Northward Ho Research Articles

The Works of John Webster, vol. IV: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Westward Ho, Northward Ho, The Fair Maid of the Inn ed. by David Gunby, David Carnegie, and Macdonald P. Jackson

Reviewed by: The Works of John Webster, vol. IV: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Westward Ho, Northward Ho, The Fair Maid of the Inn ed. by David Gunby, David Carnegie, and Macdonald P. Jackson Andrew Hiscock The Works of John Webster, vol. IV: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Westward Ho, Northward Ho, The Fair Maid of the Inn. Ed. by David Gunby, David Carnegie, and Macdonald P. Jackson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2019. xxiv+641 pp. £130. ISBN 978–0–521–76601–2. In this fourth volume of the works of John Webster published by Cambridge University Press, the reader is guided expertly through the collaborative and most neglected works of his output. The editors announce in their prefatory remarks to the volume that the series had originally been conceived as a triple decker, but as time elapsed they had cause to revisit this decision. Initially, there had been no editorial (or Press) inclination to supplement the extensive editorial work accomplished by Fredson Bowers for his Dramatic Works: Thomas Decker and Dramatic Works in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon produced in the post-war decades. Nonetheless, when the third volume of their own series rolled from the presses in 2007, the critical lie of the land had changed so radically with regard to these co-written works that attention now turned to a fourth volume covering the period 1602–24. Throughout this volume, the theatre practitioner as well as the student and the lecturer will find ample editorial support for exploring these texts often overlooked even among those of collaborative authorship in the early modern period. Interestingly, this emphasis upon the performative has led the editors to offer greater detail of punctuation and stage direction than is to be found in the original texts. More generally, each of the plays is preceded with critical, theatrical, and textual introductions from the editors as well as a sustained commentary and brief discussion of possible sources. In this way, the reader finds him- or herself in safe hands throughout. The Famous History of Sir Thomas Wyat. With the Coronation of Queen Mary, and the coming in of King Philip is, to all intents and purposes, a distillation or abbreviated version of a two-part play dealing with the life of Lady Jane Grey, written by Webster, Thomas Dekker, Henry Chettle, Thomas Heywood, and Wentworth Smith and published in 1607 (2nd quarto 1612). As David Gunby points out in the Critical Introduction, this kind of biographical history play may be more familiar to readers of early modern drama in the shape of Thomas of Woodstock or Sir John Oldcastle. In fact, in the surviving version of this work, Grey is not central to the dramatic action that concentrates on Wyattʼs rebellions: the first opposing her claim to the throne; the second opposing Philip II as royal consort (perhaps training the attention of the Jacobean audience upon the rather more recently attempted rebellion by the late Earl of Essex). The rather truncated text which has come down to us may result from 'clumsy abridgement or perhaps from [End Page 282] a muddled memorial reconstruction' (p. 9), but there are nevertheless elements worthy of attention. Gunbyʼs Critical Introduction is particularly useful here in carefully pointing out the unhistorical elements that are introduced in order to generate greater dramatic energy for the intrigue. As David Carnegie points out in the Theatrical Introduction, readers should not underestimate the potential for visual splendour in this production where there is a remarkable number of aristocratic roles (as well as some rustic clownery). The opening phases of the text clearly engage with the romance genre so evident in a wide number of plays surviving from the late Elizabethan period (Grey: 'What care I though a Sheep-cote be my Pallace | Or fairest roofe of honour' (ii. 16–17, p. 50)), but of most interest to this reader was the remarkably even-handed dramatization of Mary I, who enters in scene iii 'with a Prayer Book in her hand, like a Nun' (p. 51) and then declares at court in scene xi: Wee heere release unto our faithfull peopleOur intire Subsidie, due unto the CrowneIn our...

Book review: The Works of John Webster: An Old-Spelling Critical Edition, vol. 4, ‘Sir Thomas Wyatt’, ‘Westward Ho, Northward Ho’, ‘The Fair Maid of the Inn’ by David Gunby, David Carnegie, and MacDonald P. Jackson

Book review: <i>The Works of John Webster: An Old-Spelling Critical Edition, vol. 4, ‘Sir Thomas Wyatt’, ‘Westward Ho, Northward Ho’, ‘The Fair Maid of the Inn’</i> by David Gunby, David Carnegie, and MacDonald P. Jackson

Chaucerian Topoi and Topography in Thomas Dekker’s (and John Webster’s) Westward Ho (1605) and Northward Ho (1607)

Chaucerian Topoi and Topography in Thomas Dekker’s (and John Webster’s) Westward Ho (1605) and Northward Ho (1607)

Airy Agency in Early Modern English Drama: Ho Trilogy

ABSTRACT This article aims to analyse three early modern city comedies, which are Thomas Dekker and John Webster's Westward Ho and Northward Ho, and Ben Jonson, George Chapman and John Marston's Eastward Ho, to point to the intra-action between the human body and air. The analyses of these plays provide an insight into how air pollution and early phases of toxicity in the city shows the influence of the airy agency on human and nonhuman bodies. In this context, these three city comedies mention the difference between urban (polluted) and rural (fresh) air. The aim of this study is, thus, to trace the impacts of the airy agency in the early modern period on the human body, life, nature, and culture with references to the Ho trilogy.

Northward ho! Obama, Diefenbaker and the North American Arctic

President Barrack Obama became, in September 2015, the first US president to travel north of the Arctic Circle. Having started his Alaskan itinerary in Anchorage, attending and speaking at a conference involving Secretary of State John Kerry and invited guests, the president travelled north to the small town of Kotzebue, a community of some 3000 people with the majority of inhabitants identifying as native American. Delivered to an audience in the local high school numbering around 1000, the 41st US president placed his visit within a longer presidential tradition of northern visitation:I did have my team look into what other Presidents have done when they visited Alaska. I’m not the first President to come to Alaska.Warren Harding spent more than two weeks here – which I would love to do. But I can't leave Congress alone that long. (Laughter.) Something might happen. When FDR visited – Franklin Delano Roosevelt – his opponents started a rumor that he left his dog, Fala, on the Aleutian Islands – and spent 20 million taxpayer dollars to send a destroyer to pick him up. Now, I’m astonished that anybody would make something up about a President. (Laughter.) But FDR did not take it lying down. He said, “I don't resent attacks, and my family doesn't resent attacks – but Fala does resent attacks. He's not been the same dog since.” (Laughter.) President Carter did some fishing when he visited. And I wouldn't mind coming back to Alaska to do some fly-fishing someday. You cannot see Alaska in three days. It's too big. It's too vast. It's too diverse. (Applause.) So I’m going to have to come back. I may not be President anymore, but hopefully I’d still get a pretty good reception. (Applause.) And just in case, I’ll bring Michelle, who I know will get a good reception. (Applause.) . . .. But there's one thing no American President has done before – and that's travel above the Arctic Circle. (Applause.) So I couldn't be prouder to be the first, and to spend some time with all of you (Obama 2015a).

Northward Ho! A Voyage Towards the North Pole 1773 - Contributions by Ann Savours, Sophie Forgan and Glyn Williams

Northward Ho! A Voyage Towards the North Pole 1773 - Contributions by Ann Savours, Sophie Forgan and Glyn Williams

Northward Ho! a voyage towards the North Pole, 1773 - By Ann Savours, Sophie Forgan and Glyn Williams; The Yorkshire Mary Rose: the ship General Carleton of Whitby - By Stephen Baines

Northward Ho! a voyage towards the North Pole, 1773 - By Ann Savours, Sophie Forgan and Glyn Williams; The Yorkshire Mary Rose: the ship General Carleton of Whitby - By Stephen Baines

NORTHWARD HO!: Experience in Papua New Guinea and the Development of Academic Public Health and General Practice in Australia

Ten of the initial post-1975 appointees to chairs of public health and/or general practice in Australian and New Zealand universities had significant experience in Papua New Guinea. They had held often combined positions that covered academic, clinical, public health, and research arenas, most being retained when they returned to Australia and New Zealand. Their experiences in the former Territory of Papua and New Guinea, now known as Papua New Guinea, are reviewed here, and how each translated that experience in the development of departments in Australian medical schools after 1975 is identified. A major finding of this exploration is the ready admission of the study cohort as to how their New Guinea experience changed most of their professional lives from one with an intended clinical focus to one in which the importance of public health and general practice became paramount.

NORTHWARD HO!: Experience in Papua New Guinea and the Development of Academic Public Health and General Practice in Australia

NORTHWARD HO!: Experience in Papua New Guinea and the Development of Academic Public Health and General Practice in Australia

Book Review: et al., Northward Ho! A Voyage towards the North Pole 1773. Catalogue to the Exhibition at the Captain Cook Memorial Museum

Book Review: et al., Northward Ho! A Voyage towards the North Pole 1773. Catalogue to the Exhibition at the Captain Cook Memorial Museum

NORTHWARD HO! A VOYAGE TOWARDS THE NORTH POLE 1773. A catalogue to the exhibition at the Captain Cook Memorial Museum. 2010. Contributions from Ann Savours, Sophie Forgan, and Glyn Williams. Whitby: Captain Cook Memorial Museum. 65 p, illustrated, soft cover. No ISBN number. UK: £9.50; Europe: £11.50; rest of the world: £14.50 (including post and packing).

NORTHWARD HO! A VOYAGE TOWARDS THE NORTH POLE 1773. A catalogue to the exhibition at the Captain Cook Memorial Museum. 2010. Contributions from Ann Savours, Sophie Forgan, and Glyn Williams. Whitby: Captain Cook Memorial Museum. 65 p, illustrated, soft cover. No ISBN number. UK: £9.50; Europe: £11.50; rest of the world: £14.50 (including post and packing). - Volume 48 Issue 4

Northward Ho! A Voyage towards the North Pole 1773. Catalogue to the Exhibition at the Captain Cook Memorial Museum, Whitby 2010, with contributions by Ann Savours, Sophie Forgan, and Glyn Williams

Northward Ho! A Voyage towards the North Pole 1773. Catalogue to the Exhibition at the Captain Cook Memorial Museum, Whitby 2010, with contributions by Ann Savours, Sophie Forgan, and Glyn Williams

Theater of a City: The Places of London Comedy, 1598–1642. Jean E. Howard . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. Pp. 276.

<i>Theater of a City: The Places of London Comedy, 1598–1642</i>. Jean E. Howard . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. Pp. 276.

The Horn of Plenty: Cuckoldry and Capital in the Drama of the Age of Shakespeare

Down the Thames from Renaissance London, approximately three miles east of St. Paul's and on the Surrey shore, in a location which came to be known, variously, as Cuckold's Haven or Cuckold's Point, stood a monument to the ostensibly unavoidable consequences of marrying a woman. Though some distance from the City proper, the priapic marker of Cuckold's Haven-a makeshift arrangement of wooden pole topped by animal hornsparticipated in an odd form of literary engagement with the drama of early Jacobean London, coming to serve, paradoxically, as an urban icon. From its earliest recorded appearance in the diary of Henry Machyn in 1562, Cuckold's Haven provided London's playwrights with a popular local reference point.' Edward Sugden's dictionary of topographical allusions in English Renaissance drama cites over a dozen references to the locale, most of them in comedies directly concerned with London or London characters.2 In plays like The London Prodigal (1604), Northward Ho! (1605), The Isle of Gulls (1606), and The Travails of the Three English Brothers (1607), Cuckold's Haven constitutes the equivalent of a

The Collaboration of Dekker and Webster in Westward Ho and Northward Ho

The Collaboration of Dekker and Webster in Westward Ho and Northward Ho

The Date of Chapman's "Conspiracy and Tragedy of Byron

THE immediate source of George Chapman's two plays on the Duke of Byron, as Franz Boas discovered early in this century,1 was Edward Grimeston's General Inventorie of the Historie of France. Until recent years it was naturally assumed that the Byron plays could not have been written before the publication of Grimeston's work in 1607. A decade ago Elias Schwartz took exception not only to this date but to Chapman's alleged dependence upon Grimeston. Arguing on the basis of the Fleay-Stoll identification of Chapman with the character Bellamont in Northward Ho, written by Dekker and Webster late in 1605, Schwartz put his case in these terms:

The Dates of Chapman's Tragedies, Once More

received, especially since both Schwartz and Ennis Rees2 find the identification of Bellamont in Northward Ho (1605-6) as Chapman beyond question and therefore confidently date Caesar and Pompey earlier than 1606. My consideration of the evidence leads to less positive conclusions. To begin with, let us turn back to E. E. Stoll, who collected the evidence to support Fleay's identification of Bellamont as Chap-

The Dates and Order of Chapman's Tragedies

Previous articleNext article No AccessThe Dates and Order of Chapman's TragediesElias SchwartzElias Schwartz Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Modern Philology Volume 57, Number 2Nov., 1959 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/389304 Views: 1Total views on this site Copyright 1959 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Northward Ho! Being the Log of a 35-Ton Schooner from Sydney to Plymouth

Northward Ho! Being the Log of a 35-Ton Schooner from Sydney to Plymouth

(1) Northward Ho !—for Birds: from Wild Moorlands of England to Moorlands and Marshes of Scotland and Shetland, Öland and Lapland (2) Birds from the Hide (3) Evolution of Habit in Birds (4) Monographic des mésanges d'Europe (5) Australian Finches: in Bush and Aviary (6) The Nidification of Birds of the Indian Empire

(1) Northward Ho !—for Birds: from Wild Moorlands of England to Moorlands and Marshes of Scotland and Shetland, Öland and Lapland (2) Birds from the Hide (3) Evolution of Habit in Birds (4) Monographic des mésanges d'Europe (5) Australian Finches: in Bush and Aviary (6) The Nidification of Birds of the Indian Empire