William W E Slights
Biographic Data
| ID | 1200918 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William W E Slights |
| GIVEN NAMES | William W E |
| FAMILY NAME | Slights |
| SIGNATURE | SLIGHTS W W E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Saskatchewan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Ben Jonson and the Art of Secrecy
Ben Jonson and the Art of Secrecy
In Ben Jonson andthe Art of Secrecy, William Slights argues that "the tension between concealment and revelation affords a model for the poise that sustained Ben Jonson in the intricately linked worlds of royal court and commercial theatre during the middle years of his career" (p. 1).He is led to his topic by the playwright and his times, the playwright whose plots regularly depend upon keeping and not keeping secrets, and times marked by the co…
Contagion and Blame in Early Modern England
During the first century of its epidemic spread through Europe, the venereal disease called Morbus Gallicus or the French pox occasioned a major shift in the cultural interpretation of contagion. This change can be traced in medical and literary texts dating from roughly 1530 to 1630. As a sexually transmitted disease that threatened the social fabric of Europe, the pox elicited deep medical concern and strong moral condemnation from secular and …
The Narrative Heart of the Renaissance
Les fictions de tels écrivains que Boccace, Dante, Shakespeare et Harvey ont été influencées par la redécouverte par les anatomistes de la Renaissance des documents de l’Antiquité sur la dissection, ainsi que par des redéfinitions théologiques du cœur comme le site d’intériorité spirituelle. Ces représentations diverses du cœur apportent de façon paradoxale du réconfort et de la terreur à la fois, en juxtaposant l’incertitude spirituel et le corp…
Between Theater and Philosophy
Between Theater and Philosophy studies the aggressive, restless, and critical skepticism of the major city comedies of early modern English dramatists Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton. The book places the city comedies in the context of the battle between theater and philosophy declared by Plato's expulsion of theater from his ideal republic."--BOOK JACKET
Managing Readers
Managing Readers explores the fascinating interchange between text and margin, authorship and readership in early modern England. Printed marginalia did more than any other material feature of book production in the period between 1540 and 1700 to shape the experience of reading. William W. E. Slights considers overlooked evidence of the ways that early modern readers were instructed to process information, to contest opinions, and to make themse…
Ben Jonson and the Art of Secrecy
The Edifying Margins of Renaissance English Books
When Horatio tells Hamlet, “I knew you must be edified by the margent ere you had done” (V.ii. 156-57), we find ourselves amused and bemused trying to imagine what conceiveable edification could be gleaned from a marginal gloss on the courtly gabble of Osric's invitation to the duel. Yet while Horatio was having his little joke about edifying margents, Renaissance commentators, scholarly annotators, translators, editors, printers, and authors of …
The art of limning
(1988). The art of limning: Some smaller characters in the BBC Shakespeare. English Studies: Vol. 69, No. 4, pp. 323-330
The Edifying Margins of Renaissance English Books
When Horatio tells Hamlet, “I knew you must be edified by the margent ere you had done” (V.ii. 156-57), we find ourselves amused and bemused trying to imagine what conceiveable edification could be gleaned from a marginal gloss on the courtly gabble of Osric's invitation to the duel. Yet while Horatio was having his little joke about edifying margents, Renaissance commentators, scholarly annotators, translators, editors, printers, and authors of …
The art of limning
(1988). The art of limning: Some smaller characters in the BBC Shakespeare. English Studies: Vol. 69, No. 4, pp. 323-330
The Edifying Margins of Renaissance English Books
When Horatio tells Hamlet, “I knew you must be edified by the margent ere you had done” (V.ii. 156-57), we find ourselves amused and bemused trying to imagine what conceiveable edification could be gleaned from a marginal gloss on the courtly gabble of Osric's invitation to the duel. Yet while Horatio was having his little joke about edifying margents, Renaissance commentators, scholarly annotators, translators, editors, printers, and authors of …
Ben Jonson and the Art of Secrecy
Managing Readers
Managing Readers explores the fascinating interchange between text and margin, authorship and readership in early modern England. Printed marginalia did more than any other material feature of book production in the period between 1540 and 1700 to shape the experience of reading. William W. E. Slights considers overlooked evidence of the ways that early modern readers were instructed to process information, to contest opinions, and to make themse…
The Narrative Heart of the Renaissance
Les fictions de tels écrivains que Boccace, Dante, Shakespeare et Harvey ont été influencées par la redécouverte par les anatomistes de la Renaissance des documents de l’Antiquité sur la dissection, ainsi que par des redéfinitions théologiques du cœur comme le site d’intériorité spirituelle. Ces représentations diverses du cœur apportent de façon paradoxale du réconfort et de la terreur à la fois, en juxtaposant l’incertitude spirituel et le corp…
Between Theater and Philosophy
Between Theater and Philosophy studies the aggressive, restless, and critical skepticism of the major city comedies of early modern English dramatists Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton. The book places the city comedies in the context of the battle between theater and philosophy declared by Plato's expulsion of theater from his ideal republic."--BOOK JACKET
Contagion and Blame in Early Modern England
During the first century of its epidemic spread through Europe, the venereal disease called Morbus Gallicus or the French pox occasioned a major shift in the cultural interpretation of contagion. This change can be traced in medical and literary texts dating from roughly 1530 to 1630. As a sexually transmitted disease that threatened the social fabric of Europe, the pox elicited deep medical concern and strong moral condemnation from secular and …
Ben Jonson and the Art of Secrecy
In Ben Jonson andthe Art of Secrecy, William Slights argues that "the tension between concealment and revelation affords a model for the poise that sustained Ben Jonson in the intricately linked worlds of royal court and commercial theatre during the middle years of his career" (p. 1).He is led to his topic by the playwright and his times, the playwright whose plots regularly depend upon keeping and not keeping secrets, and times marked by the co…
Ben Jonson and the Art of Secrecy
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