Outputs (8)

‘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 model... Read More about “What country, friends, is this?” Displaced Identity and Homoerotic Desire in Twelfth Night and Its Italian Models.

Rereading Ruins: Edmund Spenser and Scottish Presbyterianism (2020)
Book Chapter
Mottram, S. (2020). Rereading Ruins: Edmund Spenser and Scottish Presbyterianism. In A. Walsham, B. Wallace, C. Law, & B. Cummings (Eds.), Memory and the English Reformation (223-237). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108900157.015

With a focus on Edmund Spenser, this chapter explores representations of ruined monasteries within (New) English protestant writing of c.1590-1642. Monastic ruins are visible mnemonics of British-Irish reformation, and Protestants express surprisingl... Read More about Rereading Ruins: Edmund Spenser and Scottish Presbyterianism.

‘“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

Conquest and Conquerors (2017)
Book Chapter
Veach, C. (2018). Conquest and Conquerors. In B. Smith (Ed.), Cambridge History of Ireland, Volume 1: 650-1550 (157-182). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316275399.010

Mary Hays and the Imagined Female Communities of Early Modern Europe (2017)
Book Chapter
Capern, A. (2017). Mary Hays and the Imagined Female Communities of Early Modern Europe. In G. L. Walker (Ed.), The Invention of Female Biography (174-198). Routledge

This research essay is appears in a collection of essays written by the subject-expert sub-editors who worked on a three year research project with a team in New York under PI Gina Luria Walker to produce a modern multi-volume edition of Mary Hay, Fe... Read More about Mary Hays and the Imagined Female Communities of Early Modern Europe.