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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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Since this book is the revised and edited version of the Ph.D. dissertation I
defended in 2010, and thus the outcome of long years of meditation, research,
and study, the list of people who contributed to this work is almost endless.
Looking back, however, I feel obliged to single out a few individuals who had
a particularly profound influence on my thoughts and writing.
During my undergraduate and graduate studies, I became increasingly
interested in and sensitive to Early Modern texts and matters of interpretation
in classes held by Dr. Tibor Fabiny and Dr. Peter Benedek Töta, who had
been gently watching over my professional development for many years. I am
deeply indebted to both of them for the endless patience and understanding
with which they helped me through my academic struggles with the topic
even when I began to embark down a path which diverged from their fields
of interest. Ihey also set examples to follow with their passionate but humble
attitudes to the at times tedious work of teaching and the empathy they
showed for their students. My understanding of the Early Modern period and
the reception history of Shakespearean drama was shaped while sitting in
and listening to classes taught by Dr. Géza Kállay and Dr. Zsolt Almási. Ihe
research group focused on the study of the history and theory of modern
poetry at Pázmány Péter Catholic University has long offered many thought¬
provoking opportunities for academic discussion on a wide variety of topics. It
has also offered a sense of belonging to an intellectual community, for which
I owe words of gratitude to Kornélia Horvath in particular, who has been the
heart and soul of the group. Most of the library research on which this book
relies was carried out while I was staying at Newcastle University, UK in 2009
and 2010. I owe thanks to the School of English Literature, Language and
Linguistics and to Jennifer Richards and Mike Pincombe in particular for
their intellectual support, and also to the Hungarian Scholarship Board for
providing me with the financial support of the Eötvös Research Grant. I am
also grateful to the opponents of the dissertation, Dr. Miklós Péti and Dr.
Zsolt Almasi, for their constructive remarks and meticulous criticism of the
first versions of the text; to Dr. Livia Erfalvy and Dr. Mihäly Bende for their
assistance in clarifying some details of the French and German sources; and
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