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
aesthetic versus historicist/contextualist discourse, 6–7
Alexander, Gavin, 87n45
amateurism and professionalism, 205–6, 226–27, 230–31
Aphthonius, Progymnasmata, 57
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
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
Bastard, Thomas, 129–30, 142n84; Chrestoleros (1598), 130, 136n66
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
Bevington, David, 112n3, 203n10
Bialo, Caralyn, 162
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
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
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
Crabb, George, Crabb’s English Synonymes (1816), 10
Craik, Katharine, 142–43nn85–86
Crawforth, Hannah, 75n11
Cullman, Leonhard, Sententi Pueriles (1543), 30n11
cultural hegemony of English literature, 5–7, 117, 149
Curtius, Ernst Robert, 139
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, Angel, The English Secretary (1586), 139n75
Dekker, Thomas, and Thomas Middleton, The Roaring Girl (1611), 218
Della Casa, Giovanni, Il galateo (1568), 210, 213n37
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
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
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
Eklund, Hillary, 6
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
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
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
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
Gitelman, Lisa, 119
Goffman, Erving, 216
Goldberg, Jonathan, 118
Gorges, Arthur, 173
Gosson, Stephen, The Schoole of Abuse (1579), 76–77, 81n28, 87
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
Harington, Sir John, 137; Orlando Furioso (trans. 1607), 127
Harvey, Gabriel, 32, 47, 100, 210n29
Hay, James, 111
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
Herrick, Robert, “Delight in Disorder,” 10–11
Hershinow, David, 162
Heywood, Thomas, 219n65
Hirschfeld, Heather, 166
historicist/contextualist versus aesthetic discourse, 6–7
Horace, poetics of, 6n24, 13, 80n24, 100, 132, 139–40, 141, 144, 164–65, 166
Hughes, Felicity, 40
Hutson, Lorna, 203n11
Iliffe, Robert, 163
inefficiency of writing process, 124–25
Inns of Court, 36, 61n92, 114, 137, 210. See also Gray’s Inn
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)
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
Johnson, Samuel, 5n18
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
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
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
Lefevre, Karen Burke, 82–83, 157, 166
Lerer, Seth, 33n19
Levao, Ronald, 89
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
Macray, William Dunn, 136n69
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
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
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
Millman, Jill Seal, 185
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
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, 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
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
Plutarch, 210
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
Pye, Christopher, 126n50
Quarles, Francis, 161n19
“quick capacity”: Gascoigne on, 36, 55–63, 70; in pedagogy of English literature, 36, 60–61, 64–69
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
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
Rosenblatt, Louise, 196, 197n102
Rosenfeld, Colleen Ruth, 11
Ross, Trevor, 115n15
Roychoudhury, Suparna, 125n49
Rudenstine, Neil, 100
Rule, Hannah J., 16
Russ, Joanna, 167
Salamon, Linda Bradley, 49
Sarkar, Debapriya, 162
Schechner, Richard, 234n87
Schlegel, Friedrich, 197
Schoeck, R. J., 137n71
Scodel, Joshua, 139n74
Secor, Marie, 104
Selden, John, 163n25
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
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
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
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
Thadani, Simran, 122n40
theatrical performance. See perfection, perfectionism, and failure
Thomas, Max W., 136
time/money/status, writers’ need for, 113–15, 116–17, 132–35, 136, 145–48, 149, 153–54
Tootalian, Jacob, 188
total depravity, Calvinist doctrine of, 156
Twain, Mark, 216n47
Virgil, 38, 42, 44–46, 52, 53, 60
Viswanathan, Gauri, 5
Vogl, Joseph, 25n80
Wagoner, Brady, 82n29
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
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
Zembylas, Tasos, 124