Elizabeth Mazzola
Biographic Data
| ID | 3087612 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Mazzola |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Mazzola |
| SIGNATURE | MAZZOLA E |
| AFFILIATIONS | City College of New York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Oceans, hormones and female flow in Twelfth Night
Although a shipwreck in Twelfth Night violently separates Viola from her twin, the catastrophe also shows Shakespeare’s audience that water is a tool which can assuage grief and allow Viola to hide herself while operating as an instrument for managing other women’s bodies and desires, too. Disguising herself as a eunuch allows Viola to dam up the flood of desire and halt growth, but these infrastructural adjustments to flow work on larger and sma…
Givers and Gifts, Mothers and Writers
This article explores some of the ways in which women writers represent conception, gestation, abortion and delivery, at times by imagining motherhood in terms of scarcity, war or defeat. Drawing upon on the work of philosophers like Hannah Arendt, Adriana Cavarero and Lisa Guenther as well as research into biology, obstetrics and dental science, I analyse how the writings of Isabella Whitney, Edith Wharton, Margery Kempe and Buchi Emecheta often…
Native daughters, evil empires, Blazing Worlds: Margaret Cavendish's imperialism
The kidnapped maiden reborn as an Empress in Margaret Cavendish's Blazing World (1666) ultimately returns to her birthplace to wage war upon its enemies, using her newfound powers to unleash a devastating military force and bring the rest of that world to its knees. Her might is absolute and terrifying and its scope is planetary: coming home means subduing other nations, and sovereignty requires the establishment of a new world order. If empire a…
Noise, Sound and Fury in Macbeth
Early modern ballads supplied tools for managing information, allowing audiences to compare stories, handle variants and sort through multiple interpretations. These activities revised how and what people learn when they come together, a transformation of social life similarly explored in Macbeth , where this technology takes shape in the messenger Ross. Ross dispenses information but also disrupts and sometimes shuts down lines of communication,…
Women who reason in print: Blazing worlds and blameless girls in early modern ballads
Samuel Pepys complained that Margaret Cavendish’s visit to The Royal Society would result in London’s being ‘full of ballads of it’, but Cavendish might have delighted in such a reception by popular print. Pepys himself was an avid collector of these texts, which frequently represent women as capable thinkers and knowers who draw meaning and sustenance from the regular workings of nature. Illuminating the dimensions of an early modern public sphe…
Venus sans furs: Wolves and Women in Three Medieval Poems
This essay examines the futures and homes which women fashion—the placental spaces they create and occupy—by exploring how women manage fur in three medieval poems. Unlike skin, fur can be both soft and savage, a sign of wealth or evidence of ferocity; in female hands, fur not only marks what is other but also suggests how such a threat might be absorbed or rejected, carefully hidden or extravagantly displayed. Love and hate work themselves out t…
Strange flesh
Shakespeare’s interest in figures whose bodies are spoiled, ruined, or otherwise unable to negotiate the rules of belonging is foregrounded in Antony and Cleopatra, where Antony’s hard and messy form is contrasted with that of the shape-shifting and death-defying Egyptian Queen. ‘Strange flesh’ to her ‘immortal longings,’ Antony’s figure is a source of confusion, danger, and inhumanity in its refusals to conform or make sense or to die. But Shake…
Whoso List to Find: Hard Facts, Soft Data, and Women Who Count
Seeing what Englishwomen saw in the early modern period brings them into view in a variety of new ways, many of them managed and enhanced by the machinery of cheap print. In contrast with Petrarchan poetry, which imagined women with fear and described love as plague, print established other models of health and wellness, and other ways of registering women’s powers. Women known as searchers who were charged to enter houses and locate plague rathe…
Women and Mobility on Shakespeare’s Stage: Migrant Mothers and Broken Homes
Long before the economist Amartya Sen proposed that more than 100 million women were missing—lost to disease or neglect, kidnapping or forced marriage, denied the economic and political security of wages or membership in a larger social order—Shakespeare was interested in such women’s plight, how they were lost, and where they might have gone. Characters like Shakespeare’s Cordelia and Perdita, Rosalind and Celia constitute a collection of figure…
Shakespeare’s Staged Spaces and Playgoers’ Perceptions
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The Girlhood of Shakespeare’s Sisters: Gender, Transgression, Adolescence
Jennifer Higginbotham. The Girlhood of Shakespeare’s Sisters: Gender, Transgression, Adolescence. Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013. x + 226 pp. $105. ISBN: 978–0–7486–5590–8. - Volume 66 Issue 3
My Euell Hande’: The Shapes of Women’s Letters in Early Modern England
This essay considers a recent shift in scholarship on early modern women writers, away from studying what these women wrote to investigate how and where women’s writings occurred. A critical focus on letters inscribed on whitewashed walls and funeral monuments, jewels and embroidered cloths, for instance, has supplied us with useful information about women’s schooling and teachers, their gift‐giving and household responsibilities, and scholars ha…
Schooling Shrews and Grooming Queens in the Tudor Classroom
Roger Ascham has been credited with rehabilitating Elizabeth Tudor's image after a near-disastrous seduction at the hands of her stepmother's husband Thomas Seymour. But in many ways Ascham's tutelage merely continues a process the Lord Admiral had already begun, educating a young girl about what to wear, how to comport herself, and how to regard her male teacher, all necessary steps in the programme Vives details as removing 'the residue of her …
Favorite Sons: The Politics and Poetics of the Sidney Family
Who's She When She's at Home: “Manifest Housekeepers”, Jealous Queens, and the Artistry of Mary Stuart
I am resolved rather to die a queen, than a private woman.—Mary Stuart
O unityng confounding”: Elizabeth I, Mary Stuart, and the Matrix of Renaissance Gender
Slippery Wives” and other missing persons: Disappearing acts in The Winter's Tale
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Slippery Wives” and other missing persons: Disappearing acts in The Winter's Tale
O unityng confounding”: Elizabeth I, Mary Stuart, and the Matrix of Renaissance Gender
Favorite Sons: The Politics and Poetics of the Sidney Family
Who's She When She's at Home: “Manifest Housekeepers”, Jealous Queens, and the Artistry of Mary Stuart
I am resolved rather to die a queen, than a private woman.—Mary Stuart
My Euell Hande’: The Shapes of Women’s Letters in Early Modern England
This essay considers a recent shift in scholarship on early modern women writers, away from studying what these women wrote to investigate how and where women’s writings occurred. A critical focus on letters inscribed on whitewashed walls and funeral monuments, jewels and embroidered cloths, for instance, has supplied us with useful information about women’s schooling and teachers, their gift‐giving and household responsibilities, and scholars ha…
Schooling Shrews and Grooming Queens in the Tudor Classroom
Roger Ascham has been credited with rehabilitating Elizabeth Tudor's image after a near-disastrous seduction at the hands of her stepmother's husband Thomas Seymour. But in many ways Ascham's tutelage merely continues a process the Lord Admiral had already begun, educating a young girl about what to wear, how to comport herself, and how to regard her male teacher, all necessary steps in the programme Vives details as removing 'the residue of her …
The Girlhood of Shakespeare’s Sisters: Gender, Transgression, Adolescence
Jennifer Higginbotham. The Girlhood of Shakespeare’s Sisters: Gender, Transgression, Adolescence. Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013. x + 226 pp. $105. ISBN: 978–0–7486–5590–8. - Volume 66 Issue 3
Shakespeare’s Staged Spaces and Playgoers’ Perceptions
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
Women and Mobility on Shakespeare’s Stage: Migrant Mothers and Broken Homes
Long before the economist Amartya Sen proposed that more than 100 million women were missing—lost to disease or neglect, kidnapping or forced marriage, denied the economic and political security of wages or membership in a larger social order—Shakespeare was interested in such women’s plight, how they were lost, and where they might have gone. Characters like Shakespeare’s Cordelia and Perdita, Rosalind and Celia constitute a collection of figure…
Whoso List to Find: Hard Facts, Soft Data, and Women Who Count
Seeing what Englishwomen saw in the early modern period brings them into view in a variety of new ways, many of them managed and enhanced by the machinery of cheap print. In contrast with Petrarchan poetry, which imagined women with fear and described love as plague, print established other models of health and wellness, and other ways of registering women’s powers. Women known as searchers who were charged to enter houses and locate plague rathe…
Noise, Sound and Fury in Macbeth
Early modern ballads supplied tools for managing information, allowing audiences to compare stories, handle variants and sort through multiple interpretations. These activities revised how and what people learn when they come together, a transformation of social life similarly explored in Macbeth , where this technology takes shape in the messenger Ross. Ross dispenses information but also disrupts and sometimes shuts down lines of communication,…
Women who reason in print: Blazing worlds and blameless girls in early modern ballads
Samuel Pepys complained that Margaret Cavendish’s visit to The Royal Society would result in London’s being ‘full of ballads of it’, but Cavendish might have delighted in such a reception by popular print. Pepys himself was an avid collector of these texts, which frequently represent women as capable thinkers and knowers who draw meaning and sustenance from the regular workings of nature. Illuminating the dimensions of an early modern public sphe…
Venus sans furs: Wolves and Women in Three Medieval Poems
This essay examines the futures and homes which women fashion—the placental spaces they create and occupy—by exploring how women manage fur in three medieval poems. Unlike skin, fur can be both soft and savage, a sign of wealth or evidence of ferocity; in female hands, fur not only marks what is other but also suggests how such a threat might be absorbed or rejected, carefully hidden or extravagantly displayed. Love and hate work themselves out t…
Strange flesh
Shakespeare’s interest in figures whose bodies are spoiled, ruined, or otherwise unable to negotiate the rules of belonging is foregrounded in Antony and Cleopatra, where Antony’s hard and messy form is contrasted with that of the shape-shifting and death-defying Egyptian Queen. ‘Strange flesh’ to her ‘immortal longings,’ Antony’s figure is a source of confusion, danger, and inhumanity in its refusals to conform or make sense or to die. But Shake…
Givers and Gifts, Mothers and Writers
This article explores some of the ways in which women writers represent conception, gestation, abortion and delivery, at times by imagining motherhood in terms of scarcity, war or defeat. Drawing upon on the work of philosophers like Hannah Arendt, Adriana Cavarero and Lisa Guenther as well as research into biology, obstetrics and dental science, I analyse how the writings of Isabella Whitney, Edith Wharton, Margery Kempe and Buchi Emecheta often…
Native daughters, evil empires, Blazing Worlds: Margaret Cavendish's imperialism
The kidnapped maiden reborn as an Empress in Margaret Cavendish's Blazing World (1666) ultimately returns to her birthplace to wage war upon its enemies, using her newfound powers to unleash a devastating military force and bring the rest of that world to its knees. Her might is absolute and terrifying and its scope is planetary: coming home means subduing other nations, and sovereignty requires the establishment of a new world order. If empire a…
Oceans, hormones and female flow in Twelfth Night
Although a shipwreck in Twelfth Night violently separates Viola from her twin, the catastrophe also shows Shakespeare’s audience that water is a tool which can assuage grief and allow Viola to hide herself while operating as an instrument for managing other women’s bodies and desires, too. Disguising herself as a eunuch allows Viola to dam up the flood of desire and halt growth, but these infrastructural adjustments to flow work on larger and sma…
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