Links Database: Keyword early modern

• "Swift hart" and "soft heart": Elizabeth I and the Iconography of Lyly's Gallathea and Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream

  http://www.marshall.edu/engsr/SR1997.html

  Bowen, Julia A. "'Swift hart' and 'soft heart': Elizabeth I and the Iconography of Lyly's Gallathea and Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream." West Virginia Shakespeare and Renaissance Association (SRASP) 20 (1997). Bowen examines how Lyly and Shakespeare took advantage of Elizabeth's established iconography to make the queen a presence in their dramas and to what effect:

  keywords: dream, early modern, elizabeth, iconography, MND, midsummer, night's, renaissance

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > A Midsummer Night's Dream

  valid as of 2005-09-07

• "That Which Heaven Hath Forbid the Ottomites": The Turks in Shakespeare's Othello

  http://www.io.com/~jlockett/Grist/English/othello.html

  Locket, Joseph. "'That Which Heaven Hath Forbid the Ottomites': The Turks in Shakespeare's Othello." Grist for the Mill: Papers, Projects, and Positions. Briefly explores Othello in the context of relations between Western Europe and the Ottoman Empire in the Early Modern Period:

  keywords: context, early modern, history, Oth, othello, ottoman, turks

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > Othello

  valid as of 2005-09-08

• Early Modern Culture: An Electronic Seminar

  http://eserver.org/emc/

  Early Modern Culture: An Electronic Seminar provides works-in-progress by major scholars in early modern studies, along with a set of responses from readers--some junior, some senior--working on similar topics. The desire is to open a conversation, and make explicit how much scholarly work depends upon careful reading, as well as critical (in the best sense of that word) exchange:

  keywords: culture, early modern, electronic

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Journals

  valid as of 2005-09-07

• French Renaissance Literature

  http://globegate.utm.edu/french/lit/early.modern.html

  Early Modern French Literature is a gateway to French Renaissance texts:

  keywords: early modern, french, renaissance

  found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts

  valid as of 2005-09-12

• New Scholarship from Old Renaissance Dictionaries

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/si-01/si-01toc.html

  There is a special issue of EMLS devoted to discoveries made with the Early Modern English Dictionaries Database (EMEDD) at the University of Toronto at:

  keywords: database, dictionaries, early modern, english, renaissance

  found in: Renaissance Sites > Journals

  valid as of 2005-09-14

• The Lunar Calendar of Shakespeare's King Lear

  http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/05-2/sohmlear.htm

  Sohmer, Steve. "The Lunar Calendar of Shakespeare's King Lear." Early Modern Literary Studies 5.2 (1999): 2.1-17. Sohmer analyzes the dates in King Lear to provide evidence that the lunar calendar was one of Shakespeare's sources and suggests the possibility that the play was performed for King James I on December 26, 1606 as well as the significance of this date:

  keywords: calendar, date, early modern, james, king, Lr, lear

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > King Lear

  valid as of 2005-09-08

• Understanding Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus and the EMEDD

  http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/si-01/si-01lancashire.html

  Lancashire, Ian. "Understanding Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus and the EMEDD." Early Modern Literary Studies 6.1/Special Issue 1 (1997): 6.1-20. A guided tour of the Early Modern English Dictionaries Database and its usefulness when used alongside Titus Andronicus to explore the different Renaissance meaning of many of the play's words:

  keywords: computer, database, definition, dictionaries, early modern, electronic, meaning, Tit, titus andronicus

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > Titus Andronicus

  valid as of 2005-09-08