1611: Authority, Gender and the Word in Early Modern England / Edition 1

by Helen Wilcox

Overview

1611: Authority, Gender, and the Word in Early Modern England explores issues of authority, gender, and language within and across the variety of literary works produced in one of most landmark years in literary and cultural history.

• Represents an exploration of a year in the textual life of early modern England
• Juxtaposes the variety and range of texts that were published, performed,   read, or heard in the same year, 1611
• Offers an account of the textual culture of the year 1611, the environment of language, and the ideas from which the Authorised Version of the English Bible emerged

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781405193917
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	02/03/2014
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Helen Wilcox is Professor of English at Bangor University, Wales, and Director of the Institute for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the Universities of Aberystwyth and Bangor. Her most recent major publication was the highly-acclaimed annotated edition of The English Poems of George Herbert (2007).

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Table of Contents

Preface ix

Acknowledgements x

List of Illustrations Chronology of Selected Historical, Cultural and Textual Events in 1611

Introduction: ‘The omnipotency of the word’ 1

1 Jonson’s Oberon and friends: masque and music in 1611 24

2 Aemilia Lanyer and the ‘first fruits’ of women’s wit 44

3 Coryats Crudities and the ‘travelling Wonder’ of the age 68

4 Time, tyrants and the question of authority: The Winter’s Tale and related drama 91

5 ‘Expresse words’: Lancelot Andrewes and the sermons and devotions of 1611 112

6 The Roaring Girl on and off stage 132

7 ‘The new world of words’: authorising translation in 1611 151

8 Donne’s ‘Anatomy’ and the commemoration of women: ‘her death hath taught us dearly’ 174

9 Vengeance and virtue: The Tempest and the triumph of tragicomedy 192

Conclusion: ‘This scribling age’ 211

Appendix: A List of Printed Texts Published in 1611 219

Bibliography 225

Index 244