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'Lawrels for the Conquered' : the dilemmas of William Davenant and Abraham Cowley in the revolutionary decades of the seventeenth century.
… is designed to re-illuminate the figures of William Davenant and Abraham Cowley and to begin to suggest some of the ways in which neglected works dating from the period of the English republic might fruitfully be read. It focuses on the work Davenant and Cowley published in the middle decades …
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'Cross-over' comedy in seventeenth-century England : from Michaelmas Term to The Roundheads
… The huge influence of Thomas Killigrew and Sir William Davenant on the development of English comedy is reflected in analyses of Killigrew‟s self-reflexivity in The Parson’s Wedding, and of Davenant‟s revisions to William Shakespeare‟s plays. Davenant‟s depiction of Wit in his “cross-over” …
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Discordant Poetics: Spenser to Milton
… case studies: Edmund Spenser, Michael Drayton, William Davenant, and John Milton. The second chapter looks at Spenser’s Faerie Queene. I argue that Spenser was influenced by Tasso’s arguments regarding the importance of discord as a key aspect of epic form, which informs his Gerusalemme Liberata …