Christopher Highley
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780199533404
- eISBN:
- 9780191714726
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199533404.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 17th-century and Restoration Literature, 16th-century and Renaissance Literature
This book interrogates standard narratives about national identity in early modern England by examining the ways Catholics from the reign of Mary Tudor to the early 17th century contested and shaped ...
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This book interrogates standard narratives about national identity in early modern England by examining the ways Catholics from the reign of Mary Tudor to the early 17th century contested and shaped discourses of the nation, patriotism, and Englishness. Accused by their opponents of espousing an alien religion, one orchestrated from Rome and sustained by Spain, English Catholics fought back by developing their own self-representations that emphasized how the Catholic faith was an ancient and integral part of true Englishness. After the accession of the Protestant Elizabeth, the Catholic imagining of England was mainly the project of the exiles who had left their homeland in search of religious toleration and foreign assistance. English Catholics constructed narratives of their own religious heritage and identity, however, not only in response to Protestant polemic but also as part of intra-Catholic rivalries that pitted Marian clergy against seminary priests, secular priests against Jesuits, and exiled English Catholics against their co-religionists from other parts of Britain and Ireland. Drawing on recent reassessments of English Catholicism this study foregrounds the faultlines within and between the various Catholic communities of the Atlantic archipelago. The book examines a range of genres, texts, and documents both in print and manuscript, including ecclesiastical histories, polemical treatises, antiquarian tracts, and correspondence. The argument weaves together a rich historical narrative of people, events, and texts while also offering contextualized close readings of specific works by under-studied figures like Edmund Campion, Robert Persons, Thomas Stapleton, and Richard Verstegan.Less
This book interrogates standard narratives about national identity in early modern England by examining the ways Catholics from the reign of Mary Tudor to the early 17th century contested and shaped discourses of the nation, patriotism, and Englishness. Accused by their opponents of espousing an alien religion, one orchestrated from Rome and sustained by Spain, English Catholics fought back by developing their own self-representations that emphasized how the Catholic faith was an ancient and integral part of true Englishness. After the accession of the Protestant Elizabeth, the Catholic imagining of England was mainly the project of the exiles who had left their homeland in search of religious toleration and foreign assistance. English Catholics constructed narratives of their own religious heritage and identity, however, not only in response to Protestant polemic but also as part of intra-Catholic rivalries that pitted Marian clergy against seminary priests, secular priests against Jesuits, and exiled English Catholics against their co-religionists from other parts of Britain and Ireland. Drawing on recent reassessments of English Catholicism this study foregrounds the faultlines within and between the various Catholic communities of the Atlantic archipelago. The book examines a range of genres, texts, and documents both in print and manuscript, including ecclesiastical histories, polemical treatises, antiquarian tracts, and correspondence. The argument weaves together a rich historical narrative of people, events, and texts while also offering contextualized close readings of specific works by under-studied figures like Edmund Campion, Robert Persons, Thomas Stapleton, and Richard Verstegan.
Christopher Highley
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780199533404
- eISBN:
- 9780191714726
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199533404.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, 17th-century and Restoration Literature, 16th-century and Renaissance Literature
English Catholics and Ireland asks how early modern English Catholics of various stripes viewed their co-religionists in Ireland as well as Irish Catholicity generally. Privileged in Medieval English ...
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English Catholics and Ireland asks how early modern English Catholics of various stripes viewed their co-religionists in Ireland as well as Irish Catholicity generally. Privileged in Medieval English Catholic ideology as an Isle of Saints, the status of Ireland and its people was an especially vexed one for English Catholics at a time when Ireland was figured mostly negatively in English representations and when English rule in Ireland was experiencing fierce resistance from insurgents who were beginning to claim the symbols of an Irish Catholic nationalism. Figures and texts examined include Edmund Campion's Historie of Ireland; Richard Stanihurst; the English Catholic rebel in Ireland, Nicholas Sander; Anthony Munday; and Sir John Harington.Less
English Catholics and Ireland asks how early modern English Catholics of various stripes viewed their co-religionists in Ireland as well as Irish Catholicity generally. Privileged in Medieval English Catholic ideology as an Isle of Saints, the status of Ireland and its people was an especially vexed one for English Catholics at a time when Ireland was figured mostly negatively in English representations and when English rule in Ireland was experiencing fierce resistance from insurgents who were beginning to claim the symbols of an Irish Catholic nationalism. Figures and texts examined include Edmund Campion's Historie of Ireland; Richard Stanihurst; the English Catholic rebel in Ireland, Nicholas Sander; Anthony Munday; and Sir John Harington.
Lauren Shohet
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199295890
- eISBN:
- 9780191594311
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199295890.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, 17th-century and Restoration Literature
In seventeenth‐century England, masques inhabited two media, their dramatic occasions consistently delivered into a public culture of reading. This chapter details masques' material circulation in ...
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In seventeenth‐century England, masques inhabited two media, their dramatic occasions consistently delivered into a public culture of reading. This chapter details masques' material circulation in print culture: print and scribal reproduction, provenance, annotations, rights and reprints, marketing as sheet music. While bibliographic attention is crucial, it offers a starting point rather than a terminus for exploring masques' (or any texts') position in their culture. The chapter explores ways that scriptors address readers in the prefaces and margins, drawing examples from masques of Jonson, Campion, Daniel, Chapman, Shirley, William Browne, Thomas Jordan, Middleton/Rowley, and Heywood. It analyzes the hermeneutics of reading in two seventeenth‐century accounts: legal documents surrounding the prosecution of William Prynne, and an essay on the book trade by Newcastle bookseller William London, testing Habermas's theories of the public sphere against these early modern accounts.Less
In seventeenth‐century England, masques inhabited two media, their dramatic occasions consistently delivered into a public culture of reading. This chapter details masques' material circulation in print culture: print and scribal reproduction, provenance, annotations, rights and reprints, marketing as sheet music. While bibliographic attention is crucial, it offers a starting point rather than a terminus for exploring masques' (or any texts') position in their culture. The chapter explores ways that scriptors address readers in the prefaces and margins, drawing examples from masques of Jonson, Campion, Daniel, Chapman, Shirley, William Browne, Thomas Jordan, Middleton/Rowley, and Heywood. It analyzes the hermeneutics of reading in two seventeenth‐century accounts: legal documents surrounding the prosecution of William Prynne, and an essay on the book trade by Newcastle bookseller William London, testing Habermas's theories of the public sphere against these early modern accounts.
Lauren Shohet
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199295890
- eISBN:
- 9780191594311
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199295890.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, 17th-century and Restoration Literature
Chapter 5 traces masques' representations of political alternatives throughout the seventeenth century, masques' prominently varied epistemological investments, and their deployment in creating an ...
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Chapter 5 traces masques' representations of political alternatives throughout the seventeenth century, masques' prominently varied epistemological investments, and their deployment in creating an adaptive theatrical history that spans the full century. Self‐consciously inheriting both the elite dramatic tradition of the court masque and more popular traditions associated with other kinds of masquing, the seventeenth‐century masque engages multiple aspects of public culture. Case studies in masques that taxonomize political alternatives include Campion's royal Caversham entertainment, Middleton and Rowley's public The World Tossed at Tennis, Thomas Jordan's Interregnum Fancy's Festivals, and Anthony Sadler's Restoration Subjects Joy. Case studies exploring how masque sponsors epistemological reflection include Milton's Ludlow masque Comus, Kynaston's Corona Minervae, Nabbes's Microcosmus, and John Sadler's Mascarade du ciel. The chapter closes by tracing how masques, and masque adaptations of earlier plays, attempt to construct an account of English theater across the Stuart, Interregnum, and Restoration eras, when masques persist as a distinctively English form of early opera. Case studies here include Jonson (The Masque of Augurs), Shirley (Cupid and Death, The Triumph of Beauty), John Crown (Calisto), Davenant's Shakespearian adaptations, and Dryden (The Secular Masque).Less
Chapter 5 traces masques' representations of political alternatives throughout the seventeenth century, masques' prominently varied epistemological investments, and their deployment in creating an adaptive theatrical history that spans the full century. Self‐consciously inheriting both the elite dramatic tradition of the court masque and more popular traditions associated with other kinds of masquing, the seventeenth‐century masque engages multiple aspects of public culture. Case studies in masques that taxonomize political alternatives include Campion's royal Caversham entertainment, Middleton and Rowley's public The World Tossed at Tennis, Thomas Jordan's Interregnum Fancy's Festivals, and Anthony Sadler's Restoration Subjects Joy. Case studies exploring how masque sponsors epistemological reflection include Milton's Ludlow masque Comus, Kynaston's Corona Minervae, Nabbes's Microcosmus, and John Sadler's Mascarade du ciel. The chapter closes by tracing how masques, and masque adaptations of earlier plays, attempt to construct an account of English theater across the Stuart, Interregnum, and Restoration eras, when masques persist as a distinctively English form of early opera. Case studies here include Jonson (The Masque of Augurs), Shirley (Cupid and Death, The Triumph of Beauty), John Crown (Calisto), Davenant's Shakespearian adaptations, and Dryden (The Secular Masque).
Brian Cummings
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198187356
- eISBN:
- 9780191674709
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198187356.003.0010
- Subject:
- Literature, 16th-century and Renaissance Literature, 17th-century and Restoration Literature
This chapter explores the religious writing of John Donne, a figure caught in the crossfire between opposing theologies. Donne's writing from the death of Elizabeth to the eve of the English ...
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This chapter explores the religious writing of John Donne, a figure caught in the crossfire between opposing theologies. Donne's writing from the death of Elizabeth to the eve of the English revolution forms a summary and archetype of English religion in its most difficult century. The chapter starts by presenting Donne's Conversion of St Paul. Campion's Brag and Campion's Bloody Reasons are shown. In addition, the noise of the Holy Sonnets is explained. The dating of the Holy Sonnets has undergone the same vicissitudes as the timing of Donne's conversion: the two have moved hand in hand. The chapter also considers Donne's dangerous question. Donne's writing shows the paradox of religion and literary culture in the wake of Reformation.Less
This chapter explores the religious writing of John Donne, a figure caught in the crossfire between opposing theologies. Donne's writing from the death of Elizabeth to the eve of the English revolution forms a summary and archetype of English religion in its most difficult century. The chapter starts by presenting Donne's Conversion of St Paul. Campion's Brag and Campion's Bloody Reasons are shown. In addition, the noise of the Holy Sonnets is explained. The dating of the Holy Sonnets has undergone the same vicissitudes as the timing of Donne's conversion: the two have moved hand in hand. The chapter also considers Donne's dangerous question. Donne's writing shows the paradox of religion and literary culture in the wake of Reformation.
Antoinina Bevan Zlatar
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199604692
- eISBN:
- 9780191729430
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199604692.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History
This chapter discusses five anti-Catholic dialogues, all of which engage explicitly with highly topical issues. A dialogue agaynst the tyrannye of the papistes (1562), attributed to Walter Haddon, ...
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This chapter discusses five anti-Catholic dialogues, all of which engage explicitly with highly topical issues. A dialogue agaynst the tyrannye of the papistes (1562), attributed to Walter Haddon, exploits the massacre of Protestants in France to advocate English support for the Huguenots. In An historical dialogve tovching antichrist and poperie (1589) Thomas Rogers sees divine intervention in the defeat of the Armada and proof of the ‘truth‘ of Protestantism. The chapter argues that John Nicholls's Pilgrimage (1581) and George Gifford's A Dialogue betweene a papist and a protestant (1582) form part of a government‐sponsored media campaign to convict the Jesuit Edmund Campion of treason. Finally, in A conference betwixt a mother…and her son (1600), Francis Savage tackles female Catholic recusancy, the long‐standing bugbear of the government and the bishops. A dextrous deployment of characterization and a plot of failed or successful conversion licenses hard-hitting messages.Less
This chapter discusses five anti-Catholic dialogues, all of which engage explicitly with highly topical issues. A dialogue agaynst the tyrannye of the papistes (1562), attributed to Walter Haddon, exploits the massacre of Protestants in France to advocate English support for the Huguenots. In An historical dialogve tovching antichrist and poperie (1589) Thomas Rogers sees divine intervention in the defeat of the Armada and proof of the ‘truth‘ of Protestantism. The chapter argues that John Nicholls's Pilgrimage (1581) and George Gifford's A Dialogue betweene a papist and a protestant (1582) form part of a government‐sponsored media campaign to convict the Jesuit Edmund Campion of treason. Finally, in A conference betwixt a mother…and her son (1600), Francis Savage tackles female Catholic recusancy, the long‐standing bugbear of the government and the bishops. A dextrous deployment of characterization and a plot of failed or successful conversion licenses hard-hitting messages.
Daniel Karlin
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- December 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780198792352
- eISBN:
- 9780191834363
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198792352.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Poetry, World Literature
The Introduction presents an overview of the topic of street song and summarizes the main chapters of the book. It begins by discussing poems by Robert Herrick and Thomas Campion based on the ...
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The Introduction presents an overview of the topic of street song and summarizes the main chapters of the book. It begins by discussing poems by Robert Herrick and Thomas Campion based on the traditional street-vendor’s cry of ‘Cherry Ripe’ as an example of the way in which writers appropriate street songs for their own purposes, and includes discussions of other images and texts such as Donald Davie’s poem ‘Cherry Ripe’. ‘Cherrie-ripe’ traces an arc from the sixteenth century to the twentieth, encompassing literature, art, music, and social history. It suggests the broad scope of the subject, but although attention is paid to its rich and varied contexts, the focus of this book is on the ways in which street song has found its way into works of literature.Less
The Introduction presents an overview of the topic of street song and summarizes the main chapters of the book. It begins by discussing poems by Robert Herrick and Thomas Campion based on the traditional street-vendor’s cry of ‘Cherry Ripe’ as an example of the way in which writers appropriate street songs for their own purposes, and includes discussions of other images and texts such as Donald Davie’s poem ‘Cherry Ripe’. ‘Cherrie-ripe’ traces an arc from the sixteenth century to the twentieth, encompassing literature, art, music, and social history. It suggests the broad scope of the subject, but although attention is paid to its rich and varied contexts, the focus of this book is on the ways in which street song has found its way into works of literature.
Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781474429948
- eISBN:
- 9781474453561
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474429948.003.0004
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
Jane Campion’s adaptation of Henry James’ 1881 novel The Portrait of a Lady met with mixed reception upon its release in 1996. While scholars continue to view the film in a postcolonial context, ...
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Jane Campion’s adaptation of Henry James’ 1881 novel The Portrait of a Lady met with mixed reception upon its release in 1996. While scholars continue to view the film in a postcolonial context, little attention has been paid to its examinations of settler colonial identity in the wake of the 1992 Mabo decision that served as the first official acknowledgement of Indigenous land rights in Australia. Hailing from New Zealand, but working in Sydney, Campion has often meditated on her own transnational settler status in films such as The Piano(1993) and Holy Smoke!(1999). As the first film Campion made afterMabo, The Portrait of a Lady engages in the process of “backtracking” through Australian history via comparative analysis of its settler colonial characters as they inherit fortunes and form family alliances throughout England and Italy. In addition, it serves as a unique example of a postcolonial adaptation of an American Victorian novel, opening a space for Campion to address the Americanization of Australia’s film industry as Hollywood productions increasingly shoot on location in the nation and Australian talent such as Nicole Kidman continue to transition to Hollywood.Less
Jane Campion’s adaptation of Henry James’ 1881 novel The Portrait of a Lady met with mixed reception upon its release in 1996. While scholars continue to view the film in a postcolonial context, little attention has been paid to its examinations of settler colonial identity in the wake of the 1992 Mabo decision that served as the first official acknowledgement of Indigenous land rights in Australia. Hailing from New Zealand, but working in Sydney, Campion has often meditated on her own transnational settler status in films such as The Piano(1993) and Holy Smoke!(1999). As the first film Campion made afterMabo, The Portrait of a Lady engages in the process of “backtracking” through Australian history via comparative analysis of its settler colonial characters as they inherit fortunes and form family alliances throughout England and Italy. In addition, it serves as a unique example of a postcolonial adaptation of an American Victorian novel, opening a space for Campion to address the Americanization of Australia’s film industry as Hollywood productions increasingly shoot on location in the nation and Australian talent such as Nicole Kidman continue to transition to Hollywood.
Richard Wilson
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719062032
- eISBN:
- 9781781700150
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719062032.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History
The fictionalising of the Lancashire witches had begun even before the trials. If the witches of 1612 were the first example in fact in England of an alleged devilish confederacy, the first example ...
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The fictionalising of the Lancashire witches had begun even before the trials. If the witches of 1612 were the first example in fact in England of an alleged devilish confederacy, the first example in fiction came six years earlier with the most famous witches of all: the ‘weird sisters’ in Shakespeare's 1606 play Macbeth. This chapter shows how far the connections extend, in both historical and literary references. The grisly contents of Macbeth's witches' cooking pot is detected, finding the macabre relics of English Catholic priests, martyred under Elizabeth I. Connections with the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 is established, to which, the activities of the Lancashire witches were compared by Thomas Potts, and whose conspiratorial connections reached into Lancashire. Finally, the manner in which Lancashire's gentry families were implicated in the underworld of persecuted Catholicism is shown, particularly through the mission of the martyred Edmund Campion, suggesting that their mostly Protestant Jacobean descendants sought to show their loyalty to the state by seeking out witches.Less
The fictionalising of the Lancashire witches had begun even before the trials. If the witches of 1612 were the first example in fact in England of an alleged devilish confederacy, the first example in fiction came six years earlier with the most famous witches of all: the ‘weird sisters’ in Shakespeare's 1606 play Macbeth. This chapter shows how far the connections extend, in both historical and literary references. The grisly contents of Macbeth's witches' cooking pot is detected, finding the macabre relics of English Catholic priests, martyred under Elizabeth I. Connections with the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 is established, to which, the activities of the Lancashire witches were compared by Thomas Potts, and whose conspiratorial connections reached into Lancashire. Finally, the manner in which Lancashire's gentry families were implicated in the underworld of persecuted Catholicism is shown, particularly through the mission of the martyred Edmund Campion, suggesting that their mostly Protestant Jacobean descendants sought to show their loyalty to the state by seeking out witches.
Nicholas K. Rademacher
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780823276769
- eISBN:
- 9780823277292
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823276769.003.0006
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
Paul Hanly Furfey realigned his approach to social reform during and after his sabbatical in Germany, questioning now the efficacy of a purely scientific approach. Furfey’s scientific studies in ...
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Paul Hanly Furfey realigned his approach to social reform during and after his sabbatical in Germany, questioning now the efficacy of a purely scientific approach. Furfey’s scientific studies in Germany, the onset of the Great Depression and stirrings of World War II led Furfey to re-evaluate his hypotheses on social reform. His emphasis shifted to a supernatural perspective. Furfey’s progress from optimism in 1931 to a revised approach in 1935 can be traced across three benchmarks: first, his request to study medical science in Germany and his subsequent intellectual conversion while there; second, his report to the rector of CUA upon his return, a report in which Furfey frankly outlined the new directions in his outlook consequent to what he learned while abroad; and, third, his gravitation toward a more determinedly counter-cultural approach to social reform that was inspired, in part, by the Catholic Worker community in New York City. By 1935, Furfey was in the midst of blending these new insights into his already existing theoretical and practical frameworks for promoting social justice.Less
Paul Hanly Furfey realigned his approach to social reform during and after his sabbatical in Germany, questioning now the efficacy of a purely scientific approach. Furfey’s scientific studies in Germany, the onset of the Great Depression and stirrings of World War II led Furfey to re-evaluate his hypotheses on social reform. His emphasis shifted to a supernatural perspective. Furfey’s progress from optimism in 1931 to a revised approach in 1935 can be traced across three benchmarks: first, his request to study medical science in Germany and his subsequent intellectual conversion while there; second, his report to the rector of CUA upon his return, a report in which Furfey frankly outlined the new directions in his outlook consequent to what he learned while abroad; and, third, his gravitation toward a more determinedly counter-cultural approach to social reform that was inspired, in part, by the Catholic Worker community in New York City. By 1935, Furfey was in the midst of blending these new insights into his already existing theoretical and practical frameworks for promoting social justice.
Nicholas K. Rademacher
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780823276769
- eISBN:
- 9780823277292
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823276769.003.0007
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
As department chair, Furfey integrated social justice into the curriculum of the Department of Sociology, analysing scientific research data according to Christian analysis. In this period, Furfey ...
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As department chair, Furfey integrated social justice into the curriculum of the Department of Sociology, analysing scientific research data according to Christian analysis. In this period, Furfey began to interpret the Christian tradition in language approximating non-violent class struggle and sought alternative social reform strategies where spirituality and science would intersect. He cultivated the social and political interests of his students. According to his “Catholic Social Manifesto,” his department would now favor personalistic social action guided by divine grace over political action guided by human prudence. He and his colleauges would pursue nonviolent activism, grounded in love, to promote social change. Nevertheless, they would continue to pursue rigorous scientific research and approach their social justice reform according to the latest standards. Furfey and his colleagues Mary Elizabeth Walsh and Gladys Sellew launched Il Poverello House and later Fides House to explore the intersection of a theologically-informed spirituality with contemporary sociology and social work.Less
As department chair, Furfey integrated social justice into the curriculum of the Department of Sociology, analysing scientific research data according to Christian analysis. In this period, Furfey began to interpret the Christian tradition in language approximating non-violent class struggle and sought alternative social reform strategies where spirituality and science would intersect. He cultivated the social and political interests of his students. According to his “Catholic Social Manifesto,” his department would now favor personalistic social action guided by divine grace over political action guided by human prudence. He and his colleauges would pursue nonviolent activism, grounded in love, to promote social change. Nevertheless, they would continue to pursue rigorous scientific research and approach their social justice reform according to the latest standards. Furfey and his colleagues Mary Elizabeth Walsh and Gladys Sellew launched Il Poverello House and later Fides House to explore the intersection of a theologically-informed spirituality with contemporary sociology and social work.
John Hollander
Kenneth Gross (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780226354279
- eISBN:
- 9780226354309
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226354309.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter examines how shadow in English Renaissance poetry becomes an image of our desires, dreams, and fears, in all their power and uncertainty. He begins with John Donne’s “A Lecture upon the ...
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This chapter examines how shadow in English Renaissance poetry becomes an image of our desires, dreams, and fears, in all their power and uncertainty. He begins with John Donne’s “A Lecture upon the Shadow” and goes on to discuss other love poems, including a group of Shakespeare’s sonnets—with their eerie self-reflections (“millions of strange shadows”) and increasing darkness of desire—as well as lesser-known poems by Thomas Campion, George Chapman, and Samuel Daniel. It discusses how shadows help Renaissance poets explore and map unknown, wished-for worlds, often playing against Plato’s dualism by aligning earthly shadows more closely with their supposed opposite, the realm of things Ideal.Less
This chapter examines how shadow in English Renaissance poetry becomes an image of our desires, dreams, and fears, in all their power and uncertainty. He begins with John Donne’s “A Lecture upon the Shadow” and goes on to discuss other love poems, including a group of Shakespeare’s sonnets—with their eerie self-reflections (“millions of strange shadows”) and increasing darkness of desire—as well as lesser-known poems by Thomas Campion, George Chapman, and Samuel Daniel. It discusses how shadows help Renaissance poets explore and map unknown, wished-for worlds, often playing against Plato’s dualism by aligning earthly shadows more closely with their supposed opposite, the realm of things Ideal.
David M. Bergeron
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781526115461
- eISBN:
- 9781526132390
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9781526115461.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, Shakespeare Studies
This chapter focuses on the elaborate wedding of Elizabeth and Frederick, which took place on 14 February 1613. This account details the entertainments that battened onto this event. Elizabeth was ...
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This chapter focuses on the elaborate wedding of Elizabeth and Frederick, which took place on 14 February 1613. This account details the entertainments that battened onto this event. Elizabeth was the first royal child in decades to marry. The fireworks and sea battle on the Thames between the ‘Christian’ and ‘Turkish’ forces form a colorful part of the celebration. The wedding itself was spectacular, followed in subsequent days by masques by Campion, Chapman, and Beaumont, filling several nights of entertainment. A couple of weeks after the wedding, Elizabeth and Prince Charles requested performances of two plays, one by Marston and the other by Chapman. Elizabeth and Frederick left England in April, making their way to his native Germany. This chapter closes with Queen Anne’s progress entertainments at Bath, Bristol, and Wells.Less
This chapter focuses on the elaborate wedding of Elizabeth and Frederick, which took place on 14 February 1613. This account details the entertainments that battened onto this event. Elizabeth was the first royal child in decades to marry. The fireworks and sea battle on the Thames between the ‘Christian’ and ‘Turkish’ forces form a colorful part of the celebration. The wedding itself was spectacular, followed in subsequent days by masques by Campion, Chapman, and Beaumont, filling several nights of entertainment. A couple of weeks after the wedding, Elizabeth and Prince Charles requested performances of two plays, one by Marston and the other by Chapman. Elizabeth and Frederick left England in April, making their way to his native Germany. This chapter closes with Queen Anne’s progress entertainments at Bath, Bristol, and Wells.
David M. Bergeron
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781526115461
- eISBN:
- 9781526132390
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9781526115461.003.0008
- Subject:
- Literature, Shakespeare Studies
This chapter focuses mainly on the Robert Carr-Frances Howard relationship, her divorce from the Earl of Essex, and subsequent marriage to Carr in an elaborate wedding on 26 December. This marriage ...
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This chapter focuses mainly on the Robert Carr-Frances Howard relationship, her divorce from the Earl of Essex, and subsequent marriage to Carr in an elaborate wedding on 26 December. This marriage solidified the political power of the Howard family. For the wedding, Thomas Campion wrote the first masque, and Jonson wrote two masques. The celebration extended into the City of London in early January with a procession to the Merchant Taylors’ Hall, which included a play, a banquet, a masque by Thomas Middleton, and other entertainments. On 6 January, the court witnessed the performance of Masque of Flowers, financed by Francis Bacon. Only Frances Howard and possibly Carr knew that Thomas Overbury, Carr’s friend, had been murdered in the Tower at her instigation. Not until 1615 did others learn of this plot.Less
This chapter focuses mainly on the Robert Carr-Frances Howard relationship, her divorce from the Earl of Essex, and subsequent marriage to Carr in an elaborate wedding on 26 December. This marriage solidified the political power of the Howard family. For the wedding, Thomas Campion wrote the first masque, and Jonson wrote two masques. The celebration extended into the City of London in early January with a procession to the Merchant Taylors’ Hall, which included a play, a banquet, a masque by Thomas Middleton, and other entertainments. On 6 January, the court witnessed the performance of Masque of Flowers, financed by Francis Bacon. Only Frances Howard and possibly Carr knew that Thomas Overbury, Carr’s friend, had been murdered in the Tower at her instigation. Not until 1615 did others learn of this plot.
Alistair Fox
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781474429443
- eISBN:
- 9781474438438
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474429443.003.0008
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
Through a comparison with Janet Frame’s Autobiography, from which it is adapted, this chapter analyses Jane Campion’s An Angel at My Table as the first New Zealand film to present all three of the ...
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Through a comparison with Janet Frame’s Autobiography, from which it is adapted, this chapter analyses Jane Campion’s An Angel at My Table as the first New Zealand film to present all three of the main maturational phases characteristic of the coming-of-age genre, but as experienced by a Pākehā girl. Identifying the effects of a repressive environment as the source of the emotional stresses that lead the main character, Janet, to be institutionalized for schizophrenia, the discussion shows how she finds respite in fictive creativity and a world of the imagination. It also shows Campion’s personal investment in the story as a displaced representation of her own mother’s fight with mental illness.Less
Through a comparison with Janet Frame’s Autobiography, from which it is adapted, this chapter analyses Jane Campion’s An Angel at My Table as the first New Zealand film to present all three of the main maturational phases characteristic of the coming-of-age genre, but as experienced by a Pākehā girl. Identifying the effects of a repressive environment as the source of the emotional stresses that lead the main character, Janet, to be institutionalized for schizophrenia, the discussion shows how she finds respite in fictive creativity and a world of the imagination. It also shows Campion’s personal investment in the story as a displaced representation of her own mother’s fight with mental illness.
Sander van Maas
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780823264377
- eISBN:
- 9780823266784
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823264377.003.0004
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
This chapter comments on Lawrence Kramer's account of musical address by focusing on interpellation as an explanatory model for listener subjectivation. In particular, it discusses two scenes of ...
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This chapter comments on Lawrence Kramer's account of musical address by focusing on interpellation as an explanatory model for listener subjectivation. In particular, it discusses two scenes of inner devastation in reference to the debate on listening subjectivity. It considers Kramer's analysis of Jane Campion's film version of Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady, the importance of both address and subjectivity in listening, and the role of infinity and negation over against what it sees as an insistence on the finite and positive in Kramer. It distinguishes between finite and infinite interpellation and looks at Orpheus's ascent from Hades as recounted by the neomodernist composer Beat Furrer. The chapter cites Orpheus's turning around (and around) as an illustration of the dark and devastating power of interpellation as an infinite process. It concludes that listening subjectivity always remains behind the one who is interpellated.Less
This chapter comments on Lawrence Kramer's account of musical address by focusing on interpellation as an explanatory model for listener subjectivation. In particular, it discusses two scenes of inner devastation in reference to the debate on listening subjectivity. It considers Kramer's analysis of Jane Campion's film version of Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady, the importance of both address and subjectivity in listening, and the role of infinity and negation over against what it sees as an insistence on the finite and positive in Kramer. It distinguishes between finite and infinite interpellation and looks at Orpheus's ascent from Hades as recounted by the neomodernist composer Beat Furrer. The chapter cites Orpheus's turning around (and around) as an illustration of the dark and devastating power of interpellation as an infinite process. It concludes that listening subjectivity always remains behind the one who is interpellated.
Rosamund Oates
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- March 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780198804802
- eISBN:
- 9780191842948
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198804802.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History, History of Ideas
This chapter explores the creation of conforming Puritanism, a powerful alternative to Presbyterianism in Puritan thought. This strain of Puritanism reconciled the demands of edifying reform with ...
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This chapter explores the creation of conforming Puritanism, a powerful alternative to Presbyterianism in Puritan thought. This strain of Puritanism reconciled the demands of edifying reform with conformity to the Established Church, by proposing a model of godly episcopacy and showing the benefits of conformity. In the 1570s, Matthew—now a key player in Elizabethan Puritanism—argued that ‘edifying reform’ could only be secured in the Established Church. Drawing on arguments about godly magistracy first used in the vestment crisis, Matthew stressed that as part of the Established Church, ministers could rely on magistrates to exercise the monarch’s powers in the Church in order to pursue godly reform. Popularized by increasingly virulent anti-Catholicism, this vision of godly magistracy secured conformity but was potentially seditious.Less
This chapter explores the creation of conforming Puritanism, a powerful alternative to Presbyterianism in Puritan thought. This strain of Puritanism reconciled the demands of edifying reform with conformity to the Established Church, by proposing a model of godly episcopacy and showing the benefits of conformity. In the 1570s, Matthew—now a key player in Elizabethan Puritanism—argued that ‘edifying reform’ could only be secured in the Established Church. Drawing on arguments about godly magistracy first used in the vestment crisis, Matthew stressed that as part of the Established Church, ministers could rely on magistrates to exercise the monarch’s powers in the Church in order to pursue godly reform. Popularized by increasingly virulent anti-Catholicism, this vision of godly magistracy secured conformity but was potentially seditious.
Scott A. Trudell
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- April 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780198834663
- eISBN:
- 9780191874031
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198834663.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, 16th-century and Renaissance Literature, 17th-century and Restoration Literature
Music offered Philip Sidney and his milieu a unique form of communio, both in the sense of remote communication between souls and in the sense of social “community.” In The Defence of Poesy, in the ...
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Music offered Philip Sidney and his milieu a unique form of communio, both in the sense of remote communication between souls and in the sense of social “community.” In The Defence of Poesy, in the eclogues of The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia, and in the sonnet sequence Astrophil and Stella, Sidney envisions an open-ended, experimental mediascape that neither begins nor ends with writing. This interest in media interactivity resurfaces, in turn, in the compositions of William Byrd, Thomas Campion, John Dowland, and others who translated Sidney’s poetry and his musical legacy into the medium of print. After Sidney’s death, print became a means not to oppose or transcend performance but to activate new sites of music making in amateur and household contexts, opening up new forms of collaboration among poets, performers, and composers.Less
Music offered Philip Sidney and his milieu a unique form of communio, both in the sense of remote communication between souls and in the sense of social “community.” In The Defence of Poesy, in the eclogues of The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia, and in the sonnet sequence Astrophil and Stella, Sidney envisions an open-ended, experimental mediascape that neither begins nor ends with writing. This interest in media interactivity resurfaces, in turn, in the compositions of William Byrd, Thomas Campion, John Dowland, and others who translated Sidney’s poetry and his musical legacy into the medium of print. After Sidney’s death, print became a means not to oppose or transcend performance but to activate new sites of music making in amateur and household contexts, opening up new forms of collaboration among poets, performers, and composers.
Peter Lake
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780198753995
- eISBN:
- 9780191815744
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198753995.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History
This chapter introduces the second political conjuncture around which the book is organized, that initiated by the projected match between Elizabeth and the duke of Anjou and perpetuated by the ...
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This chapter introduces the second political conjuncture around which the book is organized, that initiated by the projected match between Elizabeth and the duke of Anjou and perpetuated by the scheme to associate James VI with his mother in the government of Scotland. It traces the central tropes of the libellous secret history through John Stubbs’s Gaping Gulf and finds the same lines of ideological force animating Henry Howard’s response thereto as prompted the crypto-Catholic Marian legitimism described in the previous chapters. Hopes raised by the Anjou match prompted the outbreak of public politicking amongst certain English Catholics, with tragic results. The dashing of those hopes prompted the Throckmorton conspiracy, the regime’s use of which for propaganda purposes, round out the picture of the Elizabethan state’s public response to the ideological challenge represented by Catholic argument and assertion.Less
This chapter introduces the second political conjuncture around which the book is organized, that initiated by the projected match between Elizabeth and the duke of Anjou and perpetuated by the scheme to associate James VI with his mother in the government of Scotland. It traces the central tropes of the libellous secret history through John Stubbs’s Gaping Gulf and finds the same lines of ideological force animating Henry Howard’s response thereto as prompted the crypto-Catholic Marian legitimism described in the previous chapters. Hopes raised by the Anjou match prompted the outbreak of public politicking amongst certain English Catholics, with tragic results. The dashing of those hopes prompted the Throckmorton conspiracy, the regime’s use of which for propaganda purposes, round out the picture of the Elizabethan state’s public response to the ideological challenge represented by Catholic argument and assertion.
