...Monica H. Green © by Duke University Press 2000 JMEMS30.1-02-Green.5-40 12/21/99 4:29 PM Page 5 a From “Diseases of Women” to “Secrets of Women...

...Roland Greene This essay analyzes the figures of language and of landscape that allow Edmund Spenser to consider in an international context the virtue at the center of Book V of The Faerie Queene , justice. How, he asks, is justice projected from one society into another in an act of empire...

... to a cosmopolitan perspective that substitutes the vitiated courtesan for the virgin queen. This essay considers Behn's play–as well as its antecedent, Thomas Killigrew's Thomaso –as part of a trajectory of dramatic, poetic, and prose works, including Robert Greene's Friar Bacon and Friay Bungay , Sir Walter...

... industry, to “content” themselves with the products that are “ministered” by England itself. If the English will not wear their own cloth, then how is the industry, and indeed virtue, to be upheld? This question is at the heart of Robert Greene’s A Quip for an Upstart Courtier, or a Quaint...

... in the senses. Imaginative geopolitical acts form the basis of Roland Greene’s reflections on Spain and England in Book V of Spenser’sFaerie Queene. The essay begins with J. H. Elliott’s distinction between two models of distribut- ing empire in a landscape, the palus (a man-made boundary between...

... “include accounts, travel notes, jokes and miscellaneous comments.”7 In his transcription of the almanac diary of John Greene (1635 –57), E. M. Symonds describes Greene’s brief references to geographic location as mere “jottings,” valuable only for “the light they throw upon the amuse- ments...

...: Knighthood in Fifteenth-­Century England Steven Bruso Fordham University Bronx, New York In what is perhaps one of the most memorable scenes of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the poet...

... artisans who accused them of manufacturing insubstantial products that would not “last.” The fashionable shoe styles introduced by immigrant artisans were nonetheless in high demand among courtiers and their emulators. Robert Greene’s Quip for an Upstart Courtier (1592) thus complains of “our new...

...). Each is grateful to the others for suggestions and corrections offered during the writ- ing process, but at the same time each assumes individual responsibility for errors and omissions in her or his own section. We are, additionally, very grateful to Monica Green and Michael McVaugh...

..., in the Middle Ages a host of virtues were feminized in medieval arts and letters.13 The association of women with virtues extended beyond clerical culture, and it changed significantly between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries. In the late sixteenth century, Robert Greene’s Penelope’s Web (1587...

... seventeenth century, and the dialogues became, according to Ian Green, “the most popular” grammar-­school text- book for “Latin conversation.”35 Although many of the dialogues have a moral dimension, they primarily helped boys learn to speak Latin. Brinsley’s comment on his translation of Cordier’s...

..., catastrophic environmental disaster, accompanied by the surge in trendy “green” products as a proven marketing boon, “environmen- tality” or the material condition of the earthly world, has come to occupy a rather prominent position in cultural studies of all regions and historical periods.24...

... concerned instead with the somatic, erotic, and unconscious pleasures of visual cogni- tion and the ideational fantasies that may be built upon them. IV Two late-sixteenth-century English books, the anonymous Greenes Funeralls (John Danter, 1594) and Bartholomew Griffin’s Fidessa (Widow Orwin...

... tableau, she was presented a purse of gold by the aldermen of London, short speeches were exchanged, and then she moved on to the tableau itself. The tableau, presented on a raised platform, com- prised two mounts—one green and flourishing, one barren and brown— 252...

... by medievalists, as David Lawton has pointed out, the paradigm has resisted change.7 The idea that the Renaissance discovered “the past as past”—the thesis of Thomas Greene’s highly influential study of Renaissance human- ism, The Light in Troy —posits as a corollary vision the Middle Ages as a period...

... if this abridgment s existence testifies to a need to revive the Arcadia, it also records the potential of doing so. As Lori Humphrey New- comb writes of Robert Greene s Pandosto, which followed a similar trajectory at this time: Instead of reading the romance s conversion to chapbook form as a downward slide...

... in English Society, 1559–1625 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982), and Ian Green, in “ ‘Reformed Pastors’ and Bons Curés: The Changing Role of the Parish Clergy in Early Modern Europe,” in The Ministry: Clerical and Lay , ed. W. J. Shiels and Diana Wood (Oxford: Blackwell, 1989), 249–86, express reservations...

... to nonsacramental repentance, I will show how Green- blatt’s exclusion of practices and understandings central to medieval penance— justice, judgment, and reconciliation—profoundly affect his reading of the play in its theological, psychological, and historical dimensions. In fact, I would go further...

... of Spenser’s text. In this way plants provide, as Bruce Smith puts it, “the green matrix” for tapestry narratives, as stories emerge from a woven garden that may itself surround Spenser’s reader in her chamber, or even adorn the binding of her book with “knots” and “slips.”16 Between writing...

... Michigan University, 2022. xii, 361 pp., 2 figs., 1 table. Hardcover, paperback, ebook. [First critical edition of the chivalric romance translated by Munday and published in 1589.] Nielsen, Melinda, ed. and trans. An Illustrated “Speculum Humanae Salvationis”: Green Collection MS 000321...