Warren Chernaik
Biographic Data
| ID | 1005203 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Warren Chernaik |
| GIVEN NAMES | Warren |
| FAMILY NAME | Chernaik |
| SIGNATURE | CHERNAIK W |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2696-9878 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Rival monarchs: The two versions of 2 Henry VI and 3 Henry VI
Two early plays in the Shakespeare canon, 2 Henry VI and 3 Henry VI, exist in widely different versions. For many years, the standard explanation for the discrepancy was that Contention and True Tragedie were untrustworthy texts contaminated by memorial reconstruction. In this essay, I will argue that each needs to be treated in its own terms as an internally consistent play; that anomalies in the text of Contention and True Tragedie are not conv…
The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve
This impressive, wide-ranging study seeks to explore why a fairly unlikely story of two people in a garden, from which they are forcibly expelled, has exercised such fascination over such a long pe
The Need to Tell Your Story
The term “memoir” is a loose and compendious one, applied to any number of publications, including those, often ghost-written, purporting to tell the life story of pop stars, politicians, and sport
Milton in the Long Restoration
Milton in the Long Restoration is a collection of essays emanating from two conferences in 2013–14 at Rutgers and Stanford Universities. The unusual term “long Restoration” is explained in Blair Ho
Janel Mueller, John Donne
The new edition of Donne in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series advertises itself as innovative in seeking, for modern readers, to “convey something of the circumstances of the original appearan
Antiformalist, Unrevolutionary, Illiberal Milton: Political Prose, 1641-1660
The Levellers: Radical Political Thought in the English Revolution
Oliver Cromwell: God's Warrior and the English Revolution
The Hebrew Bible and the Propaganda Wars
Christian Identity, Jews, and Israel in Seventeenth-Century England. By Achsah Guibbory (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), xi + 328 pp. £66.00 cloth/£27.50 paper. The standard view of the att
Tragic Freedom inSamson Agonistes
In his preface to Samson Agonistes, Milton cites “the ancients” and especially Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, as his models in a tragedy “after the Greek manner.” In this preface, Milton interprets Aristotelian catharsis in medical terms as a restoration of balance or “just measure.” The final lines of Samson Agonistes, beginning with the words “All is best,” are an attempt at closure, suggesting that the storms of passion should give way t…
Areopagitica: The Known Rules of Antient Libertie
Though Milton at no point in Areopagitica attacks monarchical government directly, his position in this treatise is implicitly republican. The vocabulary of Areopagitica is full of echoes of republican discourse, with terms like “tyranny,” “slavery,” “yoke,” “servile,” “thraldom,” as well as “true liberty.” In a number of eloquent metaphorical passages, the search for truth is presented both as a sacred duty and as a communal task, performed by f…
The Myth of Rome in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries
When Cleopatra expresses a desire to die 'after the high Roman fashion', acting in accordance with 'what's brave, what's noble', Shakespeare is suggesting that there are certain values that are characteristically Roman. The use of the terms 'Rome' and 'Roman' in Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra or Jonson's Sejanus often carry the implication that most people fail to live up to this ideal of conduct, that very few Romans are worthy of the name.…
Linked Sweetness: Milton and Music
Early biographies of Milton speak of his love of music. The son of a composer of sacred and secular music, Milton played the organ and bass viol, and 'had a delicate tuneable Voice'. According to his nephew Edward Phillips, 'Hee had an excellent Ear, and could bear a part both in Vocal & Instrumental Music'. Instructed in music by his father, when entrusted with the education of his two nephews, aged 9 and 10, 'he made his Nephews Songsters, and …
Was Marvell a Republican
IHardly anyone who has written about seventeenth- and eighteenth-century republicanism agrees as to exactly what the term means. Blair Worden has argued that republicanism was inconceivable in England before the execution of Charles I in 1649 and extremely rare even in the 165Os: the regicides, in this view, 'were concerned to remove a particular king, not kingship. They cut off King Charles' head and wondered what to do next. David Norbrook, in …
Captains and Slaves: Aphra Behn and the Rhetoric of Republicanism
When one considers the extraordinary amount of criticism published about Aphra Behn's Oroonoko in the last few years, it is surprising how little critical consensus there is about how that work treats the institution of slavery - whether it is pro-slavery, anti-slavery, thinks slavery is generally acceptable except when those who are enslaved happen to be heroes or kings, or, indeed, whether it simply treats slavery as a convenient metaphor. My o…
The Matter of Revolution: Science, Poetry, and Politics in the Age of Milton
Modernist Writers and the Marketplace
Modernist Writers and the Marketplace is a new research-level collection devoted to an exciting area in the history of the book. Focusing on Henry James, W.B. Yeats, Joseph Conrad, D.H. Lawrence, Virg
Sexual Freedom in Restoration Literature
The pursuit of sexual freedom and its political, philosophical and practical implications are the themes of this wide-ranging study of restoration literature, which confronts ideological issues of sexual politics equally relevant to modern debate. The author examines the writers of the later seventeenth century in their historical context, and focuses particularly on what happens when women desire sexual freedom as well as men. In a study of the …
Politics and literature in Marvell
Modernist Writers and the Marketplace
Modernist Writers and the Marketplace is a new research-level collection devoted to an exciting area in the history of the book. Focusing on Henry James, W.B. Yeats, Joseph Conrad, D.H. Lawrence, Virg
Captains and Slaves: Aphra Behn and the Rhetoric of Republicanism
When one considers the extraordinary amount of criticism published about Aphra Behn's Oroonoko in the last few years, it is surprising how little critical consensus there is about how that work treats the institution of slavery - whether it is pro-slavery, anti-slavery, thinks slavery is generally acceptable except when those who are enslaved happen to be heroes or kings, or, indeed, whether it simply treats slavery as a convenient metaphor. My o…
Politics and literature in Marvell
Sexual Freedom in Restoration Literature
The pursuit of sexual freedom and its political, philosophical and practical implications are the themes of this wide-ranging study of restoration literature, which confronts ideological issues of sexual politics equally relevant to modern debate. The author examines the writers of the later seventeenth century in their historical context, and focuses particularly on what happens when women desire sexual freedom as well as men. In a study of the …
Modernist Writers and the Marketplace
Modernist Writers and the Marketplace is a new research-level collection devoted to an exciting area in the history of the book. Focusing on Henry James, W.B. Yeats, Joseph Conrad, D.H. Lawrence, Virg
The Matter of Revolution: Science, Poetry, and Politics in the Age of Milton
Captains and Slaves: Aphra Behn and the Rhetoric of Republicanism
When one considers the extraordinary amount of criticism published about Aphra Behn's Oroonoko in the last few years, it is surprising how little critical consensus there is about how that work treats the institution of slavery - whether it is pro-slavery, anti-slavery, thinks slavery is generally acceptable except when those who are enslaved happen to be heroes or kings, or, indeed, whether it simply treats slavery as a convenient metaphor. My o…
Was Marvell a Republican
IHardly anyone who has written about seventeenth- and eighteenth-century republicanism agrees as to exactly what the term means. Blair Worden has argued that republicanism was inconceivable in England before the execution of Charles I in 1649 and extremely rare even in the 165Os: the regicides, in this view, 'were concerned to remove a particular king, not kingship. They cut off King Charles' head and wondered what to do next. David Norbrook, in …
The Myth of Rome in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries
When Cleopatra expresses a desire to die 'after the high Roman fashion', acting in accordance with 'what's brave, what's noble', Shakespeare is suggesting that there are certain values that are characteristically Roman. The use of the terms 'Rome' and 'Roman' in Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra or Jonson's Sejanus often carry the implication that most people fail to live up to this ideal of conduct, that very few Romans are worthy of the name.…
Linked Sweetness: Milton and Music
Early biographies of Milton speak of his love of music. The son of a composer of sacred and secular music, Milton played the organ and bass viol, and 'had a delicate tuneable Voice'. According to his nephew Edward Phillips, 'Hee had an excellent Ear, and could bear a part both in Vocal & Instrumental Music'. Instructed in music by his father, when entrusted with the education of his two nephews, aged 9 and 10, 'he made his Nephews Songsters, and …
Tragic Freedom inSamson Agonistes
In his preface to Samson Agonistes, Milton cites “the ancients” and especially Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, as his models in a tragedy “after the Greek manner.” In this preface, Milton interprets Aristotelian catharsis in medical terms as a restoration of balance or “just measure.” The final lines of Samson Agonistes, beginning with the words “All is best,” are an attempt at closure, suggesting that the storms of passion should give way t…
Areopagitica: The Known Rules of Antient Libertie
Though Milton at no point in Areopagitica attacks monarchical government directly, his position in this treatise is implicitly republican. The vocabulary of Areopagitica is full of echoes of republican discourse, with terms like “tyranny,” “slavery,” “yoke,” “servile,” “thraldom,” as well as “true liberty.” In a number of eloquent metaphorical passages, the search for truth is presented both as a sacred duty and as a communal task, performed by f…
The Hebrew Bible and the Propaganda Wars
Christian Identity, Jews, and Israel in Seventeenth-Century England. By Achsah Guibbory (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), xi + 328 pp. £66.00 cloth/£27.50 paper. The standard view of the att
Oliver Cromwell: God's Warrior and the English Revolution
The Levellers: Radical Political Thought in the English Revolution
Janel Mueller, John Donne
The new edition of Donne in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series advertises itself as innovative in seeking, for modern readers, to “convey something of the circumstances of the original appearan
Antiformalist, Unrevolutionary, Illiberal Milton: Political Prose, 1641-1660
Milton in the Long Restoration
Milton in the Long Restoration is a collection of essays emanating from two conferences in 2013–14 at Rutgers and Stanford Universities. The unusual term “long Restoration” is explained in Blair Ho
The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve
This impressive, wide-ranging study seeks to explore why a fairly unlikely story of two people in a garden, from which they are forcibly expelled, has exercised such fascination over such a long pe
The Need to Tell Your Story
The term “memoir” is a loose and compendious one, applied to any number of publications, including those, often ghost-written, purporting to tell the life story of pop stars, politicians, and sport
Rival monarchs: The two versions of 2 Henry VI and 3 Henry VI
Two early plays in the Shakespeare canon, 2 Henry VI and 3 Henry VI, exist in widely different versions. For many years, the standard explanation for the discrepancy was that Contention and True Tragedie were untrustworthy texts contaminated by memorial reconstruction. In this essay, I will argue that each needs to be treated in its own terms as an internally consistent play; that anomalies in the text of Contention and True Tragedie are not conv…
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