MLA Commons | Scott Oldenburg | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/members/scottoldenburg/activity/ Activity feed for Scott Oldenburg. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:22:50 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 081c729967f255a5b2f991c966a4ccb1 Scott Oldenburg started the topic Tusser watch, August 2022 in the discussion The Thomas Tusser Society https://hcommons.org/groups/the-thomas-tusser-society/forum/topic/tusser-watch-august-2022/ Mon, 22 Aug 2022 21:03:53 -0400 Look out for
Jessica Rosenberg, Botanical Poetics: Early Modern Plant Books and the Husbandry of Print (U. of Pennsylvania Press, 2022)!

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]]> 0 062baa7ffef96fba6819a99f0622f31f Scott Oldenburg's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1791232/ Mon, 22 Aug 2022 20:56:55 -0400 0 f2f559072ad01a121c28103bf6b73cf3 Scott Oldenburg's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1772343/ Fri, 18 Feb 2022 21:06:47 -0500 0 9a32ca61715f64a46ef3ddaa701633b2 Scott Oldenburg's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1742949/ Mon, 21 Jun 2021 20:41:44 -0400 0 e0f0f1bd16168e5863870f38b188d72f Scott Oldenburg wrote a new post Tusser watch June, 2021 in the group The Thomas Tusser Society https://thethomastussersociety.hcommons.org/2021/06/02/tusser-watch-june-2021/ Wed, 02 Jun 2021 18:46:05 -0400 2 new essays dealing with Thomas Tusser:

 

Sørensen, Esben Bøgh. “To be bold of one’s own: agrarian capitalism and household management in Thomas Tusser’s Five Hundred points of good husban […]

]]> 3efb0cafaa9e469902163159cc15a332 Scott Oldenburg created the group The Thomas Tusser Society https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1740099/ Sun, 30 May 2021 16:58:44 -0400 0 473861abd5649e952cc22418ee972598 Scott Oldenburg created the site The Thomas Tusser Society https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1740095/ Sun, 30 May 2021 16:45:48 -0400 0 16fc103bd4a1f96591a9615040fa2139 Scott Oldenburg deposited A Weaver-Poet and the Plague: Labor, Poverty and the Household in Shakespeare's London in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1740070/ Sun, 30 May 2021 02:24:46 -0400 William Muggins, an impoverished but highly literate weaver-poet, lived and wrote in London at the turn of the seventeenth century, when few of his contemporaries could even read. A Weaver-Poet and the Plague’s microhistorical approach uses Muggins’s life and writing, in which he articulates a radical vision of a commonwealth founded on labor and…[Read more]

]]> 0 16fc103bd4a1f96591a9615040fa2139 Scott Oldenburg deposited A Weaver-Poet and the Plague: Labor, Poverty and the Household in Shakespeare's London in the group EMoDiR (Early Modern Religious Dissents and Radicalism) https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1740069/ Sun, 30 May 2021 02:24:46 -0400 William Muggins, an impoverished but highly literate weaver-poet, lived and wrote in London at the turn of the seventeenth century, when few of his contemporaries could even read. A Weaver-Poet and the Plague’s microhistorical approach uses Muggins’s life and writing, in which he articulates a radical vision of a commonwealth founded on labor and…[Read more]

]]> 0 01742dc2409d5e75fe95ac33dbae8fe0 Scott Oldenburg deposited The Tempest and Race in New Orleans in the group Shakespeare https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1740068/ Sun, 30 May 2021 02:24:43 -0400 This article examines The Tempest in light of artists’ renderings of the play in New Orleans, reflecting on anti-Black racism in Shakespeare’s play and in the Deep South.

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]]> 0 46f25f25c1041e1fffbab5440b747037 Scott Oldenburg deposited Thomas Tusser and the Poetics of the Plow in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1740066/ Sun, 30 May 2021 02:24:35 -0400 This essay argues that Thomas Tusser’s popular book of georgic verse, Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, offered a counter to developments in courtly poetry under Elizabeth I. Critics have long disparaged Tusser’s poetry as naïvely rustic, but Tusser was not an uneducated peasant who happened to pick up enough literacy to pen a book of poem…[Read more]

]]> 0 266909ad99503165b1735b85f3f38343 Scott Oldenburg deposited A Weaver-Poet and the Plague: Labor, Poverty and the Household in Shakespeare's London https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1739986/ Sat, 29 May 2021 16:28:25 -0400 William Muggins, an impoverished but highly literate weaver-poet, lived and wrote in London at the turn of the seventeenth century, when few of his contemporaries could even read. A Weaver-Poet and the Plague’s microhistorical approach uses Muggins’s life and writing, in which he articulates a radical vision of a commonwealth founded on labor and…[Read more]

]]> 0 e7108616166e9b7f8d064b8d9690589d Scott Oldenburg's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1739985/ Sat, 29 May 2021 16:12:47 -0400 0 e9e2dbf0595ec2203eb75f12eb14694c Scott Oldenburg deposited The Tempest and Race in New Orleans https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1739984/ Sat, 29 May 2021 16:03:08 -0400 This article examines The Tempest in light of artists’ renderings of the play in New Orleans, reflecting on anti-Black racism in Shakespeare’s play and in the Deep South.

]]> 0 c59120d79184f640a6bb8cc576a26a7b Scott Oldenburg deposited Thomas Tusser and the Poetics of the Plow https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1739982/ Sat, 29 May 2021 15:54:17 -0400 This essay argues that Thomas Tusser’s popular book of georgic verse, Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, offered a counter to developments in courtly poetry under Elizabeth I. Critics have long disparaged Tusser’s poetry as naïvely rustic, but Tusser was not an uneducated peasant who happened to pick up enough literacy to pen a book of poem…[Read more]

]]> 0 e797dc0023330e6c5000babdadce23a0 Scott Oldenburg deposited Headless in America: The Imperial Logic of Acephalism https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1609295/ Sun, 27 May 2018 18:29:24 -0400 This article argues that there is an implicit colonial rhetoric in images of headlessness associated with early travel narratives, especially Ralegh’s Discovery of Giuana, but also early maps, etc. The earliest draft included a bit about the same headless image coming up in one of Freud’s analyses, but the editors thought it detracted from the…[Read more]

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]]> 0 cdca1d33a035f689dc401c26fe9edb77 Scott Oldenburg deposited Outlandish Love: Marriage and Immigration in City Comedies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1609257/ Sun, 27 May 2018 00:29:30 -0400 This article questions the orthodox reading of early English city comedies that such plays
exhibit intense national or proto-national fervor, especially articulated in terms of anti-alien
sentiment. A close examination of The Dutch Courtesan and Englishmen for My Money
shows that English playgoers were keen to see their cosmopolitan city…[Read more]

]]> 0 c6ebaa86783604a921fc03387ecf84c7 Scott Oldenburg deposited The Riddle of Blackness in England's National Family Romance https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1609240/ Sat, 26 May 2018 17:48:06 -0400 This article argues that theories of race in the early modern period worked in tandem with national identity. This can be traced not only in the various travel narratives and speculative essays about complexion difference in the period, but also in the dramatic literature through a study of plays like The Battle of Alcazar, Titus Andronicus, and…[Read more]

]]> 0 dc5974afb4862e46813c5dd0aa251b1a Scott Oldenburg deposited The Petition on the Early English Stage https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1609236/ Sat, 26 May 2018 17:10:46 -0400 This article is about petitioning scenes on the early modern English stage.

]]> 0 594dd494f9dda6e7358be03048e7cbe6 Scott Oldenburg deposited Toward a Multicultural Mid-Tudor England https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1609235/ Sat, 26 May 2018 16:11:13 -0400 Through close-readings of Mary Tudor’s royal entry, the anonymous interlude Wealth and Health, and John Christopherson’s Exhortation alongside anecdotes of popular resistance to Mary Tudor’s antiimmigrant proclamations, this article shows that rather than a strong identification with the monarch or some sense of Englishness, Londoners more closely…[Read more]

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