Sederi Universidad de Salamanca
1999-2000
ISSN 1135-7789




Sederi
Sociedad Española de Estudios Renacentistas Ingleses

The specific aim of the Spanish Society for English Renaissance Studies is to promote, stimulate and give impulse in Spain to the study and research of 16th and 17th century English language, literature and history, and their relationship with their Spanish counterparts, in all aspects: linguistic, literary and cultural.

executive committee

president: Javier Sánchez Escribano, Universidad de Zaragoza.
secretary - treasurer: Andrew Monnickendam, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
committee members: Miguel Martínez López, Universidad de Almería;
                                    Juan Antonio Prieto Pablos, Universidad de Sevilla.
general editor: Santiago González y Fernández-Corugedo, Universidad de Oviedo.
 
 

editorial board 1999-2000


Clara Calvo López, Universidad de Murcia
Jesús López-Peláez Casielles, Universidad de Jaén
Pilar Cuder Domínguez, Universidad de Huelva
José Luis Chamosa González, Universidad de León
Maria Hélena Ribeiro de Paiva Correia, Universidade de Lisboa
Teresa Fanego Lema, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Juan Tazón Salces, Universidad de Oviedo
Rui Gomes de Carvalho Homem, Universidade do Porto
Dionisia Tejera Llano, Universidad de Deusto
Manuel José Gómez Lara, Universidad de Sevilla
Gustav Ungerer, Universität Bern
José Gómez Soliño, Universidad de La Laguna
Isabel Verdaguer Claverá, Universitat de Barcelona
José Manuel González Fernández de Sevilla, Universitat d' Alacant
Keith Whitlock, The Open University


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Contents

Editors' Foreword.

SECTION I: TOPICS IN RENAISSANCE ENGLISH

N.F.BLAKE. The Study of Shakespeare’s Language: Its Implications for Editors, Critics and Translators. 11-30.

ISABEL DE LA CRUZ CABANILLAS. Lexical Ambiguity and Wordplay in Shakespeare. 31-36.

TRINIDAD GUZMÁN GONZÁLEZ. Gender, Grammar and Poetry: Early 17th-Century Miscellanies
                in the Light of Historical Sociolinguistics. 37-46.

MARÍA O’ NEILL. Strategies of Rebuttal in the Spelling Reform Debate: An Analysis of Richard Mulcaster’s
                Denunciation of the Phonemic Reformers. 47-52.

MARÍA TERESA SÁNCHEZ ROURA. Epistolary Formulae in Late Middle English Commercial Correspondence:
                the Cely Letters. 53-60.

ISABEL VERDAGUER. English Verbs of Intellectual Activity in the Renaissance: A Cognitive Approach. 61-66.
 

SECTION II: TOPICS IN LITERATURE AND CRITICISM

TON HOENSELAARS The Seventeenth-Century Reception of English Renaissance Drama in Europe. 69-88.

JORGE CASANOVA. Robert Burton's Portrait 'Philosophically, Medicinally and Historically' Supported. 89-96.

PILAR CUDER DOMÍNGUEZ. Merry Wives and Widows in Aphra Behn's Later Comedies. 97-104.

JORGE FIGUEROA DORREGO. Men's Inconstancy in the Prose Fiction of Mary Wroth and María de Zayas. 105-110.

ANDREW MONNICKENDAM. The Meerie Lawes of 1646: The Parliament of Women
                as Lampoon and Subversion. 111-120.

JOHN STONE. John Cowell’s Interpreter: Legal Tradition and Lexicographical Innovation. 121-130.

LUCÍANO GARCÍA GARCÍA. Towards a Definition of European Tragicomedy and Romantic Comedy
                of the Seventeenth Century: The Courtly Fashion in England and Spain. 131-140.

PEDRO JAVIER PARDO GARCÍA. Parody, Satire and Quixotism in Beaumont’s
                The Knight of the Burning Pestle. 141-152.

ADELAIDE MEIRA SERRAS The Will to Reform. Milton's and Verney's Educational Projects. 153-158.

RAFAEL VÉLEZ NÚÑEZ. Music Symbolism in Stuart Pageantry. 159-164.
 

SECTION III: SHAKESPEARE

KEITH WHITLOCK. Shakespeare’s The Tempest: Some Thought Experiments. 167-184.

MARÍA JOSÉ ÁLVAREZ FAEDO. Two Film Versions of Othello: A Twentieth-century Approach
                to Shakespeare's Play. 185-192.

RUI CARVALHO HOMEM. Of Power and Race and Sex - with due respect: on some Portuguese
                translations of Othello. 193-204.

MARTA CEREZO MORENO. The Controlling Force of Rome in Coriolanus and Julius Caesar. 205-210.

JUAN CARLOS HIDALGO. The Split ‘I’ in Celestino Coronado’s Hamlet. 211-216.

MARIA SALOMÉ FIGUEIROA NAVARRO MACHADO. The Sins of the Fathers: Marlowe's Barabas
                and Shakespeare's Shylock. 217-224.

EUGENIO OLIVARES MERINO. The Fismonger's Daughter Goes Crazy (I): the Domineering Father,
                the Mad Lover, and the Dead Mother. 225-238.
 

APPENDIX

F. JAVIER SÁNCHEZ ESCRIBANO. English Renaissance Studies in Spain: A Bibliography up to 1995. 241-304.
 

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