Early Modern Literature

Utopia: On gaining new land

‘Rulers are much keener to gain new territories, by fair means or foul, than to administer well the ones they already have’

Utopia: What hythloday calls French powers

‘foolosophers’

Utopia: about the death penalty

‘doesn’t that make God’s commandment subject to human law?’

Utopia: system that stops having a just society

‘private property’

Utopia: about the gardens

‘the people prize these gardens’

Utopia: about the community

‘communal life’

Utopia: about nature

‘being led by nature is something they rightly emphasize’

Utopia: about religion

‘appreciative contemplation of nature is a form of worship and pleasing God’

Utopia: Walter M Gordon on monarchy

‘we look in vain for any sign of a king within the governing structure’

Utopia: Walter M Gordon on what Utopia calls for

‘Utopia is a document calling for reformation’

Utopia: Walter M Gordon on private v public

‘pits private against the public wellbeing’

Utopia: George Sanderlin about what More measures

‘He measures earthly states against divine standard’

Utopia: George Sanderlin about tragedy

‘underlying sense of man’s tragedy’

Spenser: about Una

‘Virtue gives her selfe light, through darkness for to wade’

Spenser: Duessa’s vomit

‘her vomit full of books and papers was’

Spenser: about the lyon

‘The Lyon would not leave her desolate’

Spenser: about the fight between sans joy and redcross

‘so th’one for wrong, the other strives for right’

Spenser: about the earth

‘so dark are earthly things compared to things divine’

Spenser: Carol V Kaske in Spenser’s purpose

‘Spenser attacks roman catholicism’

Spenser: Carol V Kaske on what Una represents for Redcross

'divine spark’

Spenser: Carol V Kaske on who Redcross is

‘everyknight’

Marlowe: Faustus on religion vs magic

‘A sound magician is a mighty god’

Marlowe: about who Faustus serves

‘the god thou serves is thine own appetite’

Marlowe: Faustus’s pursuit of knowledge

‘now would I have a book where I might see all characters and planets of the heavens’

Marlowe: the question the Devil won’t answer

‘tell me who made the world’

Marlowe: the mistake made by Faustus

‘to practice more than heavenly power permits’

Marlowe: Rebecca Lemon on Faustus

‘he needs to aim at the unknown, the unseen, and the unachievable’

Marlowe: Rebecca Lemon on what the play is

‘cautionary tale’

Marlowe: Rebecca Lemon on devotion in the play

‘true devotion requires no contract’

Cavendish: on what the Empress does

‘I have made a world of my own’

Cavendish: on the Empress’s powers

‘rule and govern all that world as she pleased’

Cavendish: on what her society takes delight in

‘we take more delight in artificial delusions, than in natural truths’

Cavendish: Emperors warning

‘so long as you don’t go beyond what your natural reason can comprehend’

Cavendish: Kate Lilley about the book as a survey

‘comprehensive survey of the state of knowledge’

Cavendish: Kate Lilley on what Cavendish has

‘control over, a textual empire, and an imperial narrative’

Cavendish: Kate Lilley on what the book is saying

‘critique and revise the course of history, the state of knowledge and the forms of power’