Jessica Winston
Biographic Data
| ID | 5842456 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jessica Winston |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jessica |
| FAMILY NAME | Winston |
| SIGNATURE | WINSTON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Idaho State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Performance
Reading Drama in Tudor England
Early ‘English Seneca’: From ‘Coterie’ Translations to the Popular Stage
Records of Early English Drama: Inns of Court
Shakespeare’s Imaginary Constitution: Late Elizabethan Politics and the Theatre of Law (review)
Reviewed by: Shakespeare’s Imaginary Constitution: Late Elizabethan Politics and the Theatre of Law Jessica Winston Shakespeare’s Imaginary Constitution: Late Elizabethan Politics and the Theatre of Law. By Paul Raffield. Oxford: Hart Publishing Ltd., 2010; pp. 256. Recent studies of Renaissance law and literature demonstrate that seemingly esoteric legal issues, such as conflicts over jurisdictions or developments in contract law, had a deep and…
Neoclassical Tragedy in Elizabethan England
Howard B. Norland. Neoclassical Tragedy in Elizabethan England. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2009. 276 pp. bibl. index. $60. ISBN: 978–0–87413–045–4. - Jonathan A. Walker and Paul D. Streufert, eds. Early Modern Academic Drama. Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2009. vii + 214 pp. index. bibl. $99.95. ISBN: 978–0–7546–6464–2. - Volume 62 Issue 4
John Skelton and Poetic Authority: Defining the Liberty to Speak
Jane Griffiths. John Skelton and Poetic Authority: Defining the Liberty to Speak. Oxford English Monographs. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006. xii + 214 pp. index. bibl. $95. ISBN: 0-19-927360-X. - Volume 60 Issue 2
Writing Russia in the Age of Shakespeare
Seneca in Early Elizabethan England
In the 1560s a group of men associated with the universities, and especially the early English law schools, the Inns of Court, translated nine of Seneca’s ten tragedies into English. Few studies address these texts and those that do concentrate on their contributions to the development of English drama. Why such works were important for those who composed them remains unclear. This essay examines the translations against the background of the soc…
Expanding the Political Nation: Gorboduc at the Inns of Court and Succession Revisited
First performed at the Inner Temple in 1562, Gorboduc has usually been viewed as a topical comment on the Elizabethan succession. Drawing on an array of documents concerning the occasion, production, and reception of the play, I argue that this view is too narrow. Gorboduc responds to a specific occasion, the Inner Temple revels of 1561-2. Members of the inn also used the occasion to offer a challenging political comment on the nature of the Engl…
Shakespeare's Early History Plays: From Chronicle to Stage
Shakespeare's Tudor History: A Study of Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2
Describing the Virgin
Descriptions of the Virgin began to emerge in Italian popular devotional literature in the fifteenth century and in theological texts in the sixteenth century. In such texts, worshippers and readers were no longer left to imagine the appearance of the Virgin in prayer. Rather, her image was given in a description. And this represents a complete shift away from the tradition in the West, a tradition that originated in St Augustine's De Trinitate .…
Seneca in Early Elizabethan England
In the 1560s a group of men associated with the universities, and especially the early English law schools, the Inns of Court, translated nine of Seneca’s ten tragedies into English. Few studies address these texts and those that do concentrate on their contributions to the development of English drama. Why such works were important for those who composed them remains unclear. This essay examines the translations against the background of the soc…
Describing the Virgin
Descriptions of the Virgin began to emerge in Italian popular devotional literature in the fifteenth century and in theological texts in the sixteenth century. In such texts, worshippers and readers were no longer left to imagine the appearance of the Virgin in prayer. Rather, her image was given in a description. And this represents a complete shift away from the tradition in the West, a tradition that originated in St Augustine's De Trinitate .…
Describing the Virgin
Descriptions of the Virgin began to emerge in Italian popular devotional literature in the fifteenth century and in theological texts in the sixteenth century. In such texts, worshippers and readers were no longer left to imagine the appearance of the Virgin in prayer. Rather, her image was given in a description. And this represents a complete shift away from the tradition in the West, a tradition that originated in St Augustine's De Trinitate .…
Shakespeare's Tudor History: A Study of Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2
Expanding the Political Nation: Gorboduc at the Inns of Court and Succession Revisited
First performed at the Inner Temple in 1562, Gorboduc has usually been viewed as a topical comment on the Elizabethan succession. Drawing on an array of documents concerning the occasion, production, and reception of the play, I argue that this view is too narrow. Gorboduc responds to a specific occasion, the Inner Temple revels of 1561-2. Members of the inn also used the occasion to offer a challenging political comment on the nature of the Engl…
Shakespeare's Early History Plays: From Chronicle to Stage
Writing Russia in the Age of Shakespeare
Seneca in Early Elizabethan England
In the 1560s a group of men associated with the universities, and especially the early English law schools, the Inns of Court, translated nine of Seneca’s ten tragedies into English. Few studies address these texts and those that do concentrate on their contributions to the development of English drama. Why such works were important for those who composed them remains unclear. This essay examines the translations against the background of the soc…
John Skelton and Poetic Authority: Defining the Liberty to Speak
Jane Griffiths. John Skelton and Poetic Authority: Defining the Liberty to Speak. Oxford English Monographs. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006. xii + 214 pp. index. bibl. $95. ISBN: 0-19-927360-X. - Volume 60 Issue 2
Neoclassical Tragedy in Elizabethan England
Howard B. Norland. Neoclassical Tragedy in Elizabethan England. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2009. 276 pp. bibl. index. $60. ISBN: 978–0–87413–045–4. - Jonathan A. Walker and Paul D. Streufert, eds. Early Modern Academic Drama. Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2009. vii + 214 pp. index. bibl. $99.95. ISBN: 978–0–7546–6464–2. - Volume 62 Issue 4
Shakespeare’s Imaginary Constitution: Late Elizabethan Politics and the Theatre of Law (review)
Reviewed by: Shakespeare’s Imaginary Constitution: Late Elizabethan Politics and the Theatre of Law Jessica Winston Shakespeare’s Imaginary Constitution: Late Elizabethan Politics and the Theatre of Law. By Paul Raffield. Oxford: Hart Publishing Ltd., 2010; pp. 256. Recent studies of Renaissance law and literature demonstrate that seemingly esoteric legal issues, such as conflicts over jurisdictions or developments in contract law, had a deep and…
Records of Early English Drama: Inns of Court
Early ‘English Seneca’: From ‘Coterie’ Translations to the Popular Stage
Reading Drama in Tudor England
Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Performance
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