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What Rosalind Likes : Pastoral, Gender, and the Founding of English Verse by T. Boothroyd, Andrew is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
What is What Rosalind Likes : Pastoral, Gender, and the Founding of English Verse about?
What Rosalind Likes begins with the strange ferocity of Elizabethan responses to poetry: a woman named Rosalind expresses scorn for a shepherd's poems, and a character in a play loses his temper and storms off stage at the sound of a blank verse line. What are these people so angry about? Thus begins a journey into a world where the details of poetic form and vagaries of Latin translation are caught up in the dynamics of gender, sexuality, class, and race, and power, where too much alliteration,
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- Author
- T. Boothroyd, Andrew
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Academic UK
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780192671479
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- History, Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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