17th century english literature

En este artículo se ofrece un análisis de la época histórica en la que vivió Lady Ann Fanshawe -la Inglaterra del siglo XVII-, utilizando un enfoque neohistoricista y tomando como fuente primaria su autobiografía, escrita entre 1676 y 1678, así como las cartas que su marido, Sir Richard Fanshawe, escribió durante su estancia en España, sobre ciertos eventos acontecidos en las décadas de los años 40, 50 y 60, a fin de documentar su pasión por España. Las memorias de lady Ann Fanshawe nos proporcionarán acceso a ciertos detalles de la vida privada de una mujer apasionante, anglicana y monárquica, que representa un sector de la población que, hasta hace unos años, no había sido considerado por la Historia tradicional, y que participó en determinados acontecimientos de gran interés histórico.

The drama of Renaissance England was truly remarkable and The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster has long been recognized as one of the crowning glories of the English Renaissance. The play begins as a love story, with a Duchess who marries beneath her class, ends as a tragedy as her two brothers take revenge of disobeying their authority and destroying themselves in the process. In this drama, John Webster mainly glorified the renaissance spirit in women during the 16th and 17th century. Webster created in the character Duchess of Malfi what Shakespeare never did, a tragic female protagonist who represents a challenge to social hierarchy and “natural” order.

"Abstract: This paper queries about certain dubious assertions by Burg in her essay，“True Relation: The Life
and Career of Ben Jonson”and discusses and proves the viewpoints of the present author with detailed examples
and quotations: Jonson is a renown classicist who was profoundly influenced by the ancient Greek and Roman
authors． It is proved that one third of his poems are lyrics． There are some soliloquies in his dramas．
Key words: Jonson lyrics one third of his poems soliloquies
Author: Guo Hui，associate professor of Hebei University of Engineering( Handan 056038，China) ． Main
research fields: English poetry，Christian literature and verse translation． Wang Xiaofen，lecturer of School
of Foreign Languages and Cultures，Xihua University ( Chengdu 610039，China) Main research fields: Japanese
culture，comparative studies between English，Japanese and Chinese poetry，and educational psychology．
Qian Zhifu，associate professor of School of Foreign Languages in Ningbo University ( Ningbo 315211，
China) ． Main research fields: Chinese poetry and English literature． Email: tea2010@163． com"

The critic, moralist, philosopher and French writer Saint-Évremond (1613-1703) lived exiled in England since 1651, to escape the ruthless regime of absolute authority of Louis XIV. This allowed him to have a closer relationship with the English lyrics that, among other reasons, led him to write a dramatic text whose title, Sir Politick Would-Be, implied the name of a character. However, sixty years before, Ben Jonson had the same name assigned to a character of his dramatic text Volpone. Based on the generated complicity of the French work title, we verified that in a scene from Venice, both comedies cross dramatic strategies that emphasize or punish virtues and vices, denouncing the arrogance, folly and ambitions of wealth that never take place. Plentiful of humorous rhetorical artifices that are more carefully worked in the French text than in the English one, in both the illusion of appearances is revealed to the clarification of the essences. Supported by this thematic framework in general, the aim of this Master Dissertation is to prove, critical and analytically, the textual details which show that Sir Politick Would-Be, of Saint-Évremond, results from the hipotext Volpon, of Ben Jonson.

Abstract: Ben Jonson’s reputation depends half on Shakespeare’s support and half on his own literary accomplishment: his drama inherits the classic one with innovation; the plots in his plays started“humor plays”in England; his poems，different from the mainstream narrative verse and sonnets，are written in epigram，elegy，letter and other styles; the subjects are also innovative concerning family bond，rural life，and others． However，Jonson could hardly enjoy his reputation peacefully within the seventeenth century where he lived，and the reader and the
scholar commented his works with approval as well as condemnation． This paper includes an elaborate
review and discussion of the seventeenth-century criticisms of Jonson’s works with an analysis of Jonson’s innovations in poetry and proposes a balanced and fair comment on Jonson’s
works，especially his poems．
Key words: Jonson; reception; innovation in poetic writing; balanced and fair; comment

Volume 1 of a two volume study guide published to accompany a Maryland Public Broadcasting two-semester course: "Survey of English Literature." Download file contains Table of Contents to Volume One, ranging in thirty lessons from the literature of Anglo-Saxon England through the literature of 18th century Britain. For downloadable individual chapters, see category, "Book chapters."

Title/subtitle: Games and War in Early Modern English Literature: From Shakespeare to Swift
Volume editors: Holly Faith Nelson & Jim Daems
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Series: Cultures of Play, 1300-1700

This pioneering collection of nine original essays carves out a new conceptual path in the field by theorizing the ways in which the language of games and warfare inform and illuminate each other in the early modern cultural imagination. They consider how warfare and games are mapped onto each other in aesthetically and ideologically significant ways in the early modern plays, poetry or prose of William Shakespeare, Thomas Morton, John Milton, Margaret Cavendish, Aphra Behn, and Jonathan Swift, among others. Contributors interpret the terms 'war games' or 'games of war' broadly, freeing them to uncover the more complex and abstract interplay of war and games in the early modern mind, taking readers from the cockpits and clowns of Shakespearean drama, through the intriguing manuals of cryptographers and the ingenious literary wargames of Restoration women authors, to the witty but rancorous paper wars of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

The Interplay of Games and War in Early Modern English Literature:
An Introduction, Jim Daems and Holly Faith Nelson

‘Can this cock-pit hold the vasty¬¬ fields of France?’ Cockfighting
and the Representation of War in Shakespeare’s Henry V, Louise Fang

Game Over: Play and War in Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida, Sean Lawrence

Thomas Morton’s Maypole: Revels, War Games, and Trans-Atlantic Conflict, Jim Daems 

Milton’s Epic Games: War and Recreation in Paradise Lost, David Currell

Ciphers and Gaming for Pleasure and War, Katherine Ellison

Virtual Reality, Roleplay, and World Building in
Margaret Cavendish’s Literary War Games, Holly Faith Nelson and Sharon Alker

Dice, Jesting, and the ‘Pleasing Delusion’ of War-Like Love in Aphra
Behn’s The Luckey Chance, Karol Cooper

War and Games in Swift’s The Battle of the Books and
Gulliver’s Travels, Lori A. Davis Perry

Time-Servers, Turncoats, and the Hostile Reprint: Considering
the Conflict of a Paper War, Jeffrey Galbraith

Notes on Contributors

Index

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On the continent Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski seemed a pious Jesuit father, a benign neo-Latin poet, equal if not better than Horace. When almost immediately after his death his poetry crossed the English channel, his poetry gained an unexpected subversive power. It gained a new territory not so much for what it was but thanks to a new purpose for which it could be used.
In Great Britain controlled by the forces of the Parliament acquaintance with the works of Sarbiewski became a telling sign for the Royalists. At the same time, regardless of his religious adherence, Sarbiewski gained popularity as a Neo-Stoic writer. Consequently, several Royalist poets started to write and publish translations from Sarbiewski which departed from the originals in such ways which allowed the poets to express their true sentiments and bypass Parliamentary censorship. Others would quote excerpts from his poems in their original works.
The present paper traces the way Sarbiewski’s poems were used – translated, adapted, quoted, emulated etc. - by such Metaphysical poets as Richard Lovelace, Henry Vaughan, Abraham Cowley and Sir John Denham, to mention but a few. It will also present an analysis of the most important testimony to Sarbiewski’s popularity in the days of the War of Three Kingdoms and the Commonwealth period, a volume of translations by George Hils.