A01=Penny McCarthy
andronicus
Author_Penny McCarthy
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Christs Teares
circle
Divers Humors
early modern literature
Edward III
Elizabethan coterie
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Henry Iv Play
Hermites Tale
historical authorship studies
lenten
Lenten Stuffe
lichfield
linguistic indirection
literary pseudonyms
Lowly Suitor
mary
Mary Sidney
Nashe's Christs Teares
Nashe's Lenten Stuffe
OED
Page Boy
Paper Book
Passionate Pi
Penelope Rich
philip
Philip Sidney
Pis Lapis
richard
Richard III
Richard Lichfield
Richard Linche
Robert's Father
Shepheardes Calender
sidney
Sidney Circle
Sidney circle authorship controversy
Sonnet Sequence
stuffe
textual analysis methods
titus
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780754655084
- Weight: 521g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jan 2006
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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An investigation into modes of early modern English literary 'indirection,' this study could also be considered a detective work on a pseudonym attached to some late sixteenth-century works. In the course of unmasking 'R.L.', McCarthy scrutinizes devices employed by writers in the Sidney coterie: punning, often across languages; repetitio-insistence on a sound, or hiding two persons 'under one hood'; disingenuous juxtaposition; evocation of original context; differential spelling (intended and significant). Among McCarthy's stunning-but solidly underpinned-conclusions are: Shakespeare used the pseudonym 'R.L.' among other pseudonyms; one, 'William Smith', was also his 'alias' in life; Shakespeare was at the heart of the Sidney circle, whose literary programme was hostile to Elizabeth I; and his work, composed mainly from the late 1570s to the early 90s, occasionally 'embedded' in the work of others, was covertly alluded to more often than has been recognized.
Penny McCarthy took her MA and D. Phil. at Sussex University, and now holds an honorary research fellowship with the University of Glasgow, UK.
