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Penguin Books Ltd The Penguin Classics Book
Book Synopsis**Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year**The Penguin Classics Book is a reader''s companion to the largest library of classic literature in the world.Spanning 4,000 years from the legends of Ancient Mesopotamia to the poetry of the First World War, with Greek tragedies, Icelandic sagas, Japanese epics and much more in between, it encompasses 500 authors and 1,200 books, bringing these to life with lively descriptions, literary connections and beautiful cover designs.Trade ReviewBeautifully designed and lovingly compiled * The Spectator *Smartly illustrated with original cover artwork-ideal for glancing over dearly loved literary companions, as well as for discovering gaps to fill . . . This is a fascinating survey of how our nation's literary tastes have altered over the years and makes us wonder anew at what constitutes a 'classic'. -- Emily Rhodes * Country Life *The perfect gift for bibliophiles * The Arts Society UK *I can't imagine a better or more beautifully presented reference for a book-lover -- Waterstones.com review
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Oxford University Press The Tragedy of King Richard III
Book SynopsisRichard III is one of Shakespeare''s most popular plays on the stage and has been adapted successfully for film. This new and innovative edition recognizes the play''s pre-eminence as a performance work: a perspective that informs every aspect of the editing. Challenging traditional practice, the text is based on the 1597 Quarto which, it is argued, brings us closest to the play as it would have been staged in Shakespeare''s theatre. The introduction, which is illustrated, explores the long performance history from Shakespeare''s time to the present. Its critical engagement with the play responds to recent historicist and gender-based approaches. The commentary gives detailed explication of matters of language, staging, text, and historical and cultural contexts, providing coverage that is both carefully balanced and alert to nuance of meaning. Documentation of the extensive textual variants is organized for maximum clarity: the readings of the Folio and the Quarto are presented in separate banks, and more specialist information is given at the back of the book. Appendices also include selected passages from the main source and a special index of actors and other theatrical personnel. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.Trade ReviewThis is far and away the finest critical edition of the play available * Eric Rasmussen, Shakespeare Survey *Table of ContentsLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; INTRODUCTION; EDITORIAL PROCEDURES; THE TRAGEDY OF KING RICHARD III; APPENDICES; INDEX
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HarperCollins Publishers The Canterbury Tales
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Manchester University Press SameSex Desire in Early Modern England 15501735
Book SynopsisBalancing long-overlooked and well-known works from early modern England, Same-sex desire in early modern England, 15501735: An anthology of literary texts and contexts is a collection of English texts about homoerotic love, relationships, desires, and sexual acts. -- .Table of ContentsReligious and moral writingsCriminal pamphletsTravel writingsLettersThe new 'homosexual' subculture, 1700–30The classical tradition in translationSappho's after-life: imitations and inspirationsLiterature: Representing male same-sex erotic relationships and desiresLiterature: Representing female same-sex erotic relationships and desiresGlossaryWorks CitedIndex
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Manchester University Press Tamburlaine the Great Christopher Marlowe The
Book SynopsisThis fully annotated version, with parts one and two in a single volume, takes account of the recent work on Marlowe. This text is related to contemporary theatrical conventions and conditions, and offers a critical account of the play closely attuned to a sense of theatre.Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Christopher Marlowe2. Authorship3. Sources4. From performance to publication5. From notoriety to criticism6. The play7. Stage revivals8. The textTamburlaine the GreatPart OnePart Two
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Manchester University Press Galatea
Book SynopsisA brand new Revels Student Edition of John Lyly's most popular and enchanting play -- .Trade Review'The play is admirably edited for Revels Student Editions by Leah Scragg. The footnotes are clear and thorough, the introduction lucid and sophisticated, discussing a variety of topics and providing sufficient references to encourage further exploration.'Jean Wilson, The TLS, May 2013'One can have no better guide to Galatea than the editor of the present convenient paperback edition, Leah Scragg, the leading Lyly scholar of our time. . . . Her shrewd annotation, and her generous introduction that opens all the wavelengths that the play touches on, with fair-minded accounts of the stage history and of previous criticism, provide a lavish, indeed royal portal to an exquisite courtly comedy.'Peter Saccio, Around the Globe, issue 54 (summer 2013) -- .Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION Language and structure: from a prose style to a dramatic mode Ovid and Virgil The pastoral convention and the cult of the Virgin Queen Lylian drama and the Boys of St Paul’s Lyly and Shakespeare Galatea on stage Galatea and its readers This edition and the editorial history of the play GALATEA
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Manchester University Press A Game at Chess
Book SynopsisFor many years Middleton''s A Game at Chess was more notorious than read, considered rather a phenomenon of theatrical history than a pre-eminent piece of dramatic writing. A Game at Chess was a nine days'' wonder, an exceptional play of King James'' reign on account of its unprecedented representation of matters of state usually forbidden on the stage. The King''s Men performed the play uninterruptedly between 5th and 14th August, 1624 at their Globe Theatre, attracting large audiences, before the Privy Council closed the theatre by the King''s command. More recently, growing interest in the connections of economics and politics with authorship have promoted readings that locate the play so firmly within its historical context as propaganda that, again, its worthwhile literary and theatrical qualities are neglected. In writing A Game at Chess, Middleton employed the devices of the neoclassical comedy of intrigue within the matrix of the traditional oral play. What might have seemed olTable of ContentsDocumentary foundations; the occasion of the play; composition, sources and revision; the play; the textual situation and the present text; "A Game at Chess".
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Oxford University Press The Lusiads
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1572, The Lusiads is one of the greatest epic poems of the Renaissance, immortalizing Portugal''s voyages of discovery with an unrivalled freshness of observation. At the centre of The Lusiads is Vasco da Gama''s pioneer voyage via southern Africa to India in 1497-98. The first European artist to cross the equator, Camoes''s narrative reflects the novelty and fascination of that original encounter with Africa, India and the Far East. The poem''s twin symbols are the Cross and the Astrolabe, and its celebration of a turning point in mankind''s knowledge of the world unites the old map of the heavens with the newly discovered terrain on earth. Yet it speaks powerfully, too, of the precariousness of power, and of the rise and decline of nationhood, threatened not only from without by enemies, but from within by loss of integrity and vision. The first translation of The Lusiads for almost half a century, this new edition is complemented by an illuminating introduction and extensive notes. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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Penguin Books Ltd The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse 15091659
Book SynopsisThe era between the accession of Henry VIII and the crisis of the English republic in 1659 formed one of the most fertile epochs in world literature. This anthology offers a broad selection of its poetry, and includes a wide range of works by the great poets of the age—notably Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Sepnser, John Donne, William Shakespeare and John Milton. Poems by less well-known writers also feature prominently—among them significant female poets such as Lady Mary Wroth and Katherine Philips. Compelling and exhilarating, this landmark collection illuminates a time of astonishing innovation, imagination and diversity.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by intrTable of ContentsSelected and with an Introduction by David Norbrook - Edited by H.R. Woudhuysen Abbreviations Used in the TextPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionNote on the Text and AnnotationI. The Public World1. JOHN SKELTON: [from A Lawde and Prayse Made for Our Sovereigne Lord the Kyng]2. SIR THOMAS MORE: De Principe Bono Et Malo3. Quis Optimus Reipublicae Status4. SIR DAVID LINDSAY: [from The Dreme] The Complaynt of the Comoun weill of Scotland5. SIR THOMAS WYATT: [Who lyst his welth and eas Retayne]6. In Spayn7. [The piller pearisht is whearto I Lent]8. HENRY HOWARD, EARLY OF SURREY: [Thassyryans king in peas with fowle desyre]9. ANONYMOUS: John Arm-strongs last good night10. ROBERT CROWLEY: Of unsaciable purchasers11. JOHN HEYWOOD: [from A Ballad on the Marriage of Philip and Mary]12. WILLIAM BIRCH: [from A songe betwene the Quenes majestie and Englande]13. QUEEN ELIZABETH I: [The dowbt off future foes exiles my present joye]14. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY: [from The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia]15. ANONYMOUS: Of Sir Frauncis Walsingham Sir Phillipp Sydney, and Sir Christopher Hatton, Lord Chancelor16. GEORGE PUTTENHAM: Her Majestie resembled to the crowned piller17. ANNE DOWRICHE: [from The French Historie]18. SIR WALTER RALEGH: [Praisd be Dianas faire and harmles light]19. [from Fortune hath taken the away my love]20. QUEEN ELIZABETH I: [Ah silly pugge wert thou so sore afraid]21. SIR WALTER RALEGH: The 21th: and last booke of the Ocean to Scinthia22. The Lie23. ALEXANDER MONTGOMERIE: [Remembers thou in Aesope of a taill]24. SIR JOHN HARINGTON: A Tragicall Epigram25. Of Treason26. FULKE GREVILLE, LORD BROOKE: [from Caelica] Sonnet 7827. GEORGE PEELE: [from Anglorum Feriae]28. JOHN DONNE: The Calme29. [from Satire 4]30. ROBERT DEVEREUX, EARL OF ESSEX: [Change thy minde since she doth change]31. MARY SIDNEY, COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE: [To Queen Elizabeth]32. EDMUND SPENSER: [from The Faerie Queene Book 5]33. EOCHAIDH Ó HEÓGHUSA: [On Maguire's Winter Campaign]34. BEN JONSON: On the Union35. SIR ARTHUR GORGES: Written upon the death of the most Noble Prince Henrie36. SIR HENRY WOTTON: Upon the sudden Restraint of the Earle of Somerset, then falling from favor37. WILLIAM BROWNE: [from Brittania's Pastorals Book 2]38. ANONYMOUS: Feltons Epitaph39. ANONYMOUS: [Epitaph on the Duke of Buckingham]40. SIR RICHARD FANSHAWE: [from An Ode Upon occasion of His Majesties Proclamation in the yeare 1630]41. JOHN CLEVELAND: Epitaph on the Earl of Strafford42. SIR JOHN DENHAM: Coopers Hill43. MARTIN PARKER: Upon defacing of White-hall44. ROBERT HERRICK: A King and no King45. ANDREW MARVELL: An Horatian Ode upon Cromwel's Return from Ireland46. SIR WILLIAM MURE: [from The Cry of Blood, and of a Broken Covenant]47. KATHERINE PHILIPS: On the 3. of September, 165148. JOHN MILTON: To the Lord Generall Cromwell May 165249. To Sir Henry Vane the younger50. ANDREW MARVELL: [from The First Anniversary of the Government under O.C.]51. ALEXANDER BROME: On Sir G.B. his defeatII. Images of Love52. ANONYMOUS: [Westron wynde when wylle thow blow]53. SIR THOMAS WYATT: [They fle from me that sometyme did me seke]54. [Who so list to hount I knowe where is an hynde]55. [It may be good like it who list]56. [My lute awake perfourme the last]57. HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY: [The soote season, that bud and blome furth bringes]58. ALEXANDER SCOTT: [To luve unluvit it is ane pane]59. GEORGE TURBERVILLE: To his Love that sent him a Ring wherein was gravde, Let Reason rule60. ISABELLA WHITNEY: I.W. To her unconstant Lover61. GEORGES GASCOIGNE: [A Sonet written in prayse of the brown beautie]62. ANONYMOUS: A new Courtly Sonet, of the Lady Greensleeves63. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY: [from Certain Sonnets: 4]64. [from The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia]65. [from Astrophil and Stella] 166. [from Astrophil and Stella] 267. [from Astrophil and Stella] 968. [from Astrophil and Stella] 7269. [from Astrophil and Stella] 8170. [from Astrophil and Stella] 8371. [from Astrophil and Stella] Eight song72. [from Astrophil and Stella] Eleventh song73. FULKE GREVILLE, LORD BROOKE: [from Caelica] Sonnet 2274. [from Caelica] Sonnet 2775. [from Caelica] Sonnet 3976. [from Caelica] Sonnet 4477. [from Caelica] Sonnet 8478. MARK ALEXANDER BOYD: Sonet79. ROBERT GREENE: Dorons description of Samela80. EDMUND SPENSER: [from The Faerie Queene Book 2]81. [from The Faerie Queene Book 3]82. [from The Faerie Queene Book 3]83. [from Amoretti] Sonnet 2384. [from Amoretti] Sonnet 6485. [from Amoretti] Sonnet 6786. [from Amoretti] Sonnet 7087. [from Amoretti] Sonnet 7188. Epithalamion89. SIR WALTER RALEGH: [As you came from the holy land]90. SAMUEL DANIEL: [from Delia] Sonnet 1391. [from Delia] Sonnet 3992. [from Delia] Sonnet 5293. SIR JOHN DAVIES: [from Gullinge Sonnets]94. [Faith (wench) I cannot court thy sprightly eyes]95. THOMAS NASHE: The choise of valentines96. JOHN DONNE: To his Mistress going to bed97. BARNABE BARNES: [from Parthenophil and Parthenophe] Sonnet 2799. CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE: The passionate Sheepheard to his love99. Hero and Leander100. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: [from Venus and Adonis]101. [from Lucrece]102. RICHARD BARNFIELD: [from Cynthia] Sonnet 8103. [from Cynthia] Sonnet 11104. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: [from Sonnets] 19105. [from Sonnets] 20106. [from Sonnets] 29107. [from Sonnets] 35108. [from Sonnets] 36109. [from Sonnets] 55110. [from Sonnets] 56111. [from Sonnets] 66112. [from Sonnets] 74113. [from Sonnets] 94114. [from Sonnets] 121115. [from Sonnets] 124116. [from Sonnets] 129117. [from Sonnets] 135118. [from Sonnets] 138119. [from Sonnets] 144120. ROBERT SIDNEY, EARL OF LEICESTER: Sonnet 21121. Sonnet 25122. Sonnet 31123. Songe 17124. GEORGE CHAPMAN: [from Hero and Leander Sestiad 3]125. JOHN MARSTON: [from The Metamorphosis of Pigmalions Image]126. THOMAS DELONEY: [Long have I lov'd this bonny Lasse]127. ANONYMOUS: [from The wanton Wife of Bath]128. [JOHN DOWLAND]: [Fine knacks for ladies, cheape choise brave and new]129. THOMAS CAMPION: [Followe thy faire sunne unhappy shaddowe]130. [Rose-cheekt Lawra come]131. [There is a Garden in her face]132. JOHN DONNE: His Picture133. The Sunne Rising134. The Canonization135. Loves growth136. A Valediction of weeping137. A Valediction forbidding mourning138. MICHAEL DRAYTON: [from Idea] 10139. [from Idea] 61140. To His Coy Love, A Canzonet141. BEN JONSON: Why I Write Not of Love142. My Picture left in Scotland143. LADY MARY WROTH: [from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus] 23144. [from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus] 34145. [from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus] A crowne of Sonetts dedicated to Love146. [from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus]147. [from The Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania] 7148. ROBERT HERRICK: Delight in Disorder149. The Vision150. The silken Snake151. Her Bed152. Upon Julia's haire fil'd with Dew153. Upon Sibilla154. THOMAS CAREW: The Spring155. Ingratefull beauty threatned156. [from A Rapture]157. MARTIN PARKER: [from Cupid's Wrongs Vindicated]158. [from Well met Neighbour]159. EDMUND WALLER: The story of Phoebus and Daphne appli'd160. Song161. The Budd162. SIR JOHN SUCKLING: [Out upon it, I have lov'd]163. JOHN CLEVELAND: The Antiplatonick164. RICHARD LOVELACE: Song. To Lucasta, Going to the Warres165. Gratiana dauncing and singing166. To Althea, From Prison167. Her Muffe168. [from On Sanazar's being honoured with six hundred Duckets by the Clarissimi of Venice, for composing an Elegiack Hexastick of the City. A Satyre]169. ANDREW MARVELL: To his Coy Mistress170. The Gallery171. The Definition of Love172. JAMES HARRINGTON: Inconstancy173. KATHERINE PHILIPS: An Answer to another perswading a Lady to MarriageIII. Topographies174. ALEXANDER BARCLAY: [from Certayne Egloges 5]175. GEORGE BUCHANAN: Calendae Maiae176. ANONYMOUS: [from Vox populi vox Dei]177. ANONYMOUS: [from Jack of the North]178. ANONYMOUS: The Jolly Pinder of Wakefield179. BARNABE GOOGE: Goyng towardes Spayne180. SIÔON PHYLIP: [from Yr Wylan]181. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY: [from The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia]182. EDMUND SPENSER: [from The Shepheardes Calender] Maye183. ALEXANDER HUME: [from Of the day Estivall]184. JOHN DAVIES: [from Epigrammes] In Cosmum 17185. JOSEPH HALL: [from Virgidemiarum Book 5]186. EVERARD GUILPIN: [from Skialetheia Satire 5]187. ANONYMOUS: A Songe bewailinge the tyme of Christmas, So much decayed in Englande188. JOHN DONNE: A nocturnall upon S. Lucies day, Being the shortest day189. AEMILIA LANYER: The Description of Cooke-ham190. BEN JONSON: To Penshurst191. MICHAEL DRAYTON: [from Pastorals] The Ninth Eglogue192. [from Poly-Olbion Song 6]193. To the Virginian Voyage194. SAMUEL DANIEL: [from Epistle. To Prince Henrie]195. ANONYMOUS: On Francis Drake196. W. TURNER: [from Turners dish of Lentten stuffe, or a Galymaufery]197. JOHN TAYLOR: [from The Sculler] Epigram 22198. WILLIAM BROWNE: [from Britannia's Pastorals Book 2]199. EDWARD HERBERT, LORD HERBERT OF CHERBURY: Sonnet200. RICHARD CORBETT: A Proper New Ballad Intituled the Faeryes Farewell: Or God-A-Mercy Will201. SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT: The Countess of Anglesey lead Captive by the Rebels, at the Disforresting of Pewsam202. GEORGE WITHER: [from Britain's Remembrancer Canto 4]203. JOHN MILTON: Song on May morning 204. L'Allegro205. ROBERT HERRICK: To Dean-bourn, a rude River in Devon, by which sometimes he lived206. Corinna's going a Maying207. To Meddowes208. The Wassaile209. RICHARD CRASHAW: [from Bulla]210. ABRAHAM COWLEY: The Wish211. ANONYMOUS: [The Diggers' Song]212. HENRY VAUGHAN: [from To his retired friend, an Invitation to Brecknock]213. RICHARD LOVELACE: The Snayl214. ANDREW MARVELL: Bermudas215. The Mower to the Glo-Worms216. The Mower against Gardens217. The Garden218. [from Upon Appleton House, to my Lord Fairfax]219. MARGARET CAVENDISH, DUCHESS OF NEWCASTLE: Of many Worlds in this World220. A Dialogue betwixt Man, and Nature221. Similizing the Sea to Meadowes, and Pastures, the Marriners to Shepheards, the Mast to a May-pole, Fishes to Beasts222. KATHERINE PHILIPS: Upon the graving of her Name upon a Tree in Barnelmes WalksIV. Friends, Patrons and the Good Life223. SIR THOMAS WYATT: [Myn owne John poyntz sins ye delight to know]224. GEORGE GASCOIGNE: [Upon the theme: Magnum vectigal parcimonia]225. [Gascoignes wodmanship]226. EDWARD DE VERE, EARL OF OXFORD: [Weare I a Kinge I coulde commande content]227. THOMAS LODGE: [from Scillaes Metamorphosis]228. JOHN DONNE: To Sir Henry Wotton229. THOMAS DELONEY: The Weavers Song230. THOMAS DEKKER: [Art thou poore yet hast thou golden Slumbers]231. SAMUEL DANIEL: To Lucy, Countesse of Bedford, with Mr. Donnes Satyres233. Inviting a Friend to Supper234. [THOMAS RAVENSCROFT]: [Hey hoe what shall I say]235. [Sing we now merily]236. A Belmans song237. THOMAS CAMPION: [Now winter nights enlarge]238. ANONYMOUS: The Mode of France239. MICAHEL DRAYTON: These verses weare made By Michaell Drayton Esquier Poett Lawreatt the night before hee dyed240. EDMUND WALLER: At Pens-hurst241. RICHARD LOVELACE: The Grasse-hopper. To my Noble Friend, Mr. Charles Cotton. Ode242. ALEXANDER BROME: [from The Prisoners] Written when O.C. attempted to be King243. JOHN MILTON: [To Edward Lawrence]244. KATHERINE PHILIPS: Friendship's Mystery, To My Dearest Lucasia245. Friendship in Embleme, or the Seal. To my dearest Lucasia246. To my Excellent Lucasia, on our FriendshipV. Church, State and Belief247. JOHN SKELTON: [from Collyn Clout]248. ANNE ASKEW: The Balade whych Anne Askewe made and sange whan she was in Newgate249. LUKE SHEPHERD: [from The Upcheringe of the Messe]250. ANONYMOUS: [A Lament for our Lady's Shrine at Walsingham]251. JOHN HEYWOOD: [from Epygrams] Of turnyng.252. GEORGE PUTTENHAM: [from Partheniades] Partheniad 11 Urania253. ROBERT SOUTHWELL: The burning Babe254. HENRY CONSTABLE: To St. Mary Magdalen255. SIR JOHN HARINGTON: A Groome of the Chambers religion in King Henry the eights time256. JOHN DONNE: Satyre 3257. Goodfriday, 1613. Riding Westward258. Hymne to God my God, in my sicknesse259. [from Holy Sonnets]260. [Since she whome I lovd, hath payd her last debt]261. [Show me deare Christ, thy spouse, so bright and cleare]262. FULKE GREVILLE, LORD BROOKE: [from Caelica] Sonnet 89263. [from Caelica] Sonnet 99264. [from Caelica] Sonnet 109265. GILES FLETCHER: [from Christs Victorie, and Triumph in Heaven, and Earth, over, and after death]266. AEMILIA LANYER: [from Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum]267. WILLIAM DRUMMOND: [For the Baptiste]268. [Content and Resolute]269. PHINEAS FLETCHER: [Vast Ocean of light, whose rayes surround]270. JOHN MILTON: On the morning of Christs Nativity271. FRANCIS QUARLES: [from Pentelogia] Fraud Mundi272. [from Divine Fancies] On the contingencie of Actions273. [from Divine Fancies] On the Needle of a Sun-diall274. [from Divine Fancies] On the Booke of Common Prayer275. [from Divine Fancies] On Christ and our selves276. GEORGE HERBERT: Perseverance277. Redemption278. Easter wings279. Prayer280. Deniall281. Jordan282. The Collar283. The Flower284. The Forerunners285. Love286. [from The Church Militant]287. ANONYMOUS: [Yet if his Majestie our Sovareigne lord]288. SIDNEY GODOLPHIN: [Lord when the wise men came from Farr]289. JOHN TAYLOR: [from Here followeth the unfashionable fashion, or the too too homely Worshipping of God]290. EDMUND WALLER: Upon His Majesties repairing of Pauls291. RICHARD CRASHAW: A Hymne of the Nativity, sung by the Shepheards292. To the Noblest and best of Ladyes, the Countesse of Denbigh293. [from The Flaming Heart]294. ANONYMOUS: Upon Arch-bishop Laud, Prisoner in the Tower. 1641295. ROBERT WILD: [from Alas poore Scholler, whither wilt thou goe]296. JOHN MILTON: On the new forcers of Conscience under the Long Parliament297. MORGAN LLWYD: [from The Summer]298. LAURENCE CLARKSON: [from A Single Eye All Light, no Darkness]299. HENRY VAUGHAN: The Retreate300. The World301. Cock-crowing302. The Water-fall303. SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT: [from Gondibert Book 2]304. ANNA TRAPNEL: [from The Cry of a Stone]305. AN COLLINS: Another Song exciting to spirituall Mirth306. ANDREW MARVELL: The CoronetVI. Elegy and Epitaph307. JOHN SKELTON: [from Phyllyp Sparowe]308. HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY: [Norfolk sprang thee, Lambeth holds thee dead]309. [W. resteth here, that quick could never rest]310. NICHOLAS GRIMALD: [from A funerall song, upon the deceas of Annes his moother]311. CHIDIOCK TICHBORNE: [My prime of youth is but a froste of cares]312. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: [The Phoenix and Turtle]313. JOHN DONNE: [from The Second Anniversarie] Of the Progres of the Soule314. BEN JONSON: On My First Sonne315. To the immortalle memorie, and friendship of that noble paire, Sir Lucius Cary, and Sir H. Morison316. SIR WALTER RALEGH: [Even suche is tyme that takes in trust]317. WILLIAM BROWNE: On the Countesse Dowager of Pembrooke318. HENRY KING: An Exequy To his matchlesse never to be forgotten Freind318. GEORGE HERBERT: [from Memoriae Matris Sacrum]320. THOMAS CAREW: Epitaph on the Lady Mary Villers321. SIR HENRY WOTTON: Upon the death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife322. ROBERT HERRICK: To the reverend shade of his religious Father323. Upon himselfe being buried324. Upon a child325. JOHN MILTON: Lycidas326. [Methought I saw my late espoused Saint]327. 'ELIZA': To my Husband328. HENRY VAUGHAN: [They are all gone into the world of light]329. KATHERINE PHILIPS: Epitaph. On her Son H.P. at St. Syth's Church where her body also lies Interred330. Orinda upon little Hector Philips331. JAMES SHIRLEY: [The glories of our blood and state]VII. Translation332. HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY: [from Virgil's Aeneid Book 4]333. RICHARD STANYHURST: [from Virgil's Aeneid Book 4]334. ARTHUR GOLDING: [from Ovid's Metamorphoses Book 6]335. EDMUND SPENSER: [from Ruines of Rome: by Bellay] 5336. MARY SIDNEY, COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE: Quid gloriaris? Psalm 52337. [from Psalm 89 Misericordias]338. Voce mea ad Dominum Psalm 142339. CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE: [from Ovides Elegies Book 1] Elegia. 13. Ad Auroram ne properet340. [from Lucan's Pharsalia Book 1]341. SIR JOHN HARINGTON: [from Ariosto's Orlando Furioso Book 34]342. EDWARD FAIRFAX: [from Tasso's Godfrey of Bulloigne Book 4]343. JOSUAH SYLVESTER: [from Saluste du Bartas' Devine Weekes]344. GEORGE CHAPMAN: [from Homer's Iliad Book 12]345. JOHN MILTON: The Fifth Ode of Horace. Lib. 1VIII. Writer, Language and Public346. JOHN SKELTON: [from A Replycacion]347. THOMAS CHURCHYARD: [from A Musicall Consort]348. SIR JOHN HARINGTON: Of honest Theft. To my good friend Master Samuel Daniel350. JOHN DONNE: The triple Foole351. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: [from Sonnets]352. JOHN MARSTON: [from The Scourge of Villanie] In Lectores prorsus indignos353. SAMUEL DANIEL: [from Musophilus]354. BEN JONSON: A Fit of Rime against Rime355. An Ode. To himselfe356. GEORGE CHAPMAN: [from Homer's Iliad, To the Reader]357. SIR WALTER RALEGH: To the Translator358. WILLIAM BROWNE: [from Britannia's Pastorals Book 2]359. RACHEL SPEGHT: [from The Dreame]360. MICHAEL DRAYTON: [from Idea]361. To my most dearely-loved friend Henery Reynolds Esquire, of Poets and Poesie362. [from The Muses Elizium] The Description of Elizium363. JOHN MILTON: [from At a Vacation Exercise]364. JOHN TAYLOR: [from A comparison betwixt a Whore and a Booke]365. THOMAS CAREW: An Elegie upon the death of the Deane of Pauls, Dr. John Donne366. A Fancy367. ROBERT HERRICK: To the Detracter368. Posting to Printing369. GEORGE WITHER: [from Vox Pacifica]370. SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT: [from Gondibert Book 2]371. MARGARET CAVENDISH, DUCHESS OF NEWCASTLE: The Claspe372. [The Common Fate of Books]373. ABRAHAM COWLEY: The Muse374. HENRY VAUGHAN: The BookNotes to the TextAppendix 1: Index of GenresAppendix 2: Index of Metrical and Stanzaic FormsAppendix 3: Glossary of Classical NamesAppendix 4: Biographical Notes on AuthorsAppendix 5: Index of AuthorsIndex of First LinesIndex of Titles
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University of Chicago Press The Reformation of Emotions in the Age of
Book SynopsisExamining a variety of works, from revenge plays to Shakespeare's first history tetralogy and beyond, the author explores how this title not only exposed the faultlines of society on stage but also provoked playgoers in the audience to acknowledge all the differences they shared with one another.Trade Review"The Reformation of Emotions in the Age of Shakespeare is a powerful and provocative meditation on the innovative cultural forms and emotional processes that emerged from the violent affective dislocations of memory, identity, and community of the English Reformation. Mullaney addresses issues of wide interest among scholars of early modern literature and culture through evocative readings of both familiar and unfamiliar plays that are consistently surprising, insightful, and original." (William N. West, Northwestern University)
£39.03
The University of Chicago Press Katherine Parr
Book SynopsisTo the extent that she is popularly known, Katherine Parr (1512-48) is the woman who survived King Henry VIII as his sixth and last wife. The author assembles the four publications attributed to her - Psalms or Prayers, Prayers or Meditations, The Lamentation of a Sinner, and a compilation of prayers and Biblical excerpts written in her hand.Trade Review"Here we have one of Henry VIII's queens-the one who survived him-in her own words, making laws as regent of England, writing confessional prayers or short childish notes as a little girl.... Katherine Parr is one of the lesser known of Henry's wives, far from the dramatic triangle of Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn, but this collection of her writings will remind historians that Parr was an extraordinary woman of letters and passions." (Los Angeles Times) "A testament to a remarkable woman, whose learning and character speak powerfully to us across the centuries." (Literary Review)"
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Nick Hern Books Sweet William: A User's Guide to Shakespeare
Book SynopsisMichael Pennington's solo show about Shakespeare, Sweet William, has been acclaimed throughout Europe and in the US as a unique blend of showmanship and scholarship. In this book, he deepens his exploration of Shakespeare's life and work - and the connection between the two - that lies at its heart. It is illuminated throughout by the unrivalled insights into the plays that Pennington has gained from the twenty thousand hours he has spent working on them as a leading actor, an artistic director and a director - and as the author of three previous books on individual Shakespeare plays. With practical analysis, wonderfully detailed and entertaining interpretations of characters and scenes, and vivid reflections on Shakespeare's theatre and ours, the result is a masterclass of the most enjoyable kind for theatregoers, professionals, students and anyone interested in Shakespeare. This book was published in hardback as Sweet William: Twenty Thousand Hours With Shakespeare. 'A brilliant and intimate insider's guide to Shakespeare from one of our greatest classical actors' Gregory Doran 'Michael Pennington is a great Shakespearian actor who writes with the authority of an academic. His book analyses the plays, the characters and the playwright's life. It will intrigue, entertain and challenge students, actors and their audiences' Ian McKellen 'Rich and informative, and something that will be mined for many years to come by anyone interested in Shakespeare and in British theatre' Professor James Shapiro 'Shakespeare comes wonderfully to life in Michael's beautifully written book' Rupert Everett 'Irresistibly readable' Peter Brook Trade Review'Pennington's blend of scholarship and practical experience gives him an edge over critics with a purely academic knowledge... It's like chatting to an immensely knowledgeable and entertaining actor in The Dirty Duck at Stratford: a raconteur full of theatrical anecdotes, waspish asides, and provocative insights' * Drama magazine *'I can't remember when I learned so much from a single volume as I have from Michael Pennington's engaging, absorbing, congenial, informative new book Sweet William... Sometimes he's anecdotal, often lyrical, always thoughtful and occasionally laugh-aloud funny. Pennington's book is a must-read for anyone interested in Shakespeare from almost any angle - actor, drama student, teacher, director, technician, literature student or audience member' * The Stage *'The most important and best set of original Shakespeare essays that I have read in over thirty years... Pennington is blessed with an ideal combination of talents and experiences... a wonderful book' * Speaking English *
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Manchester University Press The Duchess of Malfi By John Webster Revels
Book SynopsisBased on the reprinted Revels Plays Edition of 1964, the notes to this play have been augmented to cast futher light on Webster's dialogue. A new introduction sets the tragedy in the context of pre-Civil War England and discusses the play's themes, action and visual imagery.
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Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US A Social Edition of the Devonshire Manuscript BL
Book SynopsisDescribed by Colin Burrow as 'the richest surviving record of early Tudor poetry and of the literary activities of 16th-century women,' the Devonshire Manuscript (BL MS Add. 17492) is a verse miscellany belonging to the 1530s and early 1540s, including some 194 items including complete poems, verse fragments and excerpts from longer works, anagrams, and other ephemeral jottings attributed to Thomas Wyatt, Henry Howard Earl of Surrey, Lady Margaret Douglas, Richard Hattfield, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Thomas Howard, Edmund Knyvett, Anthony Lee, and Henry Stewart, as well transcriptions of the work of others or original works by prominent court figures such as Mary Shelton, Lady Margaret Douglas, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy, Lord Thomas Howard, and, possibly, Anne Boleyn. This edition publishes the contents of the manuscript in their entirety, documenting well the manuscript's place as the earliest sustained example in English of men and women writing together in a community.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The First Sustained Example of Men and Women Writing Together in the English Tradition 1Sigla of Manuscripts & Early Printed Books Associated with the Devonshire Manuscript 35Poems 79Bibliography 458First-Line Index 513
£68.40
Cambridge University Press Much Ado about Nothing
Book SynopsisThis new edition of Much Ado about Nothing is supplemented by an updated introduction which analyses recent stage, television, film and critical interpretations of the play, and considers the play's special interest in language, bodies and gender.Table of ContentsIntroduction; The play; Supplementary notes; Textual analysis; Appendixes: 1. The time-scheme of Much Ado about Nothing, 2. Lewis Carroll's letter to Ellen Terry, 3. Benedick's song, 5.2.18-22; Reading list.
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Shockwaves of Possibility: Essays on Science
Book SynopsisShockwaves of Possibility explores the deep utopianism of one of the most significant modern cultural practices: science fiction. The author contends that utopianism is not simply a motif in SF, but rather is fundamental to its narrative dynamics. Drawing upon a rich array of theory and criticism in SF and utopian studies, the book opens with a global periodizing history that shows the inseparability of SF from developments in other cultural fields. It goes on to examine literature, film, television, comics, and animation in order to demonstrate SF’s unique effectiveness for grappling with the upheavals brought about by globalization. Shockwaves of Possibility proves SF’s vitality in the brave new world of the twenty-first century, as it illuminates the contours of the present and educates our desire for a radically other future.Trade Review«[...] this is an important study that will shape our conversations about science fiction and form for years to come, one that irrefutably demonstrates the critical importance of this genre to the literature of social justice.» (American Literary History, ALH Online Review Series XIII) Read the full review hereTable of ContentsContents: The Modernisms of Science Fiction: Toward a Periodizing History – If Everything Means Something Else: Technology, Allegory, and Events in Roadside Picnic and Stalker – After the End of the World: Pseudo-Apocalypse and Universal History in Paradise and The Windup Girl – Recognizing the Patterns – Part Two: Possible Worlds – The Beat Cops of History: Or, The Paranoid Style in American Intellectual Politics – Popular Dystopias in an Era of Global War – Alan Moore, «Secondary Literacy», and the Modernism of the Graphic Novel – Ken MacLeod’s Permanent Revolution: Utopian Possible Worlds, History, and the Augenblick in the «Fall Revolution» – Alternate Histories, Periodization, and the Geopolitical Aesthetics of Ken MacLeod and Iain M. Banks – Learning to Live in History: Alternate Historicities and the 1990s in The Years of Rice and Salt – «An Unfinished Project that was Also a Missed Opportunity»: Utopia and Alternate History in Hayao Miyazaki’s My Neighbor Totoro.
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University of Delaware Press Ordering Customs: Ethnographic Thought in Early
Book SynopsisOrdering Customs explores how Renaissance Venetians sought to make sense of human difference in a period characterized by increasing global contact and a rapid acceleration of the circulation of information. Venice was at the center of both these developments. The book traces the emergence of a distinctive tradition of ethnographic writing that served as the basis for defining religious and cultural difference in new ways. Taylor draws on a trove of unpublished sources—diplomatic correspondence, court records, diaries, and inventories—to show that the study of customs, rituals, and ways of life not only became central in how Venetians sought to apprehend other peoples, but also had a very real impact at the level of policy, shaping how the Venetian state governed minority populations in the city and its empire. In contrast with the familiar image of ethnography as the product of overseas imperial and missionary encounters, the book points to a more complicated set of origins. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1 The Study of Customs 2 Ambassadors as Ethnographers 3 Ethnography and the Venetian State 4 Reading Ethnography in Early Modern Venice 5 Ethnography, the City, and the Place of Religious Minorities Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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Berghahn Books Shakespeare and the First Hamlet
Book Synopsis The first edition of Hamlet – often called ‘Q1’, shorthand for ‘first quarto’ – was published in 1603, in what we might regard as the early modern equivalent of a cheap paperback. Yet this early version of Shakespeare’s classic tragedy is becoming increasingly canonical, not because there is universal agreement about what it is or what it means, but because more and more Shakespearians agree that it is worth arguing about. The essays in this collected volume explore the ways in which we might approach Q1’s Hamlet, from performance to book history, from Shakespeare’s relationships with his contemporaries to the shape of his whole career.Table of Contents List of Figures Introduction: Is Q1 Hamlet the First Hamlet? Terri Bourus Chapter 1. Shakespeare’s Early Gothic Hamlet Gary Taylor Chapter 2. The Hybrid Hamlet: Player Tested, Shakespeare Approved Christopher Marino Chapter 3. Ofelia’s Interruption of Ophelia in Hamlet Michael M. Wagoner Chapter 4. Beautified Q1 Hamlet Douglas Bruster Chapter 5. The Good Enough Quarto: Hamlet as a Material Object Terri Bourus Chapter 6. Harvey’s 1593 ‘To Be and Not To Be’: The Authorship and Date of the First Quarto of Hamlet Dennis McCarthy Chapter 7. ‘To Be, or Not To Be’: Hamlet Q1, Q2 and Montaigne Saul Frampton Chapter 8. Shakespeare, Virgil and the First Hamlet John. V. Nance Chapter 9. Unique Lines and the Ambient Heart of Q1 Hamlet Laurie Johnson Chapter 10. ‘Brief Let Me Be’: Telescoped Action and Characters in Q1 and Q2 Hamlet Tommaso Continisio Chapter 11. Q1 Hamlet: The Sequence of Creation and Implications for the ‘Allowed Booke’ Charles Adams Kelly and Dayna Leigh Plehn Chapter 12. What Doesn’t Happen in Hamlet Rory Loughnane Afterword: Q1 Hamlet Graham Holderness and Bryan Loughrey Index
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Oxford University Press An Anthology of Elizabethan Prose Fiction
Book SynopsisThese five works - George Gascoigne''s The Adventures of Master F. J; John Lyly''s Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit; Robert Greene''s Pandosto. The Triumph of Time; Thomas Nashe''s The Unfortunate Traveller and Thomas Deloney''s Jack of Newbury - represent Elizabethan fiction at its best. The Adventures of Master F. J. is a comedy of manners with a sting in its tail. In Euphues John Lyly invented a new, elaborate rhetorical style which delighted its Elizabethan audience and has been praised or parodied ever since. Pandosto was Shakespeare''s source for The Winter''s Tale, but Greene''s is a darker story designed to shock the reader accustomed to romantic conventions. The Unfortunate Traveller marks the peak of Nashe''s gift for literary pastiche, mixing picaresque narrative with mock-historical fantasy. Jack of Newbury dedicated to ''All famous cloth Workers in England'', sums up important social contradictions in sharply observed comic scenes and brisk, witty dialogue. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.Trade Review`I am delighted to see, at long last, such a judicious collection' Roger Moss, University of Essex`An excelent anthology: representative works, well-edited, intelligently annotated. Exactly what we've been looking for for many years.' Dr William Zunder, Hull University`A timely and well-selected anthology of literature undeservedly neglected to date.' Dr Kim Walker, University college, Dublin. 'I've been needing an anthology of this sort for some years. I'm currently restructuring a course on renaissance literature and will try to find a place for this.' B.D.Ingram, Teesside Polytechnic 'An exceptionally useful collection, with very good notes and glossary, which will thence forward feature prominently in our teaching the literature of the period.' Prof. J.A.Berthood.'An excellent anthology: the best selection of these texts available' Professor Brian Vickers, ETH ZürichTable of ContentsGeorge Gascoigne: The Adventure of Master F. J.; John Lyly: Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit; Robert Greene: Pandosto: The Triumph of Time; Thomas Nashe: The Unfortunate Traveller; Thomas Deloney: Jack of Newbury
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HarperCollins Publishers THE CIVILIZATION OF EUROPE IN THE RENAISSANCE xx
Book SynopsisThe masterpiece of Britain’s leading Renaissance scholar. Winner of the Time-Life Silver Pen Award and The Royal Society of Literature Award.Trade Review‘This magnificent book is the product of a lifetime’s scholarship by someone with a quite irrepressible curiosity and prodigious breadth of reading…together with the enviable gift of writing clearly and beautifully.’ TLS ‘This study deserves to stand alongside Braudel’s classic account of the Mediterranean in the time of Philip II. Hale is as generous as he is knowledgeable; his life’s work has culminated in a meticulous masterpiece.’ Frederic Raphael, Sunday Times ‘John Hale has produced a vast and enthralling mosaic. Only someone who had devoted a lifetime to studying history, literature and the art of the 15th- and 16th-century could draw so effortlessly on what seems a limitless range of texts and illustrations…His curiosity never fails, his learning constantly surprises, and the wit and energy of his style never flags…Extraordinary.’ Anthony Grafton, LRB
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Bright Ages
Book SynopsisThe Bright Ages recasts the European Middle Ages for what it was, capturing this 1,000-year era in all its complexity and fundamental humanity, bringing to light both its beauty and its horrors.Trade Review“While all of this is the sort of stuff that professional medievalists love to see, the thing I like most about Perry and Gabriele’s effort is that it is fun. The Bright Ages is written in such an engaging and light manner that it is easy to race through. I found myself at the end of chapters faster than I wanted to be, completely drawn in by the narrative. You can tell how much the authors love the subject matter, and that they had a great time choosing stories to share and evidence to consider.” — Slate "Incandescent and ultimately intoxicating, for as the chapters progress, it dawns on the reader that those who lived in this period were more conventional than cardboard figures. . . . They were, in essence, human." — Boston Globe "This revisionist history of medieval Europe takes apart the myth of a savage, primitive period . . . with passion and verve, [Gabriele and Perry challenge] the reader to tackle assumptions, bias and prejudices about the past to create a more joined-up, inclusive picture of the thousand years that followed the sack of Rome." — Peter Frankopan, The Guardian "The Bright Ages is a necessary book. It does the hard work of introducing audiences to a world that we too often overlook for expressly political reasons. It is also a joyful work. The medieval period, Perry and Gabriele argue, has good news for us. The world can be beautiful without centralized and brutal imperial power." — Los Angeles Review of Books "....a magic carpet ride around all manner of medieval places and moments....Perry and Gabriele are particularly keen to wrestle the Middle Ages from the clutches of white supremacists and other dangerous forces that yearn for a full return to a simplified version of the period. And so the authors present the doings of clever and durable women, too often overlooked among the churning dynasties of the early Middle Ages." — Irish Examiner “The Bright Ages shines a light on an age too often obscured by myth, legend, and fairy tales. Traveling easily through a thousand years of history, The Bright Ages reminds us society never collapsed when the Roman Empire fell, nor did the modern world wake civilization from a thousand-year hibernation. Gabriele and Perry show the medieval world was neither a romantic wonderland nor a deplorable dungeon, but instead a real world full of real people with hopes, dreams, and fears making the most of their time on earth.” — Mike Duncan, author of Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution and The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic “This book is perfect for people who are interested in the period but don't know where to start. Because the scale is sweeping but so well organized. . . . Most importantly, it's really entertaining, so. I recommend.” — Brandon Taylor, author of Real Life and Filthy Animals "A lively, searing, and transformative reimagining of the medieval world, The Bright Ages is brilliant in every way, both lucid in its arguments and sparkling in its prose. A gripping and compulsive read." — Bruce Holsinger, author of A Burnable Book and The Gifted School "In this engaging new history of the Medieval period Gabriele and Perry achieve a feat: they have written something eminently readable, suffused with academic rigor, and ethically responsible." — Candida Moss, author of The Myth of Persecution "Historians Gabriele and Perry argue in this accessible revisionist history that the so-called Dark Ages was actually a period of innovation that helped pave the way for the Renaissance and Enlightenment. . . . They add nuance and complexity to popular conceptions of the Dark Ages and make clear that beauty and achievement existed among the horrors. This is a worthy introduction to an oft-misunderstood period in world history." — Publishers Weekly "Although traditional politics-and–great-men history makes an appearance, the authors keep current by including a surprising number of great women and emphasizing their disapproval of racism, sexism, and slavery. The result is an appealing account of a millennium packed with culture, beauty, science, learning, and the rise and fall of empires." — Kirkus Reviews "Noted medieval historians Gabriele and Perry provide an engaging overview of a complex, yet often oversimplified era....sure to become a new standard for those seeking a comprehensive and inclusive review of medieval times." — Booklist "Matthew Gabriele and David M. Perry liberate the Middle Ages from stereotypes and half-truths in The Bright Ages, revealing that world as 'not simple or clean, but messy and human'....[a] lively account of a misunderstood era." — Shelf Awareness "This accessible trip through the medieval world is well worth taking for anyone wishing to better understand its complexity." — Library Journal "Chapter by chapter, Gabriele and Perry usher into view, from behind the curtain of the familiar grand narratives and from multiple locations, an eclectic cast of characters—many of them women—who exemplify, in a multitude of ways, a dazzling brightness where history has instructed us to see only gloom." — First Things
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Oxford University Press Selected Poems Oxford Worlds Classics
Book SynopsisFrom the gritty realism and resentment of Du Bellay to the lyric grace and frank eroticism of Ronsard, the poems of this volume testify to the many-faceted achievement of the two poets who, as leaders of the famous 'Pléiade' group, were crucial to the creation of a new national literature.Trade ReviewThis is an essential poetry collection for all humans' home libraries, as well as public and university libraries. This collection is also a great choice for French or world literature classes. * Pennsylvania Literary Journal *Table of ContentsIntroduction Note on the Texts Select Bibliography A Chronology of Joachim Du Bellay A Chronology of Pierre de Ronsard Selected Poems Manifestos Explanatory Notes Glossary of Names and Places Index of French First Lines
£8.54
Oxford University Press Biblical Scholarship in an Age of Controversy
Book SynopsisThis book provides a new account of a distinctive, important, but forgotten moment in early modern religious and intellectual history. In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, Christian scholars were investing heavily in techniques for studying the Bible that would now be recognised as the foundations of modern biblical criticism. According to previous studies, this process of transformation was caused by academic elites whose work, whether religious or secular in its motivations, paved the way for the Bible to be seen as a human document rather than a divine message.At the time, however, such methods were not simply an academic concern, and they pointed in many directions other than that of secular modernity. Biblical Scholarship in an Age of Controversy establishes previously unknown religious and cultural contexts for the practice of biblical criticism in the early modern period, and reveals the diversity of its effects. The central figure in this story is the itineranTrade ReviewThis is a remarkably erudite study which engages Greek, Hebrew, Latin, English, Dutch, French, and German primary and secondary sources, whilst nevertheless succeeding in remaining highly accessible. It is essential reading to students of early modern biblical studies, but will also prove to be of interest to modern biblical interpreters and pastors. * Matthew N. Payne, Global Anglican *This monograph is both the first substantial study of Hugh Broughton, a major English biblical scholar and controversialist at the turn of the seventeenth century, and a distinctive contribution to the history of early modern erudition. * Rezensiert für, H Soz Kult von *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Hugh Broughton, Now and Then PART I. CHRONOLOGY AND ITS CONSEQUENCES 1: From Chronology to Theology 2: From Chronology to Translation 3: From Chronology to Genealogy PART II. CONTROVERSY AND ITS CONSEQUENCES 4: Jewish Conversion in Europe and Constantinople 5: Theological Controversy in England and Geneva 6: Unrealized Ambitions: The New Testament Conclusion Bibliography
£87.00
Oxford University Press, USA Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions
Book SynopsisOne of John Donne's major prose works, Devotions speaks today for the philosophical mind such as it never has before, giving its readers exactly what Donne wished to give them: an understanding of their moral predicament in philosophical adversity.Trade Review`(This edition,) beautifully and scrupulously edited, adds something to our real wealth. The text that Raspa has established must be as close to finality as anything can be ... the erudition of the introduction scarcely to be surpassed.`___The Times Literary Supplement.
£26.09
Clarendon Press The World of John Taylor the WaterPoet 15781653
Book SynopsisJohn Taylor was a prolific and colourful popular writer who gives us a unique picture of England from James I to the civil war through the eyes of a London waterman. This is the first full study of the self-styled `King's Water-Poet' who carved out a pioneering role for himself as a `media celebrity' and became a national institution.Trade ReviewClearly written and tightly organised, it provides a model of sound argument based on an impressive range of reading...this short but thoughtful book makes a distinctive contribution to the social and cultural history of early modern England * Sixteenth Century Journal *Bernard Capp's informative new book analyzes the life and writings of one seventeenth-century "Amphibium," ... Taylor emerges from Capp's lucid, richly detailed study as a man who strove to create an identity for himself by negotiating the divided and distinguished worlds of early modern English society and culture. Literary scholars will be most interested by Capp's account of Taylor's struggle to gain respect as an author. * Marjorie Swann, University of Kansas, Albion, Winter '95 *
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Oxford University Press The Oxford History of Poetry in English Volume 4.
Book SynopsisA history of the birth moment of modern English poetry from Skelton to Spenser that studies a range of poets, from Wyatt, Surrey, and Isabella Whitney to Ralegh, Drayton, and Mary Herbert.Table of Contents1: Catherine Bates and Patrick Cheney: Introduction I. Transitions and Contexts 2: Seth Lerer: Transitions 3: Andrew Hadfield: Social Contexts 4: Helen Smith: Professional Contexts II. Practices 5: Patrick Cheney: Poetics 6: Jeff Dolven: Style 7: Colin Burrow: Allusiveness 8: Hannah Crawforth: Figuration 9: Daniel Juan Gil: Career III. Forms 10: Tome MacFaul: Miscellany 11: Joseph Campana and Catherine Bates: Lyric 12: Chris Stamatakis: Sonnet 13: Michelle O'Callaghan: Satire 14: Helen Cooper: Pastoral 15: Tamsin Badcoe: Epic 16: Daniel Moss: Minor Epic 17: Philip Schwyzer: History 18: Andrea Brady: Elegy 19: Paul D. Stegner: Complaint 20: Claire McEachern: Devotional Poetry IV. Poets 21: Jane Griffiths: Skelton 22: Willy Maley and Theo van Heijnsbergen: Scots Poetry 23: Cathy Shrank: Wyatt and Surrey 24: Danielle Clarke: Mid-Tudor Poetry 25: Catherine Bates: Philip Sidney 26: Ayesha Ramachandran: Spenser: Shorter Poetry 27: Richard McCabe: Spenser: The Faerie Queen 28: Katherine Cleland: Daniel, Drayton, Chapman 29: Rachel Eisendrath: Marlowe 30: Dympna Callaghan: Shakespeare 31: Andrew Hiscock: Ralegh 32: Gillian Wright: Mary Sidney Herbert V. Transitions 33: Michael Schoenfeldt: The Sixteenth to the Seventeenth Century
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Oxford University Press The Divas Gift to the Shakespearean Stage Agency
Book SynopsisExplores the extent to which the early modern English stage came to reflect the presence and performances of Italian actresses.Trade Reviewconvincing and thought-provoking * Opera News *Rigorously researched...a landmark in both performance studies and transnational research in the field. * Scott A. Trudell, Shakespeare Quarterly *Brown writes with vigor and flair...Brown's book makes the most detailed, sustained and persuasive case for the currency of the Italian actress on the Shakespearean stage, and for her invigorating impact on its drama. * Sophie Tomlinson, The University of Auckland *[a] striking work of feminist scholarship. * Year's Work in English Studies *Brown's book makes the most detailed, sustained, and persuasive case for the currency of the Italian actress on the Shakespearean stage, and for her invigorating impact on its drama. * Sophie Tomlinson, The Parergon *Brown's work... is a virtuosic mix. Joining source study, performance history, and close reading, The Diva's Gift also folds in biography, vivid description (one of the great pleasures here is Brown's ability to conjure a scene), and methodological insight. Like the performers at the heart of this study, Brown wears her learning with grace. The result is a book that is not only deeply informative and thoroughly convincing-certain to reshape scholarly and classroom discussions of Shakespearean character-but also an outright thrill to read. * Laura Kolb, Modern Language Quarterly *An excellent work that combines rigorous study of the Italian diva with often electric readings of the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, Brown's text is a fine addition to ongoing thinking about the discourses of gender, sexuality and nationality...Historicist, stimulating and lively, this is a fantastic piece of Shakespearian scholarship. * Ezra Horbury, ShSurvey *Table of ContentsIntroduction: 'For what's a play without a woman in it?' 1: The Innamorata Ignites 2: Italianating the Boy 3: Dying to Act: From Bel-Imperia to Juliet 4: Who's It? Acting the Actress in Shakespearean Comedy 5: Hostile Makeovers 6: The Two Faces of Portia 7: 'Let all the dukes and all the devils roar!' Mad Skills of Madwomen Epilogue: Cleopatra's Sweat Appendix A. Notable Innamorata Roles Appendix B. Italian Documents Appendix C. Scenario
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Oxford University Press Foxes Book of Martyrs
Book Synopsis''Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man: we shall this day light such a candle by God''s grace in England, as, I trust, shall never be put out.''Hugh Latimer''s famous words of consolation to Nicholas Ridley as they are both about to be burnt alive for heresy come from John Foxe''s magisterial Acts and Monuments, popularly known as the Book of Martyrs. This vast collection of unforgettable accounts of religious persecution exerted as great an influence on early modern England and New England as the Bible and the Book of Common Prayer. It contains many stirring stories of the apprehension, interrogation, imprisonment, and execution of alleged heretics. The narratives not only attest to the fortitude of individuals who suffered for their faith not many years before the birth of Shakespeare, but they also constitute exciting tales filled with graphic details and verbal wit.This modernized selection also includes some of the famous woodcuts that illustrated the original text, as well as providing a comprehensive introduction to Foxe''s life and times and the martyrology narrative. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.Table of ContentsSELECT NARRATIVES
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Oxford University Press Doctor Faustus and Other Plays
Book SynopsisChristopher Marlowe (1564-1593), a man of extreme passions and a playwright of immense talent, is the most important of Shakespeare''s contempories. This edition offers his five major plays, which show the radicalism and vitality of his writing in the few years before his violent death.Tamburlaine Part One and Part Two deal with the rise to world prominence of the great Scythian shepherd-robber; The Jew of Malta is a drama of villainy and revenge; Edward II was to influence Shakespeare''s Richard II. Doctor Faustus, perhaps the first drama taken from the medieval legend of a man who sells his soul to the devil, is here in both its A- and its B- text, showing the enormous and fascinating differences between the two.Under the General Editorship of Dr Michael Cordner of the University of York, the texts of the plays have been newly edited and are presented with modernized spelling and punctuation. In addition, there is a scholarly introduction and detailed annotation. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.Table of ContentsTamburlaine, Part I ; Tamburlaine, Part II ; Doctor Faustus, A-Text ; Doctor Faustus, B-Text ; The Jew of Malta ; Edward II
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Oxford University Press Four Revenge Tragedies
Book SynopsisThe Revenge Tragedy flourished in Britain in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Thomas Kyd''s The Spanish Tragedy helped to establish the popularity of the genre, and it was followed by The Revenger''s Tragedy, published anonymously and ascribed first to Cyril Tourneur and then to Thomas Middleton. George Chapman''s The Revenge of Bussy D''Ambois and Tourneur''s The Atheist''s Tragedy appeared soon after. Each of the four plays printed here defines the problems of the revenge genre, often by exploiting its conventions in unexpected directions. All deal with fundamental moral questions about the meaning of justice and the lengths to which victimized individuals may go to obtain it, while registering the strains of life in a rigid but increasingly fragile social hierarchy. Under the General Editoriship of Dr Michael Cordner, of the University of York, the texts of the plays have been newly edited and are presented with modernized spelling and punctuation. In addition, Table of ContentsThe Spanish Tragedy ; The Revenger's Tragedy ; The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois ; The Atheist's Tragedy
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Oxford University Press The Countess of Pembrokes Arcadia The Old Arcadia
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The University of Chicago Press The Renaissance Rediscovery of Intimacy
Book SynopsisExplores the way ancient epistolary theory and practice were understood and imitated in the European Renaissance. This study is of interest to students and scholars in a number of areas, including classical, Renaissance, and early modern studies; comparative literature; and the history of reading, rhetoric, and writing.Trade Review"The Renaissance Rediscovery of Intimacy is very well written, lucid, and consistently engaging. Kathy Eden has very carefully woven together the warp and woof of her major concerns in each chapter, anticipating what will follow and looking back to what has preceded, offering signposts and summaries, forecasts and conclusions, all with authority and verve. There are many 'eureka' moments here, and Eden allows her reader to participate fully in discovering them. A wonderful achievement." (William Kennedy, Cornell University)"
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press The Renaissance Rediscovery of Intimacy
Book SynopsisIn 1345, when Petrarch recovered a lost collection of letters from Cicero to his best friend Atticus, he discovered an intimate Cicero, a man very different from either the well-known orator of the Roman forum or the measured spokesman for the ancient schools of philosophy. It was Petrarch's encounter with this previously unknown Cicero and his letters that Kathy Eden argues fundamentally changed the way Europeans from the fourteenth through the sixteenth centuries were expected to read and write. The Renaissance Rediscovery of Intimacy explores the way ancient epistolary theory and practice were understood and imitated in the European Renaissance.Eden draws chiefly upon Aristotle, Cicero, and Seneca but also upon Plato, Demetrius, Quintilian, and many others to show how the classical genre of the familiar letter emerged centuries later in the intimate styles of Petrarch, Erasmus, and Montaigne. Along the way, she reveals how the complex concept of intimacy in the Renaissance leveraging the legal, affective, and stylistic dimensions of its prehistory in antiquity pervades the literary production and reception of the period and sets the course for much that is modern in the literature of subsequent centuries. Eden's important study will interest students and scholars in a number of areas, including classical, Renaissance, and early modern studies; comparative literature; and the history of reading, rhetoric, and writing.
£29.45
University of Chicago Press The Shock of the Ancient Literature and History
Book SynopsisTurns the canonical vision of those events on its head by demonstrating how the defenders of Greek literature rather than clinging to an outmoded tradition celebrated the radically different practices of the ancient world. This title explores how the authoritative status of Greek texts allowed them to justify literary depictions of the scandalous.Trade Review"Witty, free of jargon, and filled with an encyclopedic knowledge of sources, as well as an up-to-date view of recent literary and cultural debates, this book will shed vivid new light on this important historical controversy." (John D. Lyons, University of Virginia)"
£57.81
The University of Chicago Press Montaigne in Motion
Book SynopsisA study of the Essais of Montaigne, whose deceptively plainspoken meditations have entranced readers and philosophers since their first publication.Trade Review"The most important contribution to Montaigne studies since Friedrich's work.... It will be the critical framework in which scholars will discuss Montaigne in the years to come." - Choice "Starobinski brings Montaigne to life by treating him as our contemporary and asking him modern questions." - Hudson Review "Reading Jean Starobinski's book, one experiences some of the same excitement and delight as when one reads Montaigne." - Natalie Zemon Davis, New York Review of Books"
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The University of Chicago Press Lost Property The Woman Writer English Literary
Book SynopsisExamining the history of the representations of women writers from Margery Kemp and Christine de Pizan to Elizabeth I and Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, this volume shows how the woman writer came to embody alienation from tradition.
£80.00
The University of Chicago Press Lost Property The Woman Writer English Literary
Book SynopsisExamining the history of the representations of women writers from Margery Kemp and Christine de Pizan to Elizabeth I and Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, this volume shows how the woman writer came to embody alienation from tradition.
£28.50
Columbia University Press Putting History to the Question Power Politics
Book SynopsisCovering dramatic works by Shakespeare, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, and others-and reflecting upon subjects ranging from social attitudes towards racial difference and adultery to the politics of mercantilism and the hierarchy of master/servant relationships-the book reenergizes the discussion of Renaissance drama and history.Trade ReviewImpressive. Sixteenth-Century Journal This well-written, convenient collection... [is] a valuable and insightful addition to critical studies. Choice Applies, challenges, and expands the work of a new historicism. ANQTable of Contents1. The Stage and Social Order 1. Servant Obedience and Master Sins: Shakespeare and the Bonds of Service 2. "This Gentle Gentleman": Social Change and the Language of Status in Arden of Faversham 3. Massinger's Patriarchy: The Social Vision of A New Way to Pay Old Debts 4. "The Tongues of Angels": Charity and the Social Order in The City Madam 5. "In Everything Illegitimate": Imagining the Bastard in English Renaissance Drama 6. Bastardy, Counterfeiting, and Misogyny in The Revenger's Tragedy 7. "Amphitheaters in the Body": Playing with Hands on the Shakespearean Stage 2. Race, Nation, Empire 8. Changing Places in Othello 9. "Unproper Beds": Race, Adultery and the Hideous in Othello 10. "Mulattos," "Blacks," and "Indian Moors": Othello and Early Modern Constructions of Human Difference 11. Putting History to the Question: An Episode of Torture at Bantam in Java, 1604 12. "Material Flames": Romance, Empire, and Mercantile Fantasy in John Fletcher's Island Princess 13. Broken English and Broken Irish: Nation, Language, and the Optic of Power in Shakespeare's Histories 14. "The Exact Map or Discovery of Human Affairs": Shakespeare and the Plotting of History 15. The World Beyond: Shakespeare and the Tropes of Translation
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Pennsylvania State University Press Forgiving the Gift The Philosophy of Generosity
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Pennsylvania State University Press Paradise Lost A Poem Written in Ten Books
Book SynopsisThis authoritative text of the first edition of John Milton's Paradise Lost transcribes the original 10-book poem, records its textual problems and numerous differences from the second edition, and discusses in critical commentary the importance of these issues.
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Pennsylvania State University Press Paradise Lost A Poem Written in Ten Books
Book SynopsisAppearing in tandem with the publication of an authoritative text of the first edition of John Milton's Paradise Lost, these insightful essays by ten Miltonists establish the significant differences between the text, context, and effect of the poem's first edition (1667) and those of the now-standard second edition. In bringing together essays by various hands, editors Michael Lieb and John T. Shawcross seek to map what may be termed a new frontier in Milton studies, one that acknowledges the importance of what Milton himself considered to be the work of a lifetime when he offered Paradise Lost to readers in 1667. While the scholars writing here do not claim that the first edition of Milton's epic should be viewed as supplanting the second and later editions, they do seek to demonstrate the importance of coming to terms with the original ten-book edition both as a work with its own identity and value and as a source of fundamental insight into the nature of the editions that would follow in its wake. Paradise Lost cannot be fully understood without an awareness of the dynamic and ever-changing nature of the forces through which it made its first and subsequent appearances in the world at large.Table of ContentsPreface1. Back to the Future: Paradise Lost 1667Michael Lieb2. “More and More Perceiving”: Paraphernalia and Purpose in Paradise Lost, 1668, 1669Joseph Wittreich3. Simmons’s Shell Game: The Six Title Pages of Paradise LostStephen B. Dobranski4. Milton’s 1667 Paradise Lost in Its Historical and Literary ContextsAchsah Guibbory5. The Emperor’s New Clothes: The Royal Fashion of Satan and Charles IIRichard J. DuRocher6. “Now let us play”: Paradise Lost and Pleasure Gardens in Restoration LondonLaura Lunger Knoppers7. “[N]ew Laws thou see’st impos’d”: Milton’s Dissenting Angels and the Clarendon Code, 1661–65Bryan Adams Hampton8. Poetic Justice: Plato’s Republic in Paradise Lost (1667)Phillip J. Donnelly9. The Mysterious Darkness of Unknowing: Paradise Lost and the God Beyond NamesMichael Bryson10. “That which by creation first brought forth Light out of darkness!”: Paradise Lost, First Edition John T. ShawcrossNotesAbout the ContributorsIndex
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Yale University Press Making MakeBelieve Real
Trade Review"As entertainingly readable as it is broadly informative.”—John Simon, New York Times Book Review on Rome and Rhetoric -- John Simon * New York Times Book Review *
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Yale University Press How Shakespeare Put Politics on the Stage
Book SynopsisA masterful, highly engaging analysis of how Shakespeare's plays intersected with the politics and culture of Elizabethan EnglandTrade Review“Subtle and insightful readings . . . The high point of Mr. Lake’s book is his masterly analysis of Henry V. . . . Anyone interested in Shakespeare should make the effort to read this book. Even someone intimately familiar with the plays will discover much that is new, from details of historical background to interpretations of specific passages.”—Paul A. Cantor, Wall Street Journal“In this huge chronologically ordered study, Peter Lake coalesces the English Histories with Shakespeare’s Roman plays to argue that the history plays reflect a distinct trace left by the real political manoeuvrings of the period, and provides a wealth of historical information to underpin his case.”—Rene Weis, BBC History“Well deserving of a space on readers’ shelves” —Marisa R. Cull, American Historical Review“[T]he scholarship on display is admirable, and the arguments clear and well-constructed. Those with an interest in the political dynamics which drove Shakespeare to shape his plays as he did, and who wonder just how he managed to balance the expression on stage of radical ideas about kingship, the rule of law and the will of the people with living in the uncertain and often violent political reality of late Elizabethan England...will find this book deeply thought-provoking.”—Paul Flux, Albion Magazine'An immensely learned and deeply insightful monograph disguised as a page-turner. Lake offers the most lucid and believable account to date of, as the title promises, how Shakespeare put politics on the stage. Required reading not only for all Shakespeareans but for anyone interested in how literature speaks to and is shaped by its historical moment.' - Debora Shuger, author of Political Theologies in Shakespeare's England 'Even as Shakespeare’s histories illuminate his times, his times cast light upon those plays. Peter Lake, whose grasp of the Elizabethan political scene is exceptional, illuminates both Shakespeare’s world and works. Historians and literary scholars alike will find this a deeply engaging and comprehensive study.'—James Shapiro, author of The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606'Peter Lake has written an astonishing book, even for Peter Lake. Learned, lively, provocative and often surprising, How Shakespeare Put Politics on the Stage is a brilliant account of Elizabethan politics and Shakespeare’s extraordinary mediation of them. It is a wonderfully sensitive and supple work of literary criticism as well as a deeply engaged account of how Shakespeare’s England (which only retrospectively became “his”) thought about the most urgent political issues of the day.' - David Scott Kastan, author of A Will to Believe: Shakespeare and Religion
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The University of Michigan Press Gaming the Stage
Book SynopsisRich connections between gaming and theatre stretch back to the 16th and 17th centuries. In the first book-length exploration of gaming in the early modern period, Gina Bloom shows that theatres succeeded in London's new entertainment marketplace largely because watching a play and playing a game were similar experiences.Trade ReviewA smart, invigorating intervention into early modern theatre history and historiography. Not only specialists in Renaissance Drama, but also cultural historians, game and gaming scholars, and specialists in performance studies will find this book accessible and engaging. Bloom moves masterfully across scholarly registers, showing how theatre remembers and reconstitutes the chanciness of everyday life."" - Ellen MacKay, University of Chicago""Bloom's central argument concerns the ways the strategies of playing different kinds of games are worked into the action of early modern drama, and how the affectual and kinesthetic structure of playing/watching these games provides an index into the plays' potential theatrical experience . . . a deeply researched, well-conceived, thoroughly engrossing book."" - W. B. Worthen, Barnard College, Columbia University
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University of California Press Mans Estate Masculine Identity in Shakespeare
Book SynopsisThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1981.
£34.00
University of California Press The BalladDrama of Medieval Japan
Book SynopsisThe Ballad-Drama of Medieval Japan delves into the kowaka, a ballad-drama genre that flourished during Japan's tumultuous Medieval Era, a period shaped by samurai culture and the heroic values of loyalty and chivalry. Emerging in the 16th century, kowaka captured the martial exploits and epic struggles of the early Medieval Era, including the famed Genji-Heike conflict. Despite its initial popularity among samurai, the kowaka faded into obscurity during the Edo Period, only to be rediscovered in modern times. This study aims to reconstruct the history, artistry, and literary significance of kowaka, drawing on Japanese scholarship, field observations in Kyushu's Oe Village (where the tradition endures), and textual analysis. The book is divided into two parts. The first examines kowaka as a performing art, detailing its historical development, influences, and stylistic elements while highlighting the author's original fieldwork and critiques of prior research. The second part focuses
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University of California Press Our Naked Frailties
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University of California Press The Medieval Heritage of Elizabethan Tragedy
Book SynopsisThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Pressâs mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1936.
£46.00
