Differentiating Hamlet: Ophelia and the Problems of Subjectivity

Article | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Richard Finkelstein

By considering the positions Hamlet explores with regards to the nature of intention, the nature and acquisition of knowledge, the effectiveness of reason, and their relation to psychological integrity, the author of this paper argues that Shakespeare evaluates the play's participation in the...

Cross-Dressing and the Politics of Dismemberment in Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher’s Philaster

Article | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Marie H. Loughlin

Critics often dismiss cross-dressing in Beaumont and Fletcher's Philaster as a meretricious dramatic trick. In reality, cross-dressing becomes a nexus for the play's pervasive anxieties concerning bodily and vestimentary codes, with major characters staking their conflicting claims to political...

Marie de Gournay cont(r)e la tradition: Du Proumenoir de Monsieur de Montaigne aux versions de l'Éneide

Article | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Martine Debaisieux

Cette étude considère le rapport entre le récit du Proumenoir de Monsieur de Montaigne et la traduction du second livre de l'Énéide lui faisant suite dans le recueil qui marque les débuts littéraires de Marie de Gournay (1594). Au-delà des liens entre l'histoire tragique d'Alinda et celle de...

A Catholic Theologian Responds to Copernicanism: The Theological Judicium of Paolo Foscarini’s Lettera

Article | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Irving A. Kelter

This paper is an in-depth analysis of the Carmelite Paolo Foscarini's role in the debate on Copernican cosmology in the early seventeenth century. Using as a point of departure the 1616 Judicium issued by the Catholic Church against Foscarini's pro-Copernican treatise, this analysis will lead to...

Review of John Dee. The Politics of Reading and Writing in the English Renaissance

Review | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): William B. Robison

Review of L’homme de guerre au XVIe siècle. Actes du Colloque de l’Association B.H.R., Cannes 1989

Review | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Étienne Vaucheret

Review of Hutterite Beginnings. Communitarian Experiments During the Reformation

Review | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Geoffrey Dipple

Review of "Christophe Colomb et la découverte de l’Amérique. Réalités, imaginaire et réinterprétations"

Review | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Pierre Berthiaume

Review of Plague? Jesuit Accounts of Epidemic Disease in the Sixteenth Century

Review | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Peter Goddard

Review of La grammaire du silence. Une lecture de la poésie de Marguerite de Navarre

Review | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Nicole Cazauran

Review of “En sens agile”: les acrobaties de l’esprit selon Rabelais

Review | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Colette Quesnel

Speech Versus Spectacle: Autolycus, Class and Containment in The Winter's Tale

Article | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Ronald W. Cooley

Shakespeare's Winter's Tale is a play in which theatrical spectacle triumphs over speech, as stage action obscures the incoherence of verbal representation. This paper identifies Autolycus as a composite of Jacobean anxieties about the sources of social instability, and explores his place in this...

Le procès de Montaigne par Malebranche. La véracité à l'aune de la vérité moderne

Article | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Syliane Charles

L'analyse détaillée des critiques formulées par Malebranche à l'encontre de Montaigne nous sert à révéler le hiatus existant entre le cadre épistémologique de la Renaissance et celui de la modernité. L'éclairage de ces contextes nous conduit, sur le plan de l'histoire des idées, à soutenir...

Prodigious Births and Death in Childbirth in Le Palais des Nobles Dames, (Lyons, 1534)

Article | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Brenda Dunn-Lardeau

In 1534 Pierre de Sainte Lucie published Jehan Du Pré's Le Palais des Nobles Dames in which the treatment of the theme of prodigious births and death in childbirth is of particular interest compared to that of his sixteenth century contemporaries. On the one hand, the author's religious faith...

Thomas More's Utopia: Preface to Reformation

Article | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Walter M. Gordon

Recent studies have stressed the ambiguity of Thomas More's Utopia. Although the essay does not argue against this view, it does point to the clear and basic contention of the work which, if lost, makes it impossible to come to grips with the questions the book poses. Utopia criticizes the upper,...

Review of Resistant Structures. Particularity, Radicalism, and Renaissance Texts.

Review | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Helen Wilcox

Review of International Colloquium Celebrating the 500th Anniversary of the Birth of Marguerite de Navarre

Review | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Hélène Lucuix

Review of Catholic and Reformed: The Roman and Protestant Churches in English Protestant Thought, 1600-1640.

Review | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Sean K. Lawrence

Review of Of Poetry and Politics: New Essays on Milton and his World

Review | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Paul W. Harland

Review of One King, One Faith: The Parlement of Paris and the Religious Reformations of the Sixteenth Century; The French Wars of Religion, 1562-1629

Review | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Thomas Worcester