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Ground-work : English Renaissance literature and soil science
How does soil, as an ecological element, shape culture? With the sixteenth-century shift in England from an agrarian economy to a trade economy, what changes do we see in representations of soil as reflected in the language and stories during that time? This collection brings focused scholarly attention to conceptions of soil in the early modern period, both as a symbol and as a feature of the physical world, aiming to correct faulty assumptions that cloud our understanding of early modern ecological thought: that natural resources were then poorly understood and recklessly managed, and that cultural practices developed in an adversarial relationship with natural processes. Moreover, these essays elucidate the links between humans and the lands they inhabit, both then and now.
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Maternal Memory and Murder in Early-Seventeenth-Century England
This article argues that the depiction of murderous mothers in three early-seventeenth-century texts both contests and expands earlier notions of motherhood and female power by highlighting the effects of maternal memory. The pamphlet (1616) and broadside (1624) I examine both stress the disruptive potential of the forgetting of maternal duty, while the play, John Ford's Love's Sacrifice (1633), represents three mothers who remember their maternal duties through murder. All of these texts showcase a \"new\" mother construct where memory is the centerpiece, emphasizing the power of this ambiguous figure who can both create and destroy.
Journal Article
\Look on this picture, and on this\: Framing Shakespeare in William Wells Brown's \The Escape\
William Wells Brown's \"The Escape; or A Leap for Freedom,\" the first published African-American drama, is examined. Brown, whose play was published in June of 1858, was an antislavory orator and lecturer who also wrote the first African-American novel. Botelho notes that the works of William Shakespeare and the genre of theater served as a powerful way in which Brown could contribute to African-American literary activism. He comments on the Shakespearen influences in Brown's work and analyzes how Brown performed a drama of protest against slavery. The performance and publication of the play are further discussed.
Journal Article
Winstanley and Postrevolutionary Soil
Gerrard Winstanley’s popular reception, not to mention his established critical reputation, identifies him as a radical social reformer, the central figure behind the short-lived Digger movement, which began on St. George’s Hill in the months following the death of King Charles I. Recently, however, there has been an important revisioning of Winstanley as he has begun to attract attention for his environmental concerns.¹ Part of this shift can be traced to Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo’s 1975 film Winstanley, which is clearly in dialogue with the countercultural elements that were central to the eight-year period in which it was filmed
Book Chapter
Manly Mechanicals on the Early Modern English Stage
Botelho reviews Manly Mechanicals on the Early Modern English Stage by Ronda Arab.
Book Review
Rumor, gender, and authority in English Renaissance drama
The dramatic works of Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, and Ben Jonson register a certain type of male character who is capable of discerning listening, an action that becomes an agent of specific masculine authority and identity. However, rumor's inherent ambiguity and indeterminacy poses the greatest threat to discerning listening. The paradox that emerges is that while the drama posits men as superior authors of information, it is men---and not women---who are responsible for the circulation of unauthorized information and rumor on the stage. Early modern literary and cultural discourses repeatedly pointed to the dangers of loose tongues and transgressive speech, and such idle chatter was consistently gendered female. Male characters continually attempt to disown their own loose speech by placing women and their gossip as the true threat to informational authority. As early modern drama exposes transgressive male talk and a male anxiety of informational access, men must seek to maintain their informational authority from male unauthorized speech. This dissertation traces a shift in concerns about the female tongue to the male tongue and how discerning listening became a necessary component in the establishment and maintenance of authorial identity on the early modern stage. I claim that rumor is an omnipresent and diffuse cultural, social, political, and theatrical issue with extreme consequences for male sovereignty. As certainty and truth break down through the workings of rumor, so too do the received notions of masculine identity. Furthermore, female characters with their authorizing ears are often seen exercising agency on the early modern stage in what I call female aural environments, where careful listening, rather than excessive speech and gossip, becomes a vehicle for uncovering truth. I contend that the early modern theater is a theater of rumor and early modern drama exposes the cultural reality of male speech gone astray, making the case for the necessity of becoming a discerning earwitness amid the buzz of the realm.
Dissertation