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Thomas P. Anderson. Performing Early Modern Trauma from Shakespeare to Milton. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2006. Pp. viii + 225. $94.95. There are at least three ways to think about what [...]

The article focuses on analysis of the cause-sign interplay in penitential writing through the lens of modern speech act theory. Topics discussed include differences between Catholic and Protestant penitential understandings, notion of speech as an action has marked penitential theology from its origins and role of cause and sign in doctrinal debate about repentance.

This article introduces a series of articles about the interaction between poet Edmund Spenser and John Milton's "A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle."

The article discusses the search of Tudors for their history and the perception of national consciousness and historical loss in England. It is emphasized that prophecy, as a compensatory sublation of monumental history, regains the national past by swallowing it up, reformulating its temporality so that it is scarcely recognizable as history. It is said that the temporal precariousness of national history is reaffirmed by the spectacle of Merlin, wizard in the Arthurian legend.

Looks at some of the literature written by John Aylmer. When some of his work was created; Reference to the passage `An Harborow for faithful and true subjects; Aylmer's views on the English monarchy; Details on the `Book of Martyrs' written by Aylmer.