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Remixing the Renaissance, 2021/22, Semester 1
Dr Brett Greatley-Hirsch
b.d.greatleyhirsch@leeds.ac.uk
Tutor information is taken from the Module Catalogue

Genre Theory, Reference Works, and General Studies

Cheney, Patrick, ‘Genre: The Idea and Work of Literary Form’, in A Companion to Renaissance Poetry, ed. by Catherine Bates (Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2018), pp. 183–97 [Online]

Cohen, Stephen, ‘Genre’, in The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature, ed. by David Scott Kastan (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), pp. 404–09 [Online]

Colie, Rosalie L., The Resources of Kind: Genre-Theory in the Renaissance, ed. by Barbara K. Lewalski (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973) [In Library]

Greene, Roland, and Stephen Cushman, eds, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 4th edn (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012) [Online]

Donker, Marjorie, and George M. Muldrow, Dictionary of Literary-Rhetorical Conventions of the English Renaissance. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1982. [In Library]

Dubrow, Heather, Genre (London: Methuen, 1982) [In Library]

Fowler, Alastair, 'The Formation of Genres in the Renaissance and After', New Literary History 34.2 (2003), 185–200 [Online]

Fowler, Alastair, Kinds of Literature: An Introduction to the Theory of Genres and Modes (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982) [In Library]

Frow, John, Genre, 2nd edn (London: Routledge, 2015) [Online]

Hurley, Michael D., and Michael O’Neill, ‘The Elements of Poetic Form’, in The Cambridge Introduction to Poetic Form (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. 16–52 [Online]

Miner, Earl. ‘Some Issues of Literary “Species, or Distinct Kind”’, in Renaissance Genres: Essays on Theory, History, and Interpretation, ed. by Barbara K. Lewalski (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1986), pp. 15–4 [In Library]

Roe, John, ‘Theories of Literary Kinds’, in A New Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture, ed. by Michael Hattaway, 2 vols (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), II: pp. 3–14 [Online]

Album Amicorum

British Library, 'Friendshop album of Moyses Walens', https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/friendship-album-of-moyses-walens

Gattei, Stefano, 'The Wandering Scot: Thomas Seget's Album Amicorum', Nuncius, 28.2 (2013), 345–463 [Online]

Heesakkers, Chris L., 'Album Amicorum', Grove Art Online, Oxford University Press, 24 Feb. 2010 [Online]

Nickson, M.A.E., Early Autograph Albums in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1970) [In Library]

Reinders, Sophie, 'Social Networking is in Our DNA: Women's Alba Amicorum as Places to Build and Affirm Group Identities', in Identity, Intertextuality, and Performance in Early Modern Song Culture, ed. by Dieuwke van der Poel, Louis Peter Grijp, and Wim van Anrooij (Leiden: Brill, 2016), pp. 150–77

Rosenthal, Margaret F., 'Fashions of Friendship in an Early Modern Illustrated Album Amicorum: British Library, MS Egerton 1191', Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 39.3 (2009), 619–41 [Online]

Schlueter, June, 'Michael van Meer's Album Amicorum, with Illustrations of London, 1614–15', Huntingon Library Quarterly, 69.2 (2006), 301–14 [Online]

Anatomy

Arthur, Thomas Joseph, 'Anatomies and the Anatomy Metaphor in Renaissance England' (PhD dissertation: University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1978) [Online]

Craik, Katharine A., ‘Poetry, Anatomy, Presence’, Renaissance Studies, 32.5 (2018), pp. 755–77 [Online]

Hodges, Devon L., ‘Of Anatomy’, in Renaissance Fictions of Anatomy (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1985), pp. 1–19 (notes pp. 125–29) [In Library] OCR REQUESTED BY LIBRARY (CRH 22/07/2021)

Murphy, Kathryn, ‘Robert Burton and the Problems of Polymathy’, Renaissance Studies, 28.2 (2014), pp. 279–97 [Online]

Murray, Patrick, ‘The Anatomy from Batholomaeus Anglicus to Robert Burton’, Notes & Queries, 63.1 (2016), pp. 37–39 [Online]

Sugg, Richard, Murder after Death: Literature and Anatomy in Early Modern England (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007) [In Library]

Wells, Susan, ‘Genres as Species and Spaces: Literary and Rhetorical Genre in The Anatomy of Melancholy’, Philosophy & Rhetoric, 47.2 (2014), pp. 113–36 [Online]

Wells, Susan, Robert Burton’s Rhetoric: An Anatomy of Early Modern Knowledge (Pittsburgh: Penn State University Press, 2019) [Online]

Williams, R. Grant, ‘Disfiguring the Body of Knowledge: Anatomical Discourse and Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy’, ELH, 68.3 (2001), pp. 593–613 [Online]

Wong, Samuel G., ‘Encyclopedism in Anatomy of Melancholy’, Renaissance and Reformation, 22.1 (1998), pp. 5–22 [Online]

Answer Poem

Bawcutt, Priscilla, ‘The Art of Flyting’, Scottish Literary Journal, 10.2 (1983), pp. 5–24 [Online]

Boswell, Christopher, ‘The Culture and Rhetoric of the Answer-Poem, 1485–1625’ (PhD dissertation: University of Leeds, 2003) [Online]

Feenstra, Hiske, Floor Kuiper, and Nadine Kuipers, ‘Skelton & Flyting’, The Skelton Project, 2013–2018, available online: http://www.skeltonproject.org/flyting/

Gray, Douglas, ‘Rough Music: Some Early Invectives and Flytings’, in English Satire and the Satiric Tradition, ed. by C.J. Rawson and Jenny Mezciems (Oxford: Blackwell, 1984), pp. 21–43 Available as an Online Course Reading in Minerva [In Library]

Hart, E.F., ‘The Answer-Poem of the Early Seventeenth Century’, The Review of English Studies, 7.25 (1956), 19–29 [Online]

Maloney, Jean, ‘Flyting: Some Aspects of Poetic Invective’ (PhD thesis: Ohio State University, 1964) [Online]

Marotti, Arthur F., ‘Answer Poetry’, in Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995), pp. 159–71 [Online]

Parks, Ward, ‘Flyting, Sounding, Debate: Three Verbal Contest Genres’, Poetics Today, 7.3 (1986), pp. 439–58 [Online]

Parks, Ward, ‘Genre and the Verbal Duel’, in Verbal Dueling in Heroic Narrative: The Homeric and Old English Traditions (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990), pp. 161–78 [Online]

Pebworth, Ted-Larry, and Claude J. Summers, ‘“Thus Friends Absent Speake”: The Exchange of Verse Letters between John Donne and Henry Wotton’, Modern Philology, 81.4 (1984), pp. 361–77 [Online]

Shrank, Cathy, ‘Answer Poetry and Other Verse “Conversations”’, in A Companion to Renaissance Poetry, ed. by Catherine Bates (Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2018), pp. 376–88 [Online]

Apology

Davis, Walter R., ‘Acting Out Ideas in Sidney’s Theory’, in Idea and Act in Elizabethan Fiction (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969), pp. 28–54 [Online]

Ferguson, Margaret W., Trials of Desire: Renaissance Defenses of Poetry (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983) [In Library]

Matz, Robert, ‘Theories and Philosophies of Poetry’, in A Companion to Renaissance Poetry, ed. by Catherine Bates (Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2018), pp. 154–65 [Online]

McEleney, Corey, and Jacqueline Wernimont, ‘Re-Reading for Forms in Sir Philip Sidney’s Defence of Poetry’, in New Formalisms and Literary Theory, ed. by Verena Theile and Linda Tredennick (New York: Palgrave, 2013), pp. 116–39 [Online]

Moore, Michael D., ‘Genre of Genre: Sidney and Defences of Poetry’, Florilegium, 16.1 (1999), pp. 147–54 [Online]

Blank Verse

Barnes, T.R., ‘Blank Verse’, in English Verse: Voice and Movement from Wyatt to Yeats (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1967), pp. 27–57 [In Library]

Halle, Morris, and Samuel Jay Keyser, ‘English III. The Iambic Pentameter’, in Versification: Major Language Types, ed. by W.K. Wimsatt (New York: MLA, 1972), pp. 217–37 [In Library] Available as an Online Course Reading in Minerva

Hardison, O.B., Jr., ‘Gorboduc and Dramatic Blank Verse, with a Note on Comedy’, in Prosody and Purpose in the English Renaissance (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989), pp. 171–95 [Online]

Shaw, Robert Burns, Blank Verse: A Guide to Its History and Use (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2007) [Online]

Smith, Barbara Hernstein, ‘Blank Verse’, in Poetic Closure: A Study in How Poems End (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968), pp. 78–84 [In Library]

Wright, George T., Shakespeare’s Metrical Art (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988) [Online]

Broadside Ballad

Atkinson, David, The English Traditional Ballad: Theory, Method, and Practice (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002) [In Library]

Fumerton, Patricia, ‘Digging into “Veritable Dunghills”: Re-appreciating Renaissance Broadside Ballads’, in A Companion to Renaissance Poetry, ed. by Catherine Bates (Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2018), pp. 414–30 [Online]

Kellerman, Robert, ‘Broadsides’, in Tudor England: An Encyclopedia, gen. ed. by Arthur F. Kinney and David Swain (New York: Garland, 2001), pp. 89–90 [Online]

McAbee, Kris, ‘Broadside Ballads’, in The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature, gen. ed. by Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr. and Alan Stewart, 3 vols (Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), I: pp. 104–09. [Online]

McNeill, Fiona, ‘Ballads’, in The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature, ed. by David Scott Kastan (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), pp. 114–18 [Online]

Nebeker, Eric, ‘The Broadside Ballad and Textual Publics’, Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900, 51.1 (2011), 1–19 [Online]

Palmer, Megan E., ‘Picturing Song across Species: Broadside Ballads in Image and Word’, Huntington Library Quarterly, 79.2 (2016), 221–44 [Online]

Poulton, Diana, ‘The Black-Letter Broadside Ballad and Its Music’, Early Music, 9.4 (1981), 427–37 [Online]

Rollins, Hyder E., ‘The Black-Letter Broadside Ballad’, PMLA, 34 (1919), 258–339 [Online]

Youens, Laura S., ‘Ballad’, in Tudor England: An Encyclopedia, gen. ed. by Arthur F. Kinney and David Swain (New York: Garland, 2001), pp. 61–62 [Online]

Character

Beecher, D.A., ‘The Overbury Characters’, Cahiers élisabéthains, 60.1(2001), 31–41 [Online]

Bos, Jacques, ‘Individuality and Inwardness in the Literary Character Sketches of the Seventeenth Century’, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 61 (1998), pp. 142–57 [Online]

Boyce, Benjamin, The Theophrastan character in England to 1642 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1947) [In Library]

Paylor, W.J. ‘Introduction’, in The Overburian Characters, ed. by W.J. Paylor (Oxford: Blackwell, 1936), pp. v–xxxi Available as an Online Course Reading in Minerva [In Library]

Korshin, Paul J., Typologies in England, 1650–1820 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982) [In Library]

Kunin, Aaron, 'Characters Lounge', Modern Language Quarterly, 70.3 (2009), pp. 291–317 [Online]

Schön, Theresa, ‘The Inventory, the Dissection, and the Literary Character Sketch’, Anglistik 30.2 (2019), pp. 15–29 [Online]

Shimizu, Akihiko, ‘Passions, Acting and Face in Early Modern Characters: An Alternative View on the Avatar’, Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, 46 (2012), pp. 569–83 [Online]

Smeed, J.W., 'Introduction', in The Theophrastan ‘Character’: The History of a Literary Genre (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985), pp. 1–46 [In Library] Available as an Online Course Reading in Minerva

Thompson, E.N.S., ‘Character Books’, in Literary Bypaths of the Renaissance (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1924), pp. 1–27 [Online]

Closet Drama

Finlay, Alison, ‘Women and Drama’, in A New Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture, ed. by Michael Hattaway, 2 vols (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), II: pp. 123–40 [Online]

Finlay, Alison, Gweno Williams, and Stephanie J. Hodgson-Wright, ‘“The Play is Ready to be Acted”: Women and Dramatic Production, 1570–1670’, Women’s Writing, 6.1 (1999), pp. 129–48 [Online]

Raber, Karen, ‘Closet Drama’, in The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature, ed. by David Scott Kastan (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), pp. 28–32 [Online]

Raber, Karen, Dramatic Difference: Gender, Class, and Genre in the Early Modern Closet Drama (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2001) [In Library]

Straznicky, Marta, ‘Closet Drama’, in A Companion to Renaissance Drama, ed. by Arthur F. Kinney (Malden: Blackwell, 2002), pp. 416–30 [Online]

Straznicky, Marta, Privacy, Playreading, and Women: Closet Drama, 1550–1700 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004) [In Library]

Straznicky, Marta, ‘Private Drama’, in The Cambridge Companion to Early Modern Women’s Writing, ed. by Laura Lunger Knoppers (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 247–59 [Online]

Tomlinson, Sophie, ‘Drama’, in A Companion to Early Modern Women’s Writing, ed. by Anita Pacheco (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002), pp. 317–35 [Online]

Commonplace

Crane, Mary Thomas, ‘Commonplace Books’, in Tudor England: An Encyclopedia, gen. ed. by Arthur F. Kinney and David Swain (New York: Garland, 2001), pp. 155–56 [Online]

Crane, Mary Thomas, Framing Authority: Sayings, Self, and Society in Sixteenth-Century England (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993) [In Library]

Hooks, Adam G., ‘Commonplace Books’, in The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature, gen. ed. by Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr. and Alan Stewart, 3 vols (Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), I: pp. 206–09 [Online]

Jenkins, Jennifer Lei, ‘Cut and Paste: Repurposing Texts from Commonplace Books to Facebook’, Journal of Popular Culture, 48.6 (2015), 1374–390 [Online]

Morris, Amy M.E., ‘From Rattlesnake Eggs to Alexander the Great: Edward Taylor's Commonplace Book’, Yearbook of English Studies, 46 (2016), pp. 90–111 [Online]

Moss, Ann, Printed Commonplace-Books and the Structuring of Renaissance Thought (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996) [Online]

Tuve, Rosemond, ‘The Criterion of Significancy’, in Elizabethan and Metaphysical Imagery (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1947), pp. 145–79 [In Library]

Complaint

Archer, Harriet, Unperfect Histories: The Mirror for Magistrates, 1559–1610 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017) [Online]

Bromley, Laura G., ‘The Lost Lucrece: Middleton’s The Ghost of Lucrece’, Papers on Language and Literature, 21.3 (1985), pp. 258–74 [Online]

Dubrow, Heather, ‘A Mirror for Complaints: Shakespeare’s Lucrece and Generic Tradition’, in Renaissance Genres: Essays on Theory, History, and Interpretation, ed. by Barbara K. Lewalski (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1986), pp. 399–417 [In Library]

Jellerson, Donald C., ‘Ghost Complaint: Historiography, Gender, and the Return of the Dead in Elizabethan Literature’ (PhD thesis: Vanderbilt University, 2009) [Online]

Kerrigan, John, ed., Motives of Woe: Shakespeare and ‘Female Complaint’: A Critical Anthology (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991) [In Library]

King, John N., ‘Traditions of Complaint and Satire’, in A New Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture, ed. by Michael Hattaway, 2 vols (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), II: pp. 326–40 [Online]

Lucas, Scott, ed., A Mirror for Magistrates: A Modernized and Annotated Edition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019) [In Library]

Schmitz, Götz, The Fall of Women in Early English Narrative Verse (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990) [In Library]

Smith, Rosalind, Michelle O’Callaghan, and Sarah C.E. Ross, ‘Complaint’, in A Companion to Renaissance Poetry, ed. by Catherine Bates (Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2018), pp. 339–52 [Online]

Smith, Rosalind, and Susan Wiseman, ‘A “goodly sample”: Exemplarity, Female Complaint and Early Modern Women’s Poetry’, in Early Modern Women and the Poem, ed. by Susan Wiseman (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016), pp. 181–200 [Online]

Swardh, Anna, ‘“Much augmented” and “somewhat beautified”: Revisions in Three Female Complaints of the 1590s’, Modern Philology, 113.3 (2016), pp. 310–30 [Online]

Country House Poem

Dubrow, Heather, 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? Reinterpreting Formalism and the Country House Poem', Modern Language Quarterly, 61.1 (2000), 59–78 [Online]

Fowler, Alastair, ed., The Country House Poem: A Cabinet of Seventeenth-Century Estate Poems (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1994) [In Library]

Hibbard, G.R., 'The Country House Poem of the Seventeenth Century', Journal of the Warburg and Courthauld Institutes, 19.1–2 (1956), 159–74 [Online]

Lockwood, Tom, '"All Hayle to Hatfeild": A New Series of Country House Poems from Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt q 44', English Literary Renaissance, 38.2 (2008), 270–303 [Online]

McGuire, Mary Ann, 'The Cavalier Country-House Poem: Mutations on a Jonsonian Tradition', Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900, 19.1 (1979), 93–108 [Online]

McLung, William A., The Country House in English Renaissance Poetry (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977) [In Library]

Conceit

Fowler, Alastair, ‘The Shakespearean Conceit’, in Conceitful Thought: The Interpretation of English Renaissance Poems (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1975), pp. 87–113 [In Library] Available as an Online Course Reading in Minerva

Halio, Jay L., ‘The Metaphor of Conception and Elizabethan Theories of the Imagination’, Neophilologus, 50.1 (1966), 454–61 [Online]

Ruthven, K.K., The Conceit (London: Methuen, 1969) [In Library]

Vickers, Nancy J., ‘“The Blazon of Sweet Beauty’s Best”: Shakespeare’s Lucrece’, in Shakespeare and the Question of Theory, ed. by Patricia Parker and Geoffrey Hartman (New York: Methuen, 1985), pp. 95–115 [Online]

Vickers, Nancy J., ‘The Body Re-membered: Petrarchan Lyric and the Strategies of Description’, in Mimesis: From Mirror to Method, Augustine to Descartes, ed. by John D. Lyons and Stephen G. Nichols, Jr (Hanover: University Press of New England, 1982), pp. 95–104 [Online]

Vickers, Nancy J., ‘Diana Described: Scattered Woman and Scattered Rhyme’, Critical Inquiry, 8.2 (1981), 265–79 [Online]

Diary

Clarke, Danielle, ‘Life Writing’, in The Oxford Handbook of English Prose, 1500–1640, ed. by Andrew Hadfield (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. 452–67 [Online]

Clarke, Elizabeth, ‘Diaries and Journals’, in A New Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture, ed. by Michael Hattaway, 2 vols (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), II: pp. 447–52 [Online]

Nandi, Miriam, Reading the Early Modern English Diary (New York: Palgrave, 2021) [Online]

Ottway, Sheila, ‘Autobiography’, in A Companion to Early Modern Women’s Writing, ed. by Anita Pacheco (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002), pp. 231–47 [Online]

Ponsonby, Arthur, English Diaries: A Review of English Diaries from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century (London: Methuen, 1923) [Online]

Smyth, Adam, ‘Diaries’, in The Oxford Handbook of English Prose, 1500–1640, ed. by Andrew Hadfield (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. 434–51 [Online]

Wray, Ramona, ‘Autobiography’, in The Cambridge Companion to Early Modern Women’s Writing, ed. by Laura Lunger Knoppers (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 194–207 [Online]

Dictionary and Word-List

Considine, John, Dictionaries in Early Modern Europe: Lexicography and the Making of Heritage (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008) [Online]

Considine, John, Small Dictionaries and Curiosity: Lexicography and Fieldwork in Post-Medieval Europe (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017) [Online]

Lexicons of Early Modern English, ed. by Ian Lancashire, https://leme.library.utoronto.ca/

Yerkes, David, ‘Dictionaries’, in The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature, ed. by David Scott Kastan (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), pp. 165–69 [Online]

Schäfer, Jürgen, Early Modern English Lexicography: A Survey of Monolingual Printed Glossaries and Dictionaries, 1475–1640, 2 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989) [In Library]

Dramatic Jig

Astington, John H., ‘An Afterpiece and Its Afterlife: A Jacobean Jig’, English Literary Renaissance, 44.1 (2014), 108–28 [Online]

Barasch, Frances K., ‘“He’s for a Iigge, or a tale of Baudry”: Sixteenth-Century Images of the Stage-Jig’, Shakespeare Bulletin, 13.1 (1995), 24–28 [Online]

Baskervill, C.R., The Elizabethan Jig and Related Song Drama (New York: Dover, c1929) [In Library]

Clegg, Roger, and Lucie Skeaping, Singing Simpkin and Other Bawdy Jigs (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2014) [Online]

Clegg, Roger, and Peter Thomson, ‘“He’s for a jig or a tale of bawdry—”: Notes on the English Dramatic Jig’, Studies in Theatre and Performance, 29.1 (2009), 67–83 [Online]

West, William N., ‘When is the Jig Up – and What is it Up To?’ in Locating the Queen’s Men, 1583–1603: Material Practices and Conditions of Playing, ed. by Helen Ostovich, Holger Schott Syme, and Andrew Griffin (Farnham: Ashgate, 2009), pp. 201–15

Echo Verse

Colby, Elbridge, The Echo-Device in Literature (New York: New York Public Library, 1920) [Online]

Hollander, John, The Figure of Echo: A Mode of Allusion in Milton and After (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981) [In Library]

Kolb, Laura, 'Stella's Voice: Echo and Collaboration in Astrophil and Stella 57 and 58', Sidney Journal, 30.1 (2012), pp. 79–100 [Online]

Nauman, Jonathan, 'Herbert and Monteverdi: Sacred Echo and the Italian Baroque', George Herbert Journal, 30.1–2 (2006–7), pp. 96–108 [Online]

Emblem

Bath, Michael, ‘Emblem Books’, in Tudor England: An Encyclopedia, gen. ed. by Arthur F. Kinney and David Swain (New York: Garland, 2001), pp. 228–29 [Online]

Bath, Michael, Speaking Pictures: English Emblem Books and Renaissance Culture (London: Longman, 1994) [In Library]

Daly, Peter, The Emblem in Early Modern Europe: Contributions to the Theory of the Emblem (New York: Routledge, 2014) [Online]

Daly, Peter, Literature in Light of the Emblem: Structural Parallels between the Emblem and Literature in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, 2nd edn (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998) [Online]

Enenkel, Karl A.E., The Invention of the Emblem Book and the Transmission of Knowledge, ca. 1510–1610 (Leiden: Brill, 2019) [Online]

Engel, William E., ‘Emblem Books’, in The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature, gen. ed. by Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr. and Alan Stewart, 3 vols (Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), I: pp. 322–26 [Online]

Moseley, C.W.R.D., ed., A Century of Emblems: An Introductory Anthology (Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1989) [In Library]

Essay

Black, Scott, Of Essays and Reading in Early Modern Britain (New York: Palgrave, 2006) [Online]

Imbrie, Ann, ‘Defining Nonfiction Genres’, in Renaissance Genres: Essays on Theory, History, and Interpretation, ed. by Barbara K. Lewalski (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1986), pp. 45–69 [In Library]

Lee, John, ‘The English Renaissance Essay: Churchyard, Cornwallis, Florio’s Montaigne, and Bacon’, in A New Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture, ed. by Michael Hattaway, 2 vols (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), II: pp. 437–46 [Online]

Rozett, Martha, ‘Essay’, in Tudor England: An Encyclopedia, gen. ed. by Arthur F. Kinney and David Swain (New York: Garland, 2001), pp. 241–42 [Online]

Salzman, Paul, ‘Essays’, in The Oxford Handbook of English Prose, 1500–1640, ed. by Andrew Hadfield (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. 468–83 [Online]

Scodel, Joshua, ‘The Early English Essay’, in A Companion to British Literature, ed. by. Robert DeMaria, Jr., Heesok Chang, and Samantha Zacher, 4 vols (Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 2014), II: pp. 213–30 [In Library] Available as an Online Course Reading in Minerva

Williamson, George, The Senecan Amble: A Study in Prose Form from Bacon to Collier (London: Faber, 1951) [In Library]

Fourteener and Poulter’s Measure

Cummings, Robert, ‘Abraham Fleming’s Eclogues’, Translation and Literature, 19 (2010), pp. 147–69 [Online]

Fernández, José María Perez, ‘Translation and Metrical Experimentation in Sixteenth-Century English Poetry: The Case of Surrey's Biblical Paraphrases’, Cahiers élisabéthains, 71.1 (2007), pp. 1–13 [Online]

Hunt, Maurice, ‘Fourteeners in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline’, Notes & Queries, 47.4 (2000), pp. 458–61 [Online]

Malof, Joseph, ‘Poulter’s Measure (PM), Short Measure, Short Meter (SM)’, in A Manual of English Meters (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1970), pp. 112–16

Schipper, Jakob, ‘The Septenary, the Alexandrine, and the Three-Foot Line’, in A History of English Versification (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1910), pp. 192–204 [Online]

Taylor, Anthony Brian, ‘Lively, Dynamic, but Hardly a Thing of “rhythmic beauty”: Arthur Golding’s Fourteeners’, Connotations, 2.3 (1992), pp. 205–22 [Online]

Funeral Elegy

Berkowitz, Steven, ‘Elegy’, in Tudor England: An Encyclopedia, gen. ed. by Arthur F. Kinney and David Swain (New York: Garland, 2001), pp. 221–23 [Online]

Brady, Andrea, ‘Funeral Elegy’, in A Companion to Renaissance Poetry, ed. by Catherine Bates (Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2018), pp. 353–64 [Online]

Clymer, Lorna, ‘The Funeral Elegy in Early Modern Britain: A Brief History’, in The Oxford Handbook of the Elegy, ed. by Karen Weisman (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 170–86 [Online]

Doelman, James, The Daring Muse of the Early Stuart Funeral Elegy (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021)

Hurley, Michael D., and Michael O’Neill, ‘The Elegy’, in The Cambridge Introduction to Poetic Form (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. 100–19 [Online]

Kay, Dennis, Melodious Tears: The English Funeral Elegy from Spenser to Milton (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990) [In Library]

Lyon, John, ‘The Critical Elegy’, in A New Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture, ed. by Michael Hattaway, 2 vols (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), II: pp. 204–13 [Online]

Pigman, G.W., Grief and English Renaissance Elegy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985) [In Library]

Sacks, Peter M., The English Elegy: Studies in the Genre from Spenser to Yeats (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985) [In Library]

Zeiger, Melissa, ‘Elegy’, in The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature, ed. by David Scott Kastan (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), pp. 243–48 [Online]

Jest Book

Munro, Ian, and Anne Lake Prescott, ‘Jest Books’, in The Oxford Handbook of English Prose, 1500–1640, ed. by Andrew Hadfield (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. 343–59 [Online]

Reinke-Williams, Tim, ‘Misogyny, Jest-Books and Male Youth Culture in Seventeenth-Century England’, Gender & History, 21.2 (2009), 324–39 [Online]

Smyth, Adam, ‘ “Divines into dry Vines”: Forms of Jesting in Renaissance England’, in Formal Matters: Reading the Materials of English Renaissance Literature, ed. by Allison K. Deutermann and András Kiséry (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013), pp. 55–76 [Online]

Wilson, F.P., ‘The English Jestbooks of the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries’, Huntington Library Quarterly, 2.2 (1939), 121–58 [Online]

Woodbridge, Linda, ‘Jest Books, the Literature of Roguery, and the Vagrant Poor in Renaissance England’, English Literary Renaissance, 33.2 (2003), 201–10 [Online]

Zall, Paul M., ed., A Hundred Merry Tales and Other English Jestbooks of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1963) [In Library]

Zall, Paul M., ed., A Nest of Ninnies and Other English Jestbooks of the Seventeenth Century (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1970) [In Library]

Letter

Daybell, James, ‘Letters’, in The Cambridge Companion to Early Modern Women’s Writing, ed. by Laura Lunger Knoppers (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 181–93 [Online]

Gibson, Jonathan, ‘Letters’, in A New Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture, ed. by Michael Hattaway, 2 vols (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), II: pp. 453–60 [Online]

Kyle, Chris R., ‘Newsletters’, in The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature, gen. ed. by Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr. and Alan Stewart, 3 vols (Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), II: pp. 736–39 [Online]

Raymond, Joad, ‘News Writing’, in The Oxford Handbook of English Prose, 1500–1640, ed. by Andrew Hadfield (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. 396–414 [Online]

Schneider, Gary, ‘Letters in Print’, in The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature, gen. ed. by Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr. and Alan Stewart, 3 vols (Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), II: pp. 592–96 [Online]

Stapleton, M.L., ‘Letters of Address, Letters of Exchange’, in A Companion to Renaissance Poetry, ed. by Catherine Bates (Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2018), pp. 365–75 [Online]

Stewart, Alan, ‘Letters’, in The Oxford Handbook of English Prose, 1500–1640, ed. by Andrew Hadfield (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. 417–33 [Online]

Masque

Bergeron, David M., ‘Court Masques about Stuart London’, Studies in Philology, 113.4 (2016), 822–49 [Online]

Kinney, Arthur F., and David Swain, ‘Masques’, in Tudor England: An Encyclopedia, gen. ed. by Arthur F. Kinney and David Swain (New York: Garland, 2001), pp. 473–74 [Online]

Knowles, James, ‘“Tied to rules of flattery”? Court Drama and the Masque’, in A New Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture, ed. by Michael Hattaway, 2 vols (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), II: pp. 105–22 [Online]

Lindley, David, ‘Masque’, in A New Companion to Renaissance Drama, ed. by Arthur F. Kinney and Thomas Warren Hopper (Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell, 2017), pp. 357–70 [Online]

Meagher, John C., Method and Meaning in Jonson’s Masques (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1966) [In Library]

Morris, Ann Pleiss, ‘The Queen’s Masques: Rethinking Jacobean Masques and an English Feminine Theater’, Philological Quarterly, 97.4 (2018), pp. 467–80 [Online]

Orgel, Stephen, The Jonsonian Masque (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1967) [In Library]

Orgel, Stephen, ‘Masque’, in The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature, ed. by David Scott Kastan (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), pp. 428–30 [Online]

Shohet, Lauren, Reading Masques: The English Masque and Public Culture in the Seventeenth Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010) [Online]

Twycross, Meg, and Sarah Carpenter, Masks and Masking in Medieval and Early Tudor England (Farnham: Asghate, 2002) [Online]

Nonsense Verse and Medley

Fall, Rebecca L., '"The Best Fooling": Every Man Out of His Humour, Twelfth Night, and Early Modern English Nonsense Games', in The Edinburgh Companion to Nonsense, ed. by Anna Barton and James Williams (Edinburgh:Edinburgh University Press, 2021)

Fall, Rebecca L., 'Nonsense and Rebellion', Shakespeare Studies, 46 (2018), pp. 137–43 [Online]

Fall, Rebecca L., 'Popular Nonsense According to John Taylor and Ben Jonson', Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900, 57.1 (2017), pp. 87–110 [Online]

Hartle, P.N., '"All his workes sir": John Taylor's Nonsense', Neophilologus, 86.1 (2002), pp. 155–69 [Online]

Jones, Malcolm, '"Such pretty things would soon be gone": The Neglected Genres of Popular Verse 1480–1650', in A New Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture, ed. by Michael Hattaway, 2 vols (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), II: pp. 359–81 [Online]

Long, John H., 'The Ballad Medley and the Fool', Studies in Philology, 67.4 (1970), pp. 505–16 [Online]

Malcolm, Noel, 'The Origins and Development of English Seventeenth-Century Nonsense Poetry', in The Origins of English Nonsense (London: HarperCollins, 1997), pp. 3–29 Available as an Online Course Reading in Minerva

Roberts, Hugh, 'Comparative Nonsense: French Galimatias and English Fustian', Renaissance Studies, 30.1 (2016), pp. 102–19 [Online]

Semler, L.E., 'The Caroline Grotesque in Verse: Robert Herrick, Richard Flecknoe and John Taylor', Yearbook of English Studies, 44 (2014), pp. 137–55 [Online]

Spadaro, Katrina L., 'On Classification and the Grotesque: Theorising Para-Genre in Early Modern Nonsense Verse and Montaigne's Essais', Journal of Language, Literature and Culture, 66.1 (2019), pp. 16–30 [Online]

Pamphlet and Rogue Literature

Aydelotte, Frank, Elizabethan Rogues and Vagabonds (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913) [In Library]

Bayman, Anna, ‘ “Large Hands, Wide Eares, and Piercing Sights”: The “Discoveries” of the Elizabethan and Jacobean Witch Pamphlets’, Literature & History, 16.1 (2007), pp. 26–45 [Online]

Bayman, Anna, ‘Rogues, Conycatching and the Scribbling Crew’, History Workshop Journal, 63 (2007), pp. 1–17 [Online]

Boecker, Bettina, ‘Falsehood, Fact and Fiction in Early Modern Rogue Literature: Robert Greene’s Cony-Catching Pamphlets’, Poetica, 41.1–2 (2009), 97–125 [Online]

Clark, Sandra, ‘Popular Literature’, in Tudor England: An Encyclopedia, gen. ed. by Arthur F. Kinney and David Swain (New York: Garland, 2001), pp. 559–61 [Online]

Judges, A.V., ed., The Elizabethan Underworld (London: Routledge, 1930) [In Library]

Kinney, Arthur F., ed. Rogues, Vagabonds, and Sturdy Beggars: A New Gallery of Tudor and Early Stuart Rogue Literature (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1990) [In Library]

Raymond, Joad, ‘News Writing’, in The Oxford Handbook of English Prose, 1500–1640, ed. by Andrew Hadfield (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. 396–414 [Online]

Raymond, Joad, Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002) [In Library]

Salgado, Gamini, The Elizabethan Underworld (Stroud: Sutton, 1992) [In Library]

Pastoral

Alpers, Paul J., What is Pastoral? (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996) [Online]

Chaudhuri, Sukanta, ed., Pastoral Poetry of the English Renaissance: An Anthology (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016) [Online]

Chaudhuri, Sukanta, Renaissance Pastoral and Its English Developments (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989) [In Library]

Cooper, Helen, Pastoral: Mediaeval into Renaissance (Ipswich: Brewer, 1977) [In Library]

Gifford, Terry, Pastoral (London: Routledge, 2001) [Online]

Greg, W.W., Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama (London: A.H. Bullen, 1906) [Online]

Hiltner, Ken, What Else is Pastoral? Renaissance Literature and the Environment (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2011) [Online]

Watson, Robert N., Back to Nature: The Green and the Real in the Late Renaissance (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008) [In Library]

Satire

Archer, Harriet, Unperfect Histories: The Mirror for Magistrates, 1559–1610 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017) [Online]

Baumlin, James S., ‘Generic Context of Elizabethan Satire: Rhetoric, Poetic Theory, and Imitation’, in Renaissance Genres: Essays on Theory, History, and Interpretation, ed. by Barbara K. Lewalski (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1986), pp. 444–67 [In Library] Available as an Online Course Reading in Minerva

Blanchard, W. Scott, ‘Renaissance Prose Satire: Italy and England’, in A Companion to Satire, ed. by Ruben Quintero (Malden: Blackwell, 2007), pp. 118–36 [Online]

Cavanagh, Dermot, ‘Modes of Satire’, in The Oxford Handbook of English Prose, 1500–1640, ed. by Andrew Hadfield (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. 380–95 [Online]

Jensen, Ejner J., ‘Verse Satire in the English Renaissance’, in A Companion to Satire, ed. by Ruben Quintero (Malden: Blackwell, 2007), pp. 101–17 [Online]

King, John N., ‘Traditions of Complaint and Satire’, in A New Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture, ed. by Michael Hattaway, 2 vols (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), II: pp. 326–40 [Online]

Medine, Peter E., ‘Satire’, in Tudor England: An Encyclopedia, gen. ed. by Arthur F. Kinney and David Swain (New York: Garland, 2001), pp. 622–24 [Online]

O’Callaghan, Michelle, ‘Verse Satire’, in A Companion to Renaissance Poetry, ed. by Catherine Bates (Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2018), pp. 389–400 [Online]

Renner, Bernd, ‘“Real versus Ideal”: Utopia and the Early Modern Satirical Tradition’, Renaissance and Reformation, 41.3 (2018), pp. 47–66 [Online]

Sermon

Carlson, Peter, ‘Sermons’, in The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature, gen. ed. by Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr. and Alan Stewart, 3 vols (Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), III: pp. 860–64 [Online]

Ferrell, Lori Anne, ‘Sermons’, in The Elizabethan Top Ten: Defining Print Popularity in Early Modern England, ed. by Andy Kesson and Emma Smith (Farnham: Ashgate, 2013), pp. 193–202 [Online]

McCullough, Peter, ‘Preaching and Context: John Donne’s Sermon at the Funerals of Sir William Cokayne’, in The Oxford Handbook of the Early Modern Sermon, ed. by Peter McCullough, Hugh Adlington, and Emma Rhatigan (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. [In Library]

McKelvey, Chelsea Rice, ‘The “Glorie, Might, & Maiestie” of Early Modern Sermons’, Literature & Theology, 28.1 (2014), pp. 1–15 [Online]

Morrissey, Mary, Politics and the Paul’s Cross Sermons, 1558–1642 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011) [Online]

Rigney, James, ‘Sermons into Print’, in The Oxford Handbook of the Early Modern Sermon, ed. by Peter McCullough, Hugh Adlington, and Emma Rhatigan (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. [Online]

Shami, Jeanne, ‘The Sermon’, in The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern English Literature and Religion, ed. by Andrew Hiscock and Helen Wilcox (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. 185–206 [Online]

Smith, Matthew J., ‘God’s Idioms: Sermon Belief in Donne’s London’, English Literary Renaissance, 46.1 (2016), pp. 93–128 [Online]

Wall, John N., ‘Sermons’, in Tudor England: An Encyclopedia, gen. ed. by Arthur F. Kinney and David Swain (New York: Garland, 2001), pp. 635–37 [Online]

Soliloquy

Bruster, Douglas, To Be or Not to Be (London: Continuum, 2007) [Online]

Clemen, Wolfgang, Shakespeare’s Soliloquies (London: Methuen, 1987) [In Library]

Cousins, A.D., and Daniel Derrin, ed., Shakespeare and the Soliloquy in Early Modern English Drama (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018) [In Library]

Hirsh, James, ‘Dialogic Self-Address in Shakespeare’s Plays’, Shakespeare, 8.3 (2012), pp. 312–27 [Online]

Hirsh, James, Shakespeare and the History of Soliloquies (Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2003) [Online]

Hurley, Michael D., and Michael O’Neill, ‘Soliloquy’, in The Cambridge Introduction to Poetic Form (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. 145–66 [Online]

Wright, George T., Shakespeare’s Metrical Art (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988) [Online]

Sonnet

Bates, Catherine, ‘Synecdochic Structures in the Sonnet Sequences of Sidney and Spenser’, in A Companion to Renaissance Poetry, ed. by Catherine Bates (Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2018), pp. 276–88 [Online]

Booth, Stephen, ‘The Value of the Sonnets’, in A Companion to Shakespeare’s Sonnets, ed. by Michael Schoenfeldt (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006), pp. 15–26 [Online]

Craik, Katharine, ‘Sidney, Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Sonnet and Lyric’, in The Cambridge History of English Poetry, ed. by Michael O’Neill (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 154–72 [Online]

Crosland, T.W.H., The English Sonnet (London: Martin Secker, 1917) [Online]

Henderson, Diana E., ‘The Sonnet, Subjectivity and Gender’, in The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet, ed. by A.D. Cousins and Peter Howarth (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), pp. 46–65 [Online]

Hurley, Michael D., and Michael O’Neill, ‘The Sonnet’, in The Cambridge Introduction to Poetic Form (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. 76–99 [Online]

Kennedy, William J., ‘European Beginnings and Transmissions’, in The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet, ed. by A.D. Cousins and Peter Howarth (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), pp. 84–104 [Online]

Neely, Carol Thomas, ‘The Structure of English Renaissance Sonnet Sequences’, ELH, 45.3 (1978), 359–89 [Online]

Regan, Stephen, ‘The Sonnet and Its Travels’, CounterText, 3.2 (2017), pp. 162–75 [Online]

Roche, Thomas P., ‘Sonnet Sequences’, in Tudor England: An Encyclopedia, gen. ed. by Arthur F. Kinney and David Swain (New York: Garland, 2001), p. 661 [Online]

Shrank, Cathy, ‘“Matters of Love as of Discourse”: The English Sonnet, 1560–1580’, Studies in Philology, 105.1 (2008), 30–49 [Online]

Spiller, Michael R.G., The Development of the Sonnet: An Introduction (London: Routledge, 1992) [Online]

Spenserian Stanza

Alpers, Paul J., ‘Spenser’s Poetic Language’, in The Poetry of The Faerie Queene (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1967), pp. 70–106 [Online]

Brown, Richard Danson, ‘Unusual Staff: The Archaeology of the Spenserian Stanza’, in The Art of The Faerie Queene (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019), pp. 139–91 [In Library]

Dolven, Jeff, ‘The Method of Spenser’s Stanza’, Spenser Studies, 19 (2004), pp. 17–25 [Online]

Hadfield, Andrew, ‘Spenser’, in The Cambridge History of English Poetry, ed. by Michael O’Neill (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 136–53 [Online]

MacDonald, Julia, ‘Keeping Time in Spenser and Shakespeare: The Temporality of Spenserian Stanza and Shakespearean Blank Verse’, Ben Jonson Journal, 22.1 (2015), pp. 83–100 [Online]

Oras, Ants, ‘Intensified Rhyme Links in The Faerie Queene: An Aspect of Elizabethan Rhymecraft’, Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 54.1 (1955), 39–60 [Online]

Rhetorical Figures and Devices

Adamson, Sylvia, Gavin Alexander, and Katrin Ettenhuber, (eds), Renaissance Figures of Speech (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007) [Online]

Lanham, Richard A., A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms, 2nd edn (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991) [In Library]

Lanham, Richard A., The Motives of Eloquence: Literary Rhetoric in the Renaissance (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976) [In Library]

Lausberg, Heinrich, Handbook of Literary Rhetoric: A Foundation for Literary Study, trans. by David E. Orton and R. Dean Anderson (Leiden: Brill, 1998) [In Library]

Mack, Maynard, A History of Renaissance Rhetoric, 1380–1620 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011) [In Library]

Mack, Peter, Renaissance Rhetoric (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1994) [In Library]

Plett, Heinrich F., Literary Rhetoric: Concepts – Structures – Analyses (Leiden: Brill, 2010) [Online]

Silva Rhetoricae, ed. by Gideon Burton, http://rhetoric.byu.edu/

Stamatakis, Chris, Sir Thomas Wyatt and the Rhetoric of Rewriting: Turning the Word (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012) [Online]

Palaeography and Other Early Modern Skills

English Handwriting Online 1500–1700, dir. by Andrew Zurcher, https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/ceres/ehoc/

Letterlocking, dir. by Jana Dambrogio and Daniel Starza Smith, http://letterlocking.org/

Palaeography: Reading Old Handwriting, 1500–1800, National Archives, https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/palaeography/

Primary Sources

Early English Books Online (EEBO), ProQuest [Online] [See also user guides]

Emblematica Online, dir. by Mara R. Wade, http://emblematica.grainger.illinois.edu/

The Emblem Collection of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Internet Archive, https://archive.org/details/emblem

English Broadside Ballad Archive, dir. by Patricia Fumerton, https://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/

English Emblem Book Project, dir. by Sandra K. Stelts, https://libraries.psu.edu/about/collections/english-emblem-book-project

Gateway to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons (GEMMS), https://gemmsorig.usask.ca/ (see also Sermon Taxonomy)

Lexicons of Early Modern English, ed. by Ian Lancashire, https://leme.library.utoronto.ca/

Literary Manuscripts Leeds, Adam Matthew Digital [Online]

Literature Online (LION), ProQuest [Online]

Adaptation and Translation

Burrow, Colin, Imitating Authors: Plato to Futurity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019) [Online]

Cutchins, Dennis R., Katja Krebs, and Eckart Voigts-Virchow (eds), The Routledge Companion to Adaptation (New York: Routledge, 2017) [Online]

Elliott, Kamilla, Theorizing Adaptation (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020) [Online]

Gomes, Miguel Ramalhete, Translation, the Canon and Its Discontents: Version and Subversion (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2017) [Online]

Harold, James, 'The Value of Fidelity in Adaptation', British Journal of Aesthetics, 58.1 (2018), 89–100 [Online]

Hutcheon, Linda, with Siobhan O'Flynn, A Theory of Adaptation, 2nd edn (New York: Routledge, 2013) [Online]

Krebs, Katja, (ed.), Translation and Adaptation in Theatre and Film (New York: Routledge, 2013) [In Library]

Leitch, Thomas M., (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Adaptation Studies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017) [Online]

Morini, Massimiliano, Tudor Translation in Theory and Practice (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006) [In Library]

Oakley-Brown, Liz, 'Translation', in A New Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture, ed. by Michael Hattaway, 2 vols (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), vol. 1, pp. 151–64 [Online]

Sanders, Julie, Adaptation and Appropriation, 2nd edn (London: Routledge, 2016) [Online]

Remixes

Bertocci, Adam, The Most Excellent Comedie and Tragical Romance of Two Gentlemen of Lebowski (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010) [In Library]

Didriksen, Erik, Pop Sonnets: Shakespearean Spins on Your Favourite Songs (London: Fourth Estate, 2015) [In Library]

Didriksen, Erik, Pop Sonnets, 2014–2016, available online: https://popsonnet.tumblr.com/

Doescher, Ian, William Shakespeare’s Star Wars: Verily, a New Hope (Philadelphia: Quirk Books, 2013) [In Library]

Doescher, Ian, William Shakespeare’s Star Wars: The Empire Striketh Back (Philadelphia: Quirk Books, 2014) [In Library]

Doescher, Ian, William Shakespeare’s Star Wars: The Jedi Doth Return (Philadelphia: Quirk Books, 2014) [In Library]

Dominitz, Alexander, dir., ‘95 Theses’, YouTube, 2008, available online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt5AJr0wls0

North, Ryan, To Be or Not To Be: A Chooseable-Path Adventure (New York: Breadpig, 2013) [In Library]

North, Ryan, Romeo and/or Juliet: A Chooseable-Path Adventure (London: Orbit, 2016) [In Library]

Scannell, Vernon, ‘Another View of Thanatos’, in Answering Back: Living Poets Respond to the Poetry of the Past, ed. by Carol Ann Duffy (London: Picador, 2007), p. 39 [In Library]

Sheers, Owen, ‘Elegy: To Her Husband Going To Bed’, in Answering Back: Living Poets Respond to the Poetry of the Past, ed. by Carol Ann Duffy (London: Picador, 2007), pp. 88–89 [In Library]

Von Blingin, Hildegard, ‘Jolene’, YouTube, 2020, available online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugqQlB5fpuc

Von Blingin, Hildegard, ‘Somebody That I Used To Know’, YouTube, 2020, available online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch1aVmjvYTI

Von Blingin, Hildegard, ‘What is Love’, YouTube, 2020, available online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kbj4bulZX2Y

This list was last updated on 29/11/2021

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