Traditions and Innovations: Essays on British Literature of the Middle Ages and the RenaissanceDavid G. Allen, Robert A. White University of Delaware Press, 1990 - 271 pages This collection considers a wide range of texts, authors, and concerns--from the Man of Law's Tale to Tis Pity She's a Whore; from the mysterious Thomas Malory to the widely visible Ben Jonson; from the image of St. Paul's thorn in Troilus and Criseyde to the Renaissance iconography of Ganymede. |
Contents
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Separations and St Pauls Thorn in Chaucers Troilus | 35 |
of Chaucers Canterbury Tales and the Mental | 50 |
Tracing the Provenance | 75 |
Spensers Arachnean | 88 |
Patriarchal Fatherhood in Ben Jonsons Epigram 45 | 102 |
Traditions and Subtext | 126 |
Thomas Heywoods A Woman Killed with Kindness as Domestic | 150 |
Type and Antitype | 177 |
The Temptation of | 187 |
Poetry as Sacred | 214 |
Resonance in the Poetry of Robert Herrick | 223 |
Iconographic Traditions and Peachams | 231 |
King George of England Meets Samuel Johnson the Great Cham | 251 |
Notes on Contributors | 265 |
The Tragedy of Annabella in Tis Pity Shes a Whore | 163 |
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