Abstract:An assessment of recent scholarly work treating the literature of Tudor and Stuart Drama and some general observations on the state of the profession. A full bibliography and price list of works received by SEL for consideration follow.
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Abstract:The wonderful subsea window of Shakespeare and George Wilkins's Pericles (III.i.55–63) allows us to witness multispecies play at play in multisensorial ways. Octopoid in nature and eco-materialist in depth and breadth, the protagonist's benthic curiosity dissolves ontological chasms between human and nonhuman while recognizing the real risks of oceanic immersion that bodies face. A truly deep ecology such as this helpfully entangles us, as readers and audience members, with waters Shakespearean as well as present day. Just as Pericles speculates upon what is happening—and will happen—in the water, his subaqueous vision invites us to deepen our own maritime imaginations.
{"title":"Pericles's Deep Ecology","authors":"Lowell Duckert","doi":"10.1353/SEL.2019.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SEL.2019.0017","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The wonderful subsea window of Shakespeare and George Wilkins's Pericles (III.i.55–63) allows us to witness multispecies play at play in multisensorial ways. Octopoid in nature and eco-materialist in depth and breadth, the protagonist's benthic curiosity dissolves ontological chasms between human and nonhuman while recognizing the real risks of oceanic immersion that bodies face. A truly deep ecology such as this helpfully entangles us, as readers and audience members, with waters Shakespearean as well as present day. Just as Pericles speculates upon what is happening—and will happen—in the water, his subaqueous vision invites us to deepen our own maritime imaginations.","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75800339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:While Robert Daborne's A Christian Turned Turk (1612) is best known for its treatment of a Christian exile's conversion to Islam, it opens with a nuanced critique of early Jacobean economic policy, one wedged into a debate between captive merchants and famous pirates. Daborne's play makes use of a scene of negotiation, a debate over the impressment of two Frenchmen, not only to destabilize the commercial standards that would have distinguished "merchant-like" dealing from piracy, but also, more importantly, to articulate a shift in English economic thought toward a form of free-market capitalism, as exemplified onstage by the pirates.
{"title":"Pirate Economics in Robert Daborne's A Christian Turned Turk","authors":"Benjamin D. Vanwagoner","doi":"10.1353/SEL.2019.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SEL.2019.0013","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:While Robert Daborne's A Christian Turned Turk (1612) is best known for its treatment of a Christian exile's conversion to Islam, it opens with a nuanced critique of early Jacobean economic policy, one wedged into a debate between captive merchants and famous pirates. Daborne's play makes use of a scene of negotiation, a debate over the impressment of two Frenchmen, not only to destabilize the commercial standards that would have distinguished \"merchant-like\" dealing from piracy, but also, more importantly, to articulate a shift in English economic thought toward a form of free-market capitalism, as exemplified onstage by the pirates.","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88416051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:By exploring Shakespeare's maritime vocabulary across the full expanse of his career, this article engages with the multiple kinds of metaphorical and physical meanings the sea created for the playwright. Shakespeare's poetics of the sea connect to recent developments in the blue or oceanic humanities. The further distinction that Shakespeare makes between salt and fresh waters helps unpack the ecological and experiential question of environmental hostility and the dangers that water poses for terrestrial mammals. A final section briefly takes up a poetics of immersion through images of swimming in and beyond Shakespeare.
{"title":"Shakespeare and the Blue Humanities","authors":"Steve Mentz","doi":"10.1353/SEL.2019.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SEL.2019.0018","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:By exploring Shakespeare's maritime vocabulary across the full expanse of his career, this article engages with the multiple kinds of metaphorical and physical meanings the sea created for the playwright. Shakespeare's poetics of the sea connect to recent developments in the blue or oceanic humanities. The further distinction that Shakespeare makes between salt and fresh waters helps unpack the ecological and experiential question of environmental hostility and the dangers that water poses for terrestrial mammals. A final section briefly takes up a poetics of immersion through images of swimming in and beyond Shakespeare.","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76005060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:The portrayal of traditionally negative passions in King Lear anticipates modern cognitivist theories of emotion, which argue that emotions are intelligent and strategic. In depicting extreme displays of emotion, the play not only questions Stoic views about the passions but also shatters the divide between passion and reason that existed widely during the Renaissance. In two examples of strong emotion—the wrath of Lear and the despair of the Earl of Gloucester—Shakespeare explores two different strategies for responding to suffering. The play, finally, refutes Stoicism at its core, repudiating the assumption that to give way to passion means surrendering prudence, self-sovereignty, and identity.
{"title":"The Intelligence of Negative Passion and the Collapse of Stoicism in King Lear","authors":"K. Lehtonen","doi":"10.1353/SEL.2019.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SEL.2019.0011","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The portrayal of traditionally negative passions in King Lear anticipates modern cognitivist theories of emotion, which argue that emotions are intelligent and strategic. In depicting extreme displays of emotion, the play not only questions Stoic views about the passions but also shatters the divide between passion and reason that existed widely during the Renaissance. In two examples of strong emotion—the wrath of Lear and the despair of the Earl of Gloucester—Shakespeare explores two different strategies for responding to suffering. The play, finally, refutes Stoicism at its core, repudiating the assumption that to give way to passion means surrendering prudence, self-sovereignty, and identity.","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90974260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:In dramatizing the loss of Lancastrian control in France, Shakespeare's Henry the Sixth plays draw attention to England as an island made as much by human activity as by geomorphology. By focusing on characters' varying engagements with the English littoral—the margin where land meets sea, and where local, national, and transnational interests intersect—this article considers the political and ecological consequences of England's dynamic insularity. Reading Shakespeare littorally reveals contested visions of Great Britain's evolving role in the changing tides of the late sixteenth century and suggests a model for adaptive, global citizenship amidst the political and environmental precarities of the twenty-first.
{"title":"Shakespeare's Littoral and the Dramas of Loss and Store","authors":"Hillary Eklund","doi":"10.1353/SEL.2019.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SEL.2019.0016","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In dramatizing the loss of Lancastrian control in France, Shakespeare's Henry the Sixth plays draw attention to England as an island made as much by human activity as by geomorphology. By focusing on characters' varying engagements with the English littoral—the margin where land meets sea, and where local, national, and transnational interests intersect—this article considers the political and ecological consequences of England's dynamic insularity. Reading Shakespeare littorally reveals contested visions of Great Britain's evolving role in the changing tides of the late sixteenth century and suggests a model for adaptive, global citizenship amidst the political and environmental precarities of the twenty-first.","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80655891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:In "Shakespeare, as the Waters Rise," I reflect on teaching a course on Shakespeare's storm- and shipwrecked-filled dramas in the anticipation, experience, and aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, which devastated the Texas Gulf Coast and, particularly, the city of Houston. How do we experience disaster and what happens when we watch it unfold around us from a position of safety? What do we reach for when we fear we will drown? Shelter, succor, and perhaps also Shakespeare, it turns out, as the essay examines the resources of the past for the disasters of the present.
{"title":"Shakespeare, as the Waters Rise","authors":"Joseph M. Campana","doi":"10.1353/SEL.2019.0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SEL.2019.0020","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In \"Shakespeare, as the Waters Rise,\" I reflect on teaching a course on Shakespeare's storm- and shipwrecked-filled dramas in the anticipation, experience, and aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, which devastated the Texas Gulf Coast and, particularly, the city of Houston. How do we experience disaster and what happens when we watch it unfold around us from a position of safety? What do we reach for when we fear we will drown? Shelter, succor, and perhaps also Shakespeare, it turns out, as the essay examines the resources of the past for the disasters of the present.","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89372453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:In an age of discovery, the ocean voyage pushed back frontiers of the knowable, thereby providing a master trope for knowledge acquisition that, in Shakespeare, authorized the rupture of conventional dramatic form. This article charts the progress of that rupture and the corresponding enlistment of the audience's imaginative cooperation to complete the dramatic illusion. It then considers the kinds of knowledge attainable to those who cross the sea in Shakespeare's dramaturgy and ends by suggesting that as increasingly sophisticated staging facilitated the theatrical representation of wonders, the ocean voyage trope comes to portend a drama where material spectacle would unseat imagination.
{"title":"Shakespeare's Sea and the Frontier of Knowledge","authors":"J. Sell","doi":"10.1353/SEL.2019.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SEL.2019.0019","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In an age of discovery, the ocean voyage pushed back frontiers of the knowable, thereby providing a master trope for knowledge acquisition that, in Shakespeare, authorized the rupture of conventional dramatic form. This article charts the progress of that rupture and the corresponding enlistment of the audience's imaginative cooperation to complete the dramatic illusion. It then considers the kinds of knowledge attainable to those who cross the sea in Shakespeare's dramaturgy and ends by suggesting that as increasingly sophisticated staging facilitated the theatrical representation of wonders, the ocean voyage trope comes to portend a drama where material spectacle would unseat imagination.","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88118537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:River, stream, flood, fountain—the terms are often interchangeable. A brook is smaller, but it too is part of Shakespeare's imaginative world of streams and rivers. He names relatively few—Severn, Trent, Wye, Thames, Tiber, Saale, Elbe, Somme, Styx, Cydnus, Nile—but they are meaningful for him in ways that can focus the energies of the scenes in which they appear. They and many unnamed waterways are significant natural environments that provide strategic contexts for human actions. Rivers and streams in Shakespeare offer a continuous insight into character and dramatic situation in such a way as to become an integral feature of his great skill as poet and playwright.
{"title":"Sweet Swan of Avon: Rivers in Shakespeare","authors":"David Bevington, S. Bevington","doi":"10.1353/SEL.2019.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SEL.2019.0015","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:River, stream, flood, fountain—the terms are often interchangeable. A brook is smaller, but it too is part of Shakespeare's imaginative world of streams and rivers. He names relatively few—Severn, Trent, Wye, Thames, Tiber, Saale, Elbe, Somme, Styx, Cydnus, Nile—but they are meaningful for him in ways that can focus the energies of the scenes in which they appear. They and many unnamed waterways are significant natural environments that provide strategic contexts for human actions. Rivers and streams in Shakespeare offer a continuous insight into character and dramatic situation in such a way as to become an integral feature of his great skill as poet and playwright.","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74402421","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This article picks up on Jacques Lacan's notorious comment on Gian Lorenzo Bernini's sculpture Ecstasy of Saint Teresa, namely that she is obviously experiencing orgasm ("elle jouit"), to broach the topic of sacred erotics in Richard Crashaw's almost-contemporary Saint Teresa poems. For me, Lacan's comment is not an endpoint or revelation, but rather a starting point for the consideration of Crashaw's sacralization of Saint Teresa's ecstasy in contrast to its desacralization by Lacan and in psychoanalysis more generally. The poem obviously calls for contextual reading, but reading rapture, whether as saintly or scandalous, has an unfinished history of its own, and the phenomenon—or "thing," as Teresa calls it—remains an object of contention, as does the queer-feminine sexuality with which it is often associated.
摘要:本文以雅克·拉康对Gian Lorenzo Bernini的雕塑《圣特蕾莎的狂喜》(Ecstasy of Saint Teresa)的“她显然正在经历性高潮”(“elle jouit”)的评论为例，探讨理查德·克拉肖(Richard crasshaw)几乎同时代的圣特蕾莎诗歌中的神圣情色话题。对我来说，拉康的评论不是一个终点或启示，而是一个起点，来考虑克拉肖对圣特蕾莎的狂喜的神圣化，与拉康和更普遍的精神分析的去神圣化形成对比。这首诗显然需要上下文阅读，但阅读狂喜，无论是神圣的还是可耻的，都有自己未完成的历史，这种现象——或者特蕾莎所说的“事物”——仍然是一个争论的对象，就像它经常与酷儿女性性行为联系在一起一样。
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