1st Edition
The Circulation of Knowledge in Early Modern English Literature
Part 1 Theories and Philosophies of Transmission: Ship of Fools: Foucault and the Shakespeareans. Shakespeare's paradoxes of excellence. Shakespeare and the atomist heritage. Part 2 Initiation Practices: Hilliard and Sidney's 'rule of the eye'. Mercurial apprentices in city comedies. The courtesan and her mother in Middleton's A Mad World, my Masters. Rumour and second-hand knowledge in Much Ado About Nothing. Part 3 Political and Spiritual Issues: Marlowe's political balancing act: religion and translatio imperii in Doctor Faustus (B). Magic, manipulation and misrule in Doctor Faustus and Measure for Measure. Shakespeare and the violation of sanctuary. Limited being: revising Hamlet in The Revenger's Tragedy. Part 4 Transgressions of Gender and Genre: Cephalus and Procris: the transmission of a myth in early modern England. Out-Oviding Ovid in Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis. From intertextual to gender transgression in Middleton's The Witch. 'Transversing' and 'transprosing': the case of George Villiers's The Rehearsal (1671). Romeo and Juliet in Brazil: Grupo Galpao's Romeu e Julieta. Afterword: 'Love's transgression'.
Biography
Sophie Chiari is Professor of Early Modern Literature at Blaise Pascal University, Clermont-Ferrand (CERHAC, French National Centre for Scientific Research).
"...readers should find something of interest in this volume’s diverse case studies."
- Rajiv Thind, The University of Queensland in Parergon: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, volume 33.1 (2016).
