Anne M. Myers. Literature and Architecture in Early Modern England. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. Pp. 272. $55.00 (cloth).

2013

The Epilogue in <i>Doctor Faustus</i>: The Petrarchan Context

2010

Metaphors used in Epilogue in Doctor Faustus, particularly the cut branch and Apollo‟s burned laurel bough, are indicative of Marlowe‟s intellectual involvement with Petrarch and the former‟s role in the literary circle centered on the Countess of Pembroke. His Latin epistle to Mary Sidney in Thomas Watson‟s Amyntas (1592) repeats similar metaphors, and the combination in the Epilogue of these images with that of the “forward wits” point both to Petrarch‟s Sonnet 269 (“Rotta l‟alta colonna e ‟l verde lauro”) and Sonnet 307 (“I‟ pensava assai destro esser sul l‟ale”). In fact, lines in the Epilogue are strongly evocative of some verses in Sonnet 307, where Petrarch ponders the theme of overr…

Introduction: The Architectures of Shakespeare

2017

This introduction sketches a framework for what I would term “the architectures of Shakespeare”, taking into account Shakespeare’s use of architectural terms in order to situate the poet-dramatist’...

Marlowe and Company in Barnfield’s <i>Greene’s Funeralls</i> (1594)

2013

The accomplished and daring but minor poet Richard Barnfield (1574-1620) was among the first poets to engage creatively with the works of Greene, Marlowe, and Shakespeare. This article argues that Sonnet 9 in Barnfield’s Greene’s Funeralls (1594) reveals not only his admiration for these literary innovators, but also his difficult manoeuvres on the fringes of the group of poetic rivals. Barnfield’s often-quoted, but not fully understood “sonnet” reflects the young poet’s attempts to accost his more famous contemporaries and also sheds light on the date of composition of Doctor Faustus (B) and the early circulation of Shakespeare’s “sugred sonnets”.

Editing and the Shadow of the Folio: On the Textual Integrity of The Taming of a Shrew (1594)

2015

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Carducci Reads Marlowe: Dante and Doctor Faustus (B-Text)

2014

Kroppslighet og jomfrukur i Hans E. Kincks tragedie <i>Den sidste Gjest</i> (1910)

2011

In his play on Pietro Aretino (1492-1556), the Norwegian dramatist and novelist Hans E. Kinck (1865-1926) focuses on his character's relationship to the body and use of young women, in particular the young girl, Perina. A writer of great repute among his contemporaries Aretino is today known for his letters, plays, scandalous dialogues and pornographic sonnets in which grotesque images of the body are frequent. Kinck turns the Italian letterato both into a tragic victim of his own drives and a ruthless victimizer, although he in the process must avoid many aspects of Aretino's writing and character that it would be impossible to reproduce in print at the time, but in so doing he both reject…