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A Sheffield Hallam University Thesis Religion, cognition and author-function : Dyer, Southwell, Lodge and As You Like It. BUTLER, Chris B. Available from the Sheffield Hallam University Research Archive (SHURA) at: http://shura.shu.ac.uk/19414/ A Sheffield Hallam University thesis This thesis is protected by copyright which belongs to the author. The content must not be changed in any way or sold commercially in any format or medium without the formal permission of the author. When referring to this work, full bibliographic details including the author, title, awarding institution and date of the thesis must be given. Please visit http://shura.shu.ac.uk/19414/ and http://shura.shu.ac.uk/information.html for further details about copyright and re-use permissions. ,-=.-s=HFlSheffield S1 102 105 868 8 Sheffield Hallam University Learning and Information Services Adsetis Centre, City Campus Sheffield S1 1WD REFERENc e ProQuest Number: 10694295 All rights reserved INFORMATION TO ALL USERS The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. In the unlikely event that the author did not send a com plete manuscript and there are missing pages, these will be noted. Also, if material had to be removed, a note will indicate the deletion. uest ProQuest 10694295 Published by ProQuest LLC(2017). Copyright of the Dissertation is held by the Author. All rights reserved. This work is protected against unauthorized copying under Title 17, United States C ode Microform Edition © ProQuest LLC. ProQuest LLC. 789 East Eisenhower Parkway P.O. Box 1346 Ann Arbor, Ml 48106- 1346 Religion, Cognition and Author-Function: Dyer, Southwell, Lodge andAs You Like It. Abstract. The thesis incorporates the view that allegory as a mode of communication is impossible. Accordingly, religious meanings of Elizabethan literary texts usually read as “secular” works are registered herein without recourse to positing an allegorical level of meaning in those texts. In order to arrive at relatively secure readings, texts have been selected which have explicit interrelationships (for example, texts which are parodies or adaptations of earlier texts). Registering the tenor of the later texts’ departures allows contemporary production of meaning from the earlier works to be traced. The aim, however, is not merely to show that Elizabethan “secular” texts are far more religious than tends to be supposed; the thesis seeks to demonstrate the extent to which theories of cognition were inseparable in the period from doctrinal issues. Early modems not only thought and read religiously, religious concepts informed their cognitive theories (and vice versa). The thesis culminates in a reading of As You Like It, arguing that the play employs facultative rhetoric (as derived from scholastic faculty psychology) in order to present human appetence as co-efficient in salvation. In doing so, the play downgrades the role of the intellectual faculty. The notion of author/dramatist as governing intellect is thereby brought into question. Accordingly, the thesis also traces the development of attitudes towards author- function in its study-texts, demonstrating the extent to which a given text’s cognitive model and its rhetorical stance towards crucial doctrinal issues (relating to human participation in salvation) affect its deployment of, and attitude towards, author-function. Religion, Cognition and Author-Function: Dyer, Southwell, Lodge andAs You Like It. Chris Butler A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of Sheffield Hallam University for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy August 2011 Contents. Page. Abbreviations. 5 Note Regarding Sources. 6 Introduction. 7 Chapter 1: The Allegorical Fallacy. 47 Chapter 2: Sir Edward Dyer’s “Hee That His Mirth Hath Loste”: Author as Minister. 62 Chapter 3: Robert Southwell’s “Phancification” of Dyer’s “Hee That His Mirth Hath Loste”. 94 Chapter 4: Thomas Lodge, Robert Southwell and Rosalynde. 114 Chapter 5: Southwell, Shakespeare and Lodge. 153 Chapter 6: As You Like It's Religious Revision of Rosalynde. 165 Chapter 7: Jaques the Lutheran. 190 3 Chapter 8: As You Like It: a Purge for Neo-classicists. 216 Conclusion. 240 Works Cited. 251 Appendix. 290 4 Abbreviations. A YLI: As You Like It. CHR: Catholic Historical Review. CRS: Catholic Record Society. JEGP: Journal o f English and Germanic Philology. MLN: Modern Language Notes. MP: Modern Philology. N&Q: Notes and Queries. ODNB: The Oxford Dictionary o f National Biography. OED: The Oxford English Dictionary. P&P: Past and Present. PQ: Philological Quarterly. SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900. SP: Studies in Philology. SQ: Shakespeare Quarterly. SS: Shakespeare Survey. SSt: Shakespeare Studies. TLS: Times Literary Supplment. TSLL: Texas Studies in Literature and Language. Note Regarding Sources. Quotations from pre-modem primary sources retain original spellings with the following exceptions: where such sources use “i” for “j”, I have used “j” for the reader’s convenience due to the high number of quotations including names such as “Iohn” and “Iaques” (this does not apply to Latin texts and the poems in the appendix); where “w ” is used for “w” I have used “w”, and where long “f ’ is used for “s”, I have used “s”. Spellings and punctuation in modem sources have been adapted to British conventions. References to classical texts and, where appropriate, medieval texts are normatized. All titles have been normatized: initial letters of all words in titles, except prepositions, intra-clausal connectors and articles, are capitalized. Introduction. Religion, maintains Frederic Jameson, is “the master-code of pre-capitalist society”.1 One must be careful, however, not to infer from Jameson’s use of the word “code” that “pre-capitalist” discourse should be decoded into modem capitalist discourse in order to find out what pre-capitalist subjects were “really” saying.2 As Debora Shuger remarks, religion is “not simply politics in disguise”. Rather, in the Renaissance, “[rjeligion supplies the primary language of analysis. It is the cultural matrix for explorations of virtually every topic”.3 In a manner consistent with Shuger’s assessment, this thesis will argue that Shakespeare’s As You Like It addresses religious issues which.were of major importance both at its moment of probable composition (1598-9) and first production (1599), and in the longue duree of late-medieval/early modem Christianity.4 Some modem readers might consider Elizabethan religious topics to be of little relevance to present-day concerns. However, since the historicist study of texts such as As You Like It is regarded as a legitimate means of developing greater understanding of present cultural formations, it follows that those texts are to be read in relation to their cultural moment (regardless of one’s incapacity to fully recreate that moment). Therefore, while the religious dimension of such 1 Fredric Jameson, “Religion and Ideology: a Political Reading Paradiseo f Lost,” p. 39, in Francis Barkeret al, eds. Literature, Politics and Theory (London: Routledge, 1986), pp. 35-56. 2 Vincent B. Leitch et al, eds. The Norton Anthology o f Theory and Criticism (New York & London: Norton, 2001), p. 1933. My point is not materially affected if one regards early modem societies as nascent-capitalist or semi-capitalist rather than “pre-capitalist”. 3 Debora Kuller Shuger, Habits of Thought in the English Renaissance: Religion, Politics and the Dominant Culture (Toronto, Buffalo & London: University of Toronto Press, 1997), p. 6. 4 For dating o f AYLI, see: Juliet Dusinberre, “Introduction,” pp. 37-46, in Dusinberre, ed. AYLI (London: Thomson Learning [Arden3], 2006), pp. 1-142; “Pancakes and a Datefox AYLI,” SQ, 54 (2003), pp. 371-405. “secular” texts as Shakespeare’s plays remains inadequately historicized (and apprehended), modem analyses of those texts will suffer from unnecessary transhistorical distortion. This circumstance is not the only argument I would make for the modem relevance of my thesis. I will also maintain that As You Like It engages with issues relating to theories of cognition. As Jameson and Shuger’s comments indicate, that engagement cannot be separated from the text’s religious discourse. Nor, on the other hand, can it be regarded as either the ground or a side-effect of that discourse. Rather, registration of the interfusedness of early modem concern with doctrinal and cognitive issues offers a means of diagnosing the cultural relativity of modem cognitive habits which, of all habits, are the most likely to be considered “natural”. By assessing the relations between doctrinal positions and cognitive theories in the early modem period, that is, one gains a vantage point from which to observe the belief-positions informing modem cognitive habitus. The present thesis, however, is a literary study. The foregoing remarks are offered to indicate the potential contemporary relevance of my findings. The thesis itself aims to demonstrate that As You Like It is informed by intellectual/theological problems which came to prominence following the nominalist challenge to (and within) scholasticism in the 14th century. Charles Trinkaus has recorded aspects of that challenge, noting, for example, how Ockhamists insisted that “only a freely elected, spontaneous act that was not guided by natural necessity could be considered moral”.5 The performance of even such a motiveless moral act, however, could have no actual bearing on the human agent’s salvific destiny. Thus, regardless of whether one had access to the sacraments, or received them in an appropriate spiritual state, and regardless of any ecclesiastical advisor’s opinion or operative efficacy, the human agent could not wilfully obtain grace. In other words, one could do nothing to affect the predestined outcome. This doctrine of divine election—which, of course, was 5 Charles Trinkaus,‘In Our Image and Likeness Humanity and Divinity in Italian Humanist Thought, 2 volumes (London: Constable, 1970), 1.71. See also: “The Problem of Free Will in the Renaissance and the Reformation,” pp. 54-5,Journal of the History of Ideas 10 (1949), pp.
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