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How to remember thee?: problems of memorialization in english writing, 1558-1625
… saints. Chapter two examines elegies written by George Whetstone, Thomas Churchyard, John Phillips, Edmund Spenser, and Mary Sidney after Sir Philip Sidney’s death in 1586. These poets support military intervention on the continent against Roman Catholic States by using figural interpretation to …
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'Serious Lots': Chance and Choice in Early Modern English Literature
This dissertation examines changing attitudes toward chance in early modern England by focusing upon the literary representation of ‘serious lots’: lotteries applied to a ‘serious purpose’. Used to allocate inheritances, elect civil officials, divvy up colonial lands, distribute punishments and …