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The Image of Idleness in the Reign of Elizabeth I

The Image of Idleness in the Reign of Elizabeth I March 2004 11 those translators who have rendered the problem passage as Beowulf prop­ ping himself on his own arm or elbow. 32 See Poliakoff 35-47 for many images of ancient wrestlers gripping the arms of their opponents in similar ways (esp. figs. 20 and 28). These examples of Greek and Roman art also depict the next move that an offensive wrestler could initiate after having hold of an arm the way that Beowulf grasps Grendel; see esp. fig. 25. 33 See Poliakoff 27 for the story of Leontikos, an Olympic champion of the mid-fifth century B.C.E. who was unable to throw his opponents. Instead, he won by breaking their fingers in every bout. While not an overly common occurrence, Poliakoff seems wary about discounting finger-breaking as a likely form of gaining advantage. 34 For a related argument see Frederick M. Biggs, “Beowulf’s Fight with the Nine Nicors,” Review of English Studies 53 (2002): 311-28. The anonymous epistolary “novel” A Lytle treatyse called the Image of idlenesse, first published by William Seres in 1556, had all but disappeared from the history of prose fiction by the time Michael Flachmann published his edition of it in 1990.1 Since then the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png English Language Notes Duke University Press

The Image of Idleness in the Reign of Elizabeth I

Maslen, R. W.
English Language Notes , Volume 41 (3) – Mar 1, 2004
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March 2004 11 those translators who have rendered the problem passage as Beowulf prop­ ping himself on his own arm or elbow. 32 See Poliakoff 35-47 for many images of ancient wrestlers gripping the arms of their opponents in similar ways (esp. figs. 20 and 28). These examples of Greek and Roman art also depict the next move that an offensive wrestler could initiate after having hold of an arm the way that Beowulf grasps Grendel; see esp. fig. 25. 33 See Poliakoff 27 for the story of Leontikos, an Olympic champion of the mid-fifth century B.C.E. who was unable to throw his opponents. Instead, he won by breaking their fingers in every bout. While not an overly common occurrence, Poliakoff seems wary about discounting finger-breaking as a likely form of gaining advantage. 34 For a related argument see Frederick M. Biggs, “Beowulf’s Fight with the Nine Nicors,” Review of English Studies 53 (2002): 311-28. The anonymous epistolary “novel” A Lytle treatyse called the Image of idlenesse, first published by William Seres in 1556, had all but disappeared from the history of prose fiction by the time Michael Flachmann published his edition of it in 1990.1 Since then the

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