Thomas Colwell: Elizabethan Printer

Hale, David G.

doi:10.1093/library/s5-xix.1.223

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DOI: 10.1093/library/s5-xix.1.223

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Thomas Colwell: Elizabethan Printer

David G. Hale¹

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“…Even the points at which the later piece departs from its source contain clear echoes of Chaucer, as one of the clerks is renamed Jankyn, like the Wife of Bath's final husband, and is addressed with Bailley's words to the Parson, ‘Jankyn be ye there’. A further example is The Vnluckie Firmentie , printed by Thomas Colwell between 1560 and 1575 although probably in circulation earlier, like most of Colwell's output (Hale). Firmentie extends the ‘misdirected kiss’ motif from the Miller's Tale to grotesque proportions: its main character not only kisses the arse of a sleeping old woman, but ‘feeds’ it a ladleful of porridge, and even berates it for repeatedly blowing on the food (Kyttes).…”

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The English Fabliau in the 15th and 16th Centuries

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2013

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The English Fabliau in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth CenturiesIn the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the fabliau attained a belated vogue in English. This paper offers a review of existing criticism on the English fabliaux, outlining the main issues it addresses, as well as suggesting the future directions scholarship might take. In particular, it offers a detailed analysis of how English writers after Chaucer tried to bring the fabliau genre into line with fifteenth-century notions of orthodoxy, a project which caused them to confront the challenges of the Lollard heresy in subtle but pervasive ways. It also notes that the very tactics used by the fabliaux to uphold latemedieval orthodoxy against Wycliffism rendered them all the more popular after the Reformation, despite their obvious Catholic sympathies. It is concluded that these two elements in the texts merit closer study, as they resonate with recent assessments of the period and its culture.Since Joseph Bédier revived interest in them in the 1890s, the French fabliaux have attracted an increasingly large body of commentary. These brief comic narratives in verse, focusing on trickery, violence and adultery, have been the subject of numerous studies, editions and essay-collections: the last decade alone has seen work on them by Keith Busby, Norris Levy, Holly Crocker, and several others.1 However, such attention stands in marked contrast to the critical reception of the fabliaux in English.

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Translating Ovid'sMetamorphosesin Tudor Balladry

Reid

2019

Renaiss. Q.

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This article provides the first sustained overview and analysis of the reception of Ovid's “Metamorphoses” in sixteenth-century English ballad culture. It highlights a significant tradition of translating materials from this ancient Roman source into the stuff of vernacular song—a phenomenon that can be traced back as far as 1552. Positing that popular music must have played a crucial role in shaping Tudor ideas about the “Metamorphoses,” this study draws attention to the textual, visual, aural, and kinetic dimensions of the Ovidiana that was regularly read, seen, heard, sung, and even danced to by early modern consumers of mythological ballads.

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Slips of the Tongue: Some Overlooked Examples of theMisdirected KissStorytelling Motif (Thompson K1225)

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Jongenelen

2023

Fabula

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This article considers the popular storytelling device of the misdirected kiss, classified in Stith Thompson’s index as motif K1225. It argues that the dominance of Chaucer’s Miller’s Tale over current scholarship has led us to conceptualise the motif in unduly reductive terms. To demonstrate the variability and complexity of the kiss as a narrative element, a number of neglected witnesses are reviewed from medieval and early modern French, English, German and Dutch. The article appends a translation and edition of one of the most eccentric specimens of the kiss from the late medieval period, the “Refereynen vande jonghe Kamer van Haerlem” (1561).

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Thomas Colwell: Elizabethan Printer

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The English Fabliau in the 15th and 16th Centuries

The English Fabliau in the 15th and 16th Centuries

Translating Ovid'sMetamorphosesin Tudor Balladry

Slips of the Tongue: Some Overlooked Examples of theMisdirected KissStorytelling Motif (Thompson K1225)

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