King James and Letters of Homoerotic Desire

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NOTES 1. LETTERS AND DESIRE 1. All quotations from Shakespeare come from the Complete Pelican Shakespeare (gen. ed. Alfred Harbage). 2. John Donne, Letters to Several! Persons ofHonour, ed. Charles Edmund Merrill, Jr., pp. 91-92 . 3. Jacques Derrida, The Post Card· From Socrates to Freud and Beyond, trans. Alan Bass, p. 69. 4- The Works ofGeoffrey Chaucer, ed. F. N. Robinson. All quotations are from this edition. 5. Sarah Stanbury, "Women's Letters and Private Space in Chaucer," Exemplaria 6 (1994): 278. 6. For an edition, see Col/ected Works ofErasmus: Literary and Educational Writings j, ed.]. K. Sowards. 7. Judith Rice Henderson, "Erasmus on the Art ofLetter-Writing," in Renaissance Eloquence: Studies in the Theory and Practice ofRenaissance Rhetoric, ed. James]. Murphy, p·352· 8. For a useful survey, see John M. Najemy, chapter I, "Renaissance Epistolarity ," in Between Friends: Discourses ofPower and Desire in the Machiave/li-Vettori Letters of IJIj-IJIJ,pp.I8-57· 9. Angel Day, The English Secretary, facsimile ed., ed. Robert o. Evans, p. 1. All quotations are from this facsimile. 10. Jonathan Goldberg, Writing Matter: From the Hands ofthe English Renaissance, P·251. I I. Douglas Bush, English Literature in the Earlier Seventeenth Century, I600-I660, p.206. 12. James Howell, Epistolae Ho-Elianae, ed. Joseph Jacobs, I: 13. 13. Daryl W. Palmer, "Edward IV's Secret Familiarities and the Politics of Proximity in Elizabethan History Plays," ELH 61 (1994): 287. 14. Najemy, Between Friends: Discourses ofPower and Desire, p. 19. I 5. Claudio Guillen, "Notes toward the Study of the Renaissance Letter," in Renaissance Genres: Essqys on Theory, History, andInterpretation, ed. Barbara Kiefer Lewalski, P·92 . 16. Nancy S. Struever, Theory as Practice: EthicalInquiry in the Renaissance, p. 8. 17. For a discussion of the letters in Lear, see my essay "Deadly Letters in King Lear," PhilologicalQuarterly 72 (I993): 157-176. I8. Forrest Tyler Stevens, "Erasmus's 'Tigress': The Language of Friendship, Pleasure, and the Renaissance Letter," in Queering the Renaissance, ed. Jonathan Goldberg , p. 126. For another perspective on Erasmus's familiar letters, see Lisa Jardine, "Reading and the Technology of Textual Affect: Erasmus's Familiar Letters and Shakespeare's King Lear," in The Practice and Representation ofReading in England, ed. James Raven, Helen Small, and Naomi Tadmor, pp. 77-I01. I9. The Correspondence ofErasmus: Letters I to I4I, I434 to IJOO, trans. R. A. B. Mynors and D. F. S. Thomson, annotated by Wallace K. Ferguson, I: 5. All quotations come from this volume, which is part of the Collected Works ofErasmus. 20. Richard Marius, Thomas More: A Biograpf?y, p. 80. 2 I. Richard J. Schoeck, Erasmus Grandescens: The Growth ofa Humanist's Mind and Spirituality, p. 68. 22. Margaret Maurer, "The Poetical Familiarity ofJohn Donne's Letters," in The Power ofForms in the English Renaissance, ed. Stephen Greenblatt, pp. 183-202. 23. James Howell, Epistolae Ho-Elianae, ed. Joseph Jacobs, I : lxvii. 24· Donne, Letters, p. 9I. 25. For an excellent survey of Arbella Stuart's life, see Sara Jayne Steen's "Introduction ," pp. 1-105, in her edition, The Letters ofLacly Arbella Stuart. I cite this edition in quotations from the letters. Also, see Barbara Kiefer Lewalski's analysis in her chapter on Arbella Stuart in her Writing Women inJacobean England, pp. 67-92. 26. The Letters ofElizabeth, Queen ofBohemia, ed. L. M. Baker, p. 32. All quotations from the letters are from this edition. 27. For a summary of the Bohemian problem and its connection to the Spanish match for Prince Charles, see my Royal Family, Royal Lovers: KingJames ofEngland and Scotland, pp. 144-154. For a discussion of Elizabeth's letters, see also Lewalski's chapter on her in Writing Women inJacobean England, pp. 45 - 65. 28. Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics ofSpace, trans. MariaJolas, p. 12. 29. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Epistemology ofthe Closet. 30. Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, "The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations between Women in Nineteenth-Century America," Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society I (1975): 29. 3I. Cathy N. Davidson, The Book ofLove: Writers and Their Love Letters, p. I 5. 32. Linda S. Kauffman, Discourses of Desire: Gender, Genre, and Epistolary Fictions, p. 3I 5. See also her Special Delivery: Epistolary Modes in Modern Fiction. 33. Elizabeth Meese, "The Erotics of the Letter," South Atlantic Review 57 (1992): 13. This essay appears as part of Meese's (Sem)Erotics: Theorii/ng Lesbian: Writing. NOTES TO PAGES 9-27 [3.139.97.157] Project MUSE (2024-04-26...