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Volume 83

Michael L. LaBlanc

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Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Vol. 83
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Acknowledgments

The editors wish to thank the copyright holders of the excerpted criticism included in this volume and the permissions managers of many book and magazine publishing companies for assisting us in securing reproduction rights. We are also grateful to the staffs of the Detroit Public Library, the Library of Congress, the University of Detroit Mercy Library, Wayne State University Purdy/Kresge Library Complex, and the University of Michigan Libraries for making their resources available to us. Following is a list of the copyright holders who have granted us permission to reproduce material in this volume of LC. Every effort has been made to trace copyright, but if omissions have been made, please let us know.

COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IN LC, VOLUME 83, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING PERIODICALS:

Criticism, v. XXXV, Summer, 1993. Copyright 1993, Wayne State University Press. Reproduced by permission of the publisher.—ELH, v. 67, Summer, 2000. © The Johns Hopkins University Press. Reproduced by permission.—Essays in Theatre, v. 15, 1997 for “Toward Reconstructing the Audiences of the ‘Commedia dell’Arte’” by Robert Henke. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Journal of English and Germanic Philology, v. 99, July, 2000. Copyright 2000 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. Reproduced by permission of the University of Illinois Press.—Journal of the History of Ideas, v. 32, April-June, 1971. © The Johns Hopkins University Press. Reproduced by permission.—Modern Language Quarterly, v. 57, March, 1996, pp. 23-65, for “‘So Great a Difference Is There in Degree’: Aemilia Lanyer and the Aims of Feminist Criticism,” by Lisa Schnell. Copyright © 1996 by University of Washington. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the publisher.—Scottish Literary Journal, v. 12, May, 1985, for “Milton’s Nativity Ode and Drummond’s ‘An Hymne of the Ascension’” by H. Neville Davies. Reproduced by permission of the publisher.—Spenser Studies, v. 2, 1981. Copyright © 1981 by AMS Press, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Studies in Scottish Literature, v. 6, July, 1968; v. 7, July-October, 1969; v. 21, 1986; v. 22, 1987. Copyright © G. Ross Roy 1968, 1969, 1986, 1987. Reproduced by permission of the editor.—Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, v. 38, Winter, 1998. © The Johns Hopkins University Press. Reproduced by permission.—The Scottish Historical Review, v. 54, April, 1975. Reproduced by permission.—The Seventeenth Century, v. 2, January, 1987. Reproduced by permission.—Theatre Journal, v. 49, 1997. © 1997, University and College Theatre Association of the American Theatre Association. Reproduced by permission of The Johns Hopkins University Press.—Theatre Research International, v. 20, 1995, for “The Law of Writ and the Liberty” by Michael Anderson. Reproduced by permission of Cambridge University Press and the author.—Theatre Survey, v. 27, 1986, for “The Venetian Commedia: Actors and Masques in the Development of the Commedia Dell’Arte,” by Anya Peterson Royce. Reproduced by permission of Cambridge University Press.

COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IN LC, VOLUME 83, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:

Andrews, Richard. From “Improvised Comedy,” in Scripts and Scenarios: The Performances of Comedy in Renaissance Italy. Cambridge University Press, 1993. Copyright © 1993 by Cambridge University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Cambridge University Press and the author.—Bowen, Barbara. From “Aemilia Layner and the Invention of White Womanhood,” in Maids and Mistresses, Cousins and Queens: Women’s Alliances in Early Modern England. Edited by Susan Frye and Karen Robertson. Oxford University Press, 1999. Copyright © 1999 by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Connon, Derek F. From “The Servant as Master: Disguise, Role-Reversal, and Social Comment in Three Plays of Marivaux,” in Studies in Commedia dell’Arte. Edited by David J. George and Christopher J. Gossip. University of Wales Press, 1993. Copyright © 1993 by University of Wales Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Cook, Patrick. From “Aemilia Lanyer’s ‘Description of Cooke-ham’ as Devotional Lyric,” in Discovering and (Re) Covering the Seventeenth Century Religious Lyric. Edited by Eugene R. Cunnar and Jeffrey Johnson. Duquesne University Press, 2001. Copyright © 2001 by Duquesne University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Duchartre, Pierre Louis. From “Women of the Commedia dell’Arte,” in The Italian Comedy: The Improvisation, Scenarios, Lives, Attributes, Portraits and Masks of the Illustrious Characters of the Commedia dell’Arte. Translated by Randolph T. Weaver. Dover Publications, 1929. Reprinted, 1966. Copyright © 1966 by Dover Publications. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Erenstein, Robert L. From “Satire and the ‘Commedia dell’Arte,’” in Western Popular Theatre. Edited by David Mayer and Kenneth Richards. Methuen, 1977. Copyright © 1977 by Methuen. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the author.— Firth, Felicity. From “Comedy in Italy,”

in Comic Drama: The European Heritage. Edited by W. D. Howarth. Methuen, 1978. Copyright © 1978 by Methuen. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Taylor & Francis Books, Ltd and the editor.—Fogle, French Rowe. From A Critical Study of William Drummond of Hawthornden. King’s Crown Press, 1952. Copyright © 1952 by Columbia University Press. Reproduced by permission of the publisher.—Forti-Lewis, Angelica. From Fools and Jesters in Literature, Art, and History: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook. Greenwood Press, 1998. Copyright © 1998 by Vicki K. Janik. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., Westport, CT.—Herrick, Marvin Theodore. From Italian Comedy in the Renaissance. University of Illinois Press, 1960. Copyright 1960 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the University of Illinois Press.—Kennard, Joseph Spencer. From Masks and Marionettes. Macmillan, 1935. Copyright © 1935 by Macmillan. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Lea, Kathleen Marguerite. From Italian Popular Comedy: A Study in the Commedia dell’Arte, 1560-1620. Clarendon Press, 1934. Copyright © 1934 by Clarendon Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press.—MacDonald, Robert H. From an Introduction to William Drummond of Hawthornden: Poems and Prose. Edited by Robert H. MacDonald. Association for Scottish Literary Studies and Scottish Academic Press, 1976. Copyright © 1976 by ASLS and Scottish Academic Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Peabody, Ruth E. From Commedia Works. Library of Congress, 1984. Copyright © 1984 by Library of Congress. Reproduced courtesy of the Library of Congress.—Richards, Kenneth, and Laura Richards. From Commedia dell’Arte: A Documentary History. Basil Blackwell, 1990. Copyright © 1990 by Basil Blackwell. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Blackwell Publishers Ltd.—Richey, Esther Gilman. From The Politics of Revelation in the English Renaissance. University of Missouri Press, 1998. Copyright © 1998 by the Curators of the University of Missouri. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the University of Missouri Press.—Rienstra, Debra. From “Dreaming Authorship: Aemilia Lanyer and the Countess of Pembroke,” in Discovering and (Re) Covering the Seventeenth Century Religious Lyric. Edited by Eugene R. Cunnar and Jeffrey Johnson. Duquesne University Press, 2001. Copyright © 2001 by Duquesne University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.— Scott, Virginia P. From “The ‘Jeu’ and the ‘Role’: Analysis of the Appeals of the Italian Comedy in France in the Time of Arlequin-Dominique,” in Western Popular Theatre. Edited by David Mayer and Kenneth Richards. Methuen, 1977. Copyright © 1977 by Methuen. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Trethewey, John. From “Stage and Audience in the ‘Commedia dell’Arte’ and in Moliere’s Early Plays,’” in Studies in Commedia dell’Arte. Edited by David J. George and Christopher J. Gossip. University of Wales Press, 1993. Copyright © 1993 by University of Wales Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Woods, Susanne. From an Introduction to The Poems of Aemilia Lanyer: Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum. Edited by Susanne Woods. Oxford University Press, 1993. Copyright © 1993 by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.

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Actors from the Commedia dell’Arte on a Wagon in a Town Square, painting by Jan Miel. Copyright © Christie’s Images/ Corbis. Reproduced by permission.—Drummond, William, photograph. Hulton/Archive. Reproduced by permission.— Italian Comedians, painting by Jean-Antoine Watteau, © Francis G. Mayer/Corbis. Reproduced by permission.—Pierrot and Harlequin (Mardi Gras), painting by Paul Cezanne. Copyright © Alexander Burkatowski/Corbis. Reproduced by permission.

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