Ashgate Critical Essays on Women Writers in England, 1550-1700

Margaret P. Hannay, Professor of English, Siena College, USA

• Contents: Introduction; Bibliography; Chronology; Part I Original Works: Davies's Astraea and other contexts of the Countess of Pembroke's 'A Dialogue', Mary C. Erler; 'To the angell spirit...': Mary Sidney's entry into the 'world of words', Beth Wynne Fisken; 'Love which hath never done': the Countess of Pembroke's Elegies and the Apology for Copia, Clare R. Kinney; Two unpublished letters by Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, Steven W. May; Mary Sidney and gendered strategies for the writing of poetry, Shannon Miller; Ficinian elements in selected poems of Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, Elizabeth Mary Tilyou; Mary Sidney's '... two shepherds', G.F. Waller. Part II Translations: Antonius: Mary Herbert: Englishing a purified Cleopatra, Tina Krontiris; Shakespeare's response to dramatic tradition in Anthony and Cleopatra, Michael Steppat. The Triumph of Death: 'Lover's songs shall turne to holy psalmes': Mary Sidney and the transformation of Petrarch, Danielle Clarke. A Discourse of Life and Death: The style of the Countess of Pembroke's translation of Philippe de Mornay's Discours de la Vie et de la Mort, Diane Bornstein. Part III Psalms: The Queen's proposed visit to Wilton House in 1599 and the 'Sidney Psalms', Michael G. Brennan; George Gascoigne's and Mary Sidney's versions of Psalm 130, Roy T. Eriksen; God's 'scholer': the Countess of Pembroke's Psalmes and Beza's Psalmorum Davidis... Libri Quinque, Noel J. Kinnamon; The influence of medieval rabbinical commentaries on the Countess of Pembroke's Psalm 58, June Leavitt; The Countess of Pembroke's Ruins of Rome, Anne Lake Prescott; Circulating the Sidney-Pembroke Psalter, Debra Rienstra and Noel Kinnamon; The Sidneys and the Psalms, Theodore L. Steinberg. Part IV Literary Contexts: Multiple Arcadias and the literary quarrel between Fulke Greville and the Countess of Pembroke, Joel Davis; Sidney's 2 riddles, Wendy Gibson; 'The highest matter in the noblest form': the influence of the Sidney Psalms, Ha

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