Guest Bio
Rebecca Quoss-Moore is an associate professor of early modern British literature at the University of Central Oklahoma. Their research focuses on gender in early modern literature and on demasculinizing literary historiographies—that is, on considering how we got to our current ideas about early modern culture and on working to restore women’s places in the history of the period’s literature. She has published work on early fictionalizations of Anne Boleyn, in The Palgrave Handbook of Shakespeare’s Queens; on early modern women’s education, in Explorations in Renaissance Culture; and on the political function of the English huswife, in Appositions. Their forthcoming work includes articles on the early modern poet Isabella Whitney, on masculinity and madness in modern adaptations of Shakespeare, and on Perdita’s restorative role in The Winter’s Tale. Her monograph, Gender and Position-Taking in Henrician Verse: Translation, Transcription, and Tradition, is out now from Amsterdam University Press.
https://www.rmquoss-moore.com/
Dr Quoss-Moore’s Tudor Takeaways
The Social Edition of the Devonshire MS
The two poems specifically mentioned can be accessed:
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/The_Devonshire_Manuscript/o_happy_dames_that_may_enbrayes
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/The_Devonshire_Manuscript/now_that_ye_be_assemblled_heer
Natalie Grueninger speaks with Dr Quoss-Moore about the Devonshire MS and more!
Tune in to hear Natalie and Rebecca discuss:
– Communal reading and writing in Tudor England
– The role women played in manuscript creation and circulation
– The Devonshire MS
– Margaret Douglas and Thomas Howard’s interactions in the MS
– How love lyrics and poetry were used as political critiques
– Men’s writing in the MS
– The work of other women writers, namely Jane Lumley
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