Subjects on the World's Stage: Essays on British Literature of the Middle Ages and the RenaissanceDavid G. Allen, Robert A. White "In this collection eighteen scholars offer various readings on British literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Although the period covered ranges from the thirteenth through the seventeenth centuries, the essays are tied together by a common interest in one of three topics: poetic personae, dramatic production, and the influence of social context upon authors or dramatists. Common to these topics is the crucial point of contact between an artist and society that prompts the literary imagination to respond either with the creation of a new character or with the demonstration of change in an old one."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
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... final and , hence one would assume , definitive revision of the sequence ap- peared in 1619 , long after the popularity of the sonnet vogue had run its course.1 Though this final version of Idea ( which retains only twenty sonnets from ...
... final and , hence one would assume , definitive revision of the sequence ap- peared in 1619 , long after the popularity of the sonnet vogue had run its course.1 Though this final version of Idea ( which retains only twenty sonnets from ...
Page 128
... final , definitive status of his 1619 edition , these sonnets further suggest a fitting sense of closure , not only to this , Drayton's final installment , but to his extended sonnet experiment . 19 This sense of closure is reinforced ...
... final , definitive status of his 1619 edition , these sonnets further suggest a fitting sense of closure , not only to this , Drayton's final installment , but to his extended sonnet experiment . 19 This sense of closure is reinforced ...
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... final soliloquy , Faustus laments : Ah , Faustus- Now hast thou but one bare hour to live , And then thou must be damned perpetually . O , I'll leap up to my God ! who pulls me down ? My God ! my God ! look not so fierce on me ! Enter ...
... final soliloquy , Faustus laments : Ah , Faustus- Now hast thou but one bare hour to live , And then thou must be damned perpetually . O , I'll leap up to my God ! who pulls me down ? My God ! my God ! look not so fierce on me ! Enter ...
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