Andrew Hiscock
Biographic Data
| ID | 1648397 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Hiscock |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Hiscock |
| SIGNATURE | HISCOCK A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bangor University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
“In wounded hart”
This article focuses on selected narratives of Spenser’s The Faerie Queene with particular attention to the contexts of illness, healing and convalescence. Discussion explores how Spenser establishes a clear narrative rhythm in his epic poem so that his various protagonists seek refuges for medical and therapeutic intervention at regular points in each of the designated “books” of the work. Of particular interest here are the ways in which Spense…
Shakespeare, Violence and Early Modern Europe
Shakespeare, Violence and Early Modern Europe broadens our understanding of the final years of the last Tudor monarch, revealing the truly international context in which they must be understood. Uncovering the extent to which Shakespeare's dramatic art intersected with European politics, Andrew Hiscock brings together close readings of the history plays, compelling insights into late Elizabethan political culture and renewed attention to neglecte…
Moving Shakespeare
This article considers the expectations of narrative that frequently surround Shakespearean dance adaptation. Reviewing responses to two contemporary productions ( Le Songe by Les Ballets de Monte Carlo and Golden Hours (As You Like It) by the Rosas company), discussion pays particular attention to critical and audience appetites when attending to performances of Shakespeare on the dance stage. Highlighting contemporary debates in dance studies, …
Memory in Early Modern Europe, 1500–1800
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Debating early modern and modern memory
This discussion focuses upon the ways in which early modern and modern cultural debate examines memory both in terms of its functions and nature as human faculty and of its effects as a cultural phenomenon. It seeks to uncover some of the striking synergies as well as the contrary motions in the vigorous cultural debates surrounding the reflex to remember and its implications for various target audiences. Of particular interest will be the ways i…
The Jewish Diaspora
Though Jews were almost entirely physically absent from England between the end of the thirteenth and the end of the seventeenth centuries, they were nevertheless the source of considerable interest. They served as a focal point for the volatile English–Spanish relations of the period. Their writings were extensively consulted in the controversy surrounding the annulment of Henry VIII’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon. In addition, with the fitfu…
Settlers in New Worlds
Early modern colonial survival meant that imaginative writings about settlers in new worlds outnumbered imaginative writings by those settlers; yet new world settlers did leave literary artefacts of their interpretive communities. Writing about new worlds tended to fire the fancy, either in fantastic exploration narratives, fabulous colonial prospecti, reflective essays, or in the more outright fictions of dramatic and utopian literature, and of …
The Sermon
This chapter examines the sermon in post-Reformation England, and its development as the pre-eminent genre of instruction, edification, and conversion to Christian believers of all stripes. Beginning with its roots in traditional religious and classical forms and its development as a flexible form restrained by ecclesiastical regulation, censorship, and gender, the chapter emphasizes the sermon’s radically occasional nature and its elusive perfor…
The Bible
The Christian religion is based on the Bible, and no book had a greater influence on early modern English literature. The Bible was at the heart of the early modern culture of translation, and the English language was affected by the efforts of William Tyndale, Miles Coverdale, and others to properly render the Bible’s original Hebrew and Greek. Since understanding and following the Bible was necessary to salvation, and the Bible is often difficu…
The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern English Literature and Religion
This pioneering handbook offers a comprehensive consideration of the dynamic relationship between English literature and religion in the early modern period. The years from the coronation of Henry VII to the death of Queen Anne were turbulent times in the history of the British Church—and produced some of the greatest devotional poetry, sermons, polemics, and epics of literature in English. The early modern interaction of rhetoric and faith is ad…
‘Cut my heart in sums’
The discussion which follows takes as its focus a key anxiety that pervades the narratives Middleton composed for the theatre in the early Stuart period. This is an anxiety which speaks to the ways in which experience characterized by excess may radically endanger the ethical integrity of life in society as a whole – and Middleton’s dramas demonstrate a remarkable sensitivity to the multifarious forms of excess to which the human subject may succ…
Reading Memory in Early Modern Literature
Shakespeare and Memory
Hester Lees-Jeffries. Shakespeare and Memory. Oxford Shakespeare Topics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. xiii + 228 pp. $27.95. ISBN: 978-0-19-967425-1. - Andrew Gordon Thomas Rist, eds. The Arts of Remembrance in Early Modern England: Memorial Cultures of the Post-Reformation. Material Readings in Early Modern Culture. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2013. xi + 260 pp. $114.95. ISBN: 978-1-4094-4657-6. - Volume 67 Issue 3
Reading Memory in Early Modern Literature
Shakespeare on the Edge. Border‐crossing in the Tragedies and the ‘Henriad’ ‐ by Lisa Hopkins
Walter Ralegh and the Arts of Memory
This article explores both the poetic and prose writing of Sir Walter Ralegh (Raleigh) in the context of early modern cultural debates surrounding memory. Particular attention is paid to the ways in which Platonic and Aristotelian thinking focused upon the faculty may be seen to have influenced Ralegh's ideas on sovereignty (most especially that of James VI/I), the role of the courtier and the undertakings of history and poetry (especially ‘The O…
Ovid's Changing Worlds
The Vanishing
This Inherited Life”
Longing for a Human Climate
Debating early modern and modern memory
This discussion focuses upon the ways in which early modern and modern cultural debate examines memory both in terms of its functions and nature as human faculty and of its effects as a cultural phenomenon. It seeks to uncover some of the striking synergies as well as the contrary motions in the vigorous cultural debates surrounding the reflex to remember and its implications for various target audiences. Of particular interest will be the ways i…
Longing for a Human Climate
This Inherited Life”
The Vanishing
Ovid's Changing Worlds
Walter Ralegh and the Arts of Memory
This article explores both the poetic and prose writing of Sir Walter Ralegh (Raleigh) in the context of early modern cultural debates surrounding memory. Particular attention is paid to the ways in which Platonic and Aristotelian thinking focused upon the faculty may be seen to have influenced Ralegh's ideas on sovereignty (most especially that of James VI/I), the role of the courtier and the undertakings of history and poetry (especially ‘The O…
Shakespeare on the Edge. Border‐crossing in the Tragedies and the ‘Henriad’ ‐ by Lisa Hopkins
Reading Memory in Early Modern Literature
Reading Memory in Early Modern Literature
Shakespeare and Memory
Hester Lees-Jeffries. Shakespeare and Memory. Oxford Shakespeare Topics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. xiii + 228 pp. $27.95. ISBN: 978-0-19-967425-1. - Andrew Gordon Thomas Rist, eds. The Arts of Remembrance in Early Modern England: Memorial Cultures of the Post-Reformation. Material Readings in Early Modern Culture. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2013. xi + 260 pp. $114.95. ISBN: 978-1-4094-4657-6. - Volume 67 Issue 3
‘Cut my heart in sums’
The discussion which follows takes as its focus a key anxiety that pervades the narratives Middleton composed for the theatre in the early Stuart period. This is an anxiety which speaks to the ways in which experience characterized by excess may radically endanger the ethical integrity of life in society as a whole – and Middleton’s dramas demonstrate a remarkable sensitivity to the multifarious forms of excess to which the human subject may succ…
The Jewish Diaspora
Though Jews were almost entirely physically absent from England between the end of the thirteenth and the end of the seventeenth centuries, they were nevertheless the source of considerable interest. They served as a focal point for the volatile English–Spanish relations of the period. Their writings were extensively consulted in the controversy surrounding the annulment of Henry VIII’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon. In addition, with the fitfu…
Settlers in New Worlds
Early modern colonial survival meant that imaginative writings about settlers in new worlds outnumbered imaginative writings by those settlers; yet new world settlers did leave literary artefacts of their interpretive communities. Writing about new worlds tended to fire the fancy, either in fantastic exploration narratives, fabulous colonial prospecti, reflective essays, or in the more outright fictions of dramatic and utopian literature, and of …
The Sermon
This chapter examines the sermon in post-Reformation England, and its development as the pre-eminent genre of instruction, edification, and conversion to Christian believers of all stripes. Beginning with its roots in traditional religious and classical forms and its development as a flexible form restrained by ecclesiastical regulation, censorship, and gender, the chapter emphasizes the sermon’s radically occasional nature and its elusive perfor…
The Bible
The Christian religion is based on the Bible, and no book had a greater influence on early modern English literature. The Bible was at the heart of the early modern culture of translation, and the English language was affected by the efforts of William Tyndale, Miles Coverdale, and others to properly render the Bible’s original Hebrew and Greek. Since understanding and following the Bible was necessary to salvation, and the Bible is often difficu…
The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern English Literature and Religion
This pioneering handbook offers a comprehensive consideration of the dynamic relationship between English literature and religion in the early modern period. The years from the coronation of Henry VII to the death of Queen Anne were turbulent times in the history of the British Church—and produced some of the greatest devotional poetry, sermons, polemics, and epics of literature in English. The early modern interaction of rhetoric and faith is ad…
Memory in Early Modern Europe, 1500–1800
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
Debating early modern and modern memory
This discussion focuses upon the ways in which early modern and modern cultural debate examines memory both in terms of its functions and nature as human faculty and of its effects as a cultural phenomenon. It seeks to uncover some of the striking synergies as well as the contrary motions in the vigorous cultural debates surrounding the reflex to remember and its implications for various target audiences. Of particular interest will be the ways i…
Moving Shakespeare
This article considers the expectations of narrative that frequently surround Shakespearean dance adaptation. Reviewing responses to two contemporary productions ( Le Songe by Les Ballets de Monte Carlo and Golden Hours (As You Like It) by the Rosas company), discussion pays particular attention to critical and audience appetites when attending to performances of Shakespeare on the dance stage. Highlighting contemporary debates in dance studies, …
Shakespeare, Violence and Early Modern Europe
Shakespeare, Violence and Early Modern Europe broadens our understanding of the final years of the last Tudor monarch, revealing the truly international context in which they must be understood. Uncovering the extent to which Shakespeare's dramatic art intersected with European politics, Andrew Hiscock brings together close readings of the history plays, compelling insights into late Elizabethan political culture and renewed attention to neglecte…
“In wounded hart”
This article focuses on selected narratives of Spenser’s The Faerie Queene with particular attention to the contexts of illness, healing and convalescence. Discussion explores how Spenser establishes a clear narrative rhythm in his epic poem so that his various protagonists seek refuges for medical and therapeutic intervention at regular points in each of the designated “books” of the work. Of particular interest here are the ways in which Spense…
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