The Making of Sixteenth-Century Identities Dr Amanda Piesse Hilary Term 2016
The Making of Sixteenth-Century Identities
Dr Amanda Piesse [email protected]
Hilary Term 2016
Lecture Schedule
1. Introduction
2. Thomas Wyatt, Selected Poems
3. Lisle Letters, Selections
4. George Cavendish, The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey and William Roper, The Life
of Sir Thomas More in Two Early Tudor Lives
5. Attr. Nicholas Udall, Jack Juggler
6. Anon., Arden of Faversham
7. ~Reading Week~
8. Thomas Deloney, Jack of Newbury
9. Isabella Whitney, Selected Poems
10. William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice
11. Anne Clifford, Diary
12. William Shakespeare, Selected Sonnets
Primary Texts
Arden of Faversham, ed. Martin White, rev. ed. Tom Lockwood, New Mermaids. London:
Methuen Drama, 2007.
George Cavendish, The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey and William Roper, The Life of Sir
Thomas More in Richard S. Sylvester and Davis P. Harding, eds., Two Early Tudor Lives. Yale:
Yale University Press, 1962.
Anne Clifford, The Memoir of 1603 and the Diary of 1616-1619, ed. Katherine O. Acheson.
Peterborough: Broadview, 2006 AND D. J. H. Clifford, ed., The Diaries of Lady Anne Clifford.
Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 2003.)
Thomas Deloney, Jack of Newbury in Paul Salzman, ed., An Anthology of Elizabethan Prose
Fiction, Oxford World Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Lisle Letters, Selections. Copies will be provided on Blackboard.
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William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice and selected Sonnets, both in RSC
Shakespeare: The Complete Works, eds., Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen. London:
Penguin, 2007, or any edition.
Attr. Nicholas Udall, Jack Juggler in Marie Axton, ed., Three Tudor Classical Interludes.
Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1982 or online
at https://archive.org/details/anonymousplays3r00farmuoft
Isabella Whitney, Selected Poems. Copies will be provided on Blackboard. (See also Danielle
Clarke, ed., Isabella Whitney, Mary Sidney and Aemilia Lanyer: Renaissance Women Poets,
Penguin Classics. London: Penguin, 2000.)
Thomas Wyatt, Selected Poems, ed. Hardiman Scott. Manchester: Carcanet, 2003.
Or online (in original spelling)
at http://literature.proquest.com/toc.do?sourceId=Z000544452&action=new&area=poetrytoc&divLevel=0&queryId=&mapping=toc#scroll&DurUrl=Yes
Specific recommendations for critical reading will be given out in each lecture.
General Reading
Altman, Joel B. The Tudor Play of Mind. Berkeley and London: The University of California
Press, 1978.
Aughterson, Kate. Renaissance Woman. London: Routledge, 1995.
Baldwin, T. W. William Shakespeare’s Petty School. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1943.
Belsey, Catherine. The Subject of Tragedy: Identity and Difference in Renaissance Drama.
London: Methuen, 1985.
Clare, Janet. “Trangressing Boundaries: Women's Writing in the Renaissance and
Reformation”, Renaissance Forum 1.1 (1996).
Craik, T.W. The Tudor Interlude. Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1958.
Daybell, James ed. Early Modern Women’s Letter Writing, 1450-1700. Houndsmill: Palgrave,
2001.
Dillon, Janette. The Cambridge Introduction to Early English Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2006.
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Duffy, Eamon. The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional religion in England 1400-1580 New
Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1992.
Englander, David et al., eds. Culture and Belief in Europe, 1450-1600 Oxford: Blackwell,
1990.
Graham, Elspeth, Hilary Hinds, Elaine Hobby and Helen Wilcox. Her Own Life:
Autobiographical Writings by Seventeenth-Century Englishwomen. London: Routledge, 1989.
Greenblatt, Stephen. Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1980.
Hadfield, Andrew. Literature and Popular Culture in Early Modern England. Farnham:
Ashgate, 2009.
Hattaway, Michael. A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture. Oxford:
Blackwell, 2000. (Includes essays on humanism, reformations, education, bible translation,
contemporary literary theories, political plays, rhetoric, identity, etc.) See also bibliographies
attached to chapters.
Hutson, Lorna. The Usurer's Daughter: Male Friendship and Fictions of Women in Sixteenth
Century England. Routledge, London, 1994.
Lanham, Richard A. The Motives of Eloquence: Literary Rhetoric in the Renaissance. New
Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1976.
Neill, Michael. Issues of Death: Mortality and Identity in English Renaissance Tragedy.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998.
Raymond, Joad, ed. The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture. Volume One: Cheap Print in
Britain and Ireland to 1660. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Rivers, Isabel. Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry. London:
Routledge, 1979.
Rhodes, Neil. The Power of Eloquence and English Renaissance Literature. Hemel
Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1992.
Sanders, N. et al., eds. The Revels History of Drama in English, Volume 2, 1500-1576. London
and New York: Methuen, 1980.
Walker, Greg. Persuasive Fictions: Faction, Faith and Political Culture in the Reign of Henry
VIII. London: Scolar Press, 1996.
--- Politics of Performance in English Renaissance Drama. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1998.
--- Writing under Tyranny. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E. Gender in History. Blackwell: Oxford, 2001.
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