...Ronda Arab This essay examines envy within a particular historical circumstance, that of the noninheriting younger son, and contributes to scholarship that situates the etiology of emotion (and its resultant consequences) within culture and history . In Sir George Sondes His plaine Narrative...

...Hannah Coates From his appointment as principal secretary to Elizabeth I in 1573, Sir Francis Walsingham was instrumental in every sphere of English diplomacy. He was particularly interested in maintaining friendly relations with Scotland, though this was complicated by his suspicions of individual...

...Sara A. Murphy Sir David Lindsay's Scottish drama, Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis (1552-54), includes striking portrayals of uncontrollable women, from noblewoman Dame Sensualitie's usurpation of the Scottish king's secular power on behalf of the Catholic Church to Foly's wife, whose Rabelaisian...

... 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...

... Collected by … Sir Dudly Digges Knight, late Master of the Rolls.” However, this survey of seventeen of the twenty-six or more extant manuscripts containing the same material raises questions about the work’s connection with Digges. The article shows how the printed book derived from letters that had been...

...Nathalie Rivère de Carles Sir Henry Wotton’s definition of an ambassador as “an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country” should be confronted with his later assessment that the ambassador “should alwayes, and upon all occasions speak the truth … ’twill also put [his] Adversaries...

... by a striking dramatization of international “current events” performed in the same year by the King's Men at the Globe Theatre. Reading John Donne's sermons at Heidelberg and the Hague alongside John Fletcher and Philip Massinger's collaborative The Tragedy of Sir John Van Olden Barnavelt , this essay...

...Dennis Austin Britton The travel narratives in Theodor De Bry's America and the collection itself are often read allegorically: the events in the New World are read as signifying Protestant-Catholic conflict on the European continent. Attending to differences between the English text of Sir Walter...

... Centre for Medieval Studies Toronto, Ontario Deposition of an heir nonapparent It is a truth universally acknowledged that the Middle English Sir Orfeo—a poem drawing in complex ways on classical, Celtic, and Christian traditions— is a sugar-candied, bowdlerized...

... plays provide evidence of popular opposition to the enterprise. In Jonson’s The Alchemist (1610), Sir Epicure Mammon “would ha’built / The city new; and made a ditch about it / of silver.” Instead of rid- ding the kingdom of plague, the aptly named knight opts to “serve th’whole city...

... In a document entitled “Generall heads of things in the Office of Papers, July 29, 1618,” Sir Thomas Wilson, the Keeper of Records under James I, catalogued the archival records and diplomatic correspondence he had been organizing at Whitehall since 1612 as the State Paper...

... Studies 50:1, January 2020 DOI 10.1215/10829636-7986637 © 2020 by Duke University Press A book that all have heard of . . . but that nobody reads : Philip Sidney s Arcadia in the Eighteenth Century Natasha Simonova University of Oxford Oxford, United Kingdom Sir Philip Sidney s unfinished romance...

... of an immutable constitution that had become a “native birthright” as a result of its antiquity. Sir John Dodderidge was the most vocal proponent of this view, proposing that English laws in general and Parliament specifically could be traced directly back to the first settlers on the British archipelago...

...: 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...

...” (2.5.72). The play’s trope of love as an airborne scent is strengthened by the play’s comic subplots. In a scene between Feste, Sir Andrew, and Sir Toby, Sir Andrew remarks on Feste’s “sweet breath.” The scene quickly erupts into a series of puns on music and odor, extending the first act’s...

... Networks Claire Walker University of Adelaide Adelaide, South Australia On November 5, 1659, Abbess Mary Knatchbull (1610 – 1696) of the English Benedictine cloister in Ghent wrote her weekly letter to Sir Edward...

..., Thomas Malory suddenly and uncharacteristically breaks into his narrative to give a comment on events that might have seemed all too familiar to a generation of readers who had lived through the Wars of the Roses: And so fared the peple at that tyme: they were better pleased with sir...

... in the contested arena of funerary monuments. His description of the grandiose tomb of Sir Christopher Hatton includes the following verse written by “a merry poet” upon the wall there: Philip and Francis have no Tombe, For great Christopher takes all the roome. (SL, 1:338) Aside from...

... form in thirteenth- through sixteenth-century England, and its very popularity encouraged much textual variety. Many of the most frequently attested poems of the time are romances: Sir Isumbras and Robert of Sicily, for instance, survive in nine copies each, while Beves of Hamtoun and The Siege...