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LLC 16th-Century English

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  • Profile picture of Penelope Geng

    Penelope Geng started the topic CFP MLA LLC 16c English: “Disability Aesthetics in a Premodern Global Context” in the discussion Group logo of LLC 16th-Century EnglishLLC 16th-Century English on MLA Commons 6 days, 5 hours ago

    The MLA LLC Forum for Sixteenth-Century English Literature is sponsoring a guaranteed panel on “Disability Aesthetics in a Premodern Global Context” at the MLA 2024 conference in Philadelphia (4-7 Jan. 2024). We welcome submissions and inquiries from scholars at all career stages.

    Call for Papers: How might we study disability aesthetics alo…[Read more]

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    Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion Group logo of LLC 16th-Century EnglishLLC 16th-Century English on MLA Commons 2 months, 2 weeks ago

    The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2023, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2023. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

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    Jessica Winston started the topic Suggestions Requested: LLC 16th-Century English Forum Executive Committee in the discussion Group logo of LLC 16th-Century EnglishLLC 16th-Century English on MLA Commons 1 year ago

    Dear Members of the LLC 16th-Century English Forum:

    The members of the current Executive Committee for the LLC 16th-Century English Forum invite nominations/suggestions of names of people serve on the Executive Committee. This is a great opportunity to shape panels at MLA and the field generally Please send questions or suggestions to committee…[Read more]

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    Cristina León Alfar deposited Reading Mistress Elizabeth Bourne Marriage, Separation, and Legal Controversies in the group Group logo of LLC 16th-Century EnglishLLC 16th-Century English on MLA Commons 1 year, 11 months ago

    *Reading Mistress Elizabeth Bourne Marriage, Separation, and Legal Controversies,* Edited by Cristina León Alfar and Emily G. Sherwood, Routledge 2021, The Early Modern Englishwoman, 1500-1750: Contemporary Editions. “Reading Mistress Elizabeth Bourne tells the story of Mistress Bourne’s petition for divorce, its resolution, and her ongoing di…[Read more]

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    Sarah Werner deposited Books and Early Modern Culture in the group Group logo of LLC 16th-Century EnglishLLC 16th-Century English on MLA Commons 2 years ago

    The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the history of books by focusing on books and early modern culture. By learning about how books were made and how books were used, students will gain a clearer appreciation of how early modern culture was shaped by and was a shaping force in the development of print culture. The archival…[Read more]

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    Eric Weiskott deposited Meter and Modernity in English Verse, 1350-1650 in the group Group logo of LLC 16th-Century EnglishLLC 16th-Century English on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months ago

    What would English literary history look like if the unit of measure were not the political reign but the poetic tradition? The earliest poems in English were written in alliterative verse, the meter of Beowulf. Alliterative meter preceded tetrameter, which first appeared in the twelfth century, and tetrameter in turn preceded pentameter, the…[Read more]

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    Elizabeth E. Tavares deposited Matisse in the Playhouse in the group Group logo of LLC 16th-Century EnglishLLC 16th-Century English on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months ago

    ON MY WAY TO EAST LONDON from a Shakespeare’s Globe perform- ance in August 2017, I noticed an advertisement in one of the Tube stations. Accompanying the billing for the Royal Academy of Arts’ exhibition, Matisse in the Studio, was a quotation from Henri: “a good actor can have a part in ten different plays; an object can play a role in ten diffe…[Read more]

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    Michael Ullyot deposited Course Outline: Revenge Tragedy in the group Group logo of LLC 16th-Century EnglishLLC 16th-Century English on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months ago

    English 412 is, in its official description, “A survey of drama from 1558 to 1603, including works by William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe.” In this version from 2017, students focused on six revenge tragedies, the blockbuster genre of the Elizabethan theatre: plays filled with bloody violence, elevated rhetoric, and ghosts imploring…[Read more]

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    Penelope Geng deposited Jurisprudence by Aphorisms: Francis Bacon and the “Uses” of Small Forms in the group Group logo of LLC 16th-Century EnglishLLC 16th-Century English on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months ago

    The belief that Francis Bacon was, from the start, a stalwart defender of royal absolutism has prevailed in scholarship despite occasional comments about Bacon’s pluralist or collaborative legal and political imagination. Building on recent revisionist work, this article questions the standard historiography. It argues that Bacon’s jur…[Read more]

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    Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Race and the Epistemologies of Otherness.” chapter 5 of Race by Alexa Alice Joubin and Martin Orkin. New Critical Idiom series (London: Routledge, 2019), pp. 193-227 in the group Group logo of LLC 16th-Century EnglishLLC 16th-Century English on MLA Commons 3 years, 12 months ago

    This chapter examines narratives that reflect the impact of epistemologies of otherness upon our understanding of race. Race intersects with other social factors such as class, cultural citizenship, and gender. This chapter draws on case studies of artists in exile or diaspora who interrogate their own identities, because exile brings racial…[Read more]

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    Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Critical Movements in the group Group logo of LLC 16th-Century EnglishLLC 16th-Century English on MLA Commons 4 years ago

    Using Philip Sidney’s understanding of perfect poesy to examine the poetic worth of More’s “Utopia.”

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    Patricia Akhimie deposited “Bruised with Adversity”: Reading Race in The Comedy of Errors in the group Group logo of LLC 16th-Century EnglishLLC 16th-Century English on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months ago

    “‘Bruised with Adversity’: Reading Race in The Comedy of Errors” examines the role of the body, and of the somatic mark in particular, in the social production of both individual subjects and racial groups. In The Comedy of Errors, two sets of twins experience the benefits as well as the pitfalls of mistaken identity, revealing the ease with which…[Read more]

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    Bradley J. Irish deposited Emotion in the Tudor Court: Literature, History, and Early Modern Feeling (Northwestern UP, 2018) in the group Group logo of LLC 16th-Century EnglishLLC 16th-Century English on MLA Commons 4 years, 8 months ago

    Uniting literary analysis, theories of emotion from the sciences and humanities, and a deeply archival account of Tudor history, Emotion in the Tudor Court freshly examines how literature reflects and constructs the dynamics of emotional life in the Renaissance courtly sphere. Spanning the 16th century — with chapters on Cardinal Thomas Wolsey…[Read more]

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    Marcia T. Eppich-Harris deposited Hubert’s Encounters with the Succession in Shakespeare’s King John in the group Group logo of LLC 16th-Century EnglishLLC 16th-Century English on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months ago

    In a time when the anxiety about Elizabeth I’s heir to the throne was ripe, and illegal to discuss, Shakespeare focuses on the issue of succession in King John, and shows the parallels to his own age, while using Hubert as a metaphor for the difficult position of Shakespeare’s contemporary citizens of England as they anticipate the naming of…[Read more]

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    Bradley J. Irish deposited The Literary Afterlife of the Essex Circle: Fulke Greville, Tacitus, and BL Additional MS 18638 in the group Group logo of LLC 16th-Century EnglishLLC 16th-Century English on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months ago

    The friends, followers, and fans of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, made no small contribution to the world of early modern English letters. This essay contributes to our growing understanding of the Essex circle’s literary afterlife by contextualizing BL Additional MS 18638, an early seventeenth-century manuscript containing a partial English…[Read more]

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    Bradley J. Irish deposited Writing Woodstock: The Prehistory of Richard II and Shakespeare’s Dramatic Method in the group Group logo of LLC 16th-Century EnglishLLC 16th-Century English on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months ago

    In Shakespeare’s Richard II, the dramatic function of Thomas of Woodstock (King Richard’s murdered uncle) has long been a source of contention and confusion. This essay argues that Woodstock’s role in the play cannot be understood without reference to Richard II’s “prehistory”: the complex series of political circumstances and events that predat…[Read more]

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    Bradley J. Irish deposited Vengeance, Variously: Revenge Before Kyd in Early Elizabethan Drama in the group Group logo of LLC 16th-Century EnglishLLC 16th-Century English on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months ago

    Though it is a critical commonplace that English revenge tragedy began with Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy, there has been little systematic discussion of how revenge fared as a dramatic theme before Kyd’s inaugural work. This essay reexamines the importance of revenge in early Elizabethan drama, by broadly surveying its thematic and rhe…[Read more]

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    Bradley J. Irish deposited Gender and Politics in the Henrician Court: The Douglas-Howard Lyrics in the Devonshire Manuscript (BL Add 17492) in the group Group logo of LLC 16th-Century EnglishLLC 16th-Century English on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months ago

    BL Additional MS 17492, the so-called Devonshire Manuscript of Henrician courtly verse, is a prime example of how social and cultural phenomena contributed to early modern manuscript culture. Among the treasures of the Devonshire MS is a series of lyrics that chronicles a fascinating courtly intrigue of the 1530s: the illicit, clandestine marriage…[Read more]

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    Steve Mentz deposited “The Fiend Gives Friendly Counsel”: Laucelot Gobbo and Polyglot Economics in The Merchant of Venice in the group Group logo of LLC 16th-Century EnglishLLC 16th-Century English on MLA Commons 5 years ago

    A focus on Launcelot Gobbo as middleman and unfaithful servant enables an expanded reading of discourses of economics in The Merchant of Venice. In addition to the mercantile modes of Antonio and Shylock, the play also includes a transactional perspective in Launcelot as well as Portia’s fantasy of cornucopia. The chapter is part of Linda…[Read more]

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    Eric Weiskott deposited English Political Prophecy in the Welsh Marches, 1450-1650 in the group Group logo of LLC 16th-Century EnglishLLC 16th-Century English on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month ago

    From the twelfth century to the seventeenth, political prophecy was prominent among English literary genres no less than in English political life. Derived from Welsh poetic tradition via Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Latin History of the Kings of Britain, prophecy reached all social classes. Prophetic texts influenced the decisions of kings, shaped p…[Read more]

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