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Review Essay: “Will In Overplus” A Review Of Shakespeare Biographies, Stephannie S. Gearhart

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Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy Will,

And Will to boot, and Will in overplus;

More than enough am I that vex thee still

William Shakespeare, Sonnet 135, ll.1-3

It seems to be a kind of Respect due to the Memory of Excellent Men,

specially of those whom their Wit and Learning have made Famous,

to deliver some Account of themselves, as well as their Works, to Posterity.

For this Reason, how fond do we see some People of discovering any little

Personal Story of the great Men of Antiquity, their Families, the common

Accidents of their Lives, and …

Fama And Fortuna: Giorgio Vasari’S Michelangelo, Peter Kanelos

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The life of Michelangelo is set indisputably as the capstone to Giorgio Vasari’s monumental, Le vite de’ più eccellenti pittori scultori e architettori (1568). Cathedral-like in its detail and expanse, Vasari’s collection of biographies is itself a carefully designed and constructed work of art. Its separate parts are crafted with concern for the whole; from its series of individual narratives, a single grand narrative emerges. Buonarroti’s position in this is conspicuous, and purposefully so. In the first edition of the Vite (1550)—his biography, the only one granted a living artist—concludes the work decisively. It is the final entry and the …

Review Essay: Confident Readings: Medieval And Early Modern (Christian) Spirituality And Its Recent Interpreters, Steven F. Kruger

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Catherine M. Mooney, ed. Gendered Voices: Medieval Saints and Their Interpreters. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. xiii + 277 pp.

Richard Rambuss. Closet Devotions. Durham and London: Duke Univer- sity Press, 1998. xiii + 193 pp.

Review Essay: Susanne Woods. Lanyer: A Renaissance Woman Poet, Nancy Gutierrez

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Susanne Woods. Lanyer: A Renaissance Woman Poet. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. xvi + 198 pp.

Review Essay: Cranston, Maurice. The Solitary Self: Jean-Jacques Rousseau In Exile And Adversity, Reginald Mcginnis

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Cranston, Maurice. The Solitary Self: Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Exile and Adversity. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1997. 247 pp. $29.95.

Review Essay: Owen, D. D. R. Eleanor Of Aquitaine: Queen And Legend, Jacqueline Eccles

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Owen, D. D. R. Eleanor of Aquitaine: Queen and Legend. Blackwell, Oxford, 1993, first paperback edition, 1996. 224 pp., 262 pp. paperback, illustrations. $54.95/$21.95.

Review Essay: Richard Dutton, William Shakespeare: A Literary Life, William F. Gentrup

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Richard Dutton, William Shakespeare: A Literary Life, St. Martin's Press, 1989, xii, 180 pp., biblio., index, $35.00.

Review Essay: Frederic J. Baumgartner, Henry Ii, King Of France: 1547-1559, Paul Solon

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Frederic J. Baumgartner, Henry II, King of France: 1547-1559, Duke University Press, 1988, xiv, 358 pp., biblio., index, $39.95.

Review Essay: George Parfitt, John Donne: A Literary Life, Patricia Demers

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George Parfitt, John Donne: A Literary Life, St. Martin's Press, 1989, viii, 140 pp., biblio., $35.00

Review Essay: Christine Weightman, Margaret Of York: Duchess Of Burgundy, 1446-1503, Retha M. Warnicke

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Christine Weightman, Margaret of York: Duchess of Burgundy, 1446-1503, St. Martin's Press, 1989.

Review Essay: E. A. J. Honigmann, Myriad-Minded Shakespeare: Essays, Chiefly On The Tragedies And Problem Comedies, Paul R. Thomas

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E. A. J. Honigmann, Myriad-Minded Shakespeare: Essays, Chiefly on the Tragedies and Problem Comedies, St. Martin's Press, 1989.

Review Essay: Frank Barlow, Thomas Becket, Kay S. Rogers

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Frank Barlow, Thomas Beckett, University of California Press, 1986.