“Oh make thy selfe with holy mourning blacke”: Aspects of Drama and Performance in John Donne’s Holy Sonnet “Oh My Black Soule”

Works Cited

Altizer, Alma B (1973). Self and Symbolism in the Poetry of Michelangelo,John Donne and Agrippa d’Aubigné. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff.10.1007/978-94-010-2459-4Search in Google Scholar

Arnold, Morris LeRoy (1965). The Soliloquies of Shakespeare: A Study in Technic. New York, NY: AMS Press.Search in Google Scholar

Augustine [Augustinus Aurelius] (1988). St. Augustine’s Confessions. Trans. William Watts. 2 vols. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.Search in Google Scholar

Augustine [Augustinus Aurelius] (1990). Soliloquies and Immortality of the Soul. Intr., Trans., and Comm. Gerard Watson. Warminster: Aris & Phillips.Search in Google Scholar

Austin, Frances (1992). The Language of the Metaphysical Poets. Houndsmills: Macmillan.10.1007/978-1-349-21963-6Search in Google Scholar

Bauer, Matthias and Angelika Zirker (2013). “Sites of Death as Sites of Interaction in Donne and Shakespeare.” Judith Anderson and Jennifer Vaught, eds. Shakespeare, Donne, and the Cultural Imaginary. New York, NY: Fordham University Press, 18–31.10.5422/fordham/9780823251254.003.0002Search in Google Scholar

Belsey, Catherine (1985). The Subject of Tragedy: Identity and Difference in Renaissance Drama. London: Methuen.Search in Google Scholar

Bergvall, Åke (2001). Augustinian Perspectives in the Renaissance. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis.Search in Google Scholar

Bevington, David M. (1962). FromMankindto Marlowe: Growth of Structure in the Popular Drama of Tudor England. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.10.4159/harvard.9780674734340Search in Google Scholar

The Bible: King James Version (1998). Robert Carroll and Stephen Prickett, eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Search in Google Scholar

Blanch, Robert J (1974). “Fear and Despair in Donne’s Holy Sonnets.” American Benedictine Review 25, 476–484.Search in Google Scholar

Borgmeier, Raimund (1978). “Die englische Literatur.” Eckard Lefèvre, ed. Der Einfluss Senecas auf das Europäische Drama. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 274–323.Search in Google Scholar

Cardelle de Hartmann, Carmen (2007). Lateinische Dialoge 1200–1400: Literarhistorische Studie und Repertorium. Leiden: Brill.10.1163/ej.9789004160330.i-826Search in Google Scholar

Clemen, Wolfgang (1955). English Tragedy before Shakespeare: The Development of Dramatic Speech. Trans. T.S. Dorsch. London: Methuen.Search in Google Scholar

Clemen, Wolfgang (1968). A Commentary of Shakespeare’s Richard III. Trans. Jean Bonheim. London: Methuen.Search in Google Scholar

Clemen, Wolfgang (2005). Shakespeare’s Soliloquies. Trans. Charity Scott Stokes. London: Routledge.Search in Google Scholar

Cooper, Thomas (1969 [1565]). Thesaurus Linguae Romanae et Britannicae. Menston: The Scholar Press.Search in Google Scholar

Cunliffe, John W. (1893). The Influence of Seneca on Elizabethan Tragedy. London: Macmillan.Search in Google Scholar

Dibdin, Thomas Frognall (1828). “Introduction.” Of the Imitation of Jesus Christ, from the Latin Original Ascribed to Thomas à Kempis. Intr. and notes Thomas Frognall Dibdin. London: Pickering and Major, xxv–clii.10.1017/CBO9781107711259.003Search in Google Scholar

Donatus, Aelius (1962). Commentum Terenti. Ed. Paulus Wessner. 4 vols. Stuttgart: Teubner.Search in Google Scholar

Donne, John (1967). The Complete Poetry of John Donne. Ed. John T. Shawcross. Garden City, NY: Doubleday.Search in Google Scholar

Donne, John (1978). John Donne: The Divine Poems. Ed. Helen Gardner. Oxford: Clarendon Press.10.1093/actrade/9780198127451.book.1Search in Google Scholar

Donne, John (2005). The Holy Sonnets.TheVariorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne: The Holy Sonnets. Ed. Paul A. Parrish. vol. 7.1. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.Search in Google Scholar

Ferry, Anne (1983). The “Inward” Language: Sonnets of Wyatt, Sidney, Shakespeare, Donne. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press.Search in Google Scholar

Fetzer, Margret (2010a). “Plays of Self: Theatrical Performativity in Donne.” Ute Berns, ed. Solo Performances: Staging the Early Modern Self in England. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 189–205.10.1163/9789042029538_013Search in Google Scholar

Fetzer, Margret (2010b). John Donne’s Performances: Sermons, Poems, Letters andDevotions. Manchester: Manchester University Press.10.7228/manchester/9780719083440.001.0001Search in Google Scholar

Freedman, Penelope (2007). Power and Passion in Shakespeare’s Pronouns: Interrogating ‘you’ and ‘thou.’ Aldershot: Ashgate.Search in Google Scholar

Gardner, Helen, ed. (1971). “Religious Poetry (Ewing Lectures, 1966).” Religion and Literature. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 119–194.Search in Google Scholar

Gerber, Richard (1959). “Elizabethan Convention and Psychological Realism in the Dream and Last Soliloquy of Richard III.” English Studies 40, 294–300.Search in Google Scholar

Habsburg, Maximilian von (2013). “Introduction.” Thomas à Kempis. The Imitation of Christ. Trans. and notes Robert Jeffery; intr. Max von Habsburg. London: Penguin, xiii–xxxvi.Search in Google Scholar

Halewood, William (1970). The Poetry of Grace. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.Search in Google Scholar

Harris, Victor (1962). “John Donne and the Theatre.” Philological Quarterly 41.1, 257–269.Search in Google Scholar

Herbold, Anthony (1965). “‘Seeking Secrets or Poëtiquenesse’: Donne’s Dialectics in the Divine Poems.” Moderna Språk 59, 277–294.Search in Google Scholar

Hester, M. Thomas (1991). “The troubled wit of John Donne’s ‘blacke Soule.’” Cithara 31.1, 16–27.Search in Google Scholar

Heywood, Thomas (1973 [1612]). An Apology for Actors. Pref. Arthur Freeman. New York, NY: Garland.Search in Google Scholar

Hillman, Richard (1997). Self-Speaking in Medieval and Early Modern English Drama: Subjectivity, Discourse and the Stage. Basingstoke: Macmillan.10.1057/9780230372894Search in Google Scholar

Kelley, Michael R. (1979). Flamboyant Drama: A Study ofthe Castle of Perseverance, Mankind,andWisdom. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press.Search in Google Scholar

Kempis, Thomas à (2013). The Imitation of Christ. Trans. and notes Robert Jeffery; intr. Max von Habsburg. London: Penguin.Search in Google Scholar

Kullmann, Thomas (1994). “Höfischkeit und Spiritualität: Dramatische Elemente in der ‘Metaphysical Poetry.’” Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch 35, 121–137.Search in Google Scholar

Larson, Katherine E. (2001). Early Modern Women in Conversation. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan.Search in Google Scholar

Legouis, Pierre (1962). Donne the Craftsman. New York, NY: Russell & Russell.Search in Google Scholar

Leimberg, Inge (1996). Heilig Öffentlich Geheimnis: Die geistliche Lyrik der englischen Frühaufklärung. Münster: Waxmann.Search in Google Scholar

Leimberg, Inge (2011). “What May Words Say…?” A Reading of The Merchant of Venice. Madison, WI: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.10.5771/9781611470017Search in Google Scholar

Leishman, J.B. (1962). The Monarch of Wit: An Analytical and Comparative Study of the Poetry of John Donne. London: Hutchinson.Search in Google Scholar

Marlowe, Christopher (1998). Doctor Faustus. Doctor Faustus and Other Plays. Eds. David Bevington and Eric Rasmussen. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 137–245.Search in Google Scholar

Martz, Louis L. (1962). The Poetry of Meditation: A Study in English Religious Literature of the Seventeenth Century. Ed. Rev. New Haven, MA: Yale University Press.Search in Google Scholar

Müller, Wolfgang G. (1982). “Das Ich im Dialog mit sich selbst: Bemerkungen zur Struktur des dramatischen Monologs von Shakespeare bis zu Samuel Beckett.” Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte 56.2, 314–333.10.1007/BF03375429Search in Google Scholar

Müller, Wolfgang G. (2010). “The Poem as Performance: Self-Definition and Self-Exhibition in John Donne’s Songs and Sonets.” Ute Berns, ed. Solo Performances: Staging the Early Modern Self in England. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 173–188.10.1163/9789042029538_012Search in Google Scholar

Müller, Wolfgang G. (2011). “Das lyrische Ich.” Dieter Lamping, ed. Handbuch Lyrik: Theorie, Analyse, Geschichte. Stuttgart: Metzler, 56–58.Search in Google Scholar

Narveson, Kate (2004). “Publishing the Sole-talk of the Soule: Genre in Early Stuart Piety.” Daniel W. Doerksen and Christopher Hodgkins, eds. Centered on the Word: Literature, Scripture, and the Tudor-Stuart Middle Way. Newark, NJ: University of Delaware Press, 110–126.Search in Google Scholar

OED [Oxford English Dictionary] (2014). Oxford University Press. <http://www.oed.com> (October 12, 2015).Search in Google Scholar

Oliver, P.M. (1997). Donne’s Religious Writing: A Discourse of Feigned Devotion. London: Longman.Search in Google Scholar

Olk, Claudia (2012). “Performing Conscience in Richard III.” Anglia 130, 1–18.10.1515/ang-2012-0002Search in Google Scholar

Pfister, Manfred (2005). “‘As an unperfect actor on the stage’: Notes Towards a Definition of Performance and Performativity in Shakespeare’s Sonnets.” Eva Müller-Zettelmann and Margarete Rubik, eds. Theory into Poetry: New Approaches to the Lyric. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 207–228.10.1163/9789401202510_011Search in Google Scholar

Radzinowicz, Mary Ann (1987). “‘Anima Mea’ Psalms and John Donne’s Religious Poetry.” Claude J. Summers and Ted-Larry Pebworth, eds. “Bright Shoots of Everlastingnesse”: The Seventeenth-Century Religious Lyric. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 40–58.Search in Google Scholar

Robbins, Robin (2010). “Poets, Friends, and Patrons: Donne and His Circle; Ben and His Tribe.” Michael Hattaway, ed. A New Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture. 2 vols. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 1: 221–247.10.1002/9781444319019.ch15Search in Google Scholar

Rogers, Thomas (1592). Soliloquium Animae: The Sole-talke of the Soule. The fourth booke of theImitation of Christ. London.Search in Google Scholar

Sanders, Wilbur (1971). John Donne’s Poetry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Search in Google Scholar

Shakespeare, William (1982). Hamlet. Ed. Harold Jenkins. London: Methuen.Search in Google Scholar

Shakespeare, William (2009). King Richard III. Ed. James R. Siemon. London: Arden Shakespeare.10.1017/9780511809750Search in Google Scholar

Shakespeare, William (2010). The Merchant of Venice. Ed. John Drakakis. London: Methuen.Search in Google Scholar

Sinfield, Alan (1977). Dramatic Monologue. London: Methuen.Search in Google Scholar

Skiffington, Lloyd A. (1985). The History of English Soliloquy: Aeschylus to Shakespeare. Lanham, MD: University Press of America.Search in Google Scholar

Spivack, Bernard (1958). Shakespeare and the Allegory of Evil: The History of a Metaphor in Relation to His Major Villains. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.Search in Google Scholar

Stampfer, Judah (1970). John Donne and the Metaphysical Gesture. New York, NY: Funk & Wagnalls.Search in Google Scholar

Stevens, Martin (1995). “From Mappa Mundi to Theatrum Mundi: The World as Stage in Early English Drama.” John A. Alford, ed. From Page to Performance: Essays in Early English Drama. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 25–49.Search in Google Scholar

Wall, John N., Jr. (1976). “Donne’s Wit of Redemption: The Drama of Prayer in the Holy Sonnets.” Studies in Philology 73, 189–203.Search in Google Scholar

Waters, W. (2012). “Apostrophe.” Roland Greene and Stephen Cushman, eds. The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. 4th ed. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 61–62.Search in Google Scholar

Wilcox, Helen (2006). “Devotional Writing.” Achsah Guibbory, ed. The Cambridge Companion to John Donne. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 149–166.10.1017/CCOL0521832373.010Search in Google Scholar

Willmott, Richard, ed. and intr. (1985). Four Metaphysical Poets: An Anthology of Poetry by Donne, Herbert Marvell, and Vaughan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Search in Google Scholar

Zirker, Angelika (2015). Stages of the Soul in Early Modern English Poetry: William Shakespeare and John Donne. Habilitationsschrift. Tübingen.Search in Google Scholar