Rebecca Bushnell
Biographic Data
| ID | 1029504 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca Bushnell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca |
| FAMILY NAME | Bushnell |
| SIGNATURE | BUSHNELL R |
| AFFILIATIONS | California University of Pennsylvania |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Miscellaneous Order
Book Review| January 01 2021 Miscellaneous Order: Manuscript Culture and the Early Modern Organization of Knowledge by Angus Vine Vine, Angus, Miscellaneous Order: Manuscript Culture and the Early Modern Organization of Knowledge (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), 285 pp. Rebecca Bushnell Rebecca Bushnell Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2021) 27 (1): 115–116. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-8723…
Donne and the Natural World
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Tragedies of Tyrants
Rebecca W. Bushnell here explores the image of the tyrant in English Renaissance drama in light of the traditional opposition between the proper king and the unstable, effeminate, and histrionic tyrant found so often in Western political treatises and tracts. Bushnell traces the early modern image and language of tyranny through a wide range of texts, including morality plays, Humanist statecraft literature, and resistance tracts, as well as cano…
Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris
Book Review| January 01 2015 Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris: A Cultural History of Euripides' Black Sea Tragedy Hall, Edith, Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris: A Cultural History of Euripides' Black Sea Tragedy. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), 416 pp. Rebecca Bushnell Rebecca Bushnell Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (1): 109. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2818177 Cite Icon C…
Brief Mentions
Theater Outside Athens
Book Review| January 01 2014 Theater Outside Athens: Drama in Greek Sicily and South Italy Bosher, Kathryn, ed., Theater Outside Athens: Drama in Greek Sicily and South Italy. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 486 pp. Rebecca Bushnell Rebecca Bushnell Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2014) 20 (1): 136. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2374925 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tabl…
The Art of Euripides
Book Review| August 01 2013 The Art of Euripides: Dramatic Technique and Social Context Mastronarde, Donald J., The Art of Euripides: Dramatic Technique and Social Context (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), 376 pp. Rebecca Bushnell Rebecca Bushnell Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2013) 19 (3): 566. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2281954 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables V…
Shakespeare’s Schoolroom
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Horrid Spectacle
The Universities of the Italian Renaissance
Book Review| August 01 2005 The Universities of the Italian Renaissance Paul F. Grendler, (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002),592 pp. Rebecca Bushnell Rebecca Bushnell Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2005) 11 (3): 499. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-11-3-499 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Rebecca Bushnell; The Universities of the Italian Ren…
Green Desire
For Rebecca Bushnell, English gardening books tell a fascinating tale of the human love for plants and our will to make them do as we wish. These books powerfully evoke the desires of gardeners: they show us gardeners who, like poets, imagine not just what is but what should be. In particular, the earliest English garden books, such as Thomas Hill's The Gardeners Labyrinth or Hugh Platt's Floraes Paradise, mix magical practices with mundane recip…
Female Acts in Greek Tragedy
Failing the Future
Framing Authority
The End of Conduct
Barbara Correll. The End of Conduct: "Grobianus" and the Renaissance Text of the Subject. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996. 2 pls. + xv + 225 pp. $39.95. ISBN 0-8014-3101-8. - Volume 51 Issue 1
The Historical Imagination in Early Modern Britain
This collection of essays by some of the most distinguished historians and literary scholars in the English-speaking world explores the overlap, interplay, and interaction between history and fiction in British imaginative and historical writing from the Tudor period to the Enlightenment. The historians discuss the questions of truth, fiction, and the contours of early modern historical culture, while the literary scholars consider some of the fi…
A Culture of Teaching
Prophesying Tragedy
Prophesying Tragedy
Prophesying Tragedy
Prophesying Tragedy investigates the political and epistemological dimensions of the conflict between heroes and prophets in homer's Iliad and Sophocles' Theban plays, Antigone, Oedipus the King, and Oedipus at Colonus. Rebecca Weld Bushnell asserts that an understanding of tragic fate, as represented in prophecy, can be achieved through an awareness of the historical relationship of tragedy to culture and politics, for the tragic hero's interpre…
Green Desire
For Rebecca Bushnell, English gardening books tell a fascinating tale of the human love for plants and our will to make them do as we wish. These books powerfully evoke the desires of gardeners: they show us gardeners who, like poets, imagine not just what is but what should be. In particular, the earliest English garden books, such as Thomas Hill's The Gardeners Labyrinth or Hugh Platt's Floraes Paradise, mix magical practices with mundane recip…
Tragedies of Tyrants
Rebecca W. Bushnell here explores the image of the tyrant in English Renaissance drama in light of the traditional opposition between the proper king and the unstable, effeminate, and histrionic tyrant found so often in Western political treatises and tracts. Bushnell traces the early modern image and language of tyranny through a wide range of texts, including morality plays, Humanist statecraft literature, and resistance tracts, as well as cano…
Prophesying Tragedy
Prophesying Tragedy investigates the political and epistemological dimensions of the conflict between heroes and prophets in homer's Iliad and Sophocles' Theban plays, Antigone, Oedipus the King, and Oedipus at Colonus. Rebecca Weld Bushnell asserts that an understanding of tragic fate, as represented in prophecy, can be achieved through an awareness of the historical relationship of tragedy to culture and politics, for the tragic hero's interpre…
A Culture of Teaching
Prophesying Tragedy
Prophesying Tragedy investigates the political and epistemological dimensions of the conflict between heroes and prophets in homer's Iliad and Sophocles' Theban plays, Antigone, Oedipus the King, and Oedipus at Colonus. Rebecca Weld Bushnell asserts that an understanding of tragic fate, as represented in prophecy, can be achieved through an awareness of the historical relationship of tragedy to culture and politics, for the tragic hero's interpre…
Prophesying Tragedy
Prophesying Tragedy
The Historical Imagination in Early Modern Britain
This collection of essays by some of the most distinguished historians and literary scholars in the English-speaking world explores the overlap, interplay, and interaction between history and fiction in British imaginative and historical writing from the Tudor period to the Enlightenment. The historians discuss the questions of truth, fiction, and the contours of early modern historical culture, while the literary scholars consider some of the fi…
A Culture of Teaching
Framing Authority
The End of Conduct
Barbara Correll. The End of Conduct: "Grobianus" and the Renaissance Text of the Subject. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996. 2 pls. + xv + 225 pp. $39.95. ISBN 0-8014-3101-8. - Volume 51 Issue 1
Failing the Future
Green Desire
For Rebecca Bushnell, English gardening books tell a fascinating tale of the human love for plants and our will to make them do as we wish. These books powerfully evoke the desires of gardeners: they show us gardeners who, like poets, imagine not just what is but what should be. In particular, the earliest English garden books, such as Thomas Hill's The Gardeners Labyrinth or Hugh Platt's Floraes Paradise, mix magical practices with mundane recip…
Female Acts in Greek Tragedy
The Universities of the Italian Renaissance
Book Review| August 01 2005 The Universities of the Italian Renaissance Paul F. Grendler, (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002),592 pp. Rebecca Bushnell Rebecca Bushnell Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2005) 11 (3): 499. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-11-3-499 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Rebecca Bushnell; The Universities of the Italian Ren…
Horrid Spectacle
Shakespeare’s Schoolroom
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Art of Euripides
Book Review| August 01 2013 The Art of Euripides: Dramatic Technique and Social Context Mastronarde, Donald J., The Art of Euripides: Dramatic Technique and Social Context (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), 376 pp. Rebecca Bushnell Rebecca Bushnell Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2013) 19 (3): 566. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2281954 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables V…
Brief Mentions
Theater Outside Athens
Book Review| January 01 2014 Theater Outside Athens: Drama in Greek Sicily and South Italy Bosher, Kathryn, ed., Theater Outside Athens: Drama in Greek Sicily and South Italy. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 486 pp. Rebecca Bushnell Rebecca Bushnell Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2014) 20 (1): 136. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2374925 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tabl…
Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris
Book Review| January 01 2015 Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris: A Cultural History of Euripides' Black Sea Tragedy Hall, Edith, Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris: A Cultural History of Euripides' Black Sea Tragedy. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), 416 pp. Rebecca Bushnell Rebecca Bushnell Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (1): 109. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2818177 Cite Icon C…
Donne and the Natural World
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Tragedies of Tyrants
Rebecca W. Bushnell here explores the image of the tyrant in English Renaissance drama in light of the traditional opposition between the proper king and the unstable, effeminate, and histrionic tyrant found so often in Western political treatises and tracts. Bushnell traces the early modern image and language of tyranny through a wide range of texts, including morality plays, Humanist statecraft literature, and resistance tracts, as well as cano…
Miscellaneous Order
Book Review| January 01 2021 Miscellaneous Order: Manuscript Culture and the Early Modern Organization of Knowledge by Angus Vine Vine, Angus, Miscellaneous Order: Manuscript Culture and the Early Modern Organization of Knowledge (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), 285 pp. Rebecca Bushnell Rebecca Bushnell Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2021) 27 (1): 115–116. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-8723…
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