What Rosalind Likes - Pastoral, Gender, and the Founding of English Verse

Shows how the character called Rosalind, who features in works by Spenser, Lodge, and Shakespeare, can be considered as a single and unifying character whose textual appearances lead us to reconsider important aspects of Renaissance literature: prosody, the influence of Virgil and of pastoral poetry, and the position of women.

List of contents

• 1: Introduction: What Rosalind Likes


• 2: Spenser's Rosalind: Flawed Poetry and Feminist Experiments


• 3: Lodge's Rosalind: Virtuous Lightness and Queer Mythography


• 4: Shakespeare's Rosalind: Homoeroticism, Tyranny, and Pastoral Concord


• 5: Mary Wroth, Dora Jordan, and Katharine Hepburn


• Bibliography

About the author

Paul J. Hecht was educated at Amherst College and Cornell University and has been Associate Professor of English at Purdue University Northwest since 2016, where he teaches literature and directs student productions of early modern drama. He is the author of several essays on early modern poetry and drama, and co-editor, with J. B. Lethbridge, of Spenser in the Moment (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2015, reissued 2017).

Summary

Shows how the character called Rosalind, who features in works by Spenser, Lodge, and Shakespeare, can be considered as a single and unifying character whose textual appearances lead us to reconsider important aspects of Renaissance literature: prosody, the influence of Virgil and of pastoral poetry, and the position of women.

Additional text

The main strengths of Hecht's monograph lie in the technical close readings he provides of both English and Latin poetry and the connections he is able to tease out from these to other contemporary sources.

Product details

• Authors: Paul J. Hecht, Paul J. (Associate Professor of English Hecht, Hecht Paul J.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2022
• EAN: 9780192857200
• ISBN: 978-0-19-285720-0
• No. of pages: 216
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, DRAMA / Shakespeare, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean