Historiadoras británicas del xix : biografía y edición en las obras de Agnes y Elizabeth Strickland y Mary Anne Everett Green

2018

El presente artículo analiza la labor de escritura de biografías de mujeres de las prolíficas hermanas Agnes y Elizabeth Strickland, así como la labor de edición llevada a cabo por la reputada historiadora Mary Anne Everett Green tanto en calidad de editora de una selección de epístolas escritas por mujeres y recogidas en los tres volúmenes de Letters of Royal and Illustrious Ladies of Great Britain, como en calidad de editora de 41 volúmenes de los Calendar of State Papers. En el análisis de la obra de Everett Green se discutirán los criterios de edición utilizados en ambos casos, y el proceso por el cual fueron sus criterios de edición de los Calendar los que fijaron el estándar. La labor…

Review of Oakley-Brown (2011): Shakespeare and the Translation of Identity in Early Modern England

2013

Invention and Imagination in Sixteenth-Century English Literature

2014

This article discusses the all-important concepts of invention and imagination within the literary terminology of sixteenth-century England, viewing the former as a concept in transition associated with the rhetorical notion of ‘finding’ within a topical system as well as with ideas on the imagination, and connecting the latter with theories on the workings of the human mind. The conceptual discussion revolves around a selection of extracts taken from early modern dictionaries, works on rhetoric, and poetics, poems, and plays.

Shakespeare’s Hamlet in Twentieth-century Spanish Poetry

2015

This article investigates the presence of Shakespeare’s Hamlet in the poetic production of a selection of twentieth-century Spanish poets, among them, Miguel de Unamuno, Antonio and Manuel Machado, Juan Ramon Jimenez, Federico Garcia Lorca, Leon Felipe, Vicente Aleixandre, Jose Hierro, Blas de Otero, Juan Eduardo Cirlot, Clara Janes and Maria Victoria Atencia. It will be seen how these different poets appropriate Hamlet in their own manner, focusing on dissimilar episodes, concepts and characters to elaborate on their personal reflections on life and death, love, poetry and human nature. Such varied poetic reinterpretations of Shakespeare’s tragedy illustrate not only the multiple poetic po…