Zenón Luis-Martínez

Universidad de Huelva | UHU · Departamento de Filología Inglesa

Although best known the world over for his masterpiece novel, Don Quixote de la Mancha, published in two parts in 1605 and 1615, the antics of the would-be knight-errant and his simple squire only represent a fraction of the trials and tribulations, both in the literary world and in society at large, of this complex man. Poet, playwright, soldier,...

Muiopotmos, or the Fate of the Butterflie, one of the “smale Poemes” in Edmund Spenser’s Complaints (1591), is an epic-styled insect fable indebted to the aetiological tradition of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Its enigmatic subject has encouraged allegorical interpretation along topical, moral or aesthetic lines. Drawing on previous readings of the poem a...

En sus biografías sobre Cervantes y Shakespeare, Luis Astrana Marín especuló con un encuentro entre ambos con ocasión de la rati cación en 1605 en Valladolid del Tratado de Londres. Este improbable en- cuentro ha seguido alimentando cciones históricas y fantasías literarias. El cruce de caminos entre Cervantes y Shakespeare tie- ne lugar en torno a...

Abraham Fraunce's The Shepherds' Logic (c. 1585), adapted from Petrus Ramus's Dialecticae libri duo (1556), departs from its model by replacing Ramus's Latin examples with quotations from Spenser's The Shepherds' Calender (1579). Fraunce's use of the Calender foregrounds pastoral poetry as a vehicle for the Ramist conception of logic as an art of i...

Religious interpretations of Shakespeare's King John (1595–96) have emphasised the play's various forms of involvement in the doctrinal and sectarian debates of late Tudor England. This article draws on Walter Benjamin's notion of Trauerspiel, or mourning-play, to reassess these religious concerns. Shakespeare's aesthetics of lamentation is underst...

This essay examines early modern conceptions and representations of the passions in relation to issues of self-knowledge in texts ranging from Renaissance psychology to Shakespearean tragedy with a particular focus on Macbeth. Considered in essence processes of the mind, the passions were believed to manifest themselves through material symptoms su...

Source criticism of William Shakespeare’s Richard II (1595) has often emphasized what its third Arden editor calls “the play’s innovative reduction of historical narrative as compared with the other histories,” a reduction that shows that “Shakespeare for once preferred ideas, motivational complexities and modulations of feeling to facts as a stimu...

This paper analyses Shakespeare's treatment of love from the theoretical vantage point of Roland Barthes's entry on "gossip" in A Lover.s Discourse: Fragments. According to Barthes, love narratives are the effect of "gossip" third person counterfeits of a discourse of desire that in its purest form can only be addressed by a first to a second perso...