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table of contents
  1. Acknowledgments
  2. Introduction
  3. 1. Style: George Gascoigne’s “Patched Cote”
    1. Reflection: The Academic Death Penalty
  4. 2. Invention: Philip Sidney’s “Fear of Maybe”
    1. Reflection: Released into Language
  5. 3. Revision: John Davies of Hereford’s “Rough Hewings”
    1. Reflection: Teaching without Judging
  6. 4. Editing: Anne Southwell’s “Extent of Paper”
    1. Reflection: Generous Thinking
  7. 5. Performance Anxiety: William Shakespeare’s “Perfectness”
    1. Reflection: Ars Amateuria
  8. Bibliography
  9. Index

Index

Page numbers in italics indicate illustrations. Authored works will be found under the author’s name.

academia: as shared endeavor, 162; women and women’s writing, modern scholarship on, 160, 167, 185, 193. See also pedagogy of English literature and composition

Adams, Bernard, 174–75, 176

Adorno, Theodor W., 32, 47

aesthetic versus historicist/contextualist discourse, 6–7

Alexander, Gavin, 87n45

amateurism and professionalism, 205–6, 226–27, 230–31

Aphthonius, Progymnasmata, 57

aporia, 74, 92–95, 98

aposiopesis, 11, 129

Arditi, Jorge, 212n33

Aristotle, 58, 77, 91, 92, 104, 210n29; Art of Rhetoric, 91n58, 91n60; Metaphysics, 92n63; Nicomachean Ethics, 139n74; On Rhetoric, 58n85

Arminianism, 161n19

Ascham, Roger, 43–44, 45; The Scholemaster (1570), 38

Attridge, Derek, 205–6, 230–31

authorship, concepts of, 166–68

Bacon, Francis, 11, 99, 213

Baildon, John, 122

Bailes, Sara Jane, 205, 220–21, 226–27

Bajetta, Carlo M., 158n9

Baldwin, T. W., 12, 29n8, 41, 46

Barker, Christopher, 49

Barrios, Michael V., 90

Barthes, Roland, 21, 48, 59; The Lover’s Discourse, 232

Bartholomae, David, 64, 66

Bastard, Thomas, 129–30, 142n84; Chrestoleros (1598), 130, 136n66

Bate, Jonathan, 2, 5n17

Bates, Catherine, 89, 100

Bayer, Mark, 217n56

Bean, John, 117

Beau Chesne, Jean de, 122

Bedford, Lucy, Countess of, 123

Bender, Daniel, 45n60

Benjamin, Walter, 226

Bentley, Arthur F., 197n102

Berry, Edward, 87n44, 90

Bevington, David, 112n3, 203n10

Bialo, Caralyn, 162

Bishop, Wendy, 16, 26, 106–8

Bizzaro, Patrick, 106n95

Blake, Liza, 188

the blot: Davies of Hereford, emblematizing dissonance of composition process for, 116, 122, 126–29; in Southwell’s “Sonnett 2.a,” 182, 182–84

Blum, Susan D., 16, 65–66

Bond, Garth, 166n34

botching/bodgery and patching, 35–36, 42–48, 51, 65, 66, 106, 130–131, 147, 164

Bourdieu, Pierre, 140

Bowers, Fredson, 186

Bowyer, Anne, 194

Brecht, Bertolt, 226

Breitenberg, Mark, 203n10

Brinsley, John, 35, 44–46, 60; Ludus Literarius (1612), 44, 112–13

Britton, Ronald, 204

Britzman, Deborah F., 94

Brodkey, Linda, 3

Brome, Richard, The Antipodes (1638), 219

Brown, Eric C., 203n10

Browne, David, 122n37

Bruffee, Kenneth, 195

Brugués, Ariadna Ortiz, 203

Bruster, Douglas, 207n21, 218n57

Bryant, John, 120

Bryson, Anna, 212n33

Burke, Victoria, 175, 177, 193–94

Burlase, William, 129

Bush, Paul, The Extirpation of Ignorancy (1526), 33n19

Calvinism, 156, 161n18, 161n19, 171, 174, 177

Campion, Thomas, 100

Carey, Elizabeth, 123

Carr, Alison, 220n71

Carroll, William C., 203n10

Castiglione, Baldassare, Il cortegiano (1528), 4n12, 209–10

Cavendish, Margaret, The Blazing World (1666), 188

Certeau, Michel de, 48

Chapman, George, 146n92; The Vviddovves Teares a Comedie (1612), 219n61

Charles I (king of England), 159

Charlton, Kenneth, 114n12

Cheney, Patrick, 139n75, 140–41

Christen, Richard S., 112

Cicero (Tully), 38, 44, 45, 46, 48, 60, 208n25; De officiis, 139n74, 212n36; De oratore, 81n26

Clarke, Danielle, 156n3, 176, 181, 183

Clarke, Elizabeth, 161n18

Cogswell, Thomas, 142

Colet, John, 29, 35, 41, 44

collaborative nature of literary production, 3–4, 9, 108–9, 157–62, 198–99. See also editing; Southwell, Lady Anne

Combe, Thomas, 30

Condell, Henry. See Heminges, John, and Henry Condell

conversation, art of, 205, 210–14

Coolahan, Marie-Louise, 156n3, 169n47, 171n51

Corbett, Edward P., 77

Coryate, Thomas, Coryats Crudities (1611), 137n70

Cox, Roger, 175–77

Crabb, George, Crabb’s English Synonymes (1816), 10

Craik, Katharine, 142–43nn85–86

Crawford, Julie, 167, 168

Crawforth, Hannah, 75n11

Cressy, David, 29n7, 114

Cullman, Leonhard, Sententi Pueriles (1543), 30n11

cultural hegemony of English literature, 5–7, 117, 149

Curtius, Ernst Robert, 139

Daniel, Samuel, 100, 136n66

Davidson, Peter, 185

Davies, Sir John, 114, 116, 137–38

Davies, Richard (brother of Davies of Hereford), 128

Davies of Hereford, John, 16, 110–48; the blot emblematizing dissonance of composition process for, 116, 122, 126–29; fame, pursuit of, 111, 114, 115, 116, 135–38; inditing and writing, relationship between, 113, 116, 118, 123–24, 127–32, 164; life and career as writing master, 112–14, 117–18, 121–22; mediocrity of, 111, 112, 114, 116, 121, 133–34, 138–41; poetics of revision and, 118–21; on revision/failure to revise, 110–11, 116; self-comparisons to other writers, 129–32, 136–45, 146n92; Shakespeare and, 112n3, 113, 146, 146n91; Sidney Psalter, commissioned copy of, 121, 127; student expectations regarding, 235; time/money/status, understanding of poets’ need for, 113–15, 116, 132–35, 136, 145–48, 153–54

Davies of Hereford, John, works: Microcosmos (1603), 112n3, 116, 121, 128–29, 145–46; Mirum in Modum (1601), 125–26; “Of My Selfe,” 110–11, 115, 127–28, 131, 135; “Of Myselfe,” 132; Paper’s Complaint (1611), 116, 146–48; Wittes Pilgrimage (1605), 110, 111, 115, 128; The Writing School-master (ca. 1620), 115–16, 121–25

Day, Alexandra, 167, 168

Day, Angel, The English Secretary (1586), 139n75

Dekker, Thomas, and Thomas Middleton, The Roaring Girl (1611), 218

Della Casa, Giovanni, Il galateo (1568), 210, 213n37

Derrida, Jacques, 92–94

Dewey, John, 8, 22, 197n102

Digital Cavendish Project, 188

digital text production, 187–89

discomposition in English poetics, 1–27; centrality to poetic and critical insight, 9, 10–11, 204; compromise between possibility and ingenuity as hallmark of, 164; concept of, 9–15; cultural hegemony of English literature and, 5–7, 117, 149; defined, 9; historicist/contextualist versus aesthetic discourse and, 6–7; imperfectness and, 231; literary epistemology and writing process, 15–27; myth of genius and “easiness” of composition, 1–9; pedagogy and, 8–9 (see also pedagogy of English literature and composition); specific writers and, 13–16 (see also Davies of Hereford, John; Gascoigne, George; Shakespeare, William; Sidney, Philip; Southwell, Lady Anne); writing process and, 13–16 (see also editing; invention; perfection, perfectionism, and failure; revision/failure to revise; style)

dissoi logoi, 83

Dolan, Fran, 189, 194

Dolven, Jeff, 13, 32–33, 46

Donne, John, 1, 18, 108, 116, 136–37, 151, 165–66, 169, 177, 185, 194; Anniversaries, 172; Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (1624), 10

Doty, Jeffrey S., 217

double translation, 30, 38, 45

Drayton, Michael, 113; Poly-Olbion (1612), 163n25

Dubrow, Heather, 86n43

Dyer, Edward, 100, 101

editing: authorial collaboration in, 164–67; composition process, as part of, 177–80; critical reading/writing, affinities with, 161, 195–99; defined and distinguished from revision, 157–58; historical emergence of editorial vocation, 158, 162–64; modern transcription and edition of collaborative works, 184–93, 185, 192; as pedagogy, 190–94, 191–92; readers’ participation in, 163; Southwell’s inviting of, 157–61 (see also Southwell, Lady Anne)

education. See pedagogy of English literature and composition

Edward VI (king of England), 46

Eggert, Katherine, 12, 203n11

Eklund, Hillary, 6

Elbow, Peter, 149–50, 230n82

Elias, Norbert, 212n33

Elizabeth I (queen of England), 36, 49, 76, 90, 114, 137, 169

Ellinghausen, Laurie, 113–14, 143n86

English literature studies. See pedagogy of English literature and composition

Enterline, Lynne, 13, 207–8, 215–16

epigrams and epigrammatists, 111, 114, 127, 129–30, 132, 136–37, 142, 146–47, 165–66

Erasmus, Desiderius, 16, 29, 33–34, 35, 41–48, 51, 60, 66, 143, 211n32; De conscribendis epistolis (1528), 43n52; De copia (1512), 43, 71; Dialogus Ciceronianus (1528), 42

Eskew, Doug, 7

Estill, Laura, 126n50

Ezell, Margaret, 166–67

Fahnestock, Jeanne, 32n17, 104

failure, poetics of, 205, 220–21. See also perfection, perfectionism, and failure; revision/failure to revise

Fallon, Samuel, 136n65

Faulkner, William, 20

Featley, Daniel, 177

Federico, Annette, 21, 22–23, 198

Ferrabosco, Alphonso, Ayres (1609), 181

Finkelpearl, Philip J., 111

Fitzpatrick, Kathleen, 8, 17, 199

Flaherty, Kate, 5n18, 5n20

Fleming, Paul, 139–40, 141

Fletcher, Phineas, 163n25

Florio, John, A World of Wordes (1598), 9, 35n25

Foucault, Michel, 21

Freire, Paolo, 18

Fuller, Thomas, Worthies of England (1662), 121

Furey, Constance, 3–4

Gainsford, Thomas, The Rich Cabinet (1616), 214n39, 219–20

Gascoigne, George, 16, 28–63; Certayne Notes (1575), 34, 36–40, 56–61, 71; discomposition, commitment to, 34; early modern literary pedagogy and, 28–35, 38, 41–47; The Glasse of Governement (1575), 34–36, 40–41, 43, 47–56, 58–60, 63, 65, 68, 70; A Hundreth Sundrie Flowres (1572/73), 37–40, 61–63; invention, understanding of, 57–59, 61; life and career, 34, 36–37, 38–39, 61–62; patching and botching, 35–36, 42–48, 51, 164; The Posies (1575), 37–40, 47, 55; on “quick capacity,” 36, 55–63, 70; recommendations on style, 35–36, 66

Gibson, Jonathan, 175, 181, 185–88, 190

Gifford, James, 107–8

Gitelman, Lisa, 119

Goffman, Erving, 216

Goldberg, Jonathan, 118

Gorges, Arthur, 173

Gosson, Stephen, The Schoole of Abuse (1579), 76–77, 81n28, 87

Grafton, Anthony, 12, 46

Gray’s Inn, 38, 61, 210, 213–14

Greenberg, Susan L., 157–58, 189, 198

Greenblatt, Stephen, 4n12

Greene, Robert, Greene’s Groatsworth of Wit (1592), 217

Greene, Roland, 75

Greg, W. W., 186

Grosart, Alexander B., 113n8, 133–34

Guazzo, Stefano, The Civile Conversation (1581), 205, 210–14, 216, 224, 227

Guillory, John, 20

Guilpin, Everard, 142n84

Hackett, Helen, 13n43

Halberstam, Jack, 221

Halpern, Richard, 33, 34

Harington, Sir John, 137; Orlando Furioso (trans. 1607), 127

Harris, Joseph, 20–21

Harris, Sir Thomas, 169–70

Harvey, Gabriel, 32, 47, 100, 210n29

Hawhee, Debra, 84n40, 84n42

Hay, James, 111

Heath, John, 128, 131

Helgerson, Richard, 38, 73

Heminges, John, and Henry Condell, Mr. William Shakspeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (1623), 1, 2, 4, 5, 200

Hendrick, Niclaes, All the Letters of the A. B. C (1575), 28–29

Henry, Prince of Wales (son of James I), 122–23, 164

Herbert, Mary Sidney (sister of Philip Sidney), 73, 76, 167, 168

Herbert, Philip, 111

Hermagoras of Temnos, 77, 91

Herrick, Robert, “Delight in Disorder,” 10–11

Hershinow, David, 162

Hetherington, Michael, 39, 59

Heywood, Thomas, 219n65

Hirschfeld, Heather, 166

historicist/contextualist versus aesthetic discourse, 6–7

Homer, 42, 132, 151

hooks, bell, 19–20, 149

Horace, poetics of, 6n24, 13, 80n24, 100, 132, 139–40, 141, 144, 164–65, 166

Howard, Rebecca Moore, 36, 66

Hughes, Felicity, 40

Huisman, Rosemary, 117–18

Hutson, Lorna, 203n11

Hyman, Wendy Beth, 6, 162, 206n20

Iliffe, Robert, 163

inefficiency of writing process, 124–25

Inns of Court, 36, 61n92, 114, 137, 210. See also Gray’s Inn

Inoue, Asao B., 16, 152

invention: change in meaning from discovery to conception, 75–76; deliberative versus forensic, 91; in early modern rhetorical composition, 70–71; forensic argument, stasis theory, and topoi, 73, 75, 77–79, 82–83, 85, 91; freedom and regulation, interplay between, 71–74, 79–82, 99–100; Gascoigne’s understanding of, 57–59, 61; kairos, 74, 83–85, 106, 195; in modern literary pedagogy, 104–9; Sidney’s view of, 70–74 (see also Sidney, Philip)

Ioppolo, Grace, 2, 202

Jacotot, Joseph, 60

James I and VI (king of England), 111, 114, 122, 128, 137, 159, 169–70; Declaration of Sports (1617/1618), 161n19; Poetical Exercises (1591), 32

Jardine, Lisa, 12, 46

Johnson, Samuel, 5n18

Jones, Emrys, 29–30n8

Jones, Robert, A Musicall Dreame (1609), 182–83, 184, 186

Jonson, Ben: annotation and commonplace books, use of, 3n10; courtiers compared to actors by, 216–17; Davies of Hereford and, 113, 116, 118, 129, 136; on poetic discomposition, 13–15, 22, 72; Rosenblatt on transactional poetic reading and, 197n102; Shakespeare, critique of, 2, 14–15, 165; on social virtues of poetry, 22; Southwell’s collaboration compared, 158, 164–66, 168–69, 177; Woolf on, 1, 2; The Workes of Benjamin Jonson (1616), 166

Joyce, James, 20

Julius Caesar, 45

kairos, 74, 83–85, 106, 195

Kaplan, Donald M., 204, 216

Kempe, William, 44, 46

Kerrigan, John, 163

King, Henry, 161n19

Kingra, Mahinder, 162

Kleist, Heinrich von, 141

Klene, Jean, 158n10, 178, 181, 184–86, 190–93

Knight, Leah, 188

Knights, Ben, 23–24, 25

Kolb, Laura, 162

Kramnick, Jonathan, 23

la Perriere, Guillaume de, Theater of Fine Devices (1614), 30

Lamb, Julian, 35

Lamott, Anne, 124

Languet, Hubert, 87

Lanham, Richard, 125

Lanyer, Aemelia, Salve Deus Rex Iudaeorum (1611), 175

Lasswell, Harold, 157

Lauer, Janice, 78

Leader, Zachary, 90n54, 95

Lefevre, Karen Burke, 82–83, 157, 166

Lerer, Seth, 33n19

Levao, Ronald, 89

Lilley, Kate, 168, 171n53

Lipari, Lisbeth, 84n42

Liu, Yameng, 91n58

Lodge, Thomas, Works of Seneca (1620), 163n25

Longfellow, Erica, 170

Longinus, On the Sublime, 140

Love, Harold, 160

Lyly, John, 164; Saphho and Phao (1584), 203n10

Lynch, Jack, 4

Mack, Peter, 56–57

Macray, William Dunn, 136n69

Magnusson, Lynne, 210, 214

Mandell, Barrett John, 151–52

Mann, Jenny C., 93, 162

manuscript texts, 117–19, 158–60, 161, 172, 177–94, 179, 182, 185, 191–92

Marlowe, Christopher, 18, 113; Doctor Faustus (ca. 1588–1592), 203n10; Tamburlaine (1587–1588), 138–39

Marotti, Arthur, 119n24, 160

Marston, John, Jack Drum’s Entertainment (1601), 219

Marvell, Andrew, 185

Matalene, Carolyn, 196

Matz, Robert, 6n24

Mazzio, Carla, 11, 203n10, 209

McCabe, Richard, 115

McCoy, Richard C., 49, 50n77

McGann, Jerome, 186–87, 197n102

McKenzie, D. F., 186

McRae, Andrew, 142n84

mediocrity, 111, 112, 114, 116, 121, 133–34, 138–41, 143n86

Menzer, Paul, 217

Middleton, Thomas: Hengist (1620), 216n51; Roaring Girl (1611), with Dekker, 218

Miller, Carolyn R., 84

Miller, J. Hillis, 20

Miller, Susan, 25–26

Millman, Jill Seal, 185

Milton, John, 1, 18

Mirandula, Octavio, Flores Poetarum (1480), 44–45

Mitchell, Dianne, 118–19n24, 162, 168n45, 175n60

Moore, Shawn M., 188

Nashe, Thomas, 47, 48, 113, 146

Nelson, Victoria, 97

Nevile, Alexander, 61

New Historicism, 6

Ngai, Sianne, 141n81, 234n87

Niederauer, Martin, 124

North, Dudley, Third Baron, 118n24

North, Joseph, 6

Oakeshott, Michael, 212n35

Olive, Sarah, 4n14

Overbury, Thomas, 170

Ovid, 44, 45, 48, 208; Ars Amatoria, 203n10, 210n29

Owen, John, 137

Pangallo, Matteo, 217–18n56, 224

Panke, William, Breefe Receite (1591), 122n40

Pardi, Phil, 162

Parker, Lindsay, 107–8

Parker, Patricia, 35n25

patching and botching/bodgery, 35–36, 42–48, 51, 65, 66, 106, 130–131, 147, 164

pedagogy of English literature and composition, 8–9; attention, prioritization of, 59–60; critical reading/writing and editing, affinities between, 161, 195–99; cultural hegemony of English literature and, 5–7, 117, 149; destabilizing familiarity of texts, 194, 195; doubt and hesitation, cultivation of, 74, 104–9; early modern pedagogical programs, 12–13, 28–35, 38, 41–47; early modern writing masters and writing instruction, 112–13, 117–25; editing as frame for, 190–94, 191–92; invention protocols and, 104–9; judging, teaching without, 151–52; labor-based grading contracts, 16, 152; literary epistemology and writing process, 17–27; patching and botching/bodgery, 35–36, 42–48, 51, 65, 66; perfection, perfectionism, and failure in, 204, 205–6, 230–36; plagiarism, problem of, 65–67; “quick capacity” and intellectual liberation in, 36, 60–61, 64–69; revision process and, 149–54; Shakespeare, teaching, 18–19, 20, 232–33; time/money/status affecting, 116–17, 149, 153–54. See also rhetoric

Pembroke, Mary, Countess of, 121, 123

Pendarves, Robert, 30–31, 31, 33

Pender, Patricia, 167, 168

perfection, perfectionism, and failure: definitions, 201–2, 220; discomposition and imperfectness, 231; failed delivery, dramatizations of, 204–5, 206–14; in pedagogy, 204, 205–6, 230–36; performance anxiety/stage fright, 203–4, 216, 217, 230; poetics of failure, 205, 220–21; Shakespeare’s Love’s Labor’s Lost on, 200–201, 203, 223–24 (see also Shakespeare, William); theatrical authorship and performance, imperfect experience of, 205, 215–21; twinned depictions of amateur theater and fractured conversation, 205, 221–29

Persius Flaccus, Satires, 98

Petrarchian tradition, 98, 203

Pettie, George, 210

Pickering, Andrew, 120–21, 124–25

plagiarism, 65–67, 136, 193

Plato, 78; Meno, 93n64

Plutarch, 210

pot poets, 142–45

Potter, Ursula, 49

Poulakos, John, 83

Preiss, Richard, 219n63, 220n67

printers and printing technology, 49, 115, 117–19, 158, 160, 163–64

Probyn, Elspeth, 88

Prouty, Charles Tyler, 49

Pulter, Hester, and Pulter Project, 188–89

Puritanism, 161n19

Puttenham, George, 93, 100

Pye, Christopher, 126n50

Quarles, Francis, 161n19

“quick capacity”: Gascoigne on, 36, 55–63, 70; in pedagogy of English literature, 36, 60–61, 64–69

Quintilian, 112, 130n58

Quintilius Verus, 164–65, 166

Ralegh, Walter, 235; “The Lie,” 161n19, 190–93, 197

Ramus, Peter, 71

Rancière, Jacques, The Ignorant Schoolmaster, 59–60, 232

Randall, David, 208n25, 210n30

Relle, Eleanor, 32n13

Rescher, Nicholas, 95

revision/failure to revise: the blot emblematizing dissonance of composition process, 116, 122, 126–29; Davies of Hereford on, 110–11, 116 (see also Davies of Hereford, John); editing distinguished, 157; inefficiency of process, 125; in pedagogy of English literature and composition, 149–54; poetics of, 118–21; psychology of, 112; time/money/status, writer’s need for, 132–33

rhetoric: aporia, 74, 92–95, 98; decorum/indecorum and, 11; deliberative, 91; dialectic and, 71; dispositio, 71; in early modern pedagogy, 29, 33, 58, 70–71; elocutio, 32, 71, 72; forensic, 73, 75, 77–79, 82–83, 85, 91; modern rhetoric and composition studies, 16, 25, 81, 104; poetics and, 71–72; pronuntiatio, 71; stasis theory, 73, 77, 79, 82, 83, 85, 104; style in, 32, 33; topoi, 77–78, 104–6. See also invention

Rhetorica ad Herennium, 78, 80, 91, 139n74

Rhodes, Neil, 12–13, 139

Richards, Jennifer, 210–11n30

Richardson, Brian, 163

Ridgeway, Cicely Mackwilliams, Lady, 155–56, 159, 170–74, 199

Ridout, Nicholas, 216

Ringler, William, 70n2, 73, 127

Robbins, Bruce, 7

Roland, David, 203

Rorty, Richard, 195

Rose, Mike, 89–90

Rosenblatt, Louise, 196, 197n102

Rosenfeld, Colleen Ruth, 11

Ross, Sarah C. E., 159, 169

Ross, Trevor, 115n15

Roychoudhury, Suparna, 125n49

Rudenstine, Neil, 100

Rule, Hannah J., 16

Russ, Joanna, 167

Salamon, Linda Bradley, 49

Saldívar, Ramón, 197–98

Sarkar, Debapriya, 162

Schechner, Richard, 234n87

Schlegel, Friedrich, 197

Schoeck, R. J., 137n71

Scodel, Joshua, 139n74

Secor, Marie, 104

Selden, John, 163n25

Seneca, 163n25, 211

Shakespeare, William, 17, 200–235; on botching and patching, 47–48; in composition studies, 25n81; cultural hegemony and, 5–9; Davies of Hereford and, 112n3, 113, 146, 146n91; destabilizing familiarity of, 194; on failed delivery, 204–5, 206–9; Jonson’s critique of, 2, 14–15, 165; myth of genius and “easiness” of composition, 1–9, 200–201; pedagogy of, 18–19, 20, 232–33; on perfectness, perfectionism, and performance anxiety, 200–201, 203, 223–24; theatrical authorship and performance, imperfect experience of, 205, 215–21; twinning depictions of amateur theater and fractured conversation, 205, 221–29, 222

Shakespeare, William, works: Hamlet, 48, 232; Henry V, 47; A Lover’s Complaint, 112n3; Love’s Labor’s Lost, 17, 202–9, 215, 217, 221–29, 222, 232–33; Measure for Measure, 206n20; A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 216n51, 219n61; The Rape of Lucrece, 163n25, 200n1; Sir Thomas More, 3; Sonnets, 200–201, 202; Twelfth Night, 47–48, 206n20, 219n64; Venus and Adonis, 146

Shenk, Robert, 91n60

Sherman, William, 3n10, 163–64n25

Sibthorpe, Henry (husband of Anne Southwell), 159, 160, 170, 180, 181, 187

Sibthorpe, John (father), 181

Sidney, Henry (father), 87, 90

Sidney, Philip, 16, 69–103; aporia and writer’s block, 69–70, 74, 89–90, 92–95, 97–98, 100, 102; Arcadia, 76, 210; Astrophil and Stella (ca. 1581), 69–74, 76, 86–88, 90–92, 95–100, 101, 102–3, 111; Certain Sonnets (ca. 1570s), 100–102; change in meaning of invention and, 75–76; The Defense of Poesy (1595), 16, 73, 76–86, 87, 88–89, 100, 111, 115, 124, 144, 145, 156; on doubt and shame in literary activity, 12, 73–77, 85–91, 102–3, 112; feminine rhymes, use of, 127; freedom and regulation, interplay between, 71–74, 79–82, 99–100; invention, understanding of, 70–74; on the poetic “idea,” 81–82, 85, 100, 201; sister’s role in editing of, 167

Sinfield, Alan, 6

Singer, Jerome L., 90

Singh, Julietta, 221

Sipiora, Phillip, 83, 84

Sirc, Geoffrey, 16, 64

Skinner, Quentin, 91

Sloane, Thomas O., 83

Smit, David, 16

Smith, Emma, 4

Smith, Nicholas, 137n70

Snodham, Thomas, 163n25

solitary activity, literary composition viewed as, 3, 9

Somerset, Countess of, 170, 173–74

Sommers, Nancy, 149

Sontag, Susan, 32

Southwell, Lady Anne, 17, 155–94; borrowings from other writers, 159, 161n19, 173, 181, 182, 186, 190–94; collaborative nature of poetic endeavor for, 157–58, 160–61, 168–69 (see also editing); composition process, editing as part of, 177–80, 179, 181–86, 182, 185; defense of poetry by, 155–57, 168, 170, 173; life and career, 169–70; male readers, appeals to, 174–77; manuscripts of, 158–60, 161, 172, 177–94, 179, 182, 185, 191–92; modern transcription and edition of collaborative works of, 184–93, 185, 192; religious convictions and poetry of, 156, 160–61, 171, 172, 174–77, 184; Lady Ridgeway and, 155–57, 159, 170–74, 199; Sidney compared, 156–57; social approach to writing in early modern manuscript culture and, 160, 170–77; student expectations regarding, 235; women and women’s writing, ambivalence about, 161, 174–77; women readers, poems reaching for social connections to, 170–74, 199

Southwell, Lady Anne, works: “An Elegie written by the Lady A,” 170–73; “An Epitaph vpon the Countess of Somerset,” 173–74; “An: Epitaph vppon Cassandra MackWilliams,” 173; “A Letter to Doctor Adam Bpp of Limerick,” 174–75; “The Lie,” 161n19, 190–93, 197; “Sonnett 1.a,” 181; “Sonnett 2.a,” 182, 182–86, 185; “Sr. giue mee leaue,” 175–77; “Thou shalt not commit Adooltery,” 177–80, 179

Southwell, Thomas, 169–70, 177

Spenser, Edmund, 32, 76, 100, 210n29; The Faerie Queene (1590), 125

sprezzatura, 4

Stamatakis, Chris, 118–19n24

Stanislavski, Constantin, 230

stasis theory, 73, 77, 79, 82, 83, 85, 104

Stern, Tiffany, 219n59

“Sternhold and Hopkins” (The Whole Booke of Psalmes Collected into Englysh Metre; 1562), 29, 33n19

Stevenson, Jane, 185

Stoeber, Joachim, 201

style: defining, 32–33; Gascoigne on, 35–36, 66 (see also Gascoigne, George); inherent contradictions of, 32–34; non-style, 47

Suckling, John, 163n25

Tallent, Elizabeth, 202

Tanselle, G. Thomas, 187, 190

Taylor, Gary, 187n84

Taylor, John (the Water Poet), 116, 142–45; The Praise of Hemp-Seed (1620), 143; Urania (1615), 144

teaching English literature. See pedagogy of English literature

Terence, 48; Eunuchus, 135

Thadani, Simran, 122n40

theatrical performance. See perfection, perfectionism, and failure

Thomas, Max W., 136

Thompson, Ayanna, 18–19, 21

time/money/status, writers’ need for, 113–15, 116–17, 132–35, 136, 145–48, 149, 153–54

Tootalian, Jacob, 188

topoi, 77–78, 104–6

total depravity, Calvinist doctrine of, 156

Tribble, Evelyn, 219, 220n67

Turchi, Laura, 18–19, 21

Twain, Mark, 216n47

Vickers, Brian, 111, 138n72

Virgil, 38, 42, 44–46, 52, 53, 60

Viswanathan, Gauri, 5

Vogl, Joseph, 25n80

Wagoner, Brady, 82n29

Wall, Wendy, 117, 126n50, 188

Warner, John, 16, 22–23, 65–67

Watson, Thomas, 164

Weimann, Robert, 218n57

Werstine, Paul, 119n25

Wilder, Laura, 16, 77n19, 78n23, 104–6, 108n103, 153

Willis, Jonathan, 29n4

Wilson, Glenn D., 203

Winston, Jessica, 61n92

Witmore, Michael, 11

Wittman, Kara, 230

women and women’s writing: ambivalence of Southwell on, 161, 174–77 (see also Southwell, Lady Anne); collaboration and patriarchy, managing, 169, 177; Davies of Hereford on writing instruction for women, 123; modern scholarship on, 160, 167, 185, 193; Shakespeare’s Love’s Labor’s Lost, anxiety about interactions with women in, 204–5, 206–9; social nature/treatment of, 167–68

Woolf, Virginia, 1–2, 20

Woudhuysen, H. R., 202

Wright, Gillian, 158–59, 160, 169, 170, 185, 190–93

writer’s block, 69–70, 74, 89–90, 94–95, 97, 100, 102

Wroth, Mary, 167

Wyatt, Thomas, 118n24

Yarbrough, Stephen, 92

Zarnowiecki, Matthew, 119–20

Zembylas, Tasos, 124

Zucker, Adam, 232–33

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