Harriet Archer
Biographic Data
| ID | 1626480 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harriet Archer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harriet |
| FAMILY NAME | Archer |
| SIGNATURE | ARCHER H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newcastle University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5544-582X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Gorboduc on Fire
This article rereads Norton and Sackville’s Inns of Court tragedy Gorboduc (1562) in the light of its neglected preoccupation with fire. It posits the 1561 lightning strike on St Paul’s as a critical context for the play’s emphasis on fire as a motor of providential justice, through the repeated evocation of the myth of Phaethon, and locates its use of fire in performance at the intersection between political intervention and carnival festivity. …
A Mirror for Magistrates in Context
Archer, Harriet, and Andrew Hadfield, eds. A Mirror for Magistrates in Context: Literature, History and Politics in Early Modern England. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Piety and Conflict in the Early Reformation), on Érudit
Unperfect Histories
The Mirror for Magistrates , the collection of de casibus complaint poems in the voices of medieval rulers and rebels compiled by William Baldwin in the 1550s, was central to the development of imaginative literature in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Additions by John Higgins, Thomas Blenerhasset, and Richard Niccols between 1574 and 1610 extended the Mirror ’s scope, shifted its focus, and prolonged its popularity; in particular,…
John Higgins’s First Part of the Mirror for Magistrates (1574–5)
Chapter 2 introduces John Higgins’s first contribution to the corpus, and considers the ways in which his Mirror prequel works with Baldwin’s interest in textual transmission to retell the story of Britain’s legendary foundation. Contrasting the learned humanism of Higgins’s paratextual statements of intent with the dream vision in which his history is embedded, the chapter explores the anxieties attendant on Elizabethan historians of the English…
A Mirror for Magistrates in Context
This is the first essay collection on A Mirror for Magistrates, the most popular work of English literature in the age of Shakespeare. The Mirror is here analysed by major scholars, who discuss its meaning and significance, and assess the extent of its influence as a series of tragic stories showing powerful princes and governors brought low by fate and enemy action. Scholars debate the challenging and radical nature of the Mirror's politics, its…
Mirror for Magistrates in Context
Romancing the Self in Early Modern Englishwomen's Life WritingJulie A. Eckerle
Interest in early modern reading practices, in particular the use of carefully devised reading regimens by individuals and groups, continues to expand, often with emphasis on first-person testimoni
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Romancing the Self in Early Modern Englishwomen's Life WritingJulie A. Eckerle
Interest in early modern reading practices, in particular the use of carefully devised reading regimens by individuals and groups, continues to expand, often with emphasis on first-person testimoni
A Mirror for Magistrates in Context
This is the first essay collection on A Mirror for Magistrates, the most popular work of English literature in the age of Shakespeare. The Mirror is here analysed by major scholars, who discuss its meaning and significance, and assess the extent of its influence as a series of tragic stories showing powerful princes and governors brought low by fate and enemy action. Scholars debate the challenging and radical nature of the Mirror's politics, its…
Mirror for Magistrates in Context
Unperfect Histories
The Mirror for Magistrates , the collection of de casibus complaint poems in the voices of medieval rulers and rebels compiled by William Baldwin in the 1550s, was central to the development of imaginative literature in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Additions by John Higgins, Thomas Blenerhasset, and Richard Niccols between 1574 and 1610 extended the Mirror ’s scope, shifted its focus, and prolonged its popularity; in particular,…
John Higgins’s First Part of the Mirror for Magistrates (1574–5)
Chapter 2 introduces John Higgins’s first contribution to the corpus, and considers the ways in which his Mirror prequel works with Baldwin’s interest in textual transmission to retell the story of Britain’s legendary foundation. Contrasting the learned humanism of Higgins’s paratextual statements of intent with the dream vision in which his history is embedded, the chapter explores the anxieties attendant on Elizabethan historians of the English…
A Mirror for Magistrates in Context
Archer, Harriet, and Andrew Hadfield, eds. A Mirror for Magistrates in Context: Literature, History and Politics in Early Modern England. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Piety and Conflict in the Early Reformation), on Érudit
Gorboduc on Fire
This article rereads Norton and Sackville’s Inns of Court tragedy Gorboduc (1562) in the light of its neglected preoccupation with fire. It posits the 1561 lightning strike on St Paul’s as a critical context for the play’s emphasis on fire as a motor of providential justice, through the repeated evocation of the myth of Phaethon, and locates its use of fire in performance at the intersection between political intervention and carnival festivity. …
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