Pseudonymous Shakespeare: Rioting Language in the Sidney CircleAshgate, 2006 - 257 páginas An investigation into modes of early modern English literary 'indirection, ' this study could also be considered a detective work on a pseudonym attached to some late sixteenth-century works. In the course of unmasking 'R.L.', McCarthy scrutinizes devices employed by writers in the Sidney coterie: punning, often across languages; repetitio-insistence on a sound, or hiding two persons 'under one hood'; disingenuous juxtaposition; evocation of original context; differential spelling (intended and significant). Among McCarthy's stunning-but solidly underpinned-conclusions are: Shakespeare used the pseudonym 'R.L.' among other pseudonyms; one, 'William Smith', was also his 'alias' in life; Shakespeare was at the heart of the Sidney circle, whose literary programme was hostile to Elizabeth I; and his work, composed mainly from the late 1570s to the early 90s, occasionally 'embedded' in the work of others, was covertly alluded to more often than has been recognized |
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... appears to be ' about ' - what its matter is - but it does pay particular attention to what it is ' about ' - what its designs on us are . Accordingly , I pay much attention to puns , for they are a prime means of masking an author's ...
... appears to be ' about ' - what its matter is - but it does pay particular attention to what it is ' about ' - what its designs on us are . Accordingly , I pay much attention to puns , for they are a prime means of masking an author's ...
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... appears , before its first recorded performance in 1594 ) , yields an exciting clue . The stage ' houses ' out of which the twins in the Comedy appear are called ' Phoenix ' and ' Centaur ' . The phoenix symbol is used so often to ...
... appears , before its first recorded performance in 1594 ) , yields an exciting clue . The stage ' houses ' out of which the twins in the Comedy appear are called ' Phoenix ' and ' Centaur ' . The phoenix symbol is used so often to ...
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... appears also in other guises , sometimes under several guises in one play . In my next example , he is hidden under several layers , beneath an Orlando Furioso who appears as a covert Mercury in pursuit of an equally obscured Chloris ...
... appears also in other guises , sometimes under several guises in one play . In my next example , he is hidden under several layers , beneath an Orlando Furioso who appears as a covert Mercury in pursuit of an equally obscured Chloris ...
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Pseudonymous Shakespeare: Rioting Language in the Sidney Circle Penny McCarthy Pré-visualização limitada - 2016 |
Pseudonymous Shakespeare: Rioting Language in the Sidney Circle Penny McCarthy Pré-visualização limitada - 2006 |
Pseudonymous Shakespeare: Rioting Language in the Sidney Circle Penny McCarthy Pré-visualização indisponível - 2016 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
Abenjacán allusion Astrophel authorship Barnfield's Burbage Cambridge character Chloris Comedy contemporary coterie Cuddie Cymbeline dedication Diego Diella Dudley Duncan-Jones Earl eclogue edition Edward elegy Elizabethan English Epistle fact father Gabriel Harvey Ganimede Gascoigne Gascoigne's George Gascoigne gloss Greene Greene's Harvey's hath Henry historical Humfrey identity Italian John joke Jonson Kenilworth King Klawitter Lady Langham Latin Leicester Leicester's Lenten Stuffe Letter lines literary London Macbeth manuscript Marlowe Mary Sidney meaning Mercury Nashe's Nicholas Breton Oxford pamphlet Paper Book patron patronage Patten Philip Sidney poem poet poetic poetry printed pseudonym published Queen reader reference Richard Richard Lichfield Robert Robert Greene servant Shepheardes Calender Sidneian Sidney circle Sidney's song sonnet Spenser Stella story Stratford suggest supposed Thomas Nashe thou Titus Andronicus translation University Press verse vols William Shakespeare William Smith Winchester College Winter's Tale words writing young
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Shakespeare's Companies: William Shakespeare's Early Career and the Acting ... Terence Schoone-Jongen Pré-visualização limitada - 2008 |