Beatrice Groves
Biographic Data
| ID | 2220874 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Beatrice Groves |
| GIVEN NAMES | Beatrice |
| FAMILY NAME | Groves |
| SIGNATURE | GROVES B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Trinity College , Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0311-1537 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Marking It as Her Own
This essay traces the inky marks left by sixteenth- and seventeen-century women readers in a corpus of 215 vernacular English Bibles and psalm books in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. It asks what information about early modern women as Bible readers can been gleaned from this material evidence and what kind of cultural capital those books accrued by being owned by women. It argues for the importance of female ownership to early modern readers and …
Edified by the Margent
This article traces the evidence left by early modern readers who marked their Bibles’ annotations—both by taking attentive notice of them and by leaving their own inky traces on them. Among the burgeoning critical interest in both printed and manuscript marginalia there has been little interrogation of the intersection between the two. This article traces the evidence of what the readerly marginalia of biblical annotations can tell us about thei…
Early Modern Tragedy and the Mystery Plays
s This chapter argues that the indebtedness of Elizabethan theatre to medieval drama is discernible both physically - through shared properties, costumes and aural technologies - and conceptually, in the kind of drama this physical legacy inspired. It explores this indebtedness through a close study of the clearest theatrical example of this material legacy: the 1584 Coventry Destruction of Jerusalem play. The Destruction of Jerusalem was a newly…
Unsettled Toleration
In 1605, the Bishop of Lincoln noted that no one would denounce his neighbours for religiously unorthodox opinions ‘unless he be very malicious’. William Chaderton was an enthusiastic pursuer of recusants, and no non-conformist himself, but even someone who spent much of his time dealing with the problem of religious heterodoxy recognised the way in which neighbourliness trumps other ideologies. In this book, Brian Walsh considers the importance …
Shakespeare’s Medieval Craft
This book is a thoughtful exploration of a vibrant yet still understudied area: the connection between Shakespeare and earlier forms of English drama. It argues for the link between the mysteries and Shakespeare’s dramatic craft with theoretical sophistication, depth and a fresh emphasis on the physical aspect of Shakespeare’s indebtedness. Kurt Schreyer is convincing in his exploration of Shakespeare’s synthetic aesthetic of ideas and things, an…
Shakespeare and Early Modern Religion
Written by an international team of literary scholars and historians, this collaborative volume illuminates the diversity of early modern religious beliefs and practices in Shakespeare's England, and considers how religious culture is imaginatively reanimated in Shakespeare's plays. Fourteen new essays explore the creative ways Shakespeare engaged with the multifaceted dimensions of Protestantism, Catholicism, non-Christian religions including Ju…
The Destruction of Jerusalem in Early Modern English Literature
This book explores the fall of Jerusalem and restores to its rightful place one of the key explanatory tropes of early modern English culture. Showing the importance of Jerusalem's destruction in sermons, ballads, puppet shows and provincial drama of the period, Beatrice Groves brings a new perspective to works by canonical authors such as Marlowe, Nashe, Shakespeare, Dekker and Milton. The volume also offers a historically compelling and wide-ra…
 They repented at the preachyng of Ionas
"Those sanctified places where our Sauiours feete had trode"
This article demonstrates the continuities that persist between early modern English accounts of Jerusalem and pilgrim narratives. Despite Reformed theology's denial of holiness inherent in the physical world, Protestant travelers in the generations after the Reformation relate the traditional pilgrim reaction of prayerful joy in the time-honored places, bring home relics, and record the dimensions of the holiest places, just as pilgrims always h…
Texts and Traditions
Explores Shakespeare's engagement with the religious culture of his time. Through readings of a number of plays - "Romeo and Juliet", "King John", "1 Henry IV", "Henry V", and "Measure for Measure", this work explains allusions to the Bible, the Church's liturgy, and to the mystery plays performed in England in Shakespeare's boyhood.
Texts and Traditions
This book explores Shakespeare's thoroughgoing engagement with the religious culture of his time. In the wake of the recent resurgence of interest in Shakespeare's Catholicism, the book eschews a reductively biographical approach and considers instead the ways in which Shakespeare's borrowing from both the visual culture of Catholicism and the linguistic wealth of the Protestant English Bible enriched his drama. Through close readings of a number…
Comedic Form and Paschal Motif in the First and Second Quartos of Romeo and Juliet
This chapter establishes a previously unrecognized allusion to Easter, and the Easter sepulchre, in Romeo and Juliet. It argues that the religious echoes confer sanctity on the young couple and encourages the audience expectation that Juliet will rise from her tomb. The paschal motif strengthens the comedic impulse of the play, created through comic characters and the subject matter of young love, and so increases the powerful shock of the tragic…
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Texts and Traditions
This book explores Shakespeare's thoroughgoing engagement with the religious culture of his time. In the wake of the recent resurgence of interest in Shakespeare's Catholicism, the book eschews a reductively biographical approach and considers instead the ways in which Shakespeare's borrowing from both the visual culture of Catholicism and the linguistic wealth of the Protestant English Bible enriched his drama. Through close readings of a number…
Comedic Form and Paschal Motif in the First and Second Quartos of Romeo and Juliet
This chapter establishes a previously unrecognized allusion to Easter, and the Easter sepulchre, in Romeo and Juliet. It argues that the religious echoes confer sanctity on the young couple and encourages the audience expectation that Juliet will rise from her tomb. The paschal motif strengthens the comedic impulse of the play, created through comic characters and the subject matter of young love, and so increases the powerful shock of the tragic…
Texts and Traditions
Explores Shakespeare's engagement with the religious culture of his time. Through readings of a number of plays - "Romeo and Juliet", "King John", "1 Henry IV", "Henry V", and "Measure for Measure", this work explains allusions to the Bible, the Church's liturgy, and to the mystery plays performed in England in Shakespeare's boyhood.
"Those sanctified places where our Sauiours feete had trode"
This article demonstrates the continuities that persist between early modern English accounts of Jerusalem and pilgrim narratives. Despite Reformed theology's denial of holiness inherent in the physical world, Protestant travelers in the generations after the Reformation relate the traditional pilgrim reaction of prayerful joy in the time-honored places, bring home relics, and record the dimensions of the holiest places, just as pilgrims always h…
 They repented at the preachyng of Ionas
Shakespeare and Early Modern Religion
Written by an international team of literary scholars and historians, this collaborative volume illuminates the diversity of early modern religious beliefs and practices in Shakespeare's England, and considers how religious culture is imaginatively reanimated in Shakespeare's plays. Fourteen new essays explore the creative ways Shakespeare engaged with the multifaceted dimensions of Protestantism, Catholicism, non-Christian religions including Ju…
The Destruction of Jerusalem in Early Modern English Literature
This book explores the fall of Jerusalem and restores to its rightful place one of the key explanatory tropes of early modern English culture. Showing the importance of Jerusalem's destruction in sermons, ballads, puppet shows and provincial drama of the period, Beatrice Groves brings a new perspective to works by canonical authors such as Marlowe, Nashe, Shakespeare, Dekker and Milton. The volume also offers a historically compelling and wide-ra…
Shakespeare’s Medieval Craft
This book is a thoughtful exploration of a vibrant yet still understudied area: the connection between Shakespeare and earlier forms of English drama. It argues for the link between the mysteries and Shakespeare’s dramatic craft with theoretical sophistication, depth and a fresh emphasis on the physical aspect of Shakespeare’s indebtedness. Kurt Schreyer is convincing in his exploration of Shakespeare’s synthetic aesthetic of ideas and things, an…
Unsettled Toleration
In 1605, the Bishop of Lincoln noted that no one would denounce his neighbours for religiously unorthodox opinions ‘unless he be very malicious’. William Chaderton was an enthusiastic pursuer of recusants, and no non-conformist himself, but even someone who spent much of his time dealing with the problem of religious heterodoxy recognised the way in which neighbourliness trumps other ideologies. In this book, Brian Walsh considers the importance …
Early Modern Tragedy and the Mystery Plays
s This chapter argues that the indebtedness of Elizabethan theatre to medieval drama is discernible both physically - through shared properties, costumes and aural technologies - and conceptually, in the kind of drama this physical legacy inspired. It explores this indebtedness through a close study of the clearest theatrical example of this material legacy: the 1584 Coventry Destruction of Jerusalem play. The Destruction of Jerusalem was a newly…
Edified by the Margent
This article traces the evidence left by early modern readers who marked their Bibles’ annotations—both by taking attentive notice of them and by leaving their own inky traces on them. Among the burgeoning critical interest in both printed and manuscript marginalia there has been little interrogation of the intersection between the two. This article traces the evidence of what the readerly marginalia of biblical annotations can tell us about thei…
Marking It as Her Own
This essay traces the inky marks left by sixteenth- and seventeen-century women readers in a corpus of 215 vernacular English Bibles and psalm books in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. It asks what information about early modern women as Bible readers can been gleaned from this material evidence and what kind of cultural capital those books accrued by being owned by women. It argues for the importance of female ownership to early modern readers and …
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