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). 15 Copland, Shepardes Kalendar , p. 120. 16 On Redcrosse’s emergent recognition of bodily vulnerability as a centering locus of moral awareness, see Joseph Campana , The Pain of Reformation: Spenser, Vulnerability, and the Ethics of Masculinity
King reads out a report of the scale of the English victory at Agincourt, Exeter exclaims, ‘’Tis wonderful!’, that is, miraculous (4.8.114). Henry immediately declares, ‘Come, go we in procession to the village: And be it death proclaimed through our host To boast of this or take that praise from God Which is his only’ (115–18). Candlemas celebrates two acts of recognition
from the town of Gournay in Haute-Normandie not far from the Carreys’ seat, Lisieux. 28 Ascelin and Hugh de Gournay fought beside William the Conqueror at Hastings in 1066; perhaps some Carreys of Lisieux did, too. Shakespeare’s wink at the Norman Gournay or Gournie is another nod to the Careys. Acts of recognition in King John The Troublesome
: ‘Why I do trifle thus with his despair / Is done to cure it’ (4.5.33–4). But, as Stanley Cavell has observed, ‘ revealing himself would seem the surest and most immediate way to do that’. 23 To Cavell, ‘Edgar’s avoidance of Gloucester’s recognition precisely deprives Gloucester of his eyes again’ and links him ‘to Cornwall and the sphere of open evil’. 24 Hence his question, why does Edgar delay revealing himself
, or none were granted. John was recognised as ‘professor of medicine’ (that is, practising medicine as a profession) by Stratford’s Church Court in 1622 (Brinkworth 1972 : 148). This was a ‘Peculiar’ Court, sharing some responsibilities with the bishop but independent of him in two years out of three, so the recognition is equivalent to an episcopal licence. Hall would have studied medical textbooks as part of his MA, but in addition ‘often a young physician would acquire practical bedside knowledge by working with an established physician’ (Wear 2000 : 122). We
culminating emblem of an ethics which makes ‘vulnerability – an openness to sensation and affect that implies an ethical openness to others – the poem’s governing ideal’. 15 How, though, might this recognition of a common human vulnerability translate into an account of moral action within the broad sweep of a poem whose basic sense of virtue is ultimately oriented towards (and fundamentally conditioned by
reading circles, reconstructed the work of individual scribes, and provided a technical vocabulary for talking about manuscript publication.’ 22 This reconstruction has led to a recognition of the wealth of materials, especially political, which circulated only in manuscript. While elegies are not as restricted to manuscript as the pamphlets considered by Millstone, I hope that this study shows how a
because ‘man, that breathes a more immortall mynd, / Not for lusts sake, but for eternitie, / Seekes to enlarge his lasting progenie’ ( HL , lines 103–5). The recognition directs the speaker’s attention away from the idea of love as a cosmic force to love as the passion that both probes and rewards one’s ‘truth and loialtie’ ( HL , line 176). An Hymne in Honour of Beautie ( HB ) begins with a praise of beauty as the ‘wondrous Paterne’ ( HB , line 36) of creation. But the recognition that beauty cannot be identified with such perceptible qualities as colour or
stake in such a claim is the recognition that Spenser conceives of allegorical narrative, of the poem as an object, and the act of poesis, as formal embodiments and species of the imperial project itself. Contained with, and shaping, his ‘world of glas’ are the ethical modalities subtending the acts of empire-building. At the outset of her life, the young Britomart appears to us – and to herself – as
Twelfth Night , the parties to the mutual act of recognition approach each other with that precursor to and enemy of faith, doubt , before they embrace their resurrection and each other. It is their mutual doubt that lifts the moment above what might otherwise have passed as coincidence. I suggest that on 2 February 1601/02 Shakespeare put before the auditors at the Inns of Court a