17th Century

Synopses of major plays. From Professor An Sonjae of Sogang University, Seoul.

Images of artwork and text from a 1642 edition of Religio Medici. From Glasgow University Library Special Collections.

Compares Cary's play to its source, Josephus's Antiquities of the Jews.

Geraldine Wagner argues that Cavendish "considered textuality a means to subjectivity: one in which there is . . . no sovereign head, but many multi-bodied, competing loci of potential agency."

An excerpt from Mortalities Memorandum, with a Dreame Prefixed (1621).

Elizabeth Hodgson reviews The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, Volume 8: The Epigrams, Epithalamions, Epitaphs, Inscriptions, and Miscellaneous Poems. Gary A. Stringer, et al.

Bryan N. S. Gooch argues that the ordering of the Sonnets in Britten's Opus 35 reflects the composer's personal experience of visiting German concentration camps.

Sermons, poems, and Devotions. Downloads in PDF, HTML, or plain text.

Yumiko Yamada suggests that while many studies of Cervantes make connections to Shakespeare, the connection to Jonson deserves more critical attention.

An essay by Kathleen A. Prendergrast on Jonson's changing attitudes towards his fellow playwrights, the theater as a medium, and his own role as a dramatist.