Matthew Harrison: me: thank goodness for my adhd medicine. i couldn't focus without it! also me: now i must read every poem addressed to an "amanda" in 17th century print.

me: thank goodness for my adhd medicine. i couldn't focus without it! also me: now i must read every poem addressed to an "amanda" in 17th century print.

Let me know if you want to talk Nicholas Hookes sometime! I've been dabbling in that collection for a while.

he's so so weird!

There's some extracts from Hookes' Amanda in close proximity to extracts from Shakespearean sonnets in Folger MS V.a.148. Happy to send more details (& a chunk of a chapter on that compiler as reader) if that's of interest--don't know where your research is meandering these days.

Would love to read the chapter, but I suspect Amanda is a dead-end for me. (I wound up reading Hookes because I was reading Cranley's weird Amanda: or the Reformed Whore, because it mentions Marston....)

Ooh, I haven't read Cranley's Amanda! Off to look that up.

the bits that aren't poetry are very good. unfortunately...

important contribution to amanda studies

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