Curating Mary Wroth

Abstract

In the romance world of Mary Wroth’s Urania , characters at times find themselves encountering a picture in a gallery. In Part One, Book One, for example, Ollorandus visits a castle outside the city of Buda in Hungary. There his host “led me into a Gallery where he shewed mee the picture of” Melasinda; “truely, I will not say, so well drawn, as that which remaines figur’d in my heart, but so well, as none but her Counterfeit could appeare so beautifull” (64–5). 1 The knight recognizes the woman who had appeared to him in a dream some days before. During a second episode in Book Two, King Antissius meets the young knight Philarchos when they both unhelm at the end of a battle. The king recalls seeing “your picture in the famous Court of your father the Morean King, and withall your name, and many of your acts were there related, while you passd vnknowne, but as the bare Knight of the Speare; ioyes infinitly did possesse the Court, to heare the fame which all parts holds of you” (177). These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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