Elizabethan Narrative Poems: The State of Play

Lynn Enterline is Nancy Perot Mulford Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. She is author of The Rhetoric of the Body from Ovid to Shakespeare and The Tears of Narcissus: Melancholia and Masculinity in Early Modern Writing.

Series Preface
Notes on Contributors

Lynn Enterline, Introduction: On ‘Schoolmen’s Cunning Notes’

Part One. Reckoning with Rhetoric

1. Jenny C. Mann, ‘Reck’ning’ with Shakespeare’s Orpheus in The Rape of Lucrece
2. Rachel Eisendrath, Poetry at the Limits of Rhetoric in Shakespeare’s The Rape of Lucrece

Part Two. Debating Mimesis

3. Joseph M. Ortiz, Epic Oenone, Pastoral Paris: Undoing the Virgilian rota in Thomas Heywood’s Oenone and Paris
4. Andrew Fleck, ‘Arte with her contending, doth aspire T’excell the naturall’: Contending for Representation in the Elizabethan Epyllion
5. Catherine Nicholson, Learning to Read with Lucrece


Part Three. Epyllia, Masculinity and Sexuality

6. Jessica Winston, From Discontent to Disdain: Thomas Lodge’s Scillaes Metamorphosis and Inns of Court
7. John S. Garrison, Love Will Tear Us Apart: Campion’s Umbra and Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis
8. Stephen Guy-Bray, Love Loves: Venus and Adonis, Venus and Anchises


Part Four. Classicism and Mercantile Capital

9. Jane Raisch, Crossing the Hellespont: The Erotics of the Everyday in Marlowe’s Hero and Leander
10. Barbara Correll, ‘Unthriftie waste’: Epyllia, Idleness, and General Economy

Appendix
Notes
Index