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HUMANIST LEARNING, ELOQUENT WOMEN, AND THE USE OF LATIN IN ROBERT GREENE'S CICERONIS AMOR: TULLIES LOVE

HUMANIST LEARNING, ELOQUENT WOMEN, AND THE USE OF LATIN IN ROBERT GREENE'S CICERONIS AMOR:... HU~STLEA~G?ELOQUENT WOMEN? AND THE USE OF LATIN IN ROBERT GREENE? § CICERONIS AMOR: TULLIES LOVE WE OFTEN ASSUME THAT much Elizabethan prose fiction was written to appeal to women, drawing our inferences from comments such as those made in Barnabe Riche's prefatory letter to soldiers accompanying his Farewell to Militarie Profession (1581), in which he writes that he hopes his collection "shall please gentlewomen, and that is all the gain that I look for"(128). Although Riche may have used direct appeals to female readers more than some authors, many other prose fictions of the period also direct themselves specifically to the attention of female readers. 1 Robert Greene seems to have followed this fashion as well, whether directly or indirectly appealing to female readers so much that he is the likely writer referred to in Thomas Nashe's The Anatomy ofAbsurditie (1589) as "the Homer of women" (1: 12).2 While Lori Humphrey Newcomb has recently demonstrated that scholars must be extremely cautious in their conclusions about the appeal of Greene's romances to nonaristocratic women, especially early in their reception history, the fact remains that in the popular mind of much of the culture, romances, both in prose and verse, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Explorations in Renaissance Culture Brill

HUMANIST LEARNING, ELOQUENT WOMEN, AND THE USE OF LATIN IN ROBERT GREENE'S CICERONIS AMOR: TULLIES LOVE

Explorations in Renaissance Culture , Volume 27 (1): 1 – Dec 2, 2001

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Brill
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© Copyright 2001 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0098-2474
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2352-6963
DOI
10.1163/23526963-90000227
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HU~STLEA~G?ELOQUENT WOMEN? AND THE USE OF LATIN IN ROBERT GREENE? § CICERONIS AMOR: TULLIES LOVE WE OFTEN ASSUME THAT much Elizabethan prose fiction was written to appeal to women, drawing our inferences from comments such as those made in Barnabe Riche's prefatory letter to soldiers accompanying his Farewell to Militarie Profession (1581), in which he writes that he hopes his collection "shall please gentlewomen, and that is all the gain that I look for"(128). Although Riche may have used direct appeals to female readers more than some authors, many other prose fictions of the period also direct themselves specifically to the attention of female readers. 1 Robert Greene seems to have followed this fashion as well, whether directly or indirectly appealing to female readers so much that he is the likely writer referred to in Thomas Nashe's The Anatomy ofAbsurditie (1589) as "the Homer of women" (1: 12).2 While Lori Humphrey Newcomb has recently demonstrated that scholars must be extremely cautious in their conclusions about the appeal of Greene's romances to nonaristocratic women, especially early in their reception history, the fact remains that in the popular mind of much of the culture, romances, both in prose and verse,

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Published: Dec 2, 2001

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