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Love's Victory by Lady Mary Wroth (1587-1651) is the first romantic
comedy written in English by a woman. The Revels Plays publishes
for the first time a fully-authorised, modern spelling edition of
the Penshurst manuscript, the only copy of the play containing all
five acts, handwritten by Wroth and privately owned by the Viscount
De L'Isle. Edited by Alison Findlay, Philip Sidney and Michael G.
Brennan, their critical introduction provides details of Wroth's
remarkable life and work as a member of the Sidney family, tracing
connections between Love's Victory, her prose and poetry and her
family's extensive writings. The editors introduce readers to the
influence of court drama on Love's Victory and offer a new account
of the play's stage history in productions from 1999-2018.
Extensive commentary notes guiding the modern reader include
explanatory glosses, literary references and staging information.
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Love's Victory by Lady Mary Wroth (1587-1651) is the first romantic
comedy written in English by a woman. The Revels Plays publishes
for the first time a fully-authorised, modern spelling edition of
the Penshurst manuscript, the only copy of the play containing all
five acts, handwritten by Wroth and privately owned by the Viscount
De L'Isle. Edited by Alison Findlay, Philip Sidney and Michael G.
Brennan, their critical introduction provides details of Wroth's
remarkable life and work as a member of the Sidney family, tracing
connections between Love's Victory, her prose and poetry and her
family's extensive writings. The editors introduce readers to the
influence of court drama on Love's Victory and offer a new account
of the play's stage history in productions from 1999-2018.
Extensive commentary notes guiding the modern reader include
explanatory glosses, literary references and staging information.
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The letters of Dorothy Percy Sidney, Countess of Leicester, dating
predominantly from about 1636 until 1643, cover a wide range of
issues and vividly illustrate her centrality to her illustrious
family's personal and public affairs. These c.100 letters are here
for the first time fully transcribed and edited. The edition
includes a biographical and historical introduction, setting the
context of the Sidneys' family and political activities at the time
of Dorothy's marriage to Robert in 1615 and then tracing the major
events and involvements of her life until her death in 1659. A key
to the cipher used in the letters to disguise identities of
individuals is also supplied. Following the introduction is the
complete text of each of Dorothy Percy Sidney's letters to her
husband, Robert, second Earl of Leicester, and to and from William
Hawkins, the Sidney family solicitor, along with several others,
including letters from Dorothy to Archbishop Laud and the Earl of
Holland. Her husband's account of her last moments in 1659, and
testamentary directions relating to her will, are also included.
The letters are arranged in chronological order and supported by a
series of footnotes that elucidate their historical context and
briefly to identify key individuals, places, political issues and
personal concerns. These notes are further supported by selective
quotations from Dorothy's incoming correspondence and other related
letters and documents. A glossary supplies more detailed
information on 'Persons and Places.' Dorothy Percy Sidney's letters
eloquently convey how, even with her undoubted personal potency and
shrewd intelligence, the multifaceted roles expected of an able and
determined aristocratic early modern Englishwoman-especially when
her husband was occupied abroad on official business-were intensely
demanding and testing.
Few families have contributed as much to English history and
literature-indeed, to the arts generally-as the Sidney family. This
two-volume Ashgate Research Companion assesses the current state of
scholarship on family members and their impact, as historical and
literary figures, in the period 1500-1700. Volume 1: Lives, begins
with an overview of the Sidneys and politics, providing some links
to court events, entertainments, literature, and patronage. The
volume gives biographies to prominent high-profile Sidney women and
men, as well as sections assessing the influence of the family in
the areas of the English court, international politics, patronage,
religion, public entertainment, the visual arts, and music. The
focus of the second volume is the literary contributions of Sir
Philip Sidney; Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke; Lady Mary
Wroth; Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester; and William Herbert, Earl
of Pembroke.
The Sidneys rank amongst the most influential families in early
modern England, and can count amongst their number many leading
lights of the Tudor and Stuart period. From the Elizabethan poet
and soldier Philip, to the republican Algernon, the Sidney family
were intimately bound up with the political, cultural and courtly
life of early modern England. Taking a broadly chronological
approach, this volume offers an overview of the Sidneys across
several generations. By analysing various individuals and their
writings, an intriguing new perspective is offered, not only on the
culture of English politics, but also on the self-perception and
ambitions of a leading renaissance family. During the Tudor period
their long and fruitful (but sometimes problematical) association
with the Dudley family in court and royal affairs is reassessed
with regard to their relations with Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth
I. During the Stuart period the Sidneys intimacy and loyalty to
James I, Queen Anne and Charles I is contrasted to their more
neutral (even hostile) attitudes to Charles II and James II.
Against the backdrop of this shifting royal favour and religious
and political upheaval, the Sidneys' political and domestic tactics
used to preserve the family's reputation, estates and property are
explored. The first book length study of the Sidney family's
relationship with the English monarchy, this work will be welcomed
by all those with an interest in English political and cultural
history. Drawing upon both historical and literary sources it
offers an absorbing insight into the self-perceptions of a leading
renaissance family and how they adapted to the vicissitudes of the
sixteenth and seventeenth century world.
Graham Greene remarked that 'politics are in the air we breathe,
like the presence or absence of a God' (The Other Man). This study
is the first to provide a detailed consideration of the impact of
his political thought and involvements on his writings both
fictional and factual. It also offers the first detailed
consideration of Greene's involvements in espionage and British
intelligence from the 1920s until the late-1980s. It incorporates
material not only from his major fictions but also from his
prolific journalism, letters to the press, private correspondence,
diaries and working manuscripts and typescripts, as well as
consideration of the diverse political involvements and writings of
his extended family network. It shows how the full range of
Greene's writings was inspired and underpinned by his fascination
with the essential human duality of political action and religious
belief, coupled with an insistent need as a writer to keep the
political personal.
Graham Greene remarked that 'politics are in the air we breathe,
like the presence or absence of a God' (The Other Man). This study
is the first to provide a detailed consideration of the impact of
his political thought and involvements on his writings both
fictional and factual. It also offers the first detailed
consideration of Greene's involvements in espionage and British
intelligence from the 1920s until the late-1980s. It incorporates
material not only from his major fictions but also from his
prolific journalism, letters to the press, private correspondence,
diaries and working manuscripts and typescripts, as well as
consideration of the diverse political involvements and writings of
his extended family network. It shows how the full range of
Greene's writings was inspired and underpinned by his fascination
with the essential human duality of political action and religious
belief, coupled with an insistent need as a writer to keep the
political personal.
Focusing upon three previously unpublished accounts of youthful
English travellers in Western Europe (in contrast to the renowned
but maturely retrospective memoirs of other seventeenth-century
figures such as John Evelyn), this study reassesses the early
origins of the cultural phenomenon known as the 'Grand Tour'.
Usually denoted primarily as a post-Restoration and
eighteenth-century activity, the basis of the long term English
fascination with the 'Grand Tour' was firmly rooted in the
mid-Tudor and early-Stuart periods. Such travels were usually
prompted by one of three reasons: the practical needs of diplomacy,
the aesthetic allure of cultural tourism, and the expediencies of
political or religious exile. The outbreak of the English Civil War
during the late-1640s acted as a powerful stimulus to this kind of
travel for male members of both royalist and parliamentarian
families, as a means of distancing them from the social upheavals
back home as well as broadening their intellectual horizons. The
extensive editorial introductions to this publication of the
experiences of three young Englishmen also consider how their
travel records have survived in a variety of literary forms,
including personal diaries (Montagu), family letters (Hammond) and
formal prose records (Maynard's travels were written up by his
servant, Robert Moody), and how these texts should now be
interpreted not in isolation but alongside the diverse collections
of prints, engravings, curiosities, coins and antiquities assembled
by such travellers.
'the highest matter in the noblest form' John Donne's description
of the Psalms celebrates not only the perfection of the biblical
psalms but their translation into poetic form by the Sidneys, who
turned them into some of the most accomplished lyric poems of the
English Renaissance. Although it was not printed until the
nineteenth century, the Sidney Psalter was widely read in
manuscript and influenced poets from Donne and Herbert to Milton
and beyond. It turned these well-known and well-loved Psalms into
sophisticated verse, selecting or inventing a different stanza form
for each one. This variety of forms matches the appeal of their
content: there are Psalms of praise and blame, Psalms of cursing
and lamentation, Psalms of joy and exaltation, Psalms that recount
history, and Psalms that describe Creation or divine law. This is
the first complete edition of the Psalter for over forty years. The
Psalms are provided in an authoritative modernized text, with
helpful glosses and notes illuminating points of interpretation,
and an introduction setting the Psalms in their literary and
cultural contexts. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford
World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature
from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's
commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a
wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions
by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text,
up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
This volume is part of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh critical
edition, which brings together all Waugh's published and previously
unpublished writings for the first time with comprehensive
introductions and annotation, and a full account of each text's
manuscript development and textual variants. The edition's General
Editor is Alexander Waugh, Evelyn Waugh's grandson and editor of
the twelve-volume Personal Writings sequence. This is the first
fully annotated critical edition of Waugh's book on Mexico, Robbery
Under Law: The Mexican Object-Lesson (1939), based on three months'
research by Waugh in the country in 1938 and rarely included in
later reprints of Waugh's travel writings. Waugh insisted in its
opening words: 'This is a political book'; it traced the
expropriation of British and American oil interests in Mexico by
its repressive Marxist government. It described the current
political and social inequities suffered by both its Mexican
citizens and foreign companies trading there and also provided a
powerful account of the history of Catholic persecution in the
country. Its narratives offered an implicit but potent warning
about the barbarity of totalitarian regimes as war in Western
Europe grew increasingly likely.
In his attitude toward religion, George Orwell has been
characterised in various terms: as an agnostic, humanist, secular
saint or even Christian atheist. Drawing on the full range of his
public and private writings - from major works such as Keep the
Aspidistra Flying, 1984 and Down and Out in Paris and London to his
shorter journalism and private letters and journals - George Orwell
and Religion is a major reassessment of Orwell's life-long
engagement with religion. Exploring Orwell's life and work, Michael
Brennan illuminates for the first time how this profound engagement
with religion informed the intensely humanitarian spirit of his
writings.
Evelyn Waugh: Fictions, Faith and Family is a wide-ranging survey
of the prolific literary career of one of the most popular English
writers of the 20th century. Michael G. Brennan here identifies
three major themes as central to any understanding of Waugh's work:
Catholicism, society and the concept of family. From Decline and
Fall (published in 1928) to his final writings, this book draws not
only on the major novels and short stories but also Waugh's
substantial journalistic output, his private journals and
correspondences and unpublished draft manuscripts. Through this
comprehensive and systematic exploration, Brennan demonstrates the
sustained creative importance of Catholicism to Waugh's literary
work. In addition, the book goes on to consider how Evelyn Waugh's
descendants - his son Auberon and his grandson Alexander Waugh -
have echoed and developed these literary concerns in their own
writing.
Evelyn Waugh: Fictions, Faith and Family is a wide-ranging survey
of the prolific literary career of one of the most popular English
writers of the 20th century. Michael G. Brennan here identifies
three major themes as central to any understanding of Waugh's work:
Catholicism, society and the concept of family. From Decline and
Fall (published in 1928) to his final writings, this book draws not
only on the major novels and short stories but also Waugh's
substantial journalistic output, his private journals and
correspondences and unpublished draft manuscripts. Through this
comprehensive and systematic exploration, Brennan demonstrates the
sustained creative importance of Catholicism to Waugh's literary
work. In addition, the book goes on to consider how Evelyn Waugh's
descendants - his son Auberon and his grandson Alexander Waugh -
have echoed and developed these literary concerns in their own
writing.
This is a new and comprehensive reconsideration of Graham Greene's
use of Catholic and theological issues in his fictions and other
writings from the 1920s until the 1980s. This major new
reconsideration of Graham Greene's writings, from the 1920s until
the 1980s, focuses both on his best known novels and his less
familiar works, including his short stories, plays, poetry, film
scripts and reviewing, journalism and personal correspondence. It
explores the major issues of Catholic faith and doubt, particularly
in relation to his portrayal of secular love and physical desire,
and examines the religious and secular issues and plots involving
trust, betrayal, love and despair. Although Greene's female
characters have often been underestimated, Brennan argues that
while sometimes abstract, symbolic and two-dimensional, these
figures often prove central to an understanding of the moral,
personal and spiritual dilemmas of his male characters. Finally, he
reveals how Greene was one of the most generically ambitious
writers of the twentieth century, experimenting with established
forms but also believing that the career of a successful novelist
should incorporate a great diversity of other categories of
writing. Offering a new and original perspective on the reading of
Greene's literary works and their importance to English
twentieth-century fiction, this will be of interest to anyone
studying Greene.
This is a new and comprehensive reconsideration of Graham Greene's
use of Catholic and theological issues in his fictions and other
writings from the 1920s until the 1980s. This major new
reconsideration of Graham Greene's writings, from the 1920s until
the 1980s, focuses both on his best known novels and his less
familiar works, including his short stories, plays, poetry, film
scripts and reviewing, journalism and personal correspondence. It
explores the major issues of Catholic faith and doubt, particularly
in relation to his portrayal of secular love and physical desire,
and examines the religious and secular issues and plots involving
trust, betrayal, love and despair. Although Greene's female
characters have often been underestimated, Brennan argues that
while sometimes abstract, symbolic and two-dimensional, these
figures often prove central to an understanding of the moral,
personal and spiritual dilemmas of his male characters. Finally, he
reveals how Greene was one of the most generically ambitious
writers of the twentieth century, experimenting with established
forms but also believing that the career of a successful novelist
should incorporate a great diversity of other categories of
writing. Offering a new and original perspective on the reading of
Greene's literary works and their importance to English
twentieth-century fiction, this will be of interest to anyone
studying Greene.
Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, is the most important
Elizabethan woman writer and patron outside the royal family. By
astute use of the genres permitted to women, she supported the
Protestant cause, introduced continental literary genres, expanded
opportunities for later women writers, and influenced
seventeenth-century lyric and drama by such writers as John Donne,
George Herbert, Mary Wroth, and William Shakespeare. This scholarly
edition in two volumes is the first to include all her extant
works: Volume I prints her three original poems, the disputed
`Dolefull Lay of Clorinda', her translations from Petrarch, Mornay,
and Garnier, and all her known letters. Volume II contains her
metrical paraphrases of Psalms 44-150. The edition also provides a
biographical introduction, discussion of her sources and methods of
composition, textual annotation, and a detailed commentary.
Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke and sister to Sir Philip Sidney, is the most important woman writer of the Elizabethan era outside the royal family. This scholarly edition in two volumes is the first to include all her extant works: Volume I prints her three original poems, the disputed 'Dolefull Lay of Clorinda', her translations from Petrarch, Mornay, and Garnier, and all her known letters. Volume II contains her metrical paraphrases of Psalms 44-150. The edition also provides a biographical introduction, discussion of her sources and methods of composition, textual annotation, and a detailed commentary.
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