Privacy/publicity, Love/Lust Flashcards
When was Sidney’s ‘Astrophil and Stella’ written?
1580s
When was ‘Astrophil and Stella’ first published?
1591
Who published the first edition of ‘Astrophil and Stella’?
Thomas Newman
What does Sonnet 67 of ‘Astrophil and Stella’ say about love and reading?
‘Her eyes’ speech is thus translated’
What does Sonnet 67 of ‘Astrophil and Stella’ say about misreading?
‘how so [Hope] interpret the contents, /
I am resolved thy error to maintain, / Rather than by more truth to get more pain.’
When was ‘The Adventures of Master F.J.’ first published?
1573
What line in ‘The Adventures of Master F.J.’ shows the way private writings are made public?
‘he lost [his poem] where his mistress found it, and she immediately imparted the same unto Dame Pergo, and Dame Pergo unto others…’
What does Gascoigne say he has done to ‘Master F.J.’ in the ‘Posies’ edition?
‘cleansed [it] from all uncleanly words’
What does James Daybell say about letter-writing in early modern England?
‘letter-writing emerges as a complex (often collaborative rather than solitary) activity’
When was Angel Day’s ‘The English Secretorie’ published?
1585
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.’?
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’
What does Gascoigne say he is accused of being in the ‘Prefatory Letters’ to his 1575 ‘Posies’?
‘a corrupt Merchant for the sale of deceitful wares’
When was Nicolas Breton’s ‘A Post with a pack of mad letters’ published?
1606
What is the value of Breton’s fictional letters, according to his preface?
There are ‘some things profitable to a young wit’
How does Breton address his audience in the preface to his ‘Pack of mad letters’?
‘Gentle if you be’
Give the name of a letter that demonstrates the entertainment value of letters
‘A letter to laugh at’
What broader social function do letters have, according to Gary Schneider?
‘in-group cohesion’
What does Angel Day call the letters in his ‘English Secretorie’?
‘example[s]’
When was James Howell’s ‘Epistolae Ho-Elianae’ published?
1650
What line shows a reverse metamorphosis in Marston’s ‘Pigmalion’?
‘O that my Mistress were an Image too, / That I might blameless her perfections view.’
What line acknowledges the voyeuristic reader in Marston’s ‘Pigmalion’?
‘O pardon me / Yee gaping eares that swallow up my lines’
What does Marston say in his epigraph to his ‘Mistress’ before ‘Pigmalion’?
‘Ile gladly write thy metamorphosis’
What complicates the humanist vision, according to Sidney’s ‘Defense of Poesy’?
‘infected will’
What do epyllia do in terms of moulding the identity of their readers, according to Jim Ellis?
‘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’
What line in Marston’s ‘Pigmalion’ figures the reader as an object that the text penetrates?
‘Yee gaping ears, / That swallow up my lines’
What does Joseph Hall say in book 1, satire 7 about the publicity of amorous sonnets?
He writes ‘As tho the staring world hang’d on his sleeve’
What does Joseph Hall say about the metamorphosing art of amorous sonnets in book 1, satire 7, seemingly referencing ‘Astrophil and Stella’?
‘tho she be some dunghill drudge at home, / Yet can he her resign some refuse room / Amid the well-known stars’
In which sonnet is Stella referred to as ‘Queen Virtue’s court’?
Sonnet 9
In which sonnet are ‘Stella’’s breasts compared to tents?
29
What does Thomas Newman say about the other illicit transcriptions of ‘Astrophil and Stella’?
‘it had gathered much corruption by ill Writers’
What does Thomas Newman say about the value of printing ‘Astrophil and Stella’?
‘I thought it pittie anie thing proceeding from so rare a man, shoulde bee obscured’
What does Nashe refer to a print readership as for Sidney’s text?
‘this Theater of pleasure… an artificial heav’n to overshadow the faire frame’
What does Nashe say about private scribal circulation?
‘imprisoned in Ladyes casks’
What does Nashe say poetic reputation uses to ascend to power?
it ‘useth some private penne (in steed of a picklock to procure his violent enlargement.’
Which critic argues against viewing Thomas Newman as a pirate?
Mark Bland
What does Clegg argue about the pseudo-moralizing prefatory materials in Gascoigne’s ‘Flowers’?
They ‘draw attention’ to the narrative as ‘sexualized discourse’
What does Sidney say writing poetry does in ‘Defense of Poesy’ with regard to world?
It creates ‘another nature’
What does Sidney say about attempts to attain perfection in the ‘Defense of Poesy’
‘our erected wit makes us know what perfection is, and yet our infected will keeps us from reaching unto it.’
