"In Italian hand": melancholy, gender and bibliographical codes in commemorative text. Issue 6 (2nd November 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Lauenstein, Eva
• Is Part Of: Seventeenth century. Volume 37:Issue 6(2022)
• Page Start: 893
• Page End: 912
• Publication Date: 2022-11-02
• Subjects: Typography -- reported speech -- bibliographic codes -- melancholy -- women's writing -- commemorative text -- printed drama; Seventeenth century -- Periodicals; History, Modern -- 17th century -- Periodicals; 909.605
• DOI: 10.1080/0268117X.2022.2107558
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0268-117X

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This essay begins to locate female sadness in the complex popular literary environment of the seventeenth century. It focuses on bibliographical evidence to trace the physical presentation of despair in a set of commemorative pamphlets and canonical early modern theatre by William Shakespeare and John Webster. Doing so, this article aims to give insight into cultural cross-fertilization between popular literary milieus and enrich our understanding of how print conventions shaped and controlled female authorial voices.