The Ludic Self in Seventeenth-Century English Literature
By Anna K. Nardo (NHC Fellow, 1981–82) This book argues that play offered Hamlet, John Donne, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell, Robert Burton, and Sir Thomas Browne a way to live within the contradictions and conflicts of late Renaissance life by providing a new stance for the self. Grounding its argument in recent theories of play … Continued