Browsing Miscellaneous Renaissance Literature Reviews by Issue Date
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Review of 'Shakespeare's metrics' by Dorothy L. Sipe
(Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association, 1970-11)Miss Sipe sets out to prove correct the debated assumption that Shakespeare "wrote carefully constructed iambic verse into which he introduced only those few minor variations considered permissible in his time". Her labour ... -
Review of 'Collected poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt' edited by Muir and Thomson
(Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association, 1971-05)Daalder reviews 'Collected poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt', edited by Kenneth Muir and Patricia Thomson (Liverpool University Press, 1969). -
Review of 'Triumphal forms: structural patterns in Elizabethan poetry' by Alastair Fowler
(Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association, 1971-05)Daalder reviews "Triumphal forms: structural patterns in Elizabethan poetry' by Alastair Fowler (Cambridge University Press, 1970). -
Review of "Puritans and Libertines: Anglo-French Literary Relations in the Reformation" by Richmond
(Oxford University Press, 1984)Review of H.M. Richmond's book "Puritans and Libertines: Anglo-French Literary Relations in the Reformation" (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1981). This book, according to Daalder, is a ... -
Review of "English Metrical Psalms: Poetry as Praise and Prayer, 1535-1601" by Zim.
(Oxford University Press, 1989)A favourable review of Rivkah Zim's book "English Metrical Psalms: Poetry as Praise and Prayer, 1535-1601" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987). -
Review of "The Art of Naming" by Ferry
(Oxford University Press, 1991)A favourable review of Anne Ferry's book "The Art of Naming" (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1988). Daalder states that this book makes a valuable contribution to the study of sixteenth-century literature; ... -
Review of "The Idea of the Renaissance" by Kerrigan and Braden
(Oxford University Press, 1991)Daalder's review of "The Idea of the Renaissance" by William Kerrigan and Gordon Braden (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989). -
Review of "Images of Rape: The Heroic Tradition and its Alternatives" by Wolfthal
(Parergon, 2001)Daalder's highly favourable review of Diane Wolfthal's book "Images of Rape" The Heroic Tradition and its Alternatives" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999). -
Review of "A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture" by Michael Hattaway
(Parergon, 2002)Daalder's review of Michael Hattaway's book "A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture" (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2000). -
Review of 'The Shakespearean International Yearbook: Vols 1 and 2' by Elton and Mucciolo
(Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association, 2004-11)There are a great many different matters discussed, in these excellent volumes, which I cannot here explore or even list. Suffice it to say that the editors have adopted a very comprehensive, wide-ranging approach, ... -
Review of "Representing Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century English Popular Print and Culture" by Sophie Carter
(Parergon, 2005)Daalder's review of Sophie Carter's book "Representing Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century English Popular Print and Culture" (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004). -
Review of 'On Shakespeare and early modern literature: Essays' by John Kerrigan
(Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association, 2005-11)John Kerrigan is one of the very best of today’s commentators on “Early Modern” (I still prefer “Renaissance”) literature. Although he has also written on other periods, he here concentrates on “a body of writing which, ... -
Review of 'Graffiti and the writing arts of early modern England' by Juliet Fleming
(Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association, 2005-11)This is a curious book, which makes one feel that its author is a genuine scholar, who is dealing with an important subject and provides some knowledge by no means easily or frequently ... -
Review of 'Shakespeare, Marlowe, Jonson: New directions in biography' edited by Kozuka and Mulryne
(Parergon, 2006)Daalder's review of Takashi Kozuka and J.R Mulryne (eds) 'Shakespeare, Marlowe, Jonson: New directions in biography' (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006) -
Review of 'Diseases of the imagination and imaginary disease in the early modern period' edited by Yasmin Haskell
(Parergon, 2012)Daalder's review of 'Diseases of the imagination and imaginary disease in the early modern period' edited by Yasmin Haskell (Early European Research, 2) (Turnhout: Brepols, 2012).