Tempest, and The Alchemist - David Hurley
"Janus of Imagination": Francis Bacon's Theory of Imagination
and the Wisdom of the Ancients - David Hurley
The Utopian Tradition: New Atlantis - Pierre Passerau
Francis Bacon's God - Stephen A. McKnight
Bacon and the Rose Cross - James Phinney Baxter
Bacon's Shadow - Terence Kealey
A Fictitious Bacon (response to Kealey) - Pete Langman
Navigating Bacon's New Atlantis - Pete Langman [.pdf]
No Place and New Worlds: The Early Modern Utopia - Chloë Houston [.pdf]
Francis Bacon and the True Ends of Skepticism - Barbara Friedberg
Bacon, Brought Home. (philosophy of Francis Bacon about natural world) - Stephen Jay Gould
Francis Bacon's Theory of Communication and Media - Eric McLuhan
Francis Bacon's "Verulamium" - Harvey Wheeler
Francis Bacon's Case of the Post-Nati: (1608) - Harvey Wheeler
Francis Bacon & Secret Societies - Michael Taylor
Essays on the Nothumberland Manuscripts - Martin Pares
| Thomas Dekker (1572?-1632)
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Patient Grissil and Jonsonian Satire - Tom Rutter
Whose Saint Crispin's day is it?: Shoemaking, holiday making, and
the politics of memory in early modern England - Alison A. Chapman
The Trickster-figure in Jacobean City Comedy - William R. Dynes
Thomas Dekker - Algernon Charles Swinburne
On Marston, Chapman, Deckar, Webster - William Hazlitt
Excerpt from Thomas Dekker and the Traditions of English Drama - Larry S. Champion
The Social and Moral Philosophy of Thomas Dekker - George E. Thornton
Interrogating the devil: social and demonic pressure in The Witch of Edmonton - David Nicol
Performing cross-class clandestine marriage in The Shoemaker's Holiday - Amy L. Smith
Performing historicity in Dekker's The Shoemaker's Holiday - Brian Walsh
Marking difference and national identity in Dekker's The Shoemaker's Holiday - Andrew Fleck
"Honesty and vulgar praise": the Poet's War and the literary field - Edward Gieskes
'The Cittie is in an uproare': Staging London in The Booke of Sir Thomas More - Tracey Hill
Political allegory in late Elizabethan and early Jacobean "Turk" plays: Lust's Dominion and The Turke - Claire Jowitt
'The Noble Spanish Soldier' and 'The Spanish Contract.' - Tirthankar Bose
Naming and Social Disintegration in "The Witch of Edmonton" - Richard W. Grinnell
Bethlem and Bridewell in The Honest Whore plays - Ken Jackson
Identifying Dekker's Third King in The Whore of Babylon - Susan E. Krantz
Gender and Eloquence in Dekker's The Honest Whore, Part II - Viviana Comensoli
Play-making, Domestic Conduct, and the Multiple Plot in The Roaring Girl - Viviana Comensoli
Women in Men's Clothing: Apparel and Social Stability in The Roaring Girl - Mary Beth Rose
Rehabilitating Moll's Subversion in The Roaring Girl - Jane Baston
The Shoemakers' Holiday, or the Gentle Craft - James H. Conover
Workshop and/as Playhouse: Comedy and Commerce in The Shoemaker's Holiday - David Scott Kastan
Dekker's Use of Serious Elements in Comedy: The Shoemakers' Holiday - Peggy Faye Shirley
The End(s) of Discord in The Shoemaker's Holiday - Martha Straznicky
Vulcan and Mars in The Shoemaker's Holiday - Michael Baird Saenger
Civic Institutions and Precarious Masculinity in Dekker's The Honest Whore - Jean E. Howard
Cross Dressing with a Difference: The Roaring Girl and Epicoene - David Cope
Thomas Dekker: Selections from Two Pamphlets - David Cope .doc
Thomas Dekker's political commentary in 'The Whore of Babylon.' - Susan E. Krantz
Civic Institutions and Precarious Masculinity in Dekker's The Honest Whore - Jean E. Howard
The Shoemaker's Holiday: Bridging Joy and Suffering - Ace G. Pilkington
The Shoemaker's Holiday: A Dramatic Parable - Michael Flachmann
Who is Having Sex in The Roaring Girl? - John Cornett
Capitalism as Gendered Discourse in Honest Whore (1604) and Chaste Maid of Cheapside (1613) - Lea K. Allen
Crossdressing in The Roaring Girl: The Issues - Helen Hull
Clothing and Society in Dekker and Middleton's The Roaring Girl - Megan S. at Oklahoma State U.
| John Webster (?1580-1625)
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"An headlesse Ladie" and "a horses loade of heades": writing the beheading - Patricia Palmer
The White Devil and Old Wives' Tales - Judith Weil
The Crux in A Cure for A Cuckold: A Cryptic Message, A Doubtful Intention,
and Two Dearest Friends - David Carnegie and Macd. P. Jackson
John Webster, James Shirley, and the Melbourne manuscript - MacD. P. Jackson
John Webster's handbook of model letters: a study in attribution - Charles R. Forker
The severed hand in Webster's Duchess of Malfi - Albert H. Tricomi
"Ears prejudicate" in Mariam and Duchess of Malfi - Reina Green
"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
Patientia Regina: Patience as Character from the Morality Play to Jacobean Tragedy - Mark Sandona
Arbella Stuart, Catherine of Valois, and The Duchess of Malfi: An Examination of
Women, Marriage, and Widowhood in Jacobean England - Nanci Lamb Roider
An Italian Werewolf in London: Lycanthropy and The Duchess of Malfi - Brett D. Hirsch
Religion, Politics, Revenge: The Dead in Renaissance Drama - Thomas Rist
The Part with Ne'er a Bone In't: Webster's Women and the Politics of Speech - Lisa Hopkins
Strategies of Submission: Desdemona, The Duchess, and the Assertion of Desire - Emily C. Bartels
On Marston, Chapman, Deckar, Webster - William Hazlitt
Desire, Commodification and the Sublimity of the Early Modern English Playwright - Katherine O. Acheson
A Discussion of Morality and Horror in "The Duchess of Malfi" and "Edward II" - Timothy Fox
The Theme of Entrapment in The Duchess of Malfi - Amanda Elizabeth Koh
The Duchess: Victim or Villain? - Amanda Elizabeth Koh
Bosola: Evil or Misled? - Amanda Elizabeth Koh
Reaffirming the Male Ambition in John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi - Scott
Lycanthropy in The Duchess of Malfi - Christina Hart
| Edward, Lord Herbert of Chirbury (1582/3-1648)
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=Student Essay
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Lord Herbert of Cherbury: Sex and Violence - John Carey
"The Virtue and Discipline" of Wrestling with God - John T. Shawcross
The Unsteady Crown: The State of the Monarchy in Edward Herbert's Poetry of Politics - Anne B. Mangum
| Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
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Appropriating and Attributing the Supernatural in the Early Modern Country House Poem - A. D. Cousins and R. J. Webb
"This Poetick Liturgie": Robert Herrick's Ceremonial Mode - A. Leigh Deneef
Robert Herrick's Fathers - Roger B. Rollin
Robert Herrick and the Makings of 'Hesperides.' - Randall Ingram
Herrick among the Goths - Russell Fraser
Herrick and the Ceremony of Mirth - H. R. Swardson
Carew and Herrick - Charles Neaves
Robert Herrick, the Human Figure, and the English Mannerist Aesthetic - L. E. Semler
The Politics of Fairylore in Early Modern English Literature - Marjorie Swann
"The Uncanny Stranger on Display": The Female Body in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Love Poetry - Moira P. Baker
Marriage, celibacy, and ritual in Robert Herrick's'Hesperides' - Marjorie Swann
False Visions in Hesperides - Julia D. Chaffe
Carpe Diem: Seizing the Day in Herrick's "To the Virgins" and Marvell's "Coy Mistress" - Karen Ransom
Rhyme in "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" - Kaye Anfield
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George Herbert (1593-1633)
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=Student Essay
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The Roman steps to the temple: an examination of the influence
of Robert Southwell, SJ, upon George Herbert - Gary M. Bouchard
George Herbert's approach to God: The faith and spirituality of a country priest - William G. Witt
Criticism by W. H. Auden
Criticism by T. S. Eliot
Criticism by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Criticism by William Empson
Criticism by L. C. Knights
George Herbert's Poetry - Russell Fraser
The Temple in Herbert's Temple - Grant Garber
Anamorphosis and the religious subject of George Herbert's "Coloss. 3.3." - Eric B. Song
"To be thy praise, / and be my salvation": the double function of praise in The Temple - Margaret J. Oakes
Intimacy and the Body in Seventeenth-Century Religious Devotion - James M. Bromley 
George Herbert's approach to God: The faith and spirituality of a country priest - William G. Witt
'Full of all knowledg': George Herbert's Country Parson and Early Modern Social Discourse - Eric Josef Carlson
George Herbert and the architecture of Anglican worship - Clifford Davidson
Discourse and direction: 'A Priest to the Temple, or, the Country Parson' and
the elaboration of sovereign rule - Douglas J. Swartz
The audience shift in George Herbert's poetry - Bruce A. Johnson
To love the strife': George Herbert's Struggle for his Poetry - Bruce A. Johnson
Learning as wine-press in George Herbert's 'The Pearl.' - Kathryn Walls
Unstrung Conversations: Herbert's Negotiations with God - Susannah B. Mintz
George Herbert and Lady Mary Wroth: a root for 'The Flower?' - R. E. Pritchard
Show and tell: George Herbert, Richard Sibbes, and communings with God - Daniel W. Doerksen
Investigating Herbert Criticism - Stanley Stewart
'Me thoughts I heard one calling, child!': Herbert's 'The Collar' - John R. Roberts
The Political Design of Herbert's Temple - Esther Gilman Richey
The Calling: George Herbert, R. S. Thomas and the Vocations of Priest and Poet - William J. McGill
George Herbert: 'The Best Love' - Anthony Low
Herbert and the Real Presence - R. V. Young
George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, and the conversion of the Jews - Nabil I. Matar
Writings of English Cathedral Clergy, 1600-1700: I. Devotional Literature and Sermons - Stanford Lehmberg
Brief Analysis of Herbert's Conceit of The Pulley - Mickey Wadia
Donne, Herbert, and the Worm of Controversy - Louis L. Martz
The Dwelling-place of God: The Significance of Structure in The Temple - Dr. Lillian Myers
Herbert's Proverbial Ministry - Paul Moon
"How shall I measure out thy bloud?", or, "Weening is not measure":
TACT, Herbert, and Sacramental Devotion in the Electronic Temple - Robert Whalen
Christ as the philosopher's stone in George Herbert's 'The Elixir.' - Clarence H. Miller
"Betwixt this world and that of grace": George Herbert's potential spaces - Julia Guernsey
Affliction and Flight in Herbert's Poetry - P.G. Stanwood
Puritan Utopia in Herbert's Poetry - Paul Moon
Herbert's Outlandish Proverbs - Paul Moon
George Herbert's Vision of Stuart Magistracy - Jeffrey Powers-Beck
Evidence of Dialectical Disputatio in Early Modern Manuscript Culture - Margaret Downs-Gamble
Christian Allegory in the Seventeenth Century: A Comparison of
George Herbert and John Bunyan - Rebecca Branham Dimon
George Herbert and the Crisis of the Church - Stephen F. Noll
George Herbert: Country Parson - Stephen F. Noll
Explication on Herbert's 'Prayer I.' - Robert H. Ray
Explication of Herbert's "The Collar" - Roy Neil Graves
Explication of Herbert's "A True Hymn" - Paul McCann
Explication of Herbert's 'The Thanksgiving.' - John Vanderslice
Explication of Herbert's "Deniall", "Jordan" I & II, and "A Wreath" - Roberta Albrecht
The exemplification of love through the use of geometric conceits
in Donne, Vaughan, Marvell and Herbert - Natalie Sparke
On Herbert's "The Collar" - Susan Siferd
Conceits in "Jordan II" - Kaye Anfield
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Lady Mary Wroth (1587?-1651?)
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"Injoying of true joye the most, and best": desire and the sonnet
sequences of Lady Mary Wroth and Adrienne Rich - Madeline Bassnett
Love, Death and Resurrection in Tragicomedies by Seventeenth-Century English Women Dramatists - Marguèrite Corporaal
Mary Wroth's Poetics of the Self - Nona Fienberg
The Sage Felicia and the Grave Melissea: Diana of George of Montemayor, An Inspiration for Wroth's
Defense of Women in Urania - Sharon Rose Yang
Pastoral, Temperance, and the Unitary Self in Wroth's Urania - Amelia Zurcher Sandy
Constructing a City of Ladies - Margaret P. Hannay
The Passion Signified: Imitation and the Construction of Emotions in Sidney and Wroth - Jacqueline T. Miller
"Watch, Gaze, and Marke": The Poetry of Mary Wroth - Gary F. Waller
Completing the Conversation: Donne and Lady Mary Wroth - Maureen Quilligan
George Herbert and Lady Mary Wroth: a root for 'The Flower?' - R. E. Pritchard
'I Exscribe Your Sonnets': Jonson and Lady Mary Wroth - R.E. Pritchard
"The Wreck of Order" in Early Modern Women's Drama - Irene Burgess
“Here is a sport will well befit this time and place”: allusion and delusion in Mary Wroth’s Love’s Victory - Marion Wynne-Davies
"But Worth pretends": Discovering Jonsonian Masque in Lady Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus - Anita M. Hagerman
The labyrinth as style in 'Pamphilia to Amphilanthus' - Mary Moore
Transgressing Boundaries: Women's Writing in the Renaissance and Reformation - Janet Clare
Gender and Genre in the Sonnet Sequences of Philip Sidney and Mary Wroth - Jennifer Laws
Lady Mary Wroth: An Overdetermined Self Manifested in Writing - Carolyn Campbell
Twisting Typical Gender: The Androgynous Speaker in the Poems of Lady Mary Wroth - Gabriel Sanchez
Lady Mary Wroth: Autonomy From the Traditional Role of Woman - Katharine Emerson
The Disturbing Lady Mary Wroth - Jason M. Swarts
| Thomas Carew (1594-1640)
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"The English Masque" - Felix E. Schelling
The Strategy of Carew's Wit - Bruce King
Carew and Herrick - Charles Neaves
Thomas Carew: The Cavalier World - Louis L. Martz
The Poetry of Thomas Carew - G. A. E. Parfitt
Carew's Monarchy of Wit - Diana Benet
Jonson and Carew on Donne: Censure into Praise - John Lyon
Appropriating and Attributing the Supernatural in the Early Modern Country House Poem - A. D. Cousins and R. J. Webb
Two Versions of the Funeral Elegy: Henry King's "The Exequy" and Thomas Carew's "... Elegie Upon ... Donne" - Antoon Van Velzen
Carew's Funerary Poetry and the Paradox of Sincerity - James Fitzmaurice
Self-Presentation in Carew's 'To A. L. Perswasions to Love' - Renée Hannaford
'My Unwashed Muse': Sexual Play and Sociability in Carew's 'A Rapture' - Renée Hannaford
Carew's 'A Rapture': The Dynamics of Fantasy -
'Wee, of th' adult'rate mixture not complaine': Thomas Carew and Poetic Hybridity - Reid Barbour
'Deare Ben,''Great DONNE,' and 'my Celia,': The Wit of Carew's Poetry - Ada Long and Hugh MacLean
Carew's response to Jonson and Donne - Scott Nixon
Oral Sex: A Theme in Donne and Some Cavalier Poets - Prof. David Renaker
Rejecting the mean in Carew's "Mediocritie in love rejected" - Philip Priestley
| Richard Crashaw (1613-1649)
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The religious epigram in early Stuart England - James Doelman
Intimacy and the Body in Seventeenth-Century Religious Devotion - James M. Bromley
Richard Crashaw - Edmund Gosse
Crashaw and Marvell - George MacDonald
'Batter My [Flaming] Heart': Male Masochism in the Religious Lyrics of Donne and Crashaw - Lisa S. Starks
John Donne, Richard Crashaw, and the Mystery of God's Grace - R. V. Young
The Crashavian Mother - Susannah B. Mintz
| Henry Vaughan (1621-1695)
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Essay on the Life and Writings of Henry Vaughan, Silurist - Alexander B. Grosart
George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, and the Conversion of the Jews - Nabil I. Matar
A Mount of Vision—Henry Vaughan - George MacDonald
The Sign of the Rose: Vaughan, Rilke, Celan - Shimon Sandbank
"The Virtue and Discipline" of Wrestling with God - John T. Shawcross
The Poisoned Grove. Henry Vaughan: the Grove Recovered - P. W. Thomas
The exemplification of love through the use of geometric conceits in the poetic works of Donne, Vaughan, Marvell and Herbert - Natalie Sparke
Emblems, Style, and Metaphor in Vaughan - Jen Fela, et al.
| Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)
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Andrew Marvell and the 'Painter Satires': A Computational Approach to Their Authorship - John Burrows
On Andrew Marvell - T. S. Eliot, 1921
Marvell and Milton's literary friendship reconsidered - John McWilliams
Crashaw and Marvell - George MacDonald
Appropriating and Attributing the Supernatural in the Early Modern Country House Poem - A. D. Cousins and R. J. Webb
Representing Cromwell: Marvell's Wiser Art - Bruce Lawson
Reversible Space, Linear Time: Andrew Marvell's Bermudas - Catherine Gimelli Martin
Marvell's Dialogized Nymph - Daniel Jaeckle
Quarles, Waller, Marvell, and the Instruments of State - Robert Wilcher
"By Lucan driv'n about": A Jonsonian Marvell's Lucanic Milton - Andrew Shifflett
Marvell's 'To His Coy Mistress' and Sandys's translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses - Robert H. Ray
Feminizing Vision: Andrew Marvell and Female Prophecy - Rachel Trubowitz
The Slain Deer and Political Imperium: As You Like It and Andrew Marvell's "Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Fawn" - Chris Fitter
Marvell's metamorphic 'Fleckno' - Joan Hartwig
The Persuasion of the Coy Mistress - Robert W. Halli, Jr.
The Balance of Power in Marvell's "Horatian Ode." - Thomas M. Greene
England Deflowered and Unmanned: The Sexual Image of Politics in Marvell's "Last Instructions." - Barbara Riebling
Lady State's First Two Sittings: Marvell's Satiric Canon. - Annabel Patterson
Speaking and silent women in Upon Appleton House - Sarah Monette
Preserving Property: History, Genealogy, and Inheritancein "Upon Appleton House." - Brian Patton
The Nature of Marvell's Mower - Linda Anderson
Cohesion as Logic: The Possible Worlds of Marvell's "To his Coy Mistress" - Jeffrey W. Karon
Imaging Social Languages in Marvell's The Last Instructions -Daniel P. Jaeckle
Sacred Violence in Marvell's "Horatian Ode" - Thad Bower
Marvell's Nymph Complaining' as Historical Allegory - Yvonne L. Sandstroem
L'Etre intedu Paysage et le Paysage Spéculaire : Rêveries Fusionnelles dans les Poèmes d'Andrew Marvell - Gilles Sambras
The Poisoned Grove: Marvell and Lovelace in Retreat - P. W. Thomas
Marvell's Horatian Ode - Brooks/Warren
The Exemplification of love through the use of geometric conceits in the poetic works of Donne, Vaughan, Marvell and Herbert - Natalie Sparke
Now and Then: The Conceptualization of Time in "To His Coy Mistress" - Linda Nguyen
Carpe Diem: Seizing the Day in Herrick's "To the Virgins" and Marvell's "Coy Mistress" - Karen Ransom
Politics and Poetry in Andrew Marvell's "An Horation Ode" - Debbie Wechselblatt-Cranford
Marvell's "The Gallery" vs. Gray's "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College" - Michael Wells
Marvell and Nun Appleton House - Angela C. Caraway
Troublemaking Interpretations: Bush and Brooks on "Horation Ode" - Chris McGee
Marvell: How Noble in Reason - Anon.
Carpe poem: Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" - John Larson
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John Milton (1608-1674) |
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Please see Milton Essays
| Sir John Suckling (1609-1642)
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John Suckling's Semi-Serious Love Poetry - Michael H. Markel
'At Bottom a Criticism of Life': Suckling and the Poetry of Low Seriousness - Thomas Clayton
Traditions of Précieux and Libertinin Suckling's Poetry - Fletcher Orpin Henderson
The Canon of Sir John Suckling's Poems - L. A.Beaurline
The Pleasures of Restraint: the Mean of Coyness in Cavalier Poetry - Joshua Scodel
| Richard Lovelace (1618-1657)
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Another Look at 'Amyntor's Grove': Pastoral and Patronage in Lovelace's Poem - Dosia Reichardt
Reading the light in Lovelace's 'The Grasshopper' -Dale B. J. Randall
The Poisoned Grove: Marvell and Lovelace in Retreat - P. W. Thomas
| Francis Beaumont (1584-1616)
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Anatomizing the Body Politic: Corporeal Rhetoric in The Maid's Tragedy - Jason R. Denman
Cross-dressing, Gender, and Absolutism in the Beaumont and Fletcher Plays - Peter Berek
How to Look at a Hermaphrodite in Early Modern England - Jenny C. Mann
Unraveling Beaumont from Fletcher with Music, Misogyny, and Masque - Catherine A. Henze
How Music Matters: Some Songs of Robert Johnson in the Plays of Beaumont and Fletcher - Catherine A. Henze
"The English Masque" - Felix E.Schelling
Staging the Feminine Performance of Desire: Masochism in The Maid's Tragedy - Christina Leon Alfar
Masque Influence on the Dramaturgy of Beaumont and Fletcher - Suzanne Gossett
The Citizens in Philaster: Their Function and Significance - Adkins
The High Design of A King and No King - Arthur Mizener
The Political Appeal of Beaumont and Fletcher's 'A King and No King' on the Restoration Stage - Stephan P. Flores
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John Fletcher (1579-1625)
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Anatomizing the Body Politic: Corporeal Rhetoric in The Maid's Tragedy - Jason R. Denman
Moorish dancing in the Two Noble Kinsmen - Sujata Iyengar
Cross-dressing, Gender, and Absolutism in the Beaumont and Fletcher Plays - Peter Berek
Unraveling Beaumont from Fletcher with Music, Misogyny, and Masque - Catherine A. Henze
How Music Matters: Some Songs of Robert Johnson in the Plays of Beaumont and Fletcher - Catherine A. Henze
Staging the Feminine Performance of Desire: Masochism in "The Maid's Tragedy" - Christina Leon Alfar
Sex Averted or Converted: Sexuality and Tragicomic Genre in the Plays of Fletcher - Verna A. Foster
Distinguishing Shakespeare from Fletcher Through Function Words - Thomas B. Horton
Colonialism, Politics, and Romanization in John Fletcher's Bonduca - Claire Jowitt
John Fletcher's Response to the Gender Debate: The Woman's Prize and The Taming of the Shrew - Molly Easo Smith
Ben Jonson's Head - Jeffrey Masten
Phrase lengths in 'Henry VIII' Shakespeare and Fletcher - Tony Kline
The analogous qualities of The Two Noble Kinsmen and Masque of The Inner Temple and Grey's Inn - Noel R. Blincoe
The persistent 'Kinsmen' of Shakespeare and Fletcher - Hugh M. Richmond
Masque Influence on the Dramaturgy of Beaumont and Fletcher - Suzanne Gossett
The Citizens in Philaster: Their Function and Significance - Adkins
The High Design of A King and No King - Arthur Mizener
The Political Appeal of Beaumont and Fletcher's 'A King and No King' on the Restoration Stage - Stephan P. Flores
Fletcher'sThe Tragedie of Bonduca and the Anxieties of the Masculine Government of James I - Julie Crawford
| Edmund Waller (1606-1687)
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Edmund Waller, English Precieux - Thomas Kaminski
Quarles, Waller, Marvell, and the Instruments of State - Robert Wilcher
Edmund Waller's Sacred Poems - Richard Hillyer
| Abraham Cowley (1618-1667)
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"The eternal now": Virgilian Echoes and Miltonic Premonitions in Cowley's Davideis - Sue Starke
Abraham Cowley - Geoffrey Walton
Saul and the Social Contract: Constructions of 1 Samuel 8-11 in Cowley's'Davideis' and Defoe's 'Jure Divino.' - Michael Austin
Epic Warfare in Cowley and Milton - D.M. Rosenberg
Truth Is Truest Poetry: The Influence of the New Philosophy on Abraham Cowley - Robert B. Hinman
Discordia Concors, Decorum, and Cowley - Harvey D. Goldstein
The Epic Reticence of Abraham Cowley - Timothy Dykstal
Cowley's 'Pindarique Odes' and the Politics of the Inter-regnum - Stella P. Revard
| Dorothy Osborne (1627-1695)
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Epistolary, Audience, Selfhood: The Letters of Dorothy Osborne to William Temple - Sara Crangle [PDF]
| Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673)
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Performance, Performativity, and Identity in Margaret Cavendish's The Convent of Pleasure - Katherine R. Kellett
The irregular aesthetic of The Blazing-World - Angus Fletcher
Genre's "Phantastical Garb": The Fashion of Form in Margaret Cavendish's Natures Pictures Drawn by Fancies Pencil to the Life - Emily Smith
Female Spectacle as Liberation in Margaret Cavendish's Plays - Joyce Devlin Mosher
Concocting the world's olio: Margaret Cavendish and continental influence - Sara H. Mendelson
Mad Science Beyond Flattery:
The Correspondence of Margaret Cavendish and Constantijn Huygens - Nadine Akkerman
Happy Families and Learned Ladies:
Margaret Cavendish, William Cavendish, and their onstage academy debate - Alexandra Bennett
Playing with Religion: Convents, Cloisters, Martyrdom, and Vows - Erna Kelly
Fighting the Kingdom of Faction in Bell in Campo - Oddvar Holmesland
Crime and Context in The Unnatural Tragedy - Lisa Hopkins
The Intellectual and Literary Courtship of Margaret Cavendish - James Fitzmaurice
Defects Redressed: Margaret Cavendish Aspires to Motley - Lesley Peterson
The City of Chance, or, Margaret Cavendish's Theory of Radical Symmetry - B. R. Siegfried
"My Spirits long to wander in the Air...": Spirits and Souls in Margaret Cavendish's Fiction between Early Modern Philosophy and Cyber Theory - Miriam Wallraven
"I hate such an old-fashioned House": Margaret Cavendish and the search for home - Alison Findlay
An Empowering Wit and an "Unnatural" Tragedy: Margaret Cavendish's Representation of the Tragic Female Voice - Marguérite Corporaal
Gender Subversion in the Science of Margaret Cavendish - Lisa Walters
The First Duchess of Newcastle and her Husband as Figures in Literary History - Henry Ten Eyck Perry
Romancing Multiplicity: Female Subjectivity and the Body Divisible in Margaret Cavendish's Blazing World - Geraldine Wagner
Constructing a City of Ladies - Margaret P. Hannay
Pure Resistance: Queer(y)ing Virginity in Measure for Measure and The Convent of Pleasure - Theodora A. Jankowski
Margaret Cavendish and the Female Satirist - Mihoko Suzuki
Warrior Women in the Plays of Cavendish and Killigrew - Karen L. Raber
Surface and Interiority: Self-Creation in Margaret Cavendish's The Claspe - Jennifer Low
"Plainarid Vulgarly Express'd": Margaret Cavendish and the Discourse of the New Science - Richard Nate
The Mechanist-vitalist soul of Margaret Cavendish - Jay Stevenson
Reading the Stage: Margaret Cavendish and Commonwealth Closet Drama - Marta Stranznicky
Margaret Cavendish and the Romance of Contract - Victoria Kahn
Providence, Fortune, and Gender in Margaret Cavendish’s Life of William Cavendish and
Lucy Hutchinson’s Life of John Hutchinson - Stephanie Sleeper
The Politics of Feminine Retreat in Margaret Cavendish’s The Female Academy and The Convent of Pleasure - Hero Chalmers
Margaret Cavendish among the Prophets: Performance Ideologies and Gender in and After the English Civil War - Sue Wiseman
“The Play is ready to be Acted”: women and dramatic production, 1570–1670 - Findlay, et al.
Dismantling the Myth of “Mad Madge”: the cultural context of Margaret Cavendish’sauthorial self-presentation - Hero Chalmers
Longing for Ambrosia: Margaret Cavendish and the torment of a restless mind in Poems, and Fancies - Elaine Walker
Front Matter and the Physical Make-up of Natures Pictures - James Fitzmaurice
Heavens Library and Natures Pictures: Platonic paradigms and trial by genre - Emma L. E. Rees
Imperial Dreams? Margaret Cavendish and the Cult of Elizabeth - Claire Jowitt
“Here’s no design, no plot, nor any ground”: the drama of Margaret Cavendish and the disorderly woman - Andrew Hiscock
In Dialogue with Thomas Hobbes: Margaret Cavendish’s natural philosophy - Sarah Hutton
Margaret Cavendish's Dramatic Utopias and the Politics of Gender - Erin Lang Bonin
Utopian Bliss in Margaret Cavendish’s “The Description of a New World,
Called the Blazing World” and Sir Thomas More’s Utopia - Emily Cho
The Construction of Female Relationships in the Works of Margaret Cavendish - Lora Davies
| James Shirley (1596-1666)
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John Webster, James Shirley, and the Melbourne manuscript - MacD. P. Jackson
"Powdered with Golden Rain": The Myth of Danae in Early Modern Drama - Julie Sanders
"The English Masque" - Felix E.Schelling
Swinburne on Shirley
The Poisoned Grove: James Shirley & the Portuguese Ambassador - P. W. Thomas
Too Theatrical? Female Subjectivity in Caroline and Interregnum Drama -Sophie Eliza Tomlinson
| Francis Quarles (1592-1644)
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Quarles, Waller, Marvell, and the Instruments of State - Robert Wilcher
On Quarles' The New Distemper, 1645 - Lawrence Helm
| Thomas Middleton (c.1580-1627)
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The Secular Morality of Middleton's City Comedies - Derek B. Alwes
The Character of Credit and the Problem of Belief in Middleton's City Comedies - Aaron Kitch
If Women Should Beware Women, Bianca Should Beware Mother - Richard A. Levin
Space, Violence, and Bodies in Middleton and Cary - Jennifer L. Heller
Middleton, 'The Revenger's Tragedy,' and crisis literature - Brian Jay Corrigan
The Trickster-figure in Jacobean City Comedy - William R. Dynes
Bethlem and Bridewell in the Honest Whore Plays - Ken Jackson
The Mother as Bawd in The Revenger's Tragedy and A Mad World, My Masters - Jennifer Panek
The Widow Hunt on the Tudor-Stuart Stage - Ira Clark
The School of the World: Trading on Wit in Middleton's Trick to Catch the Old One - Eric Leonidas
Beggary/Buggery and Oedipal Conflict in Thomas Middleton's The Phoenix - Patrick J. Cook
Middleton and Rowley's The Changeling - Joost Daalder, Antony Telford Moore
The"[Un]Reclaymed Frome" of Middleton's A Trick to Catch the Old One - D.B. Mount
Middleton's Women Beware Women and the Mothering Principle - Lisa Hopkins
Art and Nature in Women Beware Women - Lisa Hopkins
A Yorkshire Tragedy and Middleton's Tragic Aesthetic - Lisa Hopkins
"The City Cannot Hold You": Social Conversion in the Goldsmith's Shop - Janelle Day Jenstad
Comedy, Carnival, and Class: A Chaste Maid in Cheapside - Rick Bowers
Realism, Desire and Reification: Thomas Middleton's A Chaste Maid in Cheapside - Pier Paolo Frassinelli
"O, how my offences wrestle with my repentance!": The Protestant Poetics
of Redemption in Thomas Middleton's A Chaste Maid in Cheapside - Alizon Brunning
"[B]egot between tirewomen and tailors": Commodified Self-Fashioning in Michaelmas Term - Mathew Martin
Cross Dressing with a Difference: The Roaring Girl and Epicoene - David Cope
Rehabilitating Moll's Subversion in The Roaring Girl - Jane Baston
'A silenc'st bricke-layer': an allusion to Ben Jonson in Thomas Middleton's 'Masque.' - Jerzy Limon
Play-making, Domestic Conduct, and the Multiple Plot in The Roaring Girl - Viviana Comensoli
Women in Men's Clothing: Apparel and Social Stability in The Roaring Girl - Mary Beth Rose
Civic Institutions and Precarious Masculinity in Dekker's The Honest Whore - Jean E. Howard
Revenge and Revengers, in Hamlet and Middleton's The Revenger's Tragedy - Heron McConnell
Crossdressing in The Roaring Girl: The Issues - Helen Hull
Clothing and Society in Dekker and Middleton's The Roaring Girl - Megan S. at Oklahoma State U.
Selling Cherries, Buying Water; Reworking Female Sexual Economics in
Thomas Middleton’s "A Chaste Maid in Cheapside" - Kirsten C. Uszkalo
"Women must have their longings, or they die": Capitalism as Gendered Discourse
in Honest Whore (1604) and Chaste Maid of Cheapside (1613) - Lea K. Allen
Thomas Middleton's Women Beware Women - Robert Boyd
"Native Dyes": Race and Politics in the Jacobean Masque - Weidner & Walravens
| Philip Massinger (1583-1640)
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The Trickster-figure in Jacobean City Comedy - William R. Dynes
The Widow Hunt on the Tudor-Stuart Stage - Ira Clark
The Renegade in English Seventeenth-century Imagination - N.I. Matar
The Distinctive Voice of Massinger - Anne Barton
Contemporary Politics in Massinger - Allen Gross
Massinger the Censor - Philip Edwards
Massinger's Men and Women - Philip Edwards
Verbal Formulae in the Plays of Philip Massinger - Cyrus Hoy
The Significance of Massinger's Social Comedies, with a Note on 'Decadence' - L. C. Knights
A New Way to Pay Old Debts: Massinger's Grim Comedy
The Moral Tone of Massinger's Dramas - A. L. Bennett
Giving and Taking in Massinger's Tragicomedies - Robert Y. Turner
Massinger's Political Tragedies - Douglas Howard
The Roman Actor, censorship, and dramatic autonomy - David A. Reinheimer
The Theme and Structure of The Roman Actor - Peter H. Davidson
Ben Jonson's Head - Jeffrey Masten
Sacred Wood: Philip Massinger - T. S. Eliot
| Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)
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Leviathan Then And Now - Peter Berkowitz
Heavenly Philosophy: What Thomas Hobbes Said to Jean Hampton - Michael Davis
Hobbes on Hypotheses in Natural Philosophy - Frank Horstmann
The Hobbesian Notion of Self-Preservation Concerning Human Behavior During an Insurgency
Leviathan Harpooned: Aware of the Dangers Posed by Judges and the Law,
Thomas Hobbes Offered a Solution - Gary L. McDowell
Milton, Hobbes, and the Liturgical Subject - Timothy Rosendale
Hobbes and the Politics of Prophecy - Kinch Hoekstra
Thomas Hobbes in Ben Jonson's 'The King's Entertainment at Welbeck.' - A. P. Martinich
Paidea and Identity: Meditations on Hobbes and Locke - Bill Uzgalis
Hobbes, Conatusand the Prisoner's Dilemma - Juhani Pietarinen
Thomas Hobbes' Physical Philosophy and its Implications toward the Religious Language of Scripture - Scott David Foutz
Thomas Hobbes and the Invented Tradition of Positivism - James Boyle
The Radical Promise of Thomas Hobbes: The Road not taken in Liberal Theory - James R. Martel
Hobbes and the Democratic Theory of the Rule of Law - David Dyzenhaus
Hobbes: The State of Nature and the "Nature" of the State - Gordon L. Ziniewicz
Hobbes' Challenge - Marcelo Dascal
Hannah Arendt : la signification de la philosophie de Hobbes - Denis Collin (Article in French)
Politica come Philosophia Prima - Bernard Willms (Article in Italian)
Fondamentidi filosofia del linguaggio nella concezione politica di Hobbes - K. M. Kodalle (Article in Italian)
Idue volti del Leviatano - Gunter Meuter (Article in Italian)
La Institution Imaginaria del Leviathan - Omar Astorga (Article in Spanish)
Naturzustand und Naturgesetz bei Thomas Hobbes - Patrick Horvath (Article in German)
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan: Macht und Gesellschaft - Cathleen Bochmann (Article in German)
Aristotelikern Thomas Hobbes - Niklas Olaison (Article in Swedish)
Polgáritársadalom. Civil filozófia: Hobbes - László Farkas János (Article in Hungarian)
Four different facets of Hobbes' natural state - Teruhito Sako
Hobbes and Absolute Sovereignty - Stuart Hopkins
The Contribution of Plato to Political Philosophy and the Search for
the Common Good in Hobbes, De Tocqueville and Marx - Fr. Seamus Mulholland
Preserving Order in Luther and Hobbes - Christy Taylor
Modern Political Thought - Gavin Brownlie
Progression of Society in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Europe - Anon. student
| Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682)
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Rhetoric, Religion, and Politics in Sir Thomas Browne's Religio Medici - Ingo Berensmeyer
The Private Opinions of Sir Thomas Browne - Ronald Huebert
Hydriotaphia,"The sensible rhetorick of the dead" - Adam H. Kitzes
Constructing a Critical Subject in Religio Medici - Samuel Glen Wong
The Problem of Memoria and Virtuoso Sensibility in Sir Thomas Browne's The Garden of Cyrus - Arno Löffler
| Katherine Philips (1632-1664)
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Katherine Philips: Friendship, Poetry and Neo-Platonic Thought in Seventeenth Century England - Mark Llewellyn
Re-configuring Early Modern Friendship: Katherine Philips and Homoerotic Desire - Harriette Andreadis
Reading Pseudonyms in Seventeenth-century English Coterie Literature - Margaret J.M. Ezell
The Pleasures of Restraint: the mean of coyness in Cavalier poetry - Joshua Scodel
The Sapphic-Platonics of Katherine Philips, 1632-1664 - Harriette Andreadis
Matching the 'Matchless Orinda' to Her Times - Kathleen M. Swaim
The Forgotten Legacy of the 'Matchless Orinda' - Lucy Brashear
The Matchless Orinda - Elinor M. Buckingham
Introduction to Poems: 1667 - Travis DuPriest
Two Poems and a Prose Receipt: The Unpublished Juvenalia of Katherine Philips - Claudia Limbert
Manly Sweetness: Katherine Philips among the Neoclassicals - Paula Loscocco
Katherine Philips, Aphra Behn, and the Female Pindaric - Stella P. Revard
Subversive Sexuality: Masking the Erotic in Poems by Katherine Philips and Aphra Behn - Arlene Stiebel
Orinda, Rosania, Lucasia et aliae: Towards a New Edition of the Works of Katherine Philips - Ellen Moody
| Mildmay Fane, 2nd Earl of Westmorland (c.1600-1666)
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'A storm of lamentations writ': Lachrymae Musarum and Royalist Culture After the Civil War - John McWilliams
Fane on Jonson and Shakespeare - Joseph T. Roy, Jr., and Robert C. Evans
| Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
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Isaac Newton, John Locke and God - Theresa Hemsoth
Analytical View of Sir Isaac Newton's Principia (1855) - Henry Lord Brougham and E. J. Routh
An Essay on Newton's "Principia" (1893) - W. W. Rouse Ball
| Thomas Heywood (1573-1641)
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Foul Papers, Promptbooks, and Thomas Heywood's The Captives - James Purkis
Framing Wifely Advice in Thomas Heywood's A Curtaine Lecture and Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale - Kathleen Kalpin
A Sociohistorical Reading of Thomas Heywood's The Fair Maid of the West - Sebnem Kaya
The Crux in A Cure for A Cuckold: A Cryptic Message, A Doubtful Intention,
and Two Dearest Friends - David Carnegie and Macd. P. Jackson
Royal Carnality and Illicit Desire in the English History Plays of the 1590s - Charles R. Forker
Thomas Heywood's The Royall King, and the Loyall Subject and the fall of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex - Kevin Lindberg
A 'Remedy' for Heywood? - M. L. Stapleton
Class categorization, capitalism, and the problem of "gentle" identity
in The Royall King and the Loyall Subject and Eastward Ho! - Theodora A. Jankowski
"Speaking some words, but of no importance"? Stage Directions, Thomas Heywood, and Edward IV - Richard Rowland
'The Cittie is in an uproare': Staging London in The Booke of Sir Thomas More - Tracey Hill
Thomas Heywood and the Cultural Politics of Play Collections - Benedict Scott Robinson
The Widow Hunt on the Tudor-Stuart Stage - Ira Clark
The Craft of Naming in Thomas Heywood's A Woman Killed With Kindness - John Thompson
Reading nascent capitalism in Part II of Heywood's If You Know Not Me, You Know Nobody - Charles W. Crupi
Conceiving Cities: Thomas Heywood's Londini Speculum (1637) and the Making of Civic Identity - William Hardin
Algernon Swinburne on Thomas Heywood
“Pleasing All”: Thomas Heywood’s Preservation of the Bases of Elizabethan Theatre - Ayako Kawanami .pdf
Eavesdropping on the English Renaissance Stage - James Hirsh
Honour, Space and Nationhood: The Case of the Travel Play - Chakabraka.com.pdf
Racial Tension: The Fair Maid of the West - Settevendemie, et al.
| John Ford (1586-1656?)
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The End of the English History Play in Perkin Warbeck - Miles Taylor
Touching Touchets: Perkin Warbeck and the Buggery Statute - Lisa Hopkins
Interrogating the Devil: Social and Demonic Pressure in The Witch of Edmonton - David Nicol
Staging Passion in Ford's The Lover's Melancholy - Lisa Hopkins
Algernon Swinburne on John Ford
Katherine Gordon and the Art of Marriage Brokering in Perkin Warbeck - Corinne Abate
John Ford's Artistic Exploitation of the Sources of Perkin Warbeck - I-Lu TENG .pdf
A Scholar Recants on His 'Shakespeare' Discovery - William S. Niederkorn
Meet the Peters - Richard Abrams
Lecturesde The Lover's Melancholy de John Ford (1629): théâtre et mélancolie - Claire Gheeraert & Athina Lavabre
to Early 17th Century English Literature
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