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Review Essay: Hanson, Elizabeth. Discovering The Subject In Renaissance England, Louise Schleiner Jan 1998

Review Essay: Hanson, Elizabeth. Discovering The Subject In Renaissance England, Louise Schleiner

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Hanson, Elizabeth. Discovering the Subject in Renaissance England. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998. xii + 190 pp. $54.95; and Matchinske, Megan. Writing, Gender and State in Early Modern England: Identity Formation and the Female Subject. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998. xi + 247 pp. $59.95. ISBN 0-521-62254-9.

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Review Essay: Piccolomini, Manfredi. The Brutus Revival: Parricide And Tyrannicide During The Renaissance, David Bornstein Jan 1993

Review Essay: Piccolomini, Manfredi. The Brutus Revival: Parricide And Tyrannicide During The Renaissance, David Bornstein

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Piccolomini, Manfredi. The Brutus Revival: Parricide and Tyrannicide during the Renaissance. Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale 1991. xiv + 142 pp. $24.95.

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Review Essay: Timothy Hampton, Writing From History: The Rhetoric Of Exemplarity In Renaissance Literature, Silvia Ruffo Fiore Jan 1992

Review Essay: Timothy Hampton, Writing From History: The Rhetoric Of Exemplarity In Renaissance Literature, Silvia Ruffo Fiore

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Timothy Hampton, Writing from History: The Rhetoric of Exemplarity in Renaissance Literature, Cornell University Press, 1990, 309 pp., index, $42.95 (cloth), $12.95 (paperback).

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Review Essay: Ernesto Grassi And Maristella Lorch, Folly And Insanity In Renaissance Literature, Silvia R. Fiore Jan 1991

Review Essay: Ernesto Grassi And Maristella Lorch, Folly And Insanity In Renaissance Literature, Silvia R. Fiore

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Ernesto Grassi and Maristella Lorch, Folly and Insanity in Renaissance Literature, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1986, 128 pp., biblio., index, $18.00.

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Review Essay: Thomas P. Roche, Jr., Petrarch And The English Sonnet Sequences, David R. Shore Jan 1990

Review Essay: Thomas P. Roche, Jr., Petrarch And The English Sonnet Sequences, David R. Shore

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Thomas P. Roche, Jr., Petrarch and the English Sonnet Sequences, AMS Press, 1989.

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Fools And Fool-Makers: Types Of Comic Characters In Renaissance Literature, Russell J. Meyer Jan 1980

Fools And Fool-Makers: Types Of Comic Characters In Renaissance Literature, Russell J. Meyer

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A common impulse in studies of the comic figure, in the Renaissance as well as more recently, has been to seek a single feature which marks all such characters. Most sixteenth-century theorists agreed that both ugliness and surprise play major roles in the success of a comic figure, but their concern on the one hand with the rhetorical powers of laughter and on the other with the moral effects of comedy led them to accept principles which do not actually reflect the experience of comic literature. In their search for a single consolidating feature of all comic figures, the Renaissance …

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