Pseudonymous Shakespeare: Rioting Language in the Sidney CircleAn 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 |
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... coterie and patronage to a central position with great explanatory potential ; and it is from these two notions that an assessment of effects should start . I have implied the need for new criteria for identifying a coterie circle or a ...
... coterie and patronage to a central position with great explanatory potential ; and it is from these two notions that an assessment of effects should start . I have implied the need for new criteria for identifying a coterie circle or a ...
Page 217
... coterie secret . There is the significance of differential spelling , and of verse form . There is the tag standing as a personal marker ( ' hic et ubique ' ) . Epigraphs , marginal notes and glosses can ' convey ' ( smuggle in ) more ...
... coterie secret . There is the significance of differential spelling , and of verse form . There is the tag standing as a personal marker ( ' hic et ubique ' ) . Epigraphs , marginal notes and glosses can ' convey ' ( smuggle in ) more ...
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... coterie codes in the wider perspective of ' anonymity ' . But her critical tools are directed towards a different end from mine . While she discusses the usefulness , uses , and types of this kind of ' indirection ' , North is not much ...
... coterie codes in the wider perspective of ' anonymity ' . But her critical tools are directed towards a different end from mine . While she discusses the usefulness , uses , and types of this kind of ' indirection ' , North is not much ...
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