Allegorica: Medieval & Renaissance Literature Journal PDF 1995

# Allegorica: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Literature ## Volume 16 ### Articles - **If a Trope Looks Like a Trope: The Ape Metaphor in Middle English Texts** _Kathleen Coyne Kelly_ - **Renaissance Values in Love and Art: The Emblematic Meaning of Scève's Délie 449** _Jerry C. Nash_ - **W...

# Allegorica: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Literature ## Volume 16 ### Articles - **If a Trope Looks Like a Trope: The Ape Metaphor in Middle English Texts** _Kathleen Coyne Kelly_ - **Renaissance Values in Love and Art: The Emblematic Meaning of Scève's Délie 449** _Jerry C. Nash_ - **Wrestling for Temperance: As You Like It and The Faerie Queene, Book II** _Maurice Hunt_ ### Translations - **The Play of the King of Egypt: An Early Thirteenth-Century Music-Drama from the Carmina Burana Manuscript** _Stephen K. Wright_ - **A Late Medieval Cultural Artifact: The Twelve Ladies of Rhetoric (Les Douze Dames de Rhétorique)** _Cynthia J. Brown_ ### Notes - The Play of the King of Egypt was copied by the same writer who transcribed the Christmas Play, but unlike its much longer predecessor, it has no accompanying musical notation. - There is no obvious connection between the Biblical subject matter of the Christmas Play and the curious sequence of apocryphal events depicted in the Ludus de rege Egypti. - Despite its apparent affiliation with the corpus of liturgical drama that flourished so vigorously in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the Ludus de Rege Egypti does not include a single quotation from the Bible or the Divine Office. - The "Ad fontem Philosophie" employs a cluster of images linking the notions of thirst, water, and refreshment or irrigation which unmistakably prefigure the sweet rivers of Babylon. - The play is characterized by its high degree of independence from the traditions of Latin liturgical drama. - Nothing about the Ludus de rege Egypti is conventional or predictable. ### Editors - Mario Di Cesare - Craig Kallendorf ### Editorial Assistant - Chris Simar ### Editorial Board - Monika Counts - Charles Fraker - James J. Murphy - Francis Newton - Eckehard Simon - Robert Hollander - James Wimsatt - Margaret Winters ### Details - Allegorica is published once a year at Texas A&M University. - Subscriptions are $10 annually for residents of the United States, $12 annually for residents of other countries. - Manuscripts are invited on any area of medieval and Renaissance literature, including comparative studies. - Documentation should follow the old (i.e., pre-1985) MLA style. - Those who use word-processing equipment should be prepared to send a floppy disk (in MS-DOS) if their article is accepted.