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“... lyric; the lovers hang desperately on to their individual identities in the face of mortality. As Leah Marcus argues in The Politics of Mirth, ‘cavalier’ poems like Herrick’s ‘Corinna’s going a maying’ urge the abandonment of a strong sense of identity, in the spirit of the older ritual forms of carnival. In the wake of Bakhtin’s enormously ...”

“... than reflective. For it is what Jonson does with his stage Puritans that matters. Along with Leah Marcus in The Politics of Mirth (1986), Lake argues that the play engages with serious intent in the contemporary debate about the sociability of festivity, especially on the Sabbath, an area in which James I was himself about to intervene in the ...”

“... Elizabeth and admiration for Gloriana have never before had anything like the resource provided by Marcus, Mueller and Rose in their Elizabeth I: Collected Works, which consists of all the full-length speeches, prayers and poems, as preserved in reasonably reliable texts, and a generous selection of her letters. The letters take us from the most important she ...”

“... of a novel. Jane Rogers’s solution is to crosscut between four of the women, Joanna, Leah, Hannah and Martha, who alternate as narrators with intriguingly different perspectives. Saintly Joanna is the only member of the sisterhood who shares the prophet’s religious obsessions. Leah’s motive for joining the ...”