| Title | Date | Views | Brief Description |
|---|
| "Directing threds-- through the labyrinth" : the moral use of Platonic conventions and patterns of imagery in Sidney's Astrophil and Stella |
1973 |
1292 |
Upon examination, the widely recognized stylistic discontinuity of Sidney's Astrophil and Stella resolves itself into a pattern. What some critics have seen as immaturity in many of the early sonnets proves to be conventionality, and many of the fina... |
| "This is no world in which to pity men" : a study of Thomas Heywood as a Jacobean social critic |
1978 |
711 |
The purpose of this study is to place Thomas Heywood and his works in the mainstream of Jacobean drama rather than in the ebb tide of the Elizabethan. Traditionally, beginning with Lamb in 1808 and continuing to the present, Heywood has been extolled... |
| Pastoral influences on Robert Greene's social views in his romances and comedies |
1977 |
1156 |
Robert Greene, as a professional author and dramatist, was keenly attuned to audience expectations and to the literary trends of his day. One of the most notable of those trends in the 1580's was pastoral, which in England was not so much a genre but... |