1George Whetstone, The Rocke of Regard (London: H. Middleton for Robert Waley, 1576).
2For Helen's divine origins, see Linda Lee Clader, Helen: The Evolution From Divine to Heroic in Greek Epic Tradition (Leiden: Brill, 1976), Andy Crockett, "Gorgias' Encomium of Helen: Violent Rhetoric or Radical Feminism?" Rhetoric Review 13.1 (1994 ): 71-90, 75, and Otto Skutsch, "Helen, Her Name and Nature", The Journal of Hellenic Studies 107 (1987): 188-93,189. For Medea's, see Sarah lies Johnston, "Corinthian Medea and the Cult of Hera Akraia", in James J. Clauss and Sarah lies Johnston, eds. Medea: Essays on Medea in Myth, Literature, Philosophy and Art (Princeton: Princeton UP, 1997): 44-70, and Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, Anxiety Veiled: Euripides and the Traffic in Women (Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1993) 132-3.
3 At points, too, the thesis questions previous findings on one or both women: Diane Purkiss, _ for example, suggests that "the standard Renaissance Medea was a treacherous and passionat!! young girl, a girl who helps a hero on his way in exchange for marrying him", but Chapter Seven discusses the influence of the more violent, terrifying classical Medea on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature. Diane Purkiss, "Medea in the English Renaissance", in Edith Hall, Fiona Macintosh and Oliver Taplin, eds., Medea in Performance 1500-2000 (Oxford: Legenda, 2000): 32-48, 32-3.
4 George Gascoigne, A Hundreth Sundrie Flowres (London: Henrie Bynemann and Henrie Middleton for Richarde Smith, 1573).
5 James Shirley, The Triumph of Beautie (London: Humphrey Moseley, 1646).
6 George E. Rowe, "Interpretation, Sixteenth-Century Readers, and George Gascoigne's The Adventures of Master F. 1.", ELH 48.2 (1981): 271-89,280.
7 Jocelyn Catty, Writing Rape, Writing Women in Early Modem England: Unbridled Speech (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1999) 141.
8 Aemilia Lanyer, Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum, ed. Susanne Woods (NY: Oxford UP, 1993),
lines 189-92.
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9 Isabella Whitney:-The C~py o]~ Lette;, Lately Written in Meete~, By a Yong~ Gentill~;;~n (London: Richard Jones, 1567). Lady Mary Wroth, The Countesse of Montgomeries Urania (London: Augustine Mathewes for Jo[h]n Marriott and John Grismand, 1621).
10 Mary's letter is reproduced in George Buchanan, Ane Detectioun of the Duinges of Marie Quene of Scottes (London: John Day, 1571).
11 Buchanan, Ane Detection. I. D. McFarlane suggests that Mary's former tutor was angered by her marriage to Bothwell: if so, he may have found Mary's comparing herself to a woman famed for the tragic consequences of her desire to be particularly infuriating. I. D. McFarlane, BuchaiUln (London: Gerald Duckworth, 1981) 320.
12 Robert E. Bell, Women of Classical Mythology: A Biograpnical Dictionary (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1991) 223.
13 Carolyn A. Durham, "Medea: Hero or Heroine?", Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 8.1
(1984): 54-9, 54.