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Nashe’S Poem For Ferdinando Stanley, Lord Strange, Jennifer L. Andersen
Nashe’S Poem For Ferdinando Stanley, Lord Strange, Jennifer L. Andersen
English Faculty Publications
Of "The Choise of Valentines," editor R. B. McKerrow says, "There can, I fear, be little doubt that this poem is the work of ThomasNashe" (V, 141). From the 1590s through the seventeenth century, the poem was not printed but was circulated privately in manuscript copies among a select coterie audience. Five of six extant manuscript copies begin with a dedicatory sonnet, one of which includes a dedication "To the right Honorable the lord S." and another 'To the right HonourableLordStrainge" (Beal 356), offering clues to the specific coterie for which the poem was composed. Although some editors and critics …
Rewriting A Murder Pamphlet: The Perspective Of Deviance In The Changeling” Appositions, Jennifer Andersen
Rewriting A Murder Pamphlet: The Perspective Of Deviance In The Changeling” Appositions, Jennifer Andersen
English Faculty Publications
This article focuses on the relationship between murder pamphlets and early modern drama. I first provide a brief overview of typical features of murder pamphlets. In the rest of the article, I examine a specific example of a play based on a murder pamphlet, Thomas Middleton and William Rowley’s The Changeling. Exploring the play in contrast to its pamphlet source reveals some of the key differences between the two genres: namely, the pamphlet stories typically follow a moralizing narrative that ensures that providence will bring murderers to a just punishment and repentance, whereas the play invites the audience to …
Nashe’S Poem For Ferdinando Stanley, Lord Strange, Jennifer Andersen
Nashe’S Poem For Ferdinando Stanley, Lord Strange, Jennifer Andersen
English Faculty Publications
This article makes a case for the dedication of "The Choise of Valentines" to Ferdinando Stanley, Lord Strange, and explores some of its ramifications for the interpretation of the poem. Beyond the significance of this identification for the poem, establishing the dedication to Lord Strange and Nashe’s participation in elite literary coteries would also be more broadly significant for Nashe studies.