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Dreams have been significant in many different cultures, carrying
messages about this world and others, posing problems about
knowledge, truth, and what it means to be human. This
thought-provoking collection of essays explores dreams and visions
in early modern Europe, canvassing the place of the dream and
dream-theory in texts and in social movements. In topics ranging
from the dreams of animals to the visions of Elizabeth I, and from
prophetic dreams to ghosts in political writing, this book asks
what meanings early modern people found in dreams.
How do writers work? The differing habits of seven great authors
are examined in this collection. Writers often meditate on what
physical situations they need to do the work in hand. A room of
their own, bills, bed, procrastination, regular meals, Benzedrine
and beer, office routines, walking and riding, even prison, can be
machines that make them write. Trollope got 2,000 words done every
morning, watch on the table. Clare composed en pleine air, jotting
on his hat rim. Wesley's hymns came to him on horseback. The Bronte
sisters paced round adrawing-room table. Donne was dismally
prompted to write by nappies. Johnson needed the printer's devil
knocking at his door. On a grand scale, city planners try to entice
the creative classes into a creative area: while at alocal level,
readers have a magical sense that putting themselves into the
bodily position of a writer may allow them to join in her planning
and plotting. The essays in this volume examine the working habits
of seven greatauthors, from 1600 to today: Jonson, Milton, the
Bronte sisters, Trollope, Oliphant, and Auden. There are also
interviews on the creative environment with the Poet Laureate of
Great Britain, the British Library's Head of Modern Literary
Manuscripts, the Director of the Hay Festival, research fellows at
Stratford and the Globe, and a poet-web-blogger. CONTRIBUTORS: STAN
SMITH, ELISABETH JAY, N. JOHN HALL, STEVIE DAVIS, PETER C. HERMAN,
FARAH KARIM-COOPER, KATE RUMBOLD, MICHELLE O'CALLAGHAN, ADAM SMYTH,
ANDREW MOTION, JAMIE ANDREWS, ROBERT SHEPPARD, PETER FLORENCE
Dreams have been significant in many different cultures, carrying
messages about this world and others, posing problems about
knowledge, truth, and what it means to be human. This
thought-provoking collection of essays explores dreams and visions
in early modern Europe, canvassing the place of the dream and
dream-theory in texts and in social movements. In topics ranging
from the dreams of animals to the visions of Elizabeth I, and from
prophetic dreams to ghosts in political writing, this book asks
what meanings early modern people found in dreams.
Thomas Middleton is one of the major English Renaissance dramatists
alongside Marlowe, Shakespeare and Jonson. Middleton continues to
fascinate audiences and readers with his black humour, his wry and
witty treatment of sexuality, morality, and politics. He is a
consummate professional dramatist, experimenting with stagecraft in
a manner that combines the visual and the verbal to startling
effect. This book brings together these aspects of Middleton's
craft through a detailed study of his major plays. Middleton
experimented with, and helped to shape, a range of dramatic genres:
city comedy, tragicomedy, romance, and revenge tragedy. This new
guide analyses in detail how the plays work in terms of the early
modern theatre and dramatic genres, as well as elucidating the
broader cultural issues shaping the plays. It provides an
introduction to critical readings of Middleton's works as well as
modern performances, demonstrating how modern critics, producers,
dramatists and film makers see Middleton's dark, playful and
challenging plays as speaking to our times. Key Features *Ideal
student guide with its wide ranging introduction to Middleton's
city comedies, tragedies, and collaborative plays and its readings
of key texts such as The Roaring Girl, Chaste Maid in Cheapside,
Revenger's Tragedy, Women Beware Women, and The Changeling *Uses
the most recent edition available, the Oxford Middleton (2007)
*Provides background contexts guiding readers through criticism of
the plays as well as recent work on early modern theatre and
culture *Emphasis on Middleton's stagecraft and its assessment of
modern adaptations and film versions of his plays
The printed poetry anthologies first produced in sixteenth-century
England have long been understood as instrumental in shaping the
history of English poetry. This book offers a fresh approach to
this history by turning attention to the recreative properties of
these books, both in the sense of making again, of crafting and
recrafting, and of poetry as a pleasurable pastime. The model of
materiality employed extends from books-as-artefacts to their
embodiedness - their crafted, performative, and expressive
capacities. Publishers invariably advertised the recreational uses
of anthologies, locating these books in early modern performance
cultures in which poetry was read, silently and in company,
sometimes set to music, and re-crafted into other forms. Engaging
with studies of material cultures, including work on craft,
households, and soundscapes, Crafting Poetry Anthologies argues for
a domestic Renaissance in which anthologies travelled across social
classes, shaping recreational cultures that incorporated men and
women in literary culture.
The printed poetry anthologies first produced in sixteenth-century
England have long been understood as instrumental in shaping the
history of English poetry. This book offers a fresh approach to
this history by turning attention to the recreative properties of
these books, both in the sense of making again, of crafting and
recrafting, and of poetry as a pleasurable pastime. The model of
materiality employed extends from books-as-artefacts to their
embodiedness - their crafted, performative, and expressive
capacities. Publishers invariably advertised the recreational uses
of anthologies, locating these books in early modern performance
cultures in which poetry was read, silently and in company,
sometimes set to music, and re-crafted into other forms. Engaging
with studies of material cultures, including work on craft,
households, and soundscapes, Crafting Poetry Anthologies argues for
a domestic Renaissance in which anthologies travelled across social
classes, shaping recreational cultures that incorporated men and
women in literary culture.
In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries the Inns of
Court and fashionable London taverns developed a culture of
clubbing, urban sociability and wit. The convivial societies that
emerged created rituals to define social identities and to engage
in literary play and political discussion. Michelle O'Callaghan
argues that the lawyer-wits, including John Hoskyns, in company
with authors such as John Donne, Ben Jonson and Thomas Coryate,
consciously reinvigorated humanist traditions of learned play.
Their experiments with burlesque, banquet literature, parody and
satire resulted in a volatile yet creative dialogue between
civility and licence, and between pleasure and the violence of
scurrilous words. The wits inaugurated a mode of literary
fellowship that shaped the history and literature of sociability in
the seventeenth century. This study will provide many insights for
historians and literary scholars of the period.
In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries the Inns of
Court and fashionable London taverns developed a culture of
clubbing, urban sociability and wit. The convivial societies that
emerged created rituals to define social identities and to engage
in literary play and political discussion. Michelle O'Callaghan
argues that the lawyer-wits, including John Hoskyns, in company
with authors such as John Donne, Ben Jonson and Thomas Coryate,
consciously reinvigorated humanist traditions of learned play.
Their experiments with burlesque, banquet literature, parody and
satire resulted in a volatile yet creative dialogue between
civility and licence, and between pleasure and the violence of
scurrilous words. The wits inaugurated a mode of literary
fellowship that shaped the history and literature of sociability in
the seventeenth century. This study will provide many new insights
for historians and literary scholars of the period.
The Jacobean Spenserian poets, William Browne, George Wither, and Christopher Brooke, formed a distinctive oppositional community in the years 1612 to 1625. Their collective responses to contemporary events sheds new light on the literary and political culture of the early seventeenth century.
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