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Early Modern Digital Scholarship & Deep: Database Of Early English Playbooks, Zachary Lesser, Alan B. Farmer
Early Modern Digital Scholarship & Deep: Database Of Early English Playbooks, Zachary Lesser, Alan B. Farmer
Zachary Lesser
This paper discusses recent trends in digital resources for early modern literary studies, as well as the implications of these resources for research and scholarship. In addition to comparing the use by scholars of print reference works and online databases, the essay analyzes the recent shift from 'first-generation' digital resources, such as the English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) and Early English Books Online (EEBO), to newer 'second-generation' resources like DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks. Rather than strive for comprehensive coverage of early modern print culture, as ESTC and EEBO do, these 'second-generation' sites typically aim for in-depth coverage of …
The First Literary Hamlet And The Commonplacing Of Professional Plays, Zachary Lesser, Peter Stallybrass
The First Literary Hamlet And The Commonplacing Of Professional Plays, Zachary Lesser, Peter Stallybrass
Zachary Lesser
Considers the first ("bad") quarto of Hamlet as Shakespeare's first literary drama, in the context of the use of marginal commas and italics to indicate sententiae in printed professional drama.
Tragical-Comical-Pastoral-Colonial: Economic Sovereignty, Globalization, And The Form Of Tragicomedy, Zachary Lesser
Tragical-Comical-Pastoral-Colonial: Economic Sovereignty, Globalization, And The Form Of Tragicomedy, Zachary Lesser
Zachary Lesser
I examine the politics of tragicomedy by focusing on its 1620s shift from pastoral to proto-colonial settings. This formal transformation reveals the genre's connection to economic debates over England's coin shortage and to Thomas Mun's abstract, global model of trade, removed from monarchical authority and naturalized in self-regulating "laws of commerce." Like Mun's model, tragicomedy requires us to imagine the ability of past actions and distant causes to ramify across time and space. Set on a barren, inaccessible island, Fletcher and Massinger's Sea Voyage isolates the nature of money and demonstrates the dangers of transgressing the natural law of commerce.
Mystic Ciphers: Shakespeare And Intelligent Design: A Response To Nancy Glazener, Zachary Lesser
Mystic Ciphers: Shakespeare And Intelligent Design: A Response To Nancy Glazener, Zachary Lesser
Zachary Lesser
A discussion of the Shakespeare "authorship controversy" in relation to the "debate" over evolution and intelligent design.
Mixed Government And Mixed Marriage In A King And No King: Sir Henry Neville Reads Beaumont And Fletcher, Zachary Lesser
Mixed Government And Mixed Marriage In A King And No King: Sir Henry Neville Reads Beaumont And Fletcher, Zachary Lesser
Zachary Lesser
A reading of the 1619 edition of A King and No King through the eyes of its print dedicatee, Sir Henry Neville, this article examines the play's treatment of the political theory of mixed government in relation to its handling of gender, incest, and marriage.
Walter Burre’S The Knight Of The Burning Pestle, Zachary Lesser
Walter Burre’S The Knight Of The Burning Pestle, Zachary Lesser
Zachary Lesser
A study of The Knight of the Burning Pestle in the context of the career of its publisher, Walter Burre, focusing especially on his use of the typographical technique of "continuous printing."