Reviews for Female and Male Voices in Early Modern England: An Anthology of Renaissance Writing

The average rating for Female and Male Voices in Early Modern England: An Anthology of Renaissance Writing based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-12-05 00:00:00 Richard Taylor Mostly about the early 18th-century, pre-1750. Not what I was looking for in terms of research, and I wouldn't have bought it if the title was more specific, but that's my bad. This book was a mishmash of segments selected from local papers at the time, with some background to each segment given before producing it, I'm assuming with some corrections because early 1700's cant English can be pretty unreadable and most of the passages were coherent. The topics chosen were all over the place, with no coherent historical narrative to the book overall, and some of the introductions were insufficient, especially to someone with little background in the time period. I barely made it through this book - seriously not recommended unless you want an introduction to various types of publications from the 1700's that you should be reading for historical information, by far the most useful part.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-09-19 00:00:00 Joanne B Bader I grew up in Dundalk (Dún Dealgan, homeplace of Chú Chulainn), I still remember Chu Chulainn's castle a few hundred yards from my home. I also grew up with these legends, and had to study them in the old Irish text which is completely different to the modern Irish language. Lady Gregory's account, while the english is not fantastic, there were many mistakes in the prose, but she did totally captivate the legend that was Chú Chulainn and in doing so, has brought this legend to the masses. The stories themselves bear much resemblance to the Greek legend of Achilles, Chú Chulainn being considered half-god, half-man. The Red Branch Knights like the heroes of ancient Greece, warriors, poets, philosophers, men of honour. I really enjoyed the free flowing text, and I especially enjoyed the ease of which the stories were told, without taking away from the original texts. I would recommend this book to anybody looking to grab a taste of Irish legends and the ways of the people many moons ago.