Steven W May
Biographic Data
| ID | 5921199 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steven W May |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steven W |
| FAMILY NAME | May |
| SIGNATURE | MAY S W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Emory University |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-9982-8006 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 7 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
How Paper Caused the Renaissance
A technological revolution that began in Europe during the second half of the thirteenth century caused an intellectual revolution that continues to this day. The manufacture of good quality paper beginning in Italy c.1250 created a virtual explosion of intellectual activity wherever such writing paper became readily available. Paper gave rise to an ever‐expanding amateur scribal culture. Its participants were soon turning out original works on a…
Poems 30–31
Poems 42, 42A
Poems 32, 32A
Poems 28–29
Poems 11–12
Anne Lock and Thomas Norton’s Meditation of a Penitent Sinner
Verse Libel in Renaissance England and Scotland
In Renaissance England and Scotland, verse libel was no mere sub-division of verse satire but a fully-developed, widely-read poetic genre in its own right. This fact has been hidden from literary historians by the nature of the genre itself: defamation was rigorously prosecuted by state and local authorities throughout the period. Thus most (but not all) libeling, in verse or prose, was confined to manuscript circulation. This comprehensive surve…
Verse Libel in Renaissance England and Scotland
In Renaissance England and Scotland, verse libel was no mere sub-division of verse satire but a fully-developed, widely-read poetic genre in its own right. This fact has been hidden from literary historians by the nature of the genre itself: defamation was rigorously prosecuted by state and local authorities throughout the period. Thus most (but not all) libeling, in verse or prose, was confined to manuscript circulation. This comprehensive surve…
John Donne and the Conway Papers
John Donne and the Conway Papers: Patronage and Manuscript Circulation in the Early Seventeenth Century. Daniel Starza Smith. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. xxiv + 390 pp. $99. - Volume 69 Issue 2
The Model of Poesy
Urban Economies
Poetry - 1
Poetry
The Making and Marketing of Tottel’s Miscellany, 1557
J. Christopher Warner. The Making and Marketing of Tottel’s Miscellany, 1557: Songs and Sonnets in the Summer of the Martyrs’ Fires. Catholic Christendom, 1300–1700. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2013. xiv + 250 pp. $109.95. ISBN: 978-1-4094-5745-9. - Volume 67 Issue 3
All of the Above
English Renaissance manuscripts comprise a vast storehouse of information on every conceivable subject. From deeds, wills, and court records to diaries, letters, poetry, and plays, some millions of these handwritten documents have survived from the early modern period. They offer unique and extensive witness to the past in virtually every scholarly disciplines, from politics, law, and economics, to social conditions, the arts, and English culture…
Special Issue
This piece is the combined bibliography for the Literature Compass special issue on ‘Scholarly Editing in the Twenty‐First Century’. The special issue is made up of the following pieces: ‘Special Issue: “Scholarly Editing in the Twenty‐First Century”– Preface’, Regenia Gagnier, Literature Compass 7.2 (2010): 33–34, doi: 10.1111/j.1741‐4113.2009.00672.x . ‘Special Issue: “Scholarly Editing in the Twenty‐First Century”– Introduction’, Arthur F. Mar…
English Manuscript Studies in 2049
Elizabethan Poetry
This interdisciplinary Renaissance reference work, provides a definitive finding list for printed and manuscript poetry texts for the Elizabethan period. Lists over 32,500 poems and over 3,400 books and manuscripts, locating all poems ascribed to a given author, and finding all texts upon which critical editions of poems are based. The index provides rapid and thorough interdisciplinary control over this important canon. Each record provides a fu…
Sir John Harington and the Book as Gift
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In Small Proportions
An examination of the English Ayre's literary devices and attributes as a sub-genre of the lyric. The author's goal is to elaborate a poetics of the ayre as a blend of music and text, so that scholars may interpret the ayre's lyrics through an understanding of its literary features
The Reign of Elizabeth I
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Livingston, Carole Rose. British Broadside Ballads of the Sixteenth Century
(1996). Livingston, Carole Rose. British Broadside Ballads of the Sixteenth Century: A Catalogue of the Extant Sheets and an Essay. ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews: Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 49-51
WESTFALL, Suzanne R. Patrons and Performance
Habits of Thought in the English Renaissance
Deborah Kuller Shuger. Habits of Thought in the English Renaissance: Religion, Politics, and the Dominant Culture.Steven W. May. The Elizabethan Courtier Poets: The Poems and Their Contexts.Katherine Duncan-Jones. Sir Philip Sidney: Courtier Poet.Linda Levy Peck. Court Patronage and Corruption in Early Stuart England.Graham Holderness, Nick Potter, and John Turner. Shakespeare: Out of Court: Dramatizations of Court Society.Christopher Pye. The Re…
The Poems of Sir Nicholas Bacon, Continued
All of the Above
English Renaissance manuscripts comprise a vast storehouse of information on every conceivable subject. From deeds, wills, and court records to diaries, letters, poetry, and plays, some millions of these handwritten documents have survived from the early modern period. They offer unique and extensive witness to the past in virtually every scholarly disciplines, from politics, law, and economics, to social conditions, the arts, and English culture…
Habits of Thought in the English Renaissance
Deborah Kuller Shuger. Habits of Thought in the English Renaissance: Religion, Politics, and the Dominant Culture.Steven W. May. The Elizabethan Courtier Poets: The Poems and Their Contexts.Katherine Duncan-Jones. Sir Philip Sidney: Courtier Poet.Linda Levy Peck. Court Patronage and Corruption in Early Stuart England.Graham Holderness, Nick Potter, and John Turner. Shakespeare: Out of Court: Dramatizations of Court Society.Christopher Pye. The Re…
The Poems of Sir Nicholas Bacon, Continued
WESTFALL, Suzanne R. Patrons and Performance
Livingston, Carole Rose. British Broadside Ballads of the Sixteenth Century
(1996). Livingston, Carole Rose. British Broadside Ballads of the Sixteenth Century: A Catalogue of the Extant Sheets and an Essay. ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews: Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 49-51
The Reign of Elizabeth I
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
In Small Proportions
An examination of the English Ayre's literary devices and attributes as a sub-genre of the lyric. The author's goal is to elaborate a poetics of the ayre as a blend of music and text, so that scholars may interpret the ayre's lyrics through an understanding of its literary features
Sir John Harington and the Book as Gift
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
Elizabethan Poetry
This interdisciplinary Renaissance reference work, provides a definitive finding list for printed and manuscript poetry texts for the Elizabethan period. Lists over 32,500 poems and over 3,400 books and manuscripts, locating all poems ascribed to a given author, and finding all texts upon which critical editions of poems are based. The index provides rapid and thorough interdisciplinary control over this important canon. Each record provides a fu…
English Manuscript Studies in 2049
All of the Above
English Renaissance manuscripts comprise a vast storehouse of information on every conceivable subject. From deeds, wills, and court records to diaries, letters, poetry, and plays, some millions of these handwritten documents have survived from the early modern period. They offer unique and extensive witness to the past in virtually every scholarly disciplines, from politics, law, and economics, to social conditions, the arts, and English culture…
Special Issue
This piece is the combined bibliography for the Literature Compass special issue on ‘Scholarly Editing in the Twenty‐First Century’. The special issue is made up of the following pieces: ‘Special Issue: “Scholarly Editing in the Twenty‐First Century”– Preface’, Regenia Gagnier, Literature Compass 7.2 (2010): 33–34, doi: 10.1111/j.1741‐4113.2009.00672.x . ‘Special Issue: “Scholarly Editing in the Twenty‐First Century”– Introduction’, Arthur F. Mar…
Urban Economies
Poetry - 1
Poetry
The Making and Marketing of Tottel’s Miscellany, 1557
J. Christopher Warner. The Making and Marketing of Tottel’s Miscellany, 1557: Songs and Sonnets in the Summer of the Martyrs’ Fires. Catholic Christendom, 1300–1700. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2013. xiv + 250 pp. $109.95. ISBN: 978-1-4094-5745-9. - Volume 67 Issue 3
The Model of Poesy
Verse Libel in Renaissance England and Scotland
In Renaissance England and Scotland, verse libel was no mere sub-division of verse satire but a fully-developed, widely-read poetic genre in its own right. This fact has been hidden from literary historians by the nature of the genre itself: defamation was rigorously prosecuted by state and local authorities throughout the period. Thus most (but not all) libeling, in verse or prose, was confined to manuscript circulation. This comprehensive surve…
Verse Libel in Renaissance England and Scotland
In Renaissance England and Scotland, verse libel was no mere sub-division of verse satire but a fully-developed, widely-read poetic genre in its own right. This fact has been hidden from literary historians by the nature of the genre itself: defamation was rigorously prosecuted by state and local authorities throughout the period. Thus most (but not all) libeling, in verse or prose, was confined to manuscript circulation. This comprehensive surve…
John Donne and the Conway Papers
John Donne and the Conway Papers: Patronage and Manuscript Circulation in the Early Seventeenth Century. Daniel Starza Smith. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. xxiv + 390 pp. $99. - Volume 69 Issue 2
Anne Lock and Thomas Norton’s Meditation of a Penitent Sinner
Poems 30–31
Poems 42, 42A
Poems 32, 32A
Poems 28–29
Poems 11–12
How Paper Caused the Renaissance
A technological revolution that began in Europe during the second half of the thirteenth century caused an intellectual revolution that continues to this day. The manufacture of good quality paper beginning in Italy c.1250 created a virtual explosion of intellectual activity wherever such writing paper became readily available. Paper gave rise to an ever‐expanding amateur scribal culture. Its participants were soon turning out original works on a…
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