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Modern Language Quarterly (1975) 36 (3): 239–260.
Published: 01 September 1975
...John C. Coldewey Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 THE LAST RISE AND FINAL DEMISE OF ESSEX TOWN DRAMA By JOHN C. COLDEWEY Cause and effect are often difficult to distinguish. Such is the dilem- ma...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (4): 583–594.
Published: 01 December 1942
...Brents Stirling Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 DANIEL’S PHILOTAS AND THE ESSEX CASE By BRENTSSTIRLING This study is concerned with charges brought against Samuel Daniel, a few years after the trial and execution of the Earl of Essex...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (4): 603–604.
Published: 01 December 1942
...R. E. Bennett Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 JOHN DONNE AND THE EARL OF ESSEX By R. E. BENNETT Walton’s statement that John Donne “waited upon” the Earl of Essex on both the Cadiz expedition (1596) and the Islands Voyage (1597...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1941) 2 (2): 325–326.
Published: 01 June 1941
...G. F. Sensabaugh By John Banks. Edited by Thomas Marshall Howe Blair. Columbia University Press, 1939. Pp. vii + 143. Copyright © 1941 by Duke University Press 1941 G. F. Sen~abaugh 325 The Unhappy Favourite or The Earl of Essex. By JOHN BANKS...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1962) 23 (3): 233–242.
Published: 01 September 1962
...G. A. Wilkes Copyright © 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 DANIEL’S PHILOTAS AND THE ESSEX CASE A RECONSIDERATION By G. A. WILKES It is well known that upon the performance of Philotus by the Chil- dren of the Queen’s Revels...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1944) 5 (2): 149–154.
Published: 01 June 1944
... compliments to Queen Eliza- beth and to the Earl of Essex, who was apparently his patron on this 0ccasion.l Yet either the conclusion of the stanza is clumsily forced or it contains a hidden significance. In all the other stanzas the first line of the refrain concerns the two...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2006) 67 (1): 7–30.
Published: 01 March 2006
... king and to actual, recent dramas of aristocratic revolt. In 1601 the Earl of Essex conspired against Elizabeth, and in the following year Marshall Biron conspired against Henry IV in France; both conspiracies failed, and the two great magnates were condemned by their monarchs and beheaded...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1972) 33 (4): 433–448.
Published: 01 December 1972
... of doing good. The successive blows of the world turned him, step by step, toward an increasing pessi- mism: first, Sidney’s inability, and his own, to gain office; then Sidney’s death; the factionalism of the later 1590s, followed by Essex’s execu- tion; “exile,” as imposed by Sir Robert Cecil...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (4): 507–515.
Published: 01 December 1942
...- perience. One of those persons, I feel reasonably certain, was the Earl of Essex. It was in 15% that Essex drew up for the Queen a statement on Irish affairs, pointing out that one of the main dangers to be feared from Spain was invasion through Ireland. It is signifi- cant that in 1596...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1940) 1 (4): 461–474.
Published: 01 December 1940
..., Leicester, Ralegh and Essex, to make it obvious that any project whatsoever which re- moved them from her presence, or provided an interest other than that of courtly dalliance, was an “error” and a wandering of fancy. A love-affair was something far more heinous, and Ralegh, anxious as he...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1941) 2 (3): 487–502.
Published: 01 September 1941
... “Shakespeare, Hayward, and Essex, PMLA, XLV ( 1930), pp. 79-80. See also the official reaction to Hayward’s book, below p. 4%. 28 CSP. Dom., 1598-1601, p. 539. 29 “The Elizabethan Middle-class Taste for History,” Journal of Modern History, I11 (1931), pp. 176-88. See also the same author’s...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1970) 31 (1): 115–118.
Published: 01 March 1970
... prints for the first time an interestingly unpleasant letter (among the Ashmolean manuscripts at the Bodleian) written by Sou thampton’s brother-in-law Arundell to Cecil when the Earl was under sentence of death for his role in the Essex rebellion. At the Huntington Library, Akrigg discovered...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1949) 10 (1): 112–113.
Published: 01 March 1949
... than that of sheriff of Essex and had no philosophic re- actions to the troubled times through which he lived. Indeed the virtue of the book is in its being a picture of an ordinary royalist country gentleman. There are already in print, to be sure, a good many diaries and memoirs of similar...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1943) 4 (4): 495–497.
Published: 01 December 1943
.... It is true that Schmid’s greatest success, in spite of the emphasis on comedy, came in the translation in Volume V which is called Die Gunst der Fursten. However, in spite of the wide popularity of his ingenious fusing of the work of four English plays on the Earl of Essex...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1949) 10 (1): 110–112.
Published: 01 March 1949
... Sir Humphrey attained no higher eminence than that of sheriff of Essex and had no philosophic re- actions to the troubled times through which he lived. Indeed the virtue of the book is in its being a picture of an ordinary royalist country gentleman. There are already in print, to be sure...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1981) 42 (3): 294–297.
Published: 01 September 1981
... impetuous Earl of Essex, the adored “Stella” of Sidney’s influential sonnet sequence, and the lover of Charles Blount, whose several children she bore and with whom she cohabited openly until a divorce from Lord Rich (made possible by her confession of adultery) enabled her a month later to enter...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1944) 5 (4): 413–427.
Published: 01 December 1944
... London” was Spenser’s birthplace, I shall begin with the Edmund Spensers recorded in London, Middlesex, or Essex. An Edmond Spencer was in 1538 a London householder and one of the livery of the Cordwainers’ company.‘ Edmund Spencer of St. Sepulchre’s appears in a subsidy roll of October 24...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1986) 47 (4): 347–365.
Published: 01 December 1986
... that among witches “killing of infants is common, both for confection of theyr oynt- ment . . . as also out of a lust to doe murder.”l2 However, Alan Macfarlane and other English scholars have remarked that these fantasies were more prevalent on the Continent than in England; in Essex...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1941) 2 (3): 506–510.
Published: 01 September 1941
..., was certainly physician to Essex and presumably to Sidney-note the reference to the infertility of Sidney’s wife on fol. 1P-and was in a position to write authoritatively. As a matter of fact, however, the Vim adds little to our factual knowledge of Sidney’s life and character, written...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1987) 48 (2): 107–123.
Published: 01 June 1987
... of Jacobean censorship. This argument does not mean, of course, that members of the ruling class might not sometimes have entertained the notion of advertising their views in the commercial theater. The performance of Richard II commissioned by Essex on the eve of his unsuccessful coup d’ttat...