61. Derrick Pitard: Renaissance English Literature versions of which we still use todayand with authors (Ben Jonson is the 15671573);Mary Herbert; Elizabeth I; Aemilia Lanyer (1569-1645); Elizabeth Cary http://www.sru.edu/depts/artsci/engl/dpitard/renaissance.htm

English 607 English Literature: Renaissance Dr. Derrick G. Pitard Office: 312 H Spotts Office Hours: TBA E-mail: derrick.pitard@sru.edu Office Phone: (738-)2369. However you get in touch with me, make sure you have a response before you assume I have gotten the message. Course Calendar Back to my Homepage Required Texts: Most of the readings come from the Longman. I've ordered some other editions which duplicate texts in the anthologyMore and Miltonbecause these texts are important to the course, and these editions also have some secondary readings which we'll use. The Longman Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 1B : the Early Modern Period. This will be the primary text for the course. This is part of the Longman Anthology. If you have a copy of the full Volume 1, that is greatuse it. If you have a copy of vol. 1 of the Norton Anthology, NOTE that it WON'T have many of the readings, so you'll have to find supplementary versions. The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse Ed. Norbrook and Woudhuysen Thomas More

62. 1301-1302 (Nordisk Familjebok / 1800-talsutgåvan. 7. Hufvudskål - Kaffraria) Jonson djånnssn, Ben (Benjamin), engelsk författare, född i Westminster d. 11Juni 1573, förlorade, innan han såg ljuset, sin fader, som varit en ifrig http://www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg/nfag/0657.html

Nordisk familjebok 1800-talsutgåvan. 7. Hufvudskål - Kaffraria (1884) Tema: Reference Table of Contents / Innehåll Project Runeberg Catalog ... Print (PDF) On this page / på denna sida - Jonge ... Below is the raw OCR text from the above scanned image. Do you see an error? Proofread the page now! Här nedan syns maskintolkade texten från faksimilbilden ovan. Ser du något fel? Korrekturläs sidan nu! This page has never been proofread. / Denna sida har aldrig korrekturlästs. Project Runeberg, Sat May 15 18:55:12 2004 (aronsson) http://www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg/nfag/0657.html

63. 509-510 (Nordisk Familjebok / 1800-talsutgåvan. 4. Duplikator - Folkvandringen) den nationella diktareskolan. En motståndare till honom var i vissmån Ben Jonson (1573-1635). en begåfvad och originel, men http://www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg/nfad/0261.html

Nordisk familjebok 1800-talsutgåvan. 4. Duplikator - Folkvandringen (1881) Tema: Reference Table of Contents / Innehåll Project Runeberg Catalog ... Print (PDF) On this page / på denna sida - Engelska literaturen Below is the raw OCR text from the above scanned image. Do you see an error? Proofread the page now! Här nedan syns maskintolkade texten från faksimilbilden ovan. Ser du något fel? Korrekturläs sidan nu! This page has never been proofread. / Denna sida har aldrig korrekturlästs. Project Runeberg, Sat May 15 18:54:55 2004 (aronsson) http://www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg/nfad/0261.html

64. Annalen.net - Das Historische Datum - 11. Juni - Ein Service Von DEMO-ART.com Translate this page 1573, Ben Jonson, Dichter und Dramatiker (GB), geboren NeBen William Shakespeareprägte Jonson die englische Literatur des frühen 17. Jahrhunderts. http://www.annalen.net/chronical/06/xxxx_06_11_b.html

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65. World Literature Gascoigne, George, 15351577, Poetry of Gascoigne, The, 1573-1577, Poetry, Search,4, Jonson, Ben, 1572?-1673, Poetry of Jonson, The, 1616, 1640, Poetry, Search,4, http://www.ditext.com/archive/4a.html

World Literature, Series 4 - Alphabetized by Authors Author Dates for Author Title Date of pub. Type of Work Search in Google S AC KL W G U P Adamov, Arthur Ping-Pong Drama Search Adams, Henry Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres An extended essay delving into architecture, history, and theology Search U Agee, James Death in the Family, A Novel Search U Agee, James Let Us Now Praise Famous Men A written and photographic documentary on the Southern cotton tenant farmers Search U Aiken, Conrad Poetry of Aiken, The Poetry Search Albee, Edward Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Drama Search U Amado, Jorge Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon Novel Search L Amis, Kingsley Lucky Jim Novel Search Amis, Kingsley That Uncertain Feeling Novel Search Anacreon c.572 B.C.- Poetry of Anacreon, The 6th cent. B.C. Poetry Search Anderson, Sherwood Story Teller's Story, A Autobiography Search Andric, Ivo Bridge on the Drina, The Novel Search Apollinaire, Guilliaume Poetry of Apollinaire, The Poetry Search Aretino, Pietro Discourses Part 1: 1534; Part 2: 1536 Dialogues Search Arnold, Matthew Culture and Anarchy Social criticism Search Arnold, Matthew

66. Thrednedle Strete Elizabethan Costume Glossary - C From Ben Jonson in Every man in his Humour, 1601, we have . Given by the erleof Lecetor.” New Year’s Gift presented to Queen Elizabeth, 1573. http://www.thrednedlestrete.com/morse/GlossaryC.htm

A B C D ... Z CABASSET: page 97. CADDIS, CADDICE: 1st Henry IV-II.IV.80. CALICO: The Honest Whore CALIMANCO: A glazed fabric. CAMBRIC, CAMERICKE: Anatomy of Abuses -Stubbes) see STARCH. See LAWN CAMLET, CAMELOTT, CHAMLET, CAMELOT: Anatomy of Abuses Diary French Garden CANE: A walking stick, known but not common. CANIONS Anatomy of Abuses Patient Grissil Guide unto tongues CANVAS: Dictionarie CAP: He continues: Taming of the Shrew -Shakespeare) From Ben Jonson in Every man in his Humour, 1601, we have: - Within this city, never were in safety Parliamentary Diary of Robert Bowyer -D.H. Wilson, 1606) See illus. on page 52. Annales Annales Description of England Glossary Dutch Courtezan -Marston, 1605) Moryson's comments. For which so many pates learn Latin: The saylors with their thrums doe stand The sick mans Cap not wrought with silk, Is like repentant, white as milk, When hats in church drop off in haste, The sick mans Cap, if wrought, can tell Though he be ill, his state is well. The crewelll Cap is knit like hose The Satin and velvet hive The Song of Caps , (Roxburgh Ballads) CAP-A-PIE ARMOUR: Complete armour, or from head to foot. Se illu. on

67. Thrednedle Strete Elizabethan Costume Glossary - T little peece of wood with a sharpe pointe.” (Hollybande, The French Schoolmaster,1573). In Ben Jonson’s The Staple of News, Pennyboy, Jr., “walks up and http://www.thrednedlestrete.com/morse/GlossaryT.htm

A B C D ... Z TABARD: Glossary page 80. TABBINET: A silk fabric. TABBY: TACE, TASSETS: pages 93 and TACKE : A form of pistol TAFFETA: This silk fabric was extensively used at this period, though considered a luxury. TAG: see AGLET. TARGET: A round or oval shield. See BUCKLER. TASSELS: see PIKE, SCARF TAWDRY LACE: Cheap, showy ribbons worn by counrty girls. THRUM: Any loose thread or fringe or a tuft of filaments or fibres. (Standard Dictionary) TIARA: A triple crown surmounted by a cross worn by the Pope in public, on certain occasions, as a sign of his temporal power. It was not worn at liturgical functions, at which time the mitre was worn. See illus. on page 85. TIFFANY: TIPPET: A scarf worn over the shoulders with ends hanging down in front, or less commonly, a cape made of fur or cloth edges or lined with fur. It was worn by the doctors of divinity, heads of colleges, members of cathedral bodies and chaplains of noblemen. (H. Druitt, Costume on Brasses Coverdale Lett. Mart.

68. Beginners Guide the wrist when other playwrights such as Tom Nashe or Ben Jonson were called Oxfordepistle dedicatory to Thomas Bedingfield s Cardanus Comfort (1573), a major http://www.shakespearefellowship.org/virtualclassroom/begguide.htm

Fellowship Home Virtual Classroom 25 Questions A Beginner's Guide to the Shakespeare Authorship Problem Collated and Updated from sources for the Shakespeare Fellowship, March 2002 J'ai la conviction que toute personne dont le jugement est reste libre en ce qui concerne le problème Shakspearien, connaîtra que les anciennes positions de la doctrine traditionelle ne pas sauraient être maintenues Professor Abel Lefranc, c. 1922 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction to the Shakespeare authorship problem What is the authorship question? Why does it exist? Honor Roll of Skeptics A vivid animated history in flash of some historic comments by Leslie Howard, Sigmund Freud, Sir John Gielgud and many others on the authorship question. History of the Shakespeare Question A more detailed html synopsis of the history of the controversy. Doubts of the Orthodox view Why have so many prominent intellectuals doubted the orthodox account of authorship? Why not Bacon, Marlowe or Derby? Theories supporting these three "alternative Shakespeare's" are all flawed and lack the conclusive detail found in the case for Oxford. The case for Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford as "Shakespeare"

69. .:The Poetry Showcase:. - Share Your Poems At The Poetry Showcase! Eliot, TS; Frost, Robert; Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von; Hugo, Victor;Jonson, Ben; Kilmer, Joyce; Kipling, Rudyard; Lang, Andrew; Lear, Edward; http://www.everypoet.net/xoops/userinfo.php?uid=1573

70. At The Time Of Elizabeth Francis Bacon, Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe, Edmund Spenser, and of course,William Shakespeare, are all writing during A peace pact is made in 1573. http://www.umkc.edu/imc/elizengl.htm

At the Time of Elizabeth In 1558 after a decade of social discord, political floundering, and international humiliation, England had a new monarch and stood on the threshold of an extraordinary reign. Elizabeth, the third in line for the succession, ascended the throne at age 25. She reigned in England from 1558 until her death in 1603. Although her small kingdom was threatened by grave internal divisions, Elizabeth's blend of shrewdness, courage, and majestic self-display inspired ardent expressions of loyalty and helped unify the nation against foreign enemies. This adulation was the result of a carefully crafted, brilliantly executed campaign in which the queen fashioned herself as the glittering symbol of her nation's destiny. While she did not wield absolute power, she tenaciously upheld her authority to make critical decisions and to set the central policies of both church and state. Elizabeth I, the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, reestablished English Protestantism in England and the country emerged as a naval power during a period marked by peace and prosperity. Her 45-year reign also produced an astonishing flowering of literature, the English Renaissance. Marked by tremendous ambition, achievement, promise and gusto, the latter half of the 16th century in England has often been called the

71. 16th Století V Literatuře 1597 Englands Heroicall listy Michael Drayton. 1598 Každý chlap v jeho humoru(hra) - Ben Jonson; Skotský Historie Jamese ctvrtý (hra) - Robert Greene. http://wikipedia.infostar.cz/1/16/16th_century_in_literature.html

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73. SHAKESPEARE: A DAY AT GLOBE into the past—into the theater of a playwright whom Ben Jonson called without In1573, Elizabeth gave her protection to a company of actors which included http://www.guidanceassociates.com/06272.html

Students trace the development of England's commercial and military power, and social and cultural life. This leads to a discussion of early theaters and the operations of the Globe-its architecture, stage design and galleries. Dramatic readings, authentic costumes and sound effects present Shakespearean drama as it may have looked to its orginal audiences. (38 min) Teacher's Guide Objectives of the Program Shakespeare: A Day at the Globe is designed to help students become familiar with • the rise of Elizabethan theater from its origins in early inn yard performances to the building of the Globe Theatre in 1599; • the forces that supported Elizabethan theater as well as the forces that opposed it; • the probable structure of Shakespeare’s acting company, its theater, and the makeup of its audience; • the stage conditions in a 1599 performance at the Globe and the possible reaction of an audience to a performance of Julius Caesar; • the workings of Shakespeare’s company and his role in it; • the relationship between Shakespeare’s plays, his times, and the stage for which his plays were written. • Introduction and Summary Few events in English literature can compare in importance with the opening of the Globe Theatre in 1599. Ushering in Shakespeare’s ten years at the “wooden O,” the event symbolizes a period that, though short lived, saw the flowering of Elizabethan drama and the creation of works of dramatic literature that are still considered among the greatest of any age.

74. Widener Library Manuscripts: Index. 911. Books and magazine articles on Ben Jonson.AZ.-12-22 Chronological collectionof notes, etc., dealing with life and works of Ben Jonson, 1573-1640.-23 http://oasis.harvard.edu/html/hou01481.html

Widener Library manuscripts: Index. Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138 Descriptive Summary Repository: Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University Title: Widener Library manuscripts. Abstract: Manuscripts, both single codices and collections, that were transferred from the Treasure Room in Widener Library to Houghton Library in 1942. They have traditionally been called the "Old Widener" collections. Administrative Information Processing Information: Much of this material still has the old Widener Library call numbers. As this material is recataloged by the Houghton staff into new classification numbers, the item will be deleted from this list and will be found in OASIS and/or HOLLIS. This index was last altered February 2003. Acquisition Information: All this material was transferred from Widener Library to Houghton Library. In some cases, specific donor information is listed with the item. Scope and Content The Widener Library manuscripts, both single codices and collections, were transferred from the Treasure Room to Houghton Library in 1942. They have traditionally been called the "Old Widener" collections. As time and resources permit, they are being recataloged. While those with call numbers beginning MS (e.g. MS Pers 14) will retain those numbers, those with Widener classifications (e.g. 27271.37*) will be reclassified into the Houghton manuscript classes. As items and collections are recataloged, they will be deleted from the finding aid for this "collection."

75. Sobran Column -- Making Sense Of Shakespeare us, are “usually snobbish,” and besides, he asks, would Honest Ben Jonson lieto in his own letters; one of those letters, written in 1573, foreshadows the http://www.sobran.com/columns/1999-2001/000727.shtml

Making Sense of Shakespeare July 27, 2000 William Shakespeare: The Man behind the Genius This becomes clearest when Holden deals with the Sonnets. He recognizes that most of these poems are addressed to the Earl of Southampton, also the dedicatee of Venus and Adonis Joseph Sobran Archive Table of Contents Current Column The Shakespeare Library Return to S home page S OBRAN S continues because of your generous donations! Your purchase of products or subscriptions or your donation to S OBRAN S will be processed by PayPal, one of the most widely used and secure Internet-payment sources available. Search This Site Essays and Articles Syndicated Columns Wanderer ... Griffin Internet Syndicate/Griffin Communications Reprinted with permission Griffin Internet Syndicate

76. Sobran's --- Shakespeare Authorship (Reply To Nelson) Thus he dismisses Oxford’s elegant 1573 letter to Thomas Bedingfield as “a dense Hesays I charge that Ben Jonson “lied through his teeth” in the First http://www.sobran.com/replynelson.shtml

A reply to Alan Nelson by Joseph Sobran of my book Alias Shakespeare in the Fall 1999 issue of The Shakespeare Quarterly, The Shakespeare Quarterly Alias Shakespeare is meant to do. Alias Shakespeare Alias Shakespeare As Nelson says, Alias Shakespeare I was indebted to Nelson chiefly for copies of a few letters of Oxford, one of which is quoted in Alias Shakespeare. My gratitude to him was (and is) sincere. But this was not, in truth, a great debt, though he may prefer to think otherwise. fair-mindedness, and simple common sense. For the purposes of Alias Shakespeare, But Alias Shakespeare By shuttling between my argument and his own rather catty factual quibbles, Nelson makes his review of Alias Shakespeare Perhaps understandably, Nelson wants to evaluate Alias Shakespeare Uninhibited by intellectual rigor, Nelson insinuates that to detect factual flaws in Alias Shakespeare, Alias Shakespeare Nevertheless (and we now come to the book I did write), I assume that authors often do disclose something of themselves in their fictions. Literary biographies of writers, from Dante to Hemingway, have sought to show how their works were inspired, shaped, and colored by their personal lives. Paradise Lost Hamlet Se defendendo Se offendendo.

77. SHAKSPER: Submitted Papers Torquato Tasso s Aminta (1573) opens with a boyactor as Cupid who, having WalterW. Pastoral Poetry and Drama (AH Bullen, London 1906) Jonson, Ben Volpone in http://www.shaksper.net/archives/files/italian.dream.html

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78. App5 - Title Gipsies Dance Probably from The Gipsies Metamorphosed, Ben Jonson, AugustSept1621 of Henry Stafford, Duke of BuckinghamEdward (c1516-1573) or Francis (1514 http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/julia/ap5/app5.htm

APPENDIX 5 Dateable elements in titles of solo lute music See MOUNSIEUR'S ALMAIN Although I had a check: Poem by Surrey from Tottel's Miscellany Ambrose: Possibly Ambrose Lupo de Milan, violin player to the court 1540-91. Anthony: Ship of 120 tons owned by Cumberland and others. Captained by Robert Careless, a privateer. Went in an unsuccessful privateeringconvoy in 1595 under Captain Langton. Antiq Maske: possibly from The Lords' Maske , Campion, 14 Feb 1613. As oft as I behold and see: Poem by Surrey from Tottel's Miscellany Augurs, Maske of: Ben Jonson, 6 Jan and 6 May 1622. Augustine: Probably Augustine Bassano, ( b Venice, d Oct 1604) who came to England in 1539 and was a lutenist to Queen Elizabeth. Banning, Lady: Anne, the daughter of Sir Henry Glenham. She married Sir Paul Banning (or Bayning) 1588-1629, of Little Bentley, Essex, in or before 1613, and died in 1639. She would have become Lady Banning in 1614 (when Sir Paul was knighted) until 1630, when she remarried. Bear's Dance: possiblyfrom the Maske of Augurs , Ben Jonson, 6 Jan and 6 May 1622.

79. Plays As Biography Ben Jonson So Test Him I Vow He Is De Vere , Thomas Thorpe These Sonnets All InMay 1573, Lord Burghley received a complaint from two of Oxford s former http://www.dlroper.shakespearians.com/plays_as_biography.htm

THE PLAYS AND THEIR BIOGRAPHICAL DETAIL The evidence submitted at university level to support William Shakespeare as the poet and playwright from Stratford upon Avon can no longer be considered entirely reliable. Such evidence invariably takes the form of contemporary written references linking the name William Shakespeare to plays that he reputedly wrote. In normal circumstances this evidence would be considered valid, since similar procedures of examination and acceptance have been, and still are, adopted by historians throughout the world. But it is also a procedure that has one very important failing. If the ruling body of a particular age has engaged in the promotion of an Open Secret ; something known only to an elite few and never set down in writing, then historians of a later era will find themselves in the same position as the great majority of people belonging to that former time, whose status in society excluded them from the 'Secret'. It is only to be expected, therefore, that subsequent historical research will result in the same false conclusions being reached as those intended for the people of that time. For, it follows that all relevant public documents belonging to that age will have been written either by persons who were ignorant of the Open Secret , and therefore wrote what they believed to be true, or by those endorsing it. And since contemporary written references to William Shakespeare all fall into that category, they can no longer be considered as a reliable guide to the truth. Even references which might be called private offer no reprieve. Once a 'public lie' has been set in motion, it quickly becomes autonomous and assumes a life of its own, taking sustenance from the frequent repetition with which it is uttered. Since private memoranda are apt to reflect the vocabulary of the age in which they were written, there is no reason to suppose that any verbal exceptions to the norm are likely to occur within their content.

80. Frontline: The Shakespeare Mystery: J.D. Reed Article | PBS Nearly all of Shakespeare s theatrical contemporaries, including Ben Jonson, a bricklayer sson, were In May 1573, two former employees of the Earl s household http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shakespeare/debates/reedarticle.html

var loc = "../../"; From Smithsonian , September, 1987 The chasm between the fame and richness of the works, and the poverty of information about the author, has fueled a curious, and sometimes a perverse, controversy that has raged for more than a century. Since the mid-19th century, a hardy and vocal band of disbelievers has argued that someone other than the Stratford man created the poems and plays attributed to; or presented as, the works of William Shakespeare. To many people, and with some reason, the debaters are fair comic game. As the Shakespearean actor Ian McKellen puts it today, "Some people, intellectual snobs perhaps, like to think that the philosopher Francis Bacon wrote the plays. Then there are social snobs who like to think that the Earl of Oxford wrote the plays. And no doubt somewhere there's a keen viewer of Masterpiece Theatre who thinks that Alistair Cooke wrote the plays." Most lovers of the works, moreover, accept the incumbent candidate, or, failing that, agree with McKellen that the plays were written either by a man called Shakespeare or by a man calling himself Shakespeare. Not so, says author and scholar Charlton Ogburn. For many years a passionate and tireless proponent of the Earl of Oxford theory, Ogburn is not about to be deterred by a wisecrack. Oh, no, think those who have been down this path before, here comes another theory. Fortunately for lovers of Shakespeare and historyand for anyone who likes a lively row (for Ogburn is a combative soul)the former State Department official known for his books (among others a famous World War II narrative

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