Privacy/publicity, Love/Lust

Question 1

When was Sidney’s ‘Astrophil and Stella’ written?

Answer 1

1580s

Question 2

When was ‘Astrophil and Stella’ first published?

Answer 2

1591

Question 3

Who published the first edition of ‘Astrophil and Stella’?

Answer 3

Thomas Newman

Question 4

What does Sonnet 67 of ‘Astrophil and Stella’ say about love and reading?

Answer 4

‘Her eyes’ speech is thus translated’

Question 5

What does Sonnet 67 of ‘Astrophil and Stella’ say about misreading?

Answer 5

‘how so [Hope] interpret the contents, /
I am resolved thy error to maintain, / Rather than by more truth to get more pain.’

Question 6

When was ‘The Adventures of Master F.J.’ first published?

Answer 6

1573

Question 7

What line in ‘The Adventures of Master F.J.’ shows the way private writings are made public?

Answer 7

‘he lost [his poem] where his mistress found it, and she immediately imparted the same unto Dame Pergo, and Dame Pergo unto others…’

Question 8

What does Gascoigne say he has done to ‘Master F.J.’ in the ‘Posies’ edition?

Answer 8

‘cleansed [it] from all uncleanly words’

Question 9

What does James Daybell say about letter-writing in early modern England?

Answer 9

‘letter-writing emerges as a complex (often collaborative rather than solitary) activity’

Question 10

When was Angel Day’s ‘The English Secretorie’ published?

Answer 10

1585

Question 11

What does H.W. say about publication in the letter to the reader prefixing G.T.’s narration in ‘The Adventures of Master F.J.’?

Answer 11

It is a text ‘thought better to please a number by common commodity than to feed the humour of any private person by needless necessity’

Question 12

What does Gascoigne say he is accused of being in the ‘Prefatory Letters’ to his 1575 ‘Posies’?

Answer 12

‘a corrupt Merchant for the sale of deceitful wares’

Question 13

When was Nicolas Breton’s ‘A Post with a pack of mad letters’ published?

Answer 13

1606

Question 14

What is the value of Breton’s fictional letters, according to his preface?

Answer 14

There are ‘some things profitable to a young wit’

Question 15

How does Breton address his audience in the preface to his ‘Pack of mad letters’?

Answer 15

‘Gentle if you be’

Question 16

Give the name of a letter that demonstrates the entertainment value of letters

Answer 16

‘A letter to laugh at’

Question 17

What broader social function do letters have, according to Gary Schneider?

Answer 17

‘in-group cohesion’

Question 18

What does Angel Day call the letters in his ‘English Secretorie’?

Answer 18

‘example[s]’

Question 19

When was James Howell’s ‘Epistolae Ho-Elianae’ published?

Answer 19

1650

Question 20

What line shows a reverse metamorphosis in Marston’s ‘Pigmalion’?

Answer 20

‘O that my Mistress were an Image too, / That I might blameless her perfections view.’

Question 21

What line acknowledges the voyeuristic reader in Marston’s ‘Pigmalion’?

Answer 21

‘O pardon me / Yee gaping eares that swallow up my lines’

Question 22

What does Marston say in his epigraph to his ‘Mistress’ before ‘Pigmalion’?

Answer 22

‘Ile gladly write thy metamorphosis’

Question 23

What complicates the humanist vision, according to Sidney’s ‘Defense of Poesy’?

Answer 23

‘infected will’

Question 24

What do epyllia do in terms of moulding the identity of their readers, according to Jim Ellis?

Answer 24

‘The epyllion frequently warns youths about the danger of being the object of desire, and seeks to position adult males as autonomous subjects of desire’

Question 25

What line in Marston’s ‘Pigmalion’ figures the reader as an object that the text penetrates?

Answer 25

‘Yee gaping ears, / That swallow up my lines’

Question 26

What does Joseph Hall say in book 1, satire 7 about the publicity of amorous sonnets?

Answer 26

He writes ‘As tho the staring world hang’d on his sleeve’

Question 27

What does Joseph Hall say about the metamorphosing art of amorous sonnets in book 1, satire 7, seemingly referencing ‘Astrophil and Stella’?

Answer 27

‘tho she be some dunghill drudge at home, / Yet can he her resign some refuse room / Amid the well-known stars’

Question 28

In which sonnet is Stella referred to as ‘Queen Virtue’s court’?

Answer 28

Sonnet 9

Question 29

In which sonnet are ‘Stella’’s breasts compared to tents?

Answer 29

29

Question 30

What does Thomas Newman say about the other illicit transcriptions of ‘Astrophil and Stella’?

Answer 30

‘it had gathered much corruption by ill Writers’

Question 31

What does Thomas Newman say about the value of printing ‘Astrophil and Stella’?

Answer 31

‘I thought it pittie anie thing proceeding from so rare a man, shoulde bee obscured’

Question 32

What does Nashe refer to a print readership as for Sidney’s text?

Answer 32

‘this Theater of pleasure… an artificial heav’n to overshadow the faire frame’

Question 33

What does Nashe say about private scribal circulation?

Answer 33

‘imprisoned in Ladyes casks’

Question 34

What does Nashe say poetic reputation uses to ascend to power?

Answer 34

it ‘useth some private penne (in steed of a picklock to procure his violent enlargement.’

Question 35

Which critic argues against viewing Thomas Newman as a pirate?

Answer 35

Mark Bland

Question 36

What does Clegg argue about the pseudo-moralizing prefatory materials in Gascoigne’s ‘Flowers’?

Answer 36

They ‘draw attention’ to the narrative as ‘sexualized discourse’

Question 37

What does Sidney say writing poetry does in ‘Defense of Poesy’ with regard to world?

Answer 37

It creates ‘another nature’

Question 38

What does Sidney say about attempts to attain perfection in the ‘Defense of Poesy’

Answer 38

‘our erected wit makes us know what perfection is, and yet our infected will keeps us from reaching unto it.’