Browsing OU - Faculty and Staff Publications by Author "Mansky, Joseph"
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The Case of Eleazar Edgar: Leicester’s Commonwealth and the Book Trade in 1604
Mansky, Joseph (2021-06)Scholars have long observed that the Catholic libel known as Leicester’s Commonwealth circulated extensively in manuscript. After its first printing in 1584, the tract was not printed again until 1641. Yet over ninety full ... -
Jane Shore, Edward IV, and the Politics of Publicity
Mansky, Joseph (2018)This essay sketches the publics imagined and instantiated by Thomas Heywood's two-part history play Edward IV. Heywood’s play locates the middle-class woman Jane Shore at the center of public politics, turning the cautionary ... -
“Look No More”: Jonson’s Catiline and the Politics of Enargeia
Mansky, Joseph (2019-03)In his play Catiline His Conspiracy, Ben Jonson allegorizes Cicero’s fight to save the Roman Republic as a battle against the kind of spectacular drama that, Jonson claimed, his audiences so enjoyed. This metatheatrical ...