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{"title":"Fooles of Nature: The Epistemology of Hamlet","authors":"A. Dunlop","doi":"10.1086/708230","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/708230","url":null,"abstract":"Hamlet was written near the peak of a crisis of epistemological thinking for many Europeans. This essay argues that concern with epistemology is the central structural principle of the play, uniting many details of plot and language in ways not generally acknowledged in a modern critical discourse concerned rather with issues of individual identity and personal psychology. Reading the play with this focus, with particular attention to the broad range of assumptions and expectations of Shakespeare’s contemporaries, also helps to clarify the playwright’s values with regard to prior tradition and emergent trends, revealing the great innovator in language, drama, and verse to be staunchly and systematically resistant to some of the most important modernizing tendencies of his day. [A.D.]","PeriodicalId":44199,"journal":{"name":"ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE","volume":"50 1","pages":"204 - 232"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/708230","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47233646","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Collaborating on Credit: Ben Jonson’s Authorship in Eastward Ho!","authors":"Gabriella Edelstein","doi":"10.1086/708232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/708232","url":null,"abstract":"Although the importance of Ben Jonson’s 1616 folio to the emergence of the author is already well established, the significance of collaboration to his early career has been somewhat overlooked. This essay argues that when considering Jonson’s authorship through early modern credit culture, his participation in the collaborative mechanisms of the playhouses becomes clearer. This is particularly the case with the play Eastward Ho! (1605), written alongside George Chapman and John Marston. Jonson’s early experiences of social credit in the playhouses is examined, especially his relationship with the impresario Philip Henslowe and the Admiral’s Men, as well as his later partnership with the Children of the Queen’s Revels. Close reading of Eastward Ho! reveals how Jonson, Chapman and Marston wrote the kinds of debt and credit relationships they experienced in the companies into the play’s plot. In a play deeply interested in the social effects of performance, the characters constantly enact collaborative devices to add to their credit. The play’s comic ending, dependent on performing collaborative credit, mirrors Jonson’s own immersion in the economy of obligation in the theatres. His eventual literary singularity, and his commensurate sociality, were not separate parts of his career but central to his playwriting practice. [G.E.]","PeriodicalId":44199,"journal":{"name":"ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE","volume":"50 1","pages":"233 - 255"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/708232","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48367712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Christopher Marlowe, Literary History, and the Lyrical Style of Blank Verse","authors":"C. McKeen","doi":"10.1086/708229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/708229","url":null,"abstract":"This essay contextualizes the versification of Christopher Marlowe’s Tamburlaine among sixteenth-century efforts to reform English vernacular verse on the model of Latin unrhymed quantitative meter. Literary histories of unrhymed verse in the poetic and rhetorical theory of Roger Ascham, Gabriel Harvey, and others align the disappearance of unrhymed meter with the fall of civilizations and propose a return to classical metrics as a means of transferring the cultural and political authority of ancient Rome to Tudor England. Marlowe, however, offers in Tamburlaine an alternative literary history of unrhymed poetry through the formal affordances of blank verse. As an open form, blank verse lends itself to expansive speeches that, in the mouth of Tamburlaine, can paradoxically both produce action and arrest time. The form of blank verse thus resists the imperial teleology of its origins in the classicizing projects of the Tudor humanists. [C.M.]","PeriodicalId":44199,"journal":{"name":"ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE","volume":"50 1","pages":"173 - 203"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/708229","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44501126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Polemical Laughter in Thomas Middleton’s A Game at Chess (1624)","authors":"A. Streete","doi":"10.1086/708233","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/708233","url":null,"abstract":"Contemporary accounts note that audiences laughed heartily at Thomas Middleton’s scandalous play A Game at Chess. But do we really know what they were laughing at? Only partially. Drawing on recent research in early modern wit, I reconsider the place of laughter in the play and its polemical source texts by exploring significant late-Jacobean debates about religious laughter, mockery, personation, and theater. These debates enable a clearer understanding of how laughter works in the play, allowing us in turn to reassess A Game at Chess as a response to the political crisis of 1624 when war between Britain and Spain seemed imminent. [A.S.]","PeriodicalId":44199,"journal":{"name":"ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE","volume":"50 1","pages":"296 - 333"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/708233","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49007731","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Evaluation of hyperoxia-induced hypercapnia in obese patients after cardiac surgery: a randomized crossover comparison of conservative and liberal oxygen administration.","authors":"Marie-Hélène Denault, Carolanne Ruel, Mathieu Simon, Pierre-Alexandre Bouchard, Serge Simard, François Lellouche","doi":"10.1007/s12630-019-01500-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12630-019-01500-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>Recent studies on patients with stable obesity-hypoventilation syndrome have raised concerns about hyperoxia-induced hypercapnia in this population. This study aimed to evaluate whether a higher oxygen saturation target would increase arterial partial pressure of carbon dioxide (PaCO₂₎ in obese patients after coronary artery bypass grafting surgery (CABG).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Obese patients having CABG were recruited. With a randomized crossover design, we compared two oxygenation strategies for 30 min each, immediately after extubation: a peripheral oxygen saturation (SpO₂) target of ≥ 95% achieved with manual oxygen titration (liberal) and a SpO₂ target of 90% achieved with FreeO₂, an automated oxygen titration device (conservative). The main outcome was end-of-period arterial PaCO₂.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Thirty patients were included. Mean (standard deviation [SD]) body mass index (BMI) was 34 (3) kg·m^-2 and mean (SD) baseline partial pressure of carbon dioxide (PCO₂) was 40.7 (3.1) mmHg. Mean (SD) end-of-period PaCO₂ was 42.0 (5.4) mmHg in the conservative period, compared with 42.6 (4.6) mmHg in the liberal period [mean difference - 0.6 (95% confidence interval - 2.2 to 0.9) mmHg; P = 0.4]. Adjusted analysis for age, BMI, narcotics, and preoperative PaCO₂ did not substantively change the results. Fourteen patients were retainers, showing an elevation in mean (SD) PaCO₂ in the liberal period of 3.3 (4.1) mmHg. Eleven patients had the opposite response, with a mean (SD) end-of-period PaCO₂ decrease of 1.8 (2.2) mmHg in the liberal period. Five patients had a neutral response.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>This study did not show a clinically important increase in PaCO₂ associated with higher SpO₂ values in this specific population of obese patients after CABG. Partial pressure of carbon dioxide increased with liberal oxygen administration in almost half of the patients, but no predictive factor was identified.</p><p><strong>Trial registration: </strong>www.clinicaltrials.gov (NCT02917668); registered 25 September, 2016.</p>","PeriodicalId":44199,"journal":{"name":"ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE","volume":"35 1","pages":"194-202"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s12630-019-01500-x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85396244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Material Text Between General and Particular, Edition and Copy","authors":"Z. Lesser","doi":"10.1086/706223","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/706223","url":null,"abstract":"I am grateful to Arthur F. Kinney and the other editors ofEnglish Literary Renaissance for the chance to help celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the journal. More than that, I am grateful to ELR for publishing my first scholarly article in 1999, and for having always supported research into the history of the book and the material text. That 1999 essay on “Walter Burre’s The Knight of the Burning Pestle” went on to form the basis of my dissertation and my first book, Renaissance Drama and the Politics of Publication: Readings in the English Book Trade. There I tried to read early modern drama as its publishers read it, to understand historical reception from the perspective of the book trade. Doing so meant focusing on editions of plays—all of the copies printed from a single setting of type—since it was at the level of editions that early modern publishers made their decisions about how to invest their capital. Likewise, mywork with Alan Farmer— in a series of articles on popularity in the book trade, and in building the websiteDEEP:Database of Early English Playbooks<deep.sas.upenn.edu>— mainly involved editions, since if we want to reconstruct the success or failure of different kinds of books, or particular titles within those genres, we need to be careful to distinguish editions and their reprints from other ways of categorizing books such as issues or states. Many questions we want to ask about the publication, circulation, and reception of books in early modern England properly concern editions. An edition is a conceptual category, with a materiality rooted in the type that was set and then, after printing, distributed by compositors. But thematerial texts that instantiate an edition are individual copies, and these were never identical as they came off the press, much less so as they appear to us today. The concrete particularity of, for example, the marginalia in a given copy of a text can make scholarship on copies, rather than editions, seem more vivid, giving us a glimpse of a “real” historical reader. And yet","PeriodicalId":44199,"journal":{"name":"ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE","volume":"50 1","pages":"83 - 92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/706223","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43954193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Renaissance of Race and the Future of Early Modern Race Studies","authors":"Urvashi Chakravarty","doi":"10.1086/706214","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/706214","url":null,"abstract":"I n reflecting on the state of Renaissance studies, I want to begin by thinking about the terms in which we frame this inquiry. In addition to examining the state of the field, what does it mean to interrogate the state of the field? To interpret a “state” as a material or immaterial condition, a state of affairs, offers perhaps themost conventional way of addressing this question. Such a state is necessarily temporally specific and bound, and later in this essay I shall turn to thinking about possible directions for the field and the alternate ways in which we might conceive of futures or futurity. But without being glib, I also want to register the pun on “state” which is, for me, activated here: a state not only as a condition, but as an entity, a polity, an inclusive but also exclusive and sometimes impenetrable space. The project of analyzing the state of the field might offer the possibility of studied neutrality, of careful examination and dispassionate assessment—or conversely, of the opportunity to remove oneself from the position of neutral inquiry, and think instead in the terms of interpellation, even implication. I write in a moment, of course, when the nation state is under increasing pressure from the frighteningly ascendant forces of nationalism and nativism. To harp on the assonances between the nation state and a disciplinary “state”may seem facile or pedantic on the one hand, or unhelpfully polemical or political on the other. And as an untenured, tenuretrack scholar, and an immigrant, I am all too aware of my simultaneous precarity and privilege. But I do so, firstly, in order to underscore the ways in which Renaissance studies may operate as a disciplinary apparatus in its own right, may display and police its own boundaries and borders. Secondly, to call attention to the interstices of Renaissance studies with questions of migration, borderlands, and language, to think about the place of","PeriodicalId":44199,"journal":{"name":"ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE","volume":"50 1","pages":"17 - 24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/706214","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45236411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Breaking Form in Early Modern Literary Studies","authors":"M. Dowd","doi":"10.1086/706217","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/706217","url":null,"abstract":"L ooking back at the twenty-fifth anniversary issue of English Literary Renaissance published in 1995 in preparation to write this piece for the journal’s fiftieth anniversary, I was struck (but not surprised) by the centrality of historicism to the “state of the field” assessments offered by that volume’s contributors. After all, as Jonathan Crewe wrote in his contribution to that issue, during its ascendency in the 1980s and 1990s, the New Historicism afforded Renaissance studies a “hegemonic moment” within the discipline of English writ large. And yet throughout the twenty-fifth anniversary issue, historicism is described primarily as a locus of conflict rather than as a shared methodological point of departure. Noting the dominance of New Historicism in the field, for instance, many of the individual essays trace a developing discord between literary and historical approaches. And several others discuss at significant length the rift (or perceived rift) between feminism and historicism. Indeed, David Bevington and Lynda Boose devote their essays in the volume to precisely this issue: Bevington describes how “confrontation became part of the story” for feminist and New Historicist scholars in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and Boose warns of a “threatening backlash” against feminist scholarship in the years ahead.","PeriodicalId":44199,"journal":{"name":"ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE","volume":"50 1","pages":"40 - 46"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/706217","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42686315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?","authors":"A. Hadfield","doi":"10.1086/706219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/706219","url":null,"abstract":"I f I had been asked to write some thoughts on the state of early modern studies for the twenty-fifth anniversary of the journal I would surely have reflected on the theory wars and their impact on the study of Renaissance literature and culture. Indeed, choosing to refer to the period as “earlymodern” rather than “Renaissance”would have beenmaking some sort of statement. That time now seems very remote indeed, and I am probably less certain of my answer than at any time inmy academic career, which is probably not such a bad thing. Disputes between critics and scholars in a relatively stable academic context have been replaced by a much wider set of uncertainties so that any suggestions of where early modern studies might be heading need to be considered in a much wider context. The UK and North America in particular have seen an effective political attack on the value of the humanities at the tertiary education level, coupled with falling birth rates and an economic crisis. In departments and schools of English in the UK the number of students applying for English Literature degrees has been reduced through curriculum changes at the secondary school level, with more concentration on language at the expense of literature, as was recognized some years ago and which is now taking effect. Those students who do study for English degrees have read","PeriodicalId":44199,"journal":{"name":"ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE","volume":"50 1","pages":"54 - 60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/706219","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47440483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A World Well Lost?","authors":"P. Kewes","doi":"10.1086/706222","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/706222","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44199,"journal":{"name":"ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE","volume":"50 1","pages":"76 - 82"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/706222","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42030615","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}