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  • Chapter 6 - “Unpublished Virtues of the Earth”

  • from Part II - Anonymity in the Printed English Herbal
  • Sarah Neville, Ohio State University
  • Book:
    Early Modern Herbals and the Book Trade
    Published online:
    23 December 2021
    Print publication:
    06 January 2022, pp 182-204
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    This chapter uses evidence from the English stage to demonstrate that, for early moderns, the book form was often as important as its content. The material aspect of book knowledge was most pronounced in matters of medicine, where books were especially well-suited as stage properties that could serve characters’ authoritative pretentions. What’s more, an appreciation of books as properties reveals how early modern readers engaged in medical care, not exclusively through deference to professional medical authorities but as individualized and idiosyncratic acts of self-healing.

Ovid and the Liberty of Speech in Shakespeare's England
  • Heather James
  • Published online:
    18 June 2021
    Print publication:
    08 July 2021
  • The range of poetic invention that occurred in Renaissance English literature was vast, from the lyric eroticism of the late sixteenth century to the rise of libertinism in the late seventeenth century. Heather James argues that Ovid, as the poet-philosopher of literary innovation and free speech, was the galvanizing force behind this extraordinary level of poetic creativity. Moving beyond mere topicality, she identifies the ingenuity, novelty and audacity of the period's poetry as the political inverse of censorship culture. Considering Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson, Milton and Wharton among many others, the book explains how free speech was extended into the growing domain of English letters, and thereby presents a new model of the relationship between early modern poetry and political philosophy.