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Authorship Attribution and the Material Realities of Early Modern Play Texts

ELOPE
The digitization of texts and the advent of big data analyses have transformed our understanding of authorship and collaboration in early modern drama.
Andrej Zavrl
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In Search of the English Sabbat: Popular Conceptions of Witches’ Meetings in Early Modern England

Journal of Early Modern Studies, 2013
This article explores the evidence for belief in the witches’ sabbat in early modern England. England is generally thought of as a country where the concept of the sabbat did not exist, and it was certainly largely absent from elite thinking on ...
James Sharpe
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La Tragédie de l’athée de Cyril Tourneur : une vanité dramatique ?

Etudes Epistémè, 2012
Cyril Tourneur’s The Atheist’s Tragedy : dramatic vanitas ? In seventeenth century Europe a macabre atmosphere permeated everyday life, and more particularly the arts.
Elodie Likhtart
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Tracking the Evolution of the Companionate Marriage Ideal in Early Modern Comedies [PDF]

, 2018
This thesis examines the socially constructed ideal of companionate marriage in Elizabethan and Jacobean England through four dramas by Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton. It probes the question of
Pierce, Madison L
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‘I, Me, Myself’: Selfhood and Melancholy in the Journals of Gertrude Savile (1697–1758)

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the journals of Gertrude Savile from 1727 in light of recent scholarship on early modern and eighteenth‐century melancholy. The concept had myriad associations with medicine, physiology, the imagination, and feeling, but questions remain about how melancholy during this period was considered by those outside the narrow ...
Daniel Beaumont
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Howard Barker’s ‘monstrous assaults’: eroticism, death and the antique text [PDF]

, 2010
Howard Barker is a writer who has made several notable excursions into what he calls ‘the charnel house…of European drama.’ David Ian Rabey has observed that a compelling property of these classical works lies in what he calls ‘the incompleteness of ...
Saunders, Graham
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From Everyman to Hamlet: A Distant Reading

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The sixteenth century sees English drama move from Everyman to Hamlet: from religious to secular subject matter and from personified abstractions to characters bearing proper names. Most modern scholarship has explained this transformation in terms originating in the work of Jacob Burckhardt: concern with religion and a taste for ...
Vladimir Brljak
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'Thou glorious kingdome, thou chiefe of empires': Persia in seventeenth-century travel literature [PDF]

, 2009
Bringing together a range of little-considered materials, this article assesses the portrayal of Persia in seventeenth-century travel literature and drama.
Houston, Chloe
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The Painterly Materiality of Clouds in Antony and Cleopatra and Hamlet

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the cloud‐gazing scenes in Antony and Cleopatra and Hamlet through the lens of early modern artistic theory and material practices, particularly the art of limning. Building upon existing philosophical and poetic interpretations of Shakespearean clouds as metaphors for ephemerality and memory, the essay argues that the ...
Anne‐Valérie Dulac
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Memories of “wretched eminent things” (5.5.113): Remembrance and Posterity in John Webster’s Duchess of Malfi (1613–1614).

XVII-XVIII
One of the key moments of John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi (1613-14) is the writing of the Duchess’s will. On the surface, memory is a state in which princes must consider their own mortality.
Louis André
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