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10 Sep 2017: The final chapter proposes that court masques and civic pageants offered competing economic and literary models. ... As this chapter persuasively demonstrates, economic, political, and literary concerns continued to intersect in seventeenth-century

10 Sep 2017: Topsy in the Senate House. Cambridge graduation ceremonies in the 1850s were accompanied by rowdy commentary from undergraduates in the gallery, especially groans and cheers for local and national figures. ... Carl Heap (Trinity Hall 1975) produced five

10 Sep 2017: Though contemporaries often viewed such needlework as a reflection of the skill and character of the needlework, a closer examination of the circumstances under which it was produced suggests multiple influences ... These names may be considered as a

10 Sep 2017: Politics occupy center stage throughout; social and economic matters -- as well as cultural developments -- receive relatively little attention, except within a political framework. ... study of The Defence of Poesie, an absolutely new vision of

10 Sep 2017: This is very unlikely to change, but as the university sector in the UK tries to adapt to a changing political and economic environment it will have little choice but to ... The fourth and final volume, published in September 2016, reveals yet more about

10 Sep 2017: and passion; the satyr's feat of mounting Hellenore nine times in one night; and the final transformation of Malbecco. ... The final stanzas of Mutabilitie complete the process of withdrawal from the Orphi role.

10 Sep 2017: Vewes concern with political control and economics most accurately represents the political paradoxes of Spenser's own position in Elizabethan society. ... Shepherd's discussion of the sexual politics of The Faerie Queene also shows how identity and "love

10 Sep 2017: a context which com-prehends the political,social, economic, cultural and intellectual trends of his age" and then "turns to the writing itself" for analysis of selected works. ... romance, dream-vision, and pas-toral all are represented in the poem, yet

10 Sep 2017: 32. rather as proof for an initial assumption (and she calls it that) than as a reasoned and final conclusion. ... vi 232 pp. $19.50. Until he reaches the final page of his study, Jan Karel Kouwenhoven appears confident that his argument, however bold,

10 Sep 2017: An examination of such poets that is at once less dated and more broad-minded than Lewis' seminal work could be immensely useful. ... At Elizabeth's court, the Petrarchan language of love "was exploit-ed for the terms it had in common with the social and