Professor Catherine Bates
Catherine Bates is Research Professor at the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance. She works on English literature and culture of the sixteenth century, with particular emphasis on poetry, poetics, and courtly forms, including lyric, epic, and romance. She was awarded the British Academy Rose Mary Crawshay Prize in 2015, the Elizabeth Dietz Prize in 2019, and the Julius Silberger Award in 2023. She has held a Solmsen Research Fellowship at the Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2014/15), and a Mellon Fellowship at the Huntington Library, California (2017/18), as well as Visiting Research Fellowships at Churchill College, Cambridge (2015/16), the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies at the University of Toronto (2016/17), the Institute of English Studies at the School of Advanced Study in the University of London (2018-2020), and the Senate House Library, University of London (summer 2019). She is an elected Fellow of the English Association (2024-) and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (2025-).
Email: c.t.bates@warwick.ac.uk
Publications
MONOGRAPHS
- (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017). Pp.xviii + 299
Winner of the Elizabeth Dietz Prize 2019
(reviewed in TLS, Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Review of English Studies, Spenser Review, etc.)
- (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013; paperback 2016). Pp.viii + 347.
Winner of the British Academy Rose Mary Crawshay Prize 2015
(reviewed in Review of English Studies, TLS, Renaissance Quarterly, Shakespeare Studies, etc.)
- (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007; paperback 2010). Pp.viii + 263
(reviewed in Notes & Queries, Renaissance and Reformation, Renaissance Quarterly, Studies in English Literature 1500-1800, etc.)
- (London: Open Gate Press, 1999). Pp.vii + 256.
(reviewed in Journal of American Academy of Psychoanalysis, Notes & Queries, Shakespeare Survey, TLS, etc.).
- (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992, re-issued 1995; paperback 2006). Pp.xi + 236.
(reviewed in Journal of British Studies, Notes & Queries, Renaissance Quarterly, Review of English Studies, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Sidney Newsletter, TLS, etc.).
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EDITED VOLUMES
- A Companion to Renaissance Literature, ed. Catherine Bates (London and New York: Routledge), 52 essays, 420,000 words, in production.
- Shakespeare and Psychoanalysis: Method in the Madness, ed. James W. Stone and Catherine Bates (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan), 10 essays, 125,000 words in production.
- , ed. Catherine Bates (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024), Pp.xx + 838. (reviewed in SEDERI)
- , ed. Catherine Bates and Patrick Cheney; volume 4 of The Oxford History of Poetry in English (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022). Pp.xxiii + 656. (reviewed in Spenser Review)
- (Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2018). Pp.xx + 653. (reviewed in Spenser Review)
- (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010). Pp.xiv + 279.
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EDITED TEXTS
- Sir Philip Sidney: Selected Poems, ed. Catherine Bates (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1994). Pp.xxiv + 219.
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ARTICLES
- 鈥楾eaching Politics and Form in the Sonnets of Philip Sidney鈥, 9,000 words, accepted for publication by Sidney Journal.
- 鈥楲andmarks in Criticism: Psychoanalytic theory 鈥 Interpreting Hamlet鈥, The English Review, 36.1 (2025): 29-31.
- "The Symbolic and the Imaginary in Shakespeare鈥檚Venus and Adonis", 12,500 words, American Imago,
81.4 (2024), 335鈥66.
Winner of the 2023 Julius Silberger Award for interdisciplinary work in psychoanalysis by the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute.
- '"Knights of the same order": a reference in 厂颈诲苍别测鈥檚 Defence of Poesy explained', Notes and Queries, 68.1 (2021): 65鈥70.
- 鈥淥btaining Grace: Poetic Language and the Language of Reform in 厂颈诲苍别测鈥檚 Astrophil and Stella鈥, Reformation, 26.1 (2021), 23鈥41.
- 鈥淕eorge Turberville and the painful art of falconry鈥, English Literary Renaissance, 41.3 (2011): 403鈥28.
- 鈥淎strophil and the manic wit of the abject male鈥, Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, 41.1 (2001): 1鈥24.
- 鈥淭he Point of Puns鈥, Modern Philology, 96.4 (1999): 421鈥38.
- 鈥淐astrating The Castration Complex鈥, Textual Practice, 12.1 (1998): 101鈥119.
- 鈥淣o Sin But Irony: Kierkegaard and Milton鈥檚 Satan鈥, Literature and Theology, 11.1 (1997): 1鈥26.
- 鈥淲eaving and Writing in Othello鈥, Shakespeare Survey, 46 (1993): 51-60.
- 鈥溾楢 mild admonisher鈥: Sir Thomas Wyatt and Sixteenth-Century Satire鈥, Huntington Library Quarterly, 56.3 (1993): 243-58.
- 鈥淢uch Ado About Nothing: The Contents of Jonson鈥檚 Forest鈥, Essays in Criticism, 42.1 (1992): 24鈥35.
- 鈥淧ope鈥檚 Influence on Shakespeare?鈥, Shakespeare Quarterly, 42.1 (1991): 57鈥59.
- 鈥溾楢 large occasion of discourse鈥: John Lyly and the art of civil conversation鈥, Review of English Studies, 42.168 (1991): 469鈥86, reproduced in the Ashgate University Wits series: John Lyly, ed. Ruth Lunney (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011), 31鈥48.
- 鈥淭he Politics of Spenser鈥檚 Amoretti鈥, Criticism, 33.1 (1991): 73鈥89.
- 鈥溾極f Court it seemes鈥: a semantic analysis of courtship and to court鈥, Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 20.1 (1990): 21鈥57.
- 鈥淚mages of Government inThe Faerie Queene, Book II鈥, Notes and Queries, 36.3 (1989): 314鈥15.
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BOOK CHAPTERS
鈥 鈥楾he structure and organization of Salve Deus Rex Iudaeorum鈥, in Kimberly Johnson and Brice Peterson, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Aemilia Lanyer (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), contracted, submitted.
鈥 鈥業ntroduction鈥, in The Routledge Companion to Renaissance Literature, ed. Catherine Bates (London and New York: Routledge), 5,000 words, in production.
鈥 鈥楶hilip 厂颈诲苍别测鈥檚 Poetry鈥, in The Routledge Companion to Renaissance Literature, ed. Catherine Bates (London and New York: Routledge), 8,000 words, in production.
鈥 鈥榃it鈥, in The Routledge Companion to Renaissance Literature, ed. Catherine Bates (London and New York: Routledge), 8,000 words; in production.
鈥 鈥楨ngland: Spenser, Sidney, Chapman, Donne, Lucy Hutchinson鈥, in The Oxford Handbook of the Sublime, ed. Emily Brady, Patrick Cheney, and Philip Hardie (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026), 8,000 words, in production.
鈥 鈥楾he Symbolic and the Imaginary in Shakespeare鈥檚 Venus and Adonis鈥, longer version reproduced in Shakespeare and Psychoanalysis: Method in the Madness, ed. James W. Stone and Catherine Bates (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan), 16,750 words, submitted; in production.
鈥 鈥業ntroduction鈥, with James W. Stone, in Shakespeare and Psychoanalysis: Method in the Madness, ed. James W. Stone and Catherine Bates (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan), (8,800 words), in production.
鈥 鈥楥hronological record of Freud鈥檚 references to Shakespeare鈥, with Christian Smith, in Shakespeare and Psychoanalysis: Method in the Madness, ed. James W. Stone and Catherine Bates (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan) (4,000 words), in production.
鈥 鈥樷淲ild for to hold though I seem tame鈥: the paradox of the phallic female in falconry imagery鈥, in Hunting Troubles: Gender and Its Intersections in the Cultural History of the Hunt, ed. Laura Beck and Maurice Sass (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024), pp.197鈥211.
鈥 鈥業ntroduction鈥, in The Oxford Handbook of Philip Sidney, ed. Catherine Bates (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024), pp.1-20.
鈥 鈥Astrophil and Stella鈥, in The Oxford Handbook of Philip Sidney, ed. Catherine Bates (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024), pp.166-88.
鈥 鈥楧rama鈥, in The Oxford Handbook of Philip Sidney, ed. Catherine Bates (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024), pp.443-56.
鈥 'Hunting / prey', in Shakespeare / Nature: Contemporary Readings in the Human and Non-human, ed. Charlotte Scott (London: Bloomsbury, 2024), pp.227-46.
鈥 'Englishing the Sonnet', in Routledge Resources Online: The Renaissance World, ed. Kristen Poole (London: Taylor and Francis, 2023), DOI .
鈥 'Introduction', with Patrick Cheney, in Sixteenth鈥揅entury British Poetry, ed. Catherine Bates and Patrick Cheney; volume 4 of The Oxford History of Poetry in English (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022), pp.1鈥15.
鈥 'Lyric', with Joseph Campana, in Sixteenth鈥揅entury British Poetry, ed. Catherine Bates and Patrick Cheney; volume 4 of The Oxford History of Poetry in English (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022), pp.191鈥210.
鈥 'Philip Sidney', in Sixteenth鈥揅entury British Poetry, ed. Catherine Bates and Patrick Cheney; volume 4 of The Oxford History of Poetry in English (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022), pp.439鈥55.
- 'Recognitions: Shakespeare, Freud, and the story of psychoanalysis', in The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Psychoanalysis, ed. Vera Camden (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021), pp.41鈥53. This volume is winner of the 2024 Book Prize awarded by the American Psychoanalytic Association to the book that best promotes the integration of the academic and clinical worlds of psychoanalysis.
- 'Abject Authorship: A Portrait of the Artist in Ovid and his Renaissance Imitators', in Ovid and Masculinity in the Renaissance, ed. John S. Garrison and Goran Stanivukovic (Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2020), pp.48鈥67.
- 'The English sonnet: cycles and recycling', in Gathering Force: Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1557-1623, ed. Lauren Shohet and Kristen Poole, vol. 1 of Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 3 vols., gen. ed. Stephen B. Dobranski, 3 vols (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp.19鈥32.
- 'Sexuality', in John Donne in Context, ed. Michael Schoenfeldt (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp.177鈥84.
- 'Shakespeare and the Female Voice in Soliloquy', in Shakespeare and the Soliloquy in Early Modern English Drama, ed. Tony Cousins and Daniel Derrin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), pp.56鈥67, 232鈥34.
- 'Synecdochic Structures in the Sonnet Sequences of Sidney and Spenser', in A Companion to Renaissance Poetry, ed. Catherine Bates (Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2018), pp.276鈥88.
- 'Pamela鈥檚 Purse: The Price of Romance in 厂颈诲苍别测鈥檚 Arcadia', in Timely Voices: Romance Writing in English Literature, ed. Goran Stanivukovic (Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2017), pp.281鈥98.
- 'Gender', in A Handbook of English Renaissance Studies, ed, John Lee (Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2017), pp.15鈥28.
- '"Profit and pleasure": the real economy of Tottel鈥檚 Songs and Sonnets', in Tottel's Miscellany and Its Early Modern Contexts, ed. Stephen Hamrick (Farnham: Ashgate, 2013), pp.35鈥62.
- 'Wit', in The New Princeton Encyclopaedia of Poetry and Poetics, ed. Stephen Cushman, Roland Greene, et al (Princeton: Princeton University Press, new edition, 2012), pp.1539鈥40.
- 'The Poems', in The Oxford Handbook to Shakespeare, ed. Arthur F. Kinney, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011; paperback 2013), pp.334鈥51.
- 'Desire, discontent, parody: the love sonnet in early modern England', in The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet, ed. A. D. Cousins and Peter Howarth (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), pp.105鈥24.
- 'The Faerie Queene: Britain鈥檚 national monument', in The Cambridge Companion to The Epic, ed. Catherine Bates (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp.133鈥45.
- 'The Enigma of A Lover鈥檚 Complaint', in The Blackwell Companion to Shakespeare鈥檚 Sonnets, ed. Michael C. Schoenfeldt (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007), pp.426鈥40.
- 'Wyatt, Surrey, and the Henrician court', in Early Modern English Poetry: A Critical Companion, ed. Patrick Cheney, Andrew Hadfield, and Garrett Sullivan Jr. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), pp.38鈥47.
- 'Shakespeare鈥檚 Tragedies of Love', in The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy, ed. Claire McEachern (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002; revised ed., 2013), pp.195鈥217.
- 'Literature and the Court', in The Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature, ed. David Loewenstein and Janel Mueller (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002; paperback 2006), pp.343鈥73.
- 'Love and Courtship', in The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Comedy, ed. Alexander Leggatt (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp.102鈥22.
- Introduction to Iris Murdoch, The Nice and The Good (London: Vintage, 2000), pp.vii鈥搙vi.
- 'Poetry, Patronage, and the Court', in The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1500-1600, ed. Arthur Kinney (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp.90鈥103.
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REVIEWS
- Nadine Akkerman, Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Hearts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022), reviewed for Renaissance Quarterly.
- Gary Waller, The Female Baroque in Early Modern English Literary Culture: From Mary Sidney to Aphra Behn (Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2020), reviewed for Renaissance Quarterly, 75.1 (2022): 358鈥60.
- Rocio G. Sumillera, Invention: The Language of English Renaissance Poetics (Oxford: Legenda, 2019), reviewed for Modern Language Review, 117.2 (2022): 278鈥79.
- Richard James Wood, 厂颈诲苍别测鈥檚 Arcadia and the Conflicts of Virtue (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020), reviewed for the Journal of British Studies, 61.1 (2022): 225鈥26.
- Fulke Greville and the Culture of the English Renaissance (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), ed. Russ Leo, Katrin R枚der, and Freya Sierhuis, reviewed for Spenser Review, 49.3.7 (2019), unpaginated.
- 鈥淩ecent Studies in the Renaissance鈥, reviewed for Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, 59.1 (2019): 203-41 (annual omnibus review, over 100 volumes).
- Colin McEleney, Futile Pleasures: Early Modern Literature and the Limits of Utility (New York: Fordham University Press, 2017), reviewed for Renaissance Quarterly, 71.1 (2018): 431鈥32.
- Danila Sokolov, Renaissance Texts, Medieval Subjectivities: Rethinking Petrarchan Desire from Wyatt to Shakespeare (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2017), reviewed for The Spenser Review 47.3.49 (2017), unpaginated.
- Jason Powell, ed., The Complete Works of Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder, vol. 1: Prose (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), reviewed for Renaissance Quarterly, 70.2 (2017): 805鈥806.
- Heather Dubrow, Deixis in the Early Modern English Lyric: Unsettling Spatial Anchors Like 'Here,' 'This,' 'Come' (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), reviewed for Renaissance Quarterly, 70.1 (2017): 402鈥404.
- Ian Moulton, Love in Print in the Sixteenth Century (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) reviewed for The Spenser Review, 45.3.10 (2016), unpaginated.
- Julie Crawford, Mediatrix: Women, Politics, and Literary Production in Early Modern England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), reviewed for Renaissance Quarterly, 68.3 (2015): 1131鈥32.
- Elizabeth Heale, ed., The Devonshire Manuscript: A Women's Book of Courtly Poetry (Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2012), reviewed for Modern Language Review, 110.3 (2015): 819-20.
- Christopher Marlow, Performing Masculinity in English University Drama, 1598-1636 (Farnham: Ashgate, 2013), reviewed for Renaissance Studies Journal, (2014), unpaginated.
- Mike Pincombe and Cathy Shrank, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Literature, 1485-1603, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), reviewed for Notes and Queries, 61.1 (2014): 159鈥62.
- John Pollack, The Pun Also Rises: How the Humble Pun Revolutionized Language, Changed History, and Made Wordplay More Than Some Antics (New York: Gotham Press, 2011), reviewed for CLIO: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History, 42.3 (2013): 409-14.
- Joseph Campana, The Pain of Reformation: Spenser, Vulnerability, and the Ethics of Masculinity (New York: Fordham University Press, 2012), reviewed for Renaissance Quarterly, 65.4 (2012): 1345鈥46.
- Jane Kingsley-Smith, Cupid in Early Modern Literature and Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), reviewed for Archiv f眉r das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, 249.2 (2012):359-61.
- Jennifer Richardson and Alison Thorne, eds., Rhetoric, Women and Politics in Early Modern England (London: Routledge, 2007); Jennifer Richards, Rhetoric (London: Routledge, 2008); and Christine Mason Sutherland, The Eloquence of Mary Astell (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2005), reviewed for Rhetorica, 28.2 (2010): 232鈥35.
- Jennifer C. Vaught, Masculinity and Emotion in Early Modern English Literature (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008), reviewed for Notes and Queries, 57.1 (2010): 131鈥33.
- Gillian Austen, George Gascoigne (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2007), reviewed for Review of English Studies, 60.246 (2009): 642鈥44.
- Hester Lees-Jeffries, England鈥檚 Helicon: Fountains in Early Modern Literature and Culture (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), reviewed for Review of English Studies, 59.242 (2008): 770鈥72.
- Jennifer Panek, Widows and Suitors in Early Modern English Comedy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), reviewed for University of Toronto Quarterly, 75 (2005-6): 247-48.
- Susan Doran and Thomas S. Freeman, eds., The Myth of Elizabeth (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2003), reviewed for Notes and Queries, 51.2 (2004): 194鈥96.
- John Watkins, Representing Elizabeth in Stuart England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), reviewed for Notes and Queries, 50.4 (2003): 473鈥74.
- Brian Howell, The Dance of Geometry (London: The Toby Press, 2002), reviewed for Leviathan Quarterly, 7 (2003): 32-35.
- A. B. Taylor, ed., Shakespeare鈥檚 Ovid: The Metamorphoses in the Plays and Poems (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000) and Kenneth Borris, Allegory and Epic in English Renaissance Literature: Heroic Form in Sidney, Spenser, and Milton (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), reviewed for Theatre Research International, 28 (2003).
- 鈥淢issing the men鈥, review of RSC production of Twelfth Night, for TLS, 8th June 2001.
- 鈥淐ommodity鈥檚 slaves鈥, review of two productions of King John, for TLS, 13th April 2001.
- 鈥淪trife in the mind鈥, review of The Tempest at Almeida Theatre, for TLS, 12th January 2001, reprinted in Shakespearean Criticism, 72 (2002), unpaginated.
- Helen Hackett, Women and Romance Fiction in the English Renaissance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), reviewed for Renaissance Journal, 1.3 (2001), unpaginated.
- 鈥淭he narrator loses his spin鈥, review of RSC production of Henry V, for TLS, 14th September 2000.
- 鈥淟a Lupa鈥, review of Giovanni Verga鈥檚 La Lupa, for TLS, 21 July 2000.
- 鈥淎nger, Oh Yes!鈥, review of Tennessee Williams鈥檚 Orpheus Descending, for TLS, 6th July 2000.
- 鈥淟ife at arm鈥檚 length鈥, review of RSC production of Chekhov鈥檚 The Seagull, for TLS, 11th February 2000.
- 鈥淭he soup, the fish and the gravy鈥, review of RSC production of Carlo Goldoni鈥檚 A Servant to Two Masters, for TLS, 7th January 2000.
- 鈥淐leaning up Caliban鈥, omnibus Shakespeare review, for TLS, 19th November 1999.
- 鈥淩ight-on Renaissance Woman鈥, review of Alison Findlay, A Feminist Perspective on Renaissance Drama (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999), for TLS, 9th July 1999.
- Alexander Leggatt, English Stage Comedy: 1490鈥1990 (London: Routledge, 1998), reviewed for Notes and Queries, 46.4 (1999): 526鈥27.
- Ilona Bell, Elizabethan Women and the Poetry of Courtship (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), reviewed for Notes and Queries, 46.4 (1999): 524鈥25.
- Edward Fullbrook and Kate Fullbrook, eds., Simone de Beauvoir: A Critical Introduction (New York: Polity Press, 1998), reviewed for TLS, 24 April 1998.
- Kelly Oliver, ed., The Portable Kristeva (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002), reviewed for TLS, 20 February 1998.
- 鈥淗ow soon he is bewitched鈥, review of Viviana Comensoli, 鈥淗ousehold 糖心TV鈥: Domestic plays of early modern England, for TLS, 28 January 1998.
- 鈥淪hut in a ladyes casket鈥, review of Thomas Lodge, Rosalind, ed. D. Beecher, and ed. Brian Nellist (Ottawa: Dovehouse Editions), for TLS, 24 October 1997.
- C. J. Summers and Larry Pebworth, eds., Renaissance Discourses of Desire (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1993), and J. G. Turner, ed., Sexuality and Gender in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), reviewed for Notes and Queries, 41.4 (1994): 548鈥49.
- A. D. Hall, Ceremony and Civility in English Renaissance Prose (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 1991), reviewed for Review of English Studies, 45.179 (1994): 413鈥14.
- 鈥淧utting the Serious into the Trivial鈥, review of Gerald Hammond, Fleeting Things: English Poets and Poetry, 1616鈥1600 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press), for Essays in Criticism, 41.1 (1991): 62鈥67.
- Philippa Berry, Of Chastity and Power: Elizabethan Literature and the Unmarried Queen (London: Routledge, 1991), reviewed for Notes and Queries, 38.2 (1991): 216鈥17.
- Erica Veevers, Images of Love and Religion: Queen Henrietta Maria and Court Entertainments (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), reviewed for Notes and Queries, 38.2 (1991): 224鈥25.
- Alan Young, Tudor and Jacobean Tournaments (London: George Philips, 1987), reviewed for Notes and Queries, 35.4 (1988): 524鈥25.
- Carey McIntosh, Common and Courtly Language: The Stylistics of Social Class in Eighteenth-Century English Literature (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986), reviewed for Notes and Queries, 34.4 (1987): 543鈥44.