All Outputs (6)

‘All the unlawful issue that their lust / Since then hath made between them’: children and absent motherhood in Early Modern English Cleopatra plays (2024)
Book Chapter
Lawrence, J. ‘All the unlawful issue that their lust / Since then hath made between them’: children and absent motherhood in Early Modern English Cleopatra plays. In C. Ragni (Ed.), Shakespeare and the Mediterranean 3: Antony and Cleopatra (127-150). Edizioni ETS. https://doi.org/10.13136/wf4xrq28

Recent criticism on 'Antony and Cleopatra' has started to argue for a closer correspondence between Shakespeare’s play and the English closet dramas ('The Tragedie of Antonie' by Mary Sidney Herbert, and 'The Tragedie of Cleopatra' by Samuel Daniel),... Read More about ‘All the unlawful issue that their lust / Since then hath made between them’: children and absent motherhood in Early Modern English Cleopatra plays.

“What country, friends, is this?”: Displaced Identity and Homoerotic Desire in Twelfth Night and Its Italian Models (2024)
Book Chapter
Lawrence, J. (2024). “What country, friends, is this?”: Displaced Identity and Homoerotic Desire in Twelfth Night and Its Italian Models. In S. Bigliazzi (Ed.), Revisiting Shakespeare’s Italian Resources: Memory and Reuse (181-197). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003301615-12

This chapter challenges the critical consensus that Barnabe Riche’s prose tale “‘Of Apolonius and Silla”’ (1581) is the “‘most immediate source”’ for Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night (1601) by examining in detail the play’s relationship with two Italian m... Read More about “What country, friends, is this?”: Displaced Identity and Homoerotic Desire in Twelfth Night and Its Italian Models.

‘“The Painter has made a finer Story than the Poet”: Jonathan Richardson’s ekphrastic ‘Dissertation’ on Poussin’s Tancred and Erminia’ (2019)
Book Chapter
Lawrence, J. (2019). ‘“The Painter has made a finer Story than the Poet”: Jonathan Richardson’s ekphrastic ‘Dissertation’ on Poussin’s Tancred and Erminia’. In Ekphrastic Encounters: New Interdisciplinary Essays on Literature and the Visual Arts (91-106). Manchester University Press

Jacobean Royal Premieres? Othello and Measure for Measure at Whitehall in 1604 (2019)
Book Chapter
Lawrence, J. (2019). Jacobean Royal Premieres? Othello and Measure for Measure at Whitehall in 1604. In Performances at Court in the Age of Shakespeare (92-106). Cambridge University Press (CUP)

'Oh that we had such an English Tasso': Tasso in English poetry and drama to 1700 (2019)
Book Chapter
Lawrence, J. (2019). 'Oh that we had such an English Tasso': Tasso in English poetry and drama to 1700. In M. Marrapodi (Ed.), Routledge Research Companion to Anglo-Italian Renaissance Literature and Culture (250-266). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315612720

Spenser and Italian Literature (2010)
Book Chapter
Lawrence, J. (2010). Spenser and Italian Literature. In R. A. McCabe (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Edmund Spenser (602-619). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199227365.013.0034

This article focuses on Spenser's relationship with Italian literature. Spenser's profound relationship with Italian literature is manifest from his earliest printed poetry, even if initially his engagement with it seems to have been mediated through... Read More about Spenser and Italian Literature.