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The Paramaterial Phantasy

“Print is Dead”: More Medieval and Early Modern Inspired Woodcuts, With a Second Edition of Henry VIII, HVIIIERS Gonna HVIII

It has been nearly a year since I have posted to my website, but, rest assured, I have continued my engagement with the medieval, early modern, and printmaking worlds. I want to assure you that this website, like print itself, is not dead. You can always find these woodcuts and many others at my Etsy […]

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Posted in woodcuts, #WoodcutWednesday, Satire, Silly Things, Tangents Tagged early modern, William Shakespeare, Giulio Romano, Francesco Petrarcha, senseshaper, Aretino, medieval, Aretino's Postures, Petrarch, Henry Tudor, Marcantonio Raimondi, Shakespeare, Gutenberg, printmaking, Johannes Gutenberg, Thomas Coryat, Robert Greene, DeDigitizeTheArchive, Elephant, woodcut, Moll Cutpurse, Conny Catcher, Henry VIII, Middleton, smiling poo emoji, Tudors, Roaring Girl, #WoodcutWednesday, Stephen Batman, wynkyn de worde, witchcraft

“In my mind’s eye”: Species, Phantasms, Skepticism, and the Phantasy in Shakespeare’s Hamlet and in Early Modern Theater

Part I. “He thinks tis but our fantasy”: The Ontology and Epistemology of Ghosts and Spirits In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the skeptical and possibly Stoic Horatio reveals to the melancholic eponymous prince that he has seen a phantasm. Before Horatio can even reveal his harrowing yet problematic tale of seeing a “form like [Hamlet’s] father,” […]

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Posted in Scholarship, William Shakespeare, Early Modern Senses, Philosophical Skepticism, Shaping Sense Tagged philosophical skepticism, early modern senses, cultural studies, Rene Descartes, renaissance, perimaterial, Descartes, Raleigh, senses, ghosts, early modern, Ralegh, Shakespeare, spirits, epistemology, supernatural, skepticism, drama, history of science, Galenic humoralism, vision, Johann Weyer, history of the senses, accounts of demons and witchcraft, Reginald Scot, imagination, Hamlet, optics, Robert Burton, Malleus Maleficarum, paramaterial, history of vision, witches, Phantasy, William Shakespeare, delusions

GIF-ing the Woodcut; Or, Early Modern Party Animals

Nearly everyone is familiar with the ubiquitous dorm room and man-cave wall hanging that is popularly known as “Dogs Playing Poker.” This series of sixteen predominantly card-playing canines, cigar advertisements from the early twentieth century, reveal a fascination with anthropomorphized animals, especially when they are engaged in illicit activity or otherwise questionable behavior. This corporate […]

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Posted in Silly Things, #WoodcutWednesday Tagged alcohol, woodcut, art, The Winter's Tale, #WoodcutWednesday, Atolycus, animals, drunkards, early modern, Thomas Wright, Shakespeare, Philip Stubbes, ballad, drinking 4 Comments

Ren Lyfe: Renaissance and Early Modern Fashion Geekery; or, Philip Stubbes and John Rainolds Would Disapprove of my Fashion Sense

Than who is he that will take pleasure in vayne apparell, which if it be worne but a while will fall to ragges, and if it be not worne, will soone rotte or els be eaten with mothes. –Anatomie of Abuses. Philip Stubbes. The past week I’ve been terribly sick, and while I was not […]

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Posted in #WoodcutWednesday, Silly Things Tagged Aldus, Thomas Nashe, John Rainolds, woodcuts, Phillip Stubbes, Ren Lyfe, clothing, fashion, early modern, Zazzle, Montaigne, Robert Greene, renaissance, Conny-catching, Shakespeare, Kempe, skepticism

Part I: “Envious people be the greateste mortherers of the worlde & gretest theves”: Othello III.iii. 160-166 and Richard Pynson’s 1506 The Kalender of Shepherdes. A Possible New Source for Othello.

This entry is part [part not set] of 1 in the series “He that filches from me my good name”: Envy, the Kalender of Shepherds, and the “iii Edgyd sworde” of Iago’s Tongue. A Possible New Source for Othello.

“He that filches from me my good name”: Envy, the Kalender of Shepherds, and the “iii Edgyd sworde” of Iago’s Tongue. A Possible New Source for Othello. Part I: “Envious people be the greateste mortherers of the worlde & gretest theves”: Othello III.iii. 160-166 and Richard Pynson’s 1506 The Kalender of Shepherdes In Shakespeare’s Proverbial […]

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Posted in Tangents, William Shakespeare Tagged Envy, Source Study, Kalender of Shepherdes, Kalendar of Shepherds, Representation of Hell, early modern, Shakespeare, Othello

“Drops tears as fast as the Arabian trees”: Othello’s Tears and the Weeping Trees of Acacia and Myrrh. A Corrective Gloss to Most Modern Editions of Shakespeare.

I. “The Arbaian trees their medicinable gum”: Othello’s Weeping Trees During Othello’s suicide speech, he makes several references that have attracted the attention of modern editors and scholars. The most famous concerns the textual variations between the Quarto and Folio versions of the line “Like a base Indian, threw a pearl away.” Whereas the Quarto […]

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Posted in Scholarship, Shaping Sense, William Shakespeare, Tangents Tagged Othello, early modern, jealousy, Herbals, Iago, history of the senses, seeing as, imagination, Gerard, Petrarch, Phantasy, Shakespeare, vision

BREAKING: New royal bones found, this time near Dover. Move over Richard III, make way for Regan and Goneril!

Earlier this week, a study of the bones found buried beneath a Leicester car park rocked conventional Shakespeare scholarship. The DNA tests performed by the University of Leicester confirmed every early modernist’s darkest fears that Richard III was, indeed, the hunchback William Shakespeare depicted. As Randal Overtree, professor of early modern literature at the University […]

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Posted in Satire Tagged Channel 4, current events, Richard III, Richard III: The King in the Car Park, satire, Shakespeare 4 Comments

Reuben’s Mandrakes

While writing my last post on Ambroise Paré’s monstrous Phantasy, I came across a reference to Genesis 30 that captured my own imagination. Having researched and written before on the passages from Paré and Montaigne I discussed there, I somehow overlooked the bizarre Biblical reference that appeared in each. In previously thinking about representations of […]

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Posted in Politics, Tangents Tagged religion, Shakespeare, cultural criticism, gay marriage, Genesis, Herbals, mandrake, marriage equality, politics 1 Comment

“True minds,” Untrue Minds, and “Eyes untrue”: The External and Internal Senses in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 113

My last post sketched out how the paramaterial mind emerges towards the end of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. I will have more to say about deceiving the external and internal senses in that play in a later post, but I first want to focus on a much shorter and less complex poem to develop […]

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Posted in Shaping Sense Tagged sonnets, vision, early modern, epistemology, history of the senses, imagination, paramaterial, Phantasy, Shakespeare, skepticism, sonnet 113

“Such shaping fantasies”: Shakespeare’s Paramaterial Phantasy

      portion of my last post’s title comes from the fifth act of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream where Hippolyta and Theseus discuss the strange alterations of love they have just witnessed in the forest. Hippolyta declares the speeches delivered by the lovers as “strange,” prompting The Duke’s declaration of the vulnerability […]

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Posted in Shaping Sense, William Shakespeare Tagged A Midsummer Night's Dream, early modern, epistemology, history of the senses, imagination, Phantasy, senses, Shakespeare

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