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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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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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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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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.
£9.99
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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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, 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.
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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 *
£104.50
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
£8.99
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"
£42.75
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
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.
£30.56
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
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.
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Cambridge University Press From Text to Performance in the Elizabethan Theatre Preparing the Play for the Stage
Book SynopsisDavid Bradley sets out to discover how Elizabethan theatre companies prepared plays for performance: how playwrights understood the composition of the actor-companies they wrote for, how actors followed their directions for entrances and exits and what happened when plays were adapted for changes on personnel or for other companies. For his study, Bradley has evaluated documents which survived from the records of Stage Revisers (or Plotters as they were known). Bradley's evidence includes seven theatre plots and seventeen manuscript plays, come from theatre productions which took place at the Shakespearean playhouse, or Rose Theatre. The Stage Revisers worked from plots or lists which indicated the action taking place on stage, the props needed, costume changes and the actors who should appear. The book contains reproductions of the extant plots of the period, an appendix listing playwrights, plays, theatre companies and the number of actors needed for performance and an extensive biblTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The logic of entrances; 2. Plotting from the texts; 3. The travelling companies; 4. The Plotter at work; 5. Interpreting the Plots; 6. Alcazar: the text and the sources; 7. The Plotter under pressure; 8. Reconstructing the second column; 9. The dumb-shows; Appendix: cast-lists of public theatre plays 1497–1625; Notes; Select bibliography; Indexes.
£30.99
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Chaucer to Spenser
Book Synopsis* Provides first--hand understanding of two centuries of literary culture. * Gives representation to all kinds of writing that is of a literarya interest. * Offers a transgression of the a great dividea of medieval and Renaissance, and ignores conventional periodization. .Trade Review"The true proof of an anthology is its classroom performance. . .Pearsall's smorgasbord of short extracts, dressed with first-rate contextualizing commentary and references to just the right secondary literature, inspire much independent investigation and a joyous crop of non- repetitive termpapers." "Above all, it is a pleasure to work with a volume annotated from a lifetimes's learning and leavened by rare, companionable humour. Many moments linger." Medium AevumTable of ContentsAplphabetical List of Authors and Works. Introduction. Acknowledgements. List of Abbreviations and Short Titles. Chronological Table of Dates. Map. 1. Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400). The Parliament of Fowls. From Troilus and Criseyde. From The Canterbury Tales. Minor Poems. 2. William Langland (1375-1380). From The Vision of Piers Plowman (c-text). 3. The Letters of John Ball (1381). 4. John Trevisa (1402). 5. The Wycliffite Bible (1380-1400). 6. 'The Gawain-Poet' (1390). From Sir Gawain and The Green Knight. From Patience. 7. John Gower 91408). From Confessio Amantis. 8. Mandeville's Travels (1390-1400). 9. The Cloud of Unknowing (1390-1400). 10. Julian of Norwich (1342-14180. From The Revelations of Divine Love. 11. The Alliterative Morte Arthure. 12. William Thorpe. From The Testimony of William Thorpe. 13. Nicholas Love (1410). 14. Thomas Hoccleve (1368-1426). From La Male Regle De T. Hoccleve. From The Regement of Princes. From 'The Series'. 15. John Lydgate (1371-1449). From The Troy-Book. From The Siege of Thebes. From The Life of Our Lady. From The Dance Macabre. From The Fall of Princes. Letter to Gloucester. From The Testament of Dan John Lydgate. 16. Maragret Kempe (1373-1440). From The Book of Margery Kempe. 17. Charles of Orleans 91394-1465). 18. Anonymous Songs and Short Poems, Religious, Comic and Amatory. 19. Love-Poems (By Women?) From The Findern Manuscript. 20. Popular Ballads. 21. Reginald Pecock (1392/5- 1460). 22. The Paston Letters. 23. Sir John Fortescue (1395-1477). From The Governance of England. 24. Sir Thomas Malory (1410-1471). From Morte D'Arthur. 25. William Caxton (1422-14920. 26. Robert Henryson (1430-1505). The Testament of Cresseid. From The Fables. 27. William Dunbar (1456-15150. Meditation in Winter. Christ in Triumph. From The Golden Targe. From The Treatise of the Two Married Women and the Widow. 28. Gavin Dougles (1475-1522). From The Aeneid-Translation. 29. Stephen Hawes (1521). From The Pastime of Pleasure. 30. John Skelton (1460-1529). 31. The First English Life of Henry V (1513). 32. Sir Thomas More (1478-1535). From The History of King Richard III. From Utopia. From A Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation. 33. Sir Thomas Elyot (1490-1546). From The Book Named the Governor. 34. William Tyndale (1494-1536). From The Prologue to the New Testament. From The New Testament. From The Obedience of a Christian Man. 35. Simon Fish (1500-1531). 36. William Roper (1496-1577). 37. Sir David Lindsay (1486-1555). From Squire Meldrum. 38. George Cavendish (1499-1562). From The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey. From Metrical Visions. 39. Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542). 40. John Leland (1506-15520. 41. Henry Howard, Earl Of Surrey (1517-1547). 42. High Latimer (1491-1555). From The 'Sermon of the Plougher'. 43. Roger Ascham (1515-1568). From Toxophilus, or, The School of Shooting. From The Schoolmaster. 44. A Mirror fro Magistrates (1563). 45. John Foxe (1517-1587). From The Acts and Monumnets of Martyrs. 46. George Gascoigne (1539-1578). From The Steel Glass. From The Spoil of ANtwerp. 47. Edmund Spenser (1552-1599). Textual Variants. Glossary of Common Hard Words. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Chaucer to Spenser
Book Synopsis* Provides first--hand understanding of two centuries of literary culture. * Gives representation to all kinds of writing that is of a literarya interest. * Offers a transgression of the a great dividea of medieval and Renaissance, and ignores conventional periodization. .Trade Review"The true proof of an anthology is its classroom performance. . .Pearsall's smorgasbord of short extracts, dressed with first-rate contextualizing commentary and references to just the right secondary literature, inspire much independent investigation and a joyous crop of non- repetitive termpapers." "Above all, it is a pleasure to work with a volume annotated from a lifetimes's learning and leavened by rare, companionable humour. Many moments linger." Medium AevumTable of ContentsAlphabetical List of Authors and Works xiii Introduction xv Acknowledgements xix List of Abbreviations and Short Titles xx Chronological Table of Dates xxiii Map xxvi Geoffrey Chaucer (C.1343–1400) 1 The Parliament Of Fowls 2 From Troilus And Criseyde 20 The wooing of Criseyde (from Book II) 21 The winning of Criseyde (from Book III) 44 The loss of Criseyde (from Book V) 69 The epilogue (from Book V) 76 From The Canterbury Tales 79 The General Prologue 80 The Miller’s Prologue and Tale 99 The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale 116 The Franklin’s Prologue and Tale 143 The Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale 164 Minor Poems Adam Scriveyn 177 Truth 177 The Envoy to Scogan 178 The Complaint of Chaucer to his Purse 180 William Langland (Fl. 1375–1380) 182 From The Vision Of Piers Plowman (C-Text) The Field Full of Folk (Prologue) 182 Meed at Westminster (from Passus III) 187 Will’s ‘apologia pro vita sua’ (from Passus V) 189 The Confession of the People (from Passus VI) 192 Piers Plowman and the Search for Saint Truth (from Passus VII) 196 The Ploughing of the Half-Acre (from Passus VIII) 200 The Pardon sent from Truth (from Passus IX) 207 The Beginning of the Search for Dowel (from Passus X) 213 The Crucifixion and the Harrowing of Hell (from Passus XX) 214 The Coming of Antichrist (from Passus XXII) 222 The Letters Of John Ball (1381) 227 John Trevisa (D. 1402) 230 From His Translation Of Higden’s Polychronicon The languages of Britain 230 The Wycliffite Bible (c.1380–c.1400) 232 The parable of the great supper (Luke 14:12–24) 232 The nature of charity (1 Cor. 13) 232 ‘The Gawain-Poet’ (Fl. 1390) 234 From Sir Gawain And The Green Knight Fits Three And Four 235 From Patience Jonah And The Whale 266 John Gower (D. 1408) 273 From Confessio Amantis The lover’s business (from Book IV) 273 The Tale of Tereus and Procne (from Book V) 276 Mandeville’s Travels (C.1390–1400) 287 The holy places west of Jerusalem (chap. 11) 287 The people of Dundeya (chap. 22) 288 The approach to the land of Prester John (chap. 30) 289 The fools of despair (chap. 31) 289 The Brahmins (chap. 32) 290 The Earthly Paradise (chap. 33) 291 The Cloud Of Unknowing (c.1390–1400) 292 The plan of campaign (chap. 3) 292 The cloud of unknowing and the cloud of forgetting (chaps 4–7) 293 False contemplatives (chap. 53) 295 Nowhere is everywhere (chap. 68) 296 Julian (Juliana) Of Norwich (1342–C.1418) 297 From The Revelations Of Divine Love (Longer Version) The bodily sickness and the first revelation (chaps 3–4) 297 The second revelation (chap. 10) 299 The seventh revelation (chap. 15) 300 The eighth revelation (chap. 16) 301 The thirteenth revelation (chap. 27): Sin is behovely 301 Jesus as Mother (chap. 60) 302 The Alliterative Morte Arthure 304 Arthur’s fight with the giant of St Michael’s mount 304 William Thorpe (Fl. 1407) 308 From The Testimony Of William Thorpe 308 Nicholas Love (Fl. 1410) 313 From The Mirror Of The Blessed Life Of Jesus Christ (1410) The purpose of this work (chap. 40) 313 The scourging (chap. 41) 314 The crucifixion (chap. 43) 315 The seven last words from the Cross (chap. 44) 317 Thomas Hoccleve (1368–1426) 319 From La Male Regle De T. Hoccleve Living it up in London 319 From The Regement Of Princes The sleepless night and meeting with the old man 322 Hoccleve’s troubles 327 Hoccleve’s hard life as a scribe 329 Chaucer is dead 331 A way to remember Chaucer 333 From The ‘Series’ From The Complaint of Hoccleve 334 From Dialogue with a Friend 339 John Lydgate (1371–1449) 343 From The Troy-Book Lamentation upon the fall of Troy (from Book IV) 344 From The Siege Of Thebes Prologue 345 From The Life Of Our Lady The Commendation of Our Lady at the Nativity (from Book III) 350 From The Dance Macabre 353 From The Fall Of Princes The letter of Canace to her brother 362 Exclamation on the death of Cyrus 365 Letter To Gloucester 366 From The Testament Of Dan John Lydgate 367 Margery Kempe (C.1373–C.1440) 369 From The Book Of Margery Kempe Her first childbirth, and first vision of Christ (chap. 1) 369 Her contract with her husband, 23 June 1413, on the road to Bridlington (chap. 11) 371 Among the monks at Canterbury (chap. 13) 372 Wedded to the Godhead (chap. 36) 373 Before the archbishop of York (chap. 52) 374 Her husband’s last illness (chap. 76) 376 Charles Of Orleans (1394–1465) 378 Ballade 48: ‘To longe, for shame’ 378 Ballade 70: ‘In the forest of Noyous Hevynes’ 379 Ballade 72: ‘Whan fresshe Phebus’ 380 Roundel 35: ‘Take, take this cosse’ (with the text of Charles’s French original) 381 Roundel 37: ‘I prayse nothing’ 381 Roundel 57: ‘My gostly fadir’ 382 Charles meets his new lady (5219–5351) 382 Ballade 96: ‘Syn hit is so we nedis must depart’ 385 Anonymous Songs And Short Poems, Religious, Comic And Amatory 387 ‘Adam lay ibowndyn’ 387 ‘I syng of a mayden’ 387 ‘Ther is no rose’ 388 ‘Lully, lulla, thow litel tiny child’ 389 ‘A God and yet a man’ 389 ‘Who cannot wepe come lerne at me’ 390 ‘In a tabernacle of a toure’ 391 The Corpus Christi Carol 393 Christ Triumphant 394 ‘Farewell, this world’ 394 ‘Kyrie, so kyrie’ 395 ‘I have a gentil cok’ 396 ‘I dar not seyn’ 397 ‘Care away for evermore’ 397 The Schoolboy’s Lament 398 Against Blacksmiths 399 ‘Alone walkyng’ 400 ‘Myn hertys joy’ 401 ‘Westren wynde’ 401 Love-Poems (By Women?) From The Findern Manuscript 402 1 ‘As in yow restyth my joy and comfort’ 402 2 ‘What-so men seyn’ 402 3 ‘My woofull hert, thus clad in payn’ 403 4 (a) ‘Come home, dere herte, from tarieng’ 404 (b) ‘To you, my joye and my worldly plesaunce’ 404 (c) ‘There may areste me no pleasance’ 405 (d) ‘Welcome be ye, my sovereine’ 405 5 ‘Continuaunce / Of remembraunce’ 405 Popular Ballads 406 Saint Steven 406 The Hunting of the Cheviot 407 Robin Hood and the Monk 413 Reginald Pecock (C.1392/5–C.1460?) 423 From The Repressor Of Overmuch Blaming Of The Clergy Images not a form of idolatry 423 The Paston Letters 425 Margaret Paston to Sir John Paston II 425 Elizabeth Brews to John Paston III 427 The same 427 Margery Brews to John Paston III 427 The same 428 Sir John Fortescue (C.1395–C.1477) 429 From The Governance Of England Jus regale and Jus politicum et regale 429 Sir Thomas Malory (C.1410–1471) 431 From The Morte D’arthur, Book 8, ‘The Moste Pyteuous Tale Of The Morte Arthure Saunz Gwerdon’ The accusation and rescue of Guenevere 432 The vengeance of Sir Gawain 440 The combat of Lancelot and Gawain 449 The last battle and the death of Arthur 452 The death of Guenevere and of Lancelot 459 William Caxton (C.1422–1492) 465 Prologue To Malory’s Morte D’arthur 465 Prologue To Eneydos 467 Robert Henryson (C.1430–C.1505) 469 The Testament Of Cresseid 469 From The Fables 484 The Cock and the Fox 485 The Fox and the Wolf 490 The Wolf and the Wether 495 The Wolf and the Lamb 498 William Dunbar (C.1456–C.1515) 503 Meditation In Winter 503 Christ In Triumph 504 From The Golden Targe 505 From The Treatise Of The Two Married Women And The Widow 508 ‘Timor Mortis Conturbat Me’ 515 Gavin Douglas (C.1475–1522) 519 From The Aeneid-Translation Book II, chapter 9 520 (with Latin of Aeneid, II.544–58) Book VII, Prologue (1–96) 522 Book XIII, Prologue 524 Stephen Hawes (D. After 1521) 529 From The Pastime Of Pleasure Dedication 529 How Graunde Amour met with Fame 530 The Tower of Doctrine 533 The nature of poetic style 534 Farewell to the world 535 Farewell to his book 535 John Skelton (C.1460–1529) 536 From The Bowge Of Court 536 From The Book Of Philip Sparrow 542 From The Tunning Of Elinor Rumming 556 From Colin Clout 560 From The Garland Of Laurel 565 The First English Life Of Henry V (1513) 571 The prince of Wales presents himself to his father, Henry IV 571 Sir Thomas More (1478–1535) 573 From The History Of King Richard Iii The fall of lord Hastings 573 Shore’s wife 575 The duke of Buckingham has Richard acclaimed king 576 From Utopia 578 Restrictions on travel among the Utopians 579 How the Utopians regard gold 579 How the Utopians wage war 580 The superiority of the Utopian commonwealth 581 From A Dialogue Of Comfort Against Tribulation How the Christian prepares himself to die for his faith 583 Sir Thomas Elyot (C.1490–1546) 585 From The Book Named The Governor The importance of beginning Latin early 585 Why gentlemen’s children are seldom properly educated 586 An illustration of the virtue of placability 586 William Tyndale (1494–1536) 588 From The Prologue To The New Testament 588 From The New Testament The parable of the great supper (Luke 14:12–24) 589 The nature of love (1 Cor. 13) 589 From The Obedience Of A Christian Man That the scripture ought to be in the English tongue 590 Why they will not have the scripture in English 591 Blind mouths 591 Simon Fish (C.1500–1531) 592 From A Supplication For The Beggars (1529) 592 William Roper (1496–1577) 594 From The Life Of Sir Thomas More The testimony of master Rich 594 Sir David Lindsay (C.1486–1555) 596 From Squire Meldrum Prologue 596 The sea-fight 598 The wooing of the lady of Gleneagles 600 George Cavendish (C.1499–C.1562) 603 From The Life And Death Of Cardinal Wolsey Wolsey’s last journey 603 From Metrical Visions The Complaint of Cardinal Wolsey 605 Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503–1542) 607 1 ‘The longe love, that in my thought doeth harbar’ 608 (with Italian of Petrarch, Sonnet 107) 2 ‘Who-so list to hunt, I knowe where is an hynde’ 609 3 ‘Farewell, Love, and all thy lawes for ever’ 609 4 ‘My galy charged with forgetfulnes’ 609 5 ‘Madame, withouten many wordes’ 610 6 ‘They fle from me that sometyme did me seke’ 610 7 ‘What no, perdy, ye may be sure!’ 611 8 ‘Marvaill no more’ 611 9 ‘Tho I cannot your crueltie constrain’ 612 10 ‘To wisshe and want and not obtain’ 613 11 ‘Some-tyme I fled the fyre that me brent’ 614 12 ‘The furyous gonne in his rajing yre’ 614 13 ‘My lute, awake!’ 614 14 ‘In eternum’ 615 15 ‘Hevyn and erth and all that here me plain’ 616 16 ‘To cause accord or to agre’ 617 17 ‘Th’answere that ye made to me, my dere’ 618 18 ‘You that in love finde lucke and habundaunce’ 619 19 ‘What rage is this? what furour of what kynd?’ 619 20 ‘Is it possible?’ 620 21 ‘And wylt thow leve me thus?’ 621 22 ‘Forget not yet the tryde entent’ 621 23 ‘Blame not my lute’ 622 24 ‘What shulde I saye?’ 623 25 ‘Spight hath no powre to make me sadde’ 624 26 ‘Wyth serving still’ 624 27 ‘I abide and abide and better abide’ 625 28 ‘Stond who-so list upon the slipper toppe’ 625 29 ‘Throughout the world, if it wer sought’ 626 30 ‘In court to serve decked with freshe aray’ 626 31 Satire 1: ‘Myne owne John Poynz’ 626 32 Paraphrase of Ps. 130: De profundis clamavi 629 John Leland (C.1506–1552) 630 From A New Year’s Gift To Henry Viii 630 Henry Howard, Earl Of Surrey (1517–1547) 632 1 ‘When ragyng love with extreme payne’ 632 2 ‘The soote season, that bud and blome furth bringes’ 633 3 ‘Set me wheras the sonne doth perche the grene’ 633 4 ‘Love, that doth raine and live within my thought’ 634 5 ‘Alas, so all thinges nowe do holde their peace’ 634 6 ‘Geve place, ye lovers, here before’ 635 7 ‘O happy dames, that may embrace’ 635 8 ‘Good ladies, you that have your pleasure in exyle’ 637 9 ‘When Windesor walles sustained my wearied arme’ 638 10 ‘So crewell prison howe could betyde, alas’ 638 11 ‘W. resteth here, that quick could never rest’ 640 12 ‘Th’Assyrans king, in peas with fowle desyre’ 641 13 ‘Marshall, the thinges for to attayne’ 641 From The Aeneid-Translation Book II (ll. 654–729) 642 Hugh Latimer (1491–1555) 644 From The ‘Sermon On The Plougher’ 644 Roger Ascham (1515–1568) 646 From Toxophilus, Or, The School Of Shooting Why he writes in English (from the Preface) 646 The wind on the snow 646 From The Schoolmaster How Italian books and Arthurian romances corrupt the young 647 A Mirror For Magistrates (Second Edition, 1563) 649 From The Induction To The Complaint Of Henry, Duke Of Buckingham, By Thomas Sackville (1536–1608) 649 From The Tragedy Of Lord Hastings, By John Dolman (C.1540–C.1602) 652 John Foxe (1517–1587) 654 From Acts And Monuments Of Martyrs Concerning Simon Fish 654 The behaviour of doctor Ridley and master Latimer at the time of their death (16 October 1555) 655 George Gascoigne (1539–1578) 659 From The Steel Glass Exhortation to knights, squires and gentlemen 659 Pray for ploughmen 660 From The Spoil Of Antwerp The seizing of the town 661 Edmund Spenser (1552–1599) 663 January, From The Shepherd’s Calendar 663 Textual Variants 666 Glossary of Common Hard Words 672 Index 676
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Chaucer to Spenser
Book SynopsisThis collection of previously published essays acts as a companion to Chaucer to Spenser: An Anthology of Writings in English 1375 -1575. It pays particular attention to those critics who have had the most powerful recent impact on our reading of the texts of the period.Table of ContentsPreface. Notes on Contributors. 1. The Humanity of Christ: Reflections on Orthodox Late Medieval Representations and The Humanity of Christ: Representations in Wycliffite Texts and Piers Plowman: David Aers. 2. The Wife of Bath and the Painting of Lions: Mary Carruthers. 3. Eunuch Hermeneutics: Carolyn Dinshaw. 4. Misogyny and Economic Person in Skelton, Langland, and Chaucer: Elizabeth Fowler. 5. At the Table of the Great: More's Self-Fashioning and Self-Cancellation: Stephen Greenblatt. 6. The Colonial Wyatt: Contexts and Openings: Roland Greene. 7. Price and Value in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Jill Mann. 8. William Langland's Kynde Name: Authorial Signature and Social Identity in Late Fourteenth-Century England: Anne Middleton. 9. Historical Criticism and the Claims of Humanism: Lee Patterson. 10.'Abject odious': Feminine and Masculine in Henryson's Testament of Cresseid: Felicity Riddy. 11. Prison, Writing, Absence: Representing the Subject in the English Poems of Charles d'Orléans: A. C. Spearing. 12. False Fables and Historical Truth: Paul Strohm. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Chaucer to Spenser
Book SynopsisThis collection of previously published essays acts as a companion to Chaucer to Spenser: An Anthology of Writings in English 1375 -1575. It pays particular attention to those critics who have had the most powerful recent impact on our reading of the texts of the period.Table of ContentsPreface. Notes on Contributors. 1. The Humanity of Christ: Reflections on Orthodox Late Medieval Representations and The Humanity of Christ: Representations in Wycliffite Texts and Piers Plowman: David Aers. 2. The Wife of Bath and the Painting of Lions: Mary Carruthers. 3. Eunuch Hermeneutics: Carolyn Dinshaw. 4. Misogyny and Economic Person in Skelton, Langland, and Chaucer: Elizabeth Fowler. 5. At the Table of the Great: More's Self-Fashioning and Self-Cancellation: Stephen Greenblatt. 6. The Colonial Wyatt: Contexts and Openings: Roland Greene. 7. Price and Value in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Jill Mann. 8. William Langland's Kynde Name: Authorial Signature and Social Identity in Late Fourteenth-Century England: Anne Middleton. 9. Historical Criticism and the Claims of Humanism: Lee Patterson. 10.'Abject odious': Feminine and Masculine in Henryson's Testament of Cresseid: Felicity Riddy. 11. Prison, Writing, Absence: Representing the Subject in the English Poems of Charles d'Orléans: A. C. Spearing. 12. False Fables and Historical Truth: Paul Strohm. Index.
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Harvard University, Asia Center Li Mengyang the NorthSouth Divide and Literati
Book SynopsisLi Mengyang (1473–1530) was a scholar-official who initiated the literary archaist movement that sought to restore ancient styles of prose and poetry in sixteenth-century China. Chang Woei Ong situates Li’s quest to redefine literati learning as a way to build a perfect social order in the context of intellectual transitions since the Song dynasty.
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Princeton University Press Rare Birds of North America
Book SynopsisOffers a guide to the vagrant birds that occur throughout the United States and Canada. Featuring 275 color plates, this book covers 262 species originating from three very different regions - the Old World, the New World tropics, and the world's oceans.Trade ReviewOne of The Seattle Times 8 Books to Put under a Bird-Lover's Tree 2014 One of the StarTribune/Lifestyle's Best Birding Books of 2014 One of the Birder's Library Best Bird Books of 2014 One of the Birdbooker Report's Best Bird Books of 2014 "Birders thrill to see rarities. This superb book covers 262 rare species, featuring Ian Lewington's unsurpassed artistry in 275 color plates. Species accounts discuss patterns of vagrancy, identification, seasons, regions, and migration."--Library Journal starred review "If you're a serious birder, there should already be a slot for this book on your shelf, since no other guide has ever filled this niche... With the help of this book, I might grab 15 minutes of fame for finding the next great rarity."--Kirby Adams, National Parks Traveler "[A] pleasure to read."--Matt Merritt, Birdwatching Magazine "This book is ... a guaranteed winner and not just for a North American readership. Put together by a superbly qualified team, it is both authoritative and attractive. For the lister, identification enthusiast, migration student and general birdwatcher, it brings to life a whole continent of avian excitement. Birds are always amazing and surprising us, pushing the boundaries of what we thought possible and exploding the myths and stories we so carefully create about them. This book is a fitting tribute to their continuing capacity to inspire and confound."--Andy Stoddart, Rare Bird Alert "All bird identification books should be this good."--Jim Williams, Minneapolis Star Tribune "The authors' sifting of bird-sighting records for a period covering some six decades is impressive. Detailed accounts of 262 species comprise the bulk of the book. Lewington's lovely color illustrations are supported by the sort of information one expects to find in bird guides (e.g., key identification features, taxonomy, distribution, similar species, behaviors, etc.)... That we are enjoying a 'golden age of bird [book] publishing,' as another reviewer in these pages has said, is clearly exemplified by this work. The birding hobby's growing popularity means that its fervent fringe of 'life-listers' is growing, too, and for them, or anyone with an eye for the unusual, this book will surely tantalize."--Robert Eagan, Library Journal "This was the book my birding friends, in fact all North American birders who are fascinated by vagrants, have been waiting for. It is a book that embraces identification and analysis of avian rarities and vagrancy patterns throughout the United States and Canada with an enthusiasm and devotion to statistical, geographic, and ornithological detail that will both delight and challenge birders... Rare Birds of North America is a significant addition to our birding literature."--Donna Schulman, 10,000 Birds "I don't use this language often but this really is a 'must-have' book if you're one of those birders that chases, wants to chase, or just wait on the edge of your seat for the next rarity to show up on the Aleutians or St. Paul."--Cory Gregory, See You At Sunrise "If you have a hankering for understanding, or finding out more about some of the rarities that we profile on a monthly basis, Rare Birds of North America is the book for you. This is a unique and beautifully illustrated guide... As a primer for understanding vagrancy and migration, the introduction is remarkable... Rare Birds of North America should enrich the field experience of those interested in finding and observing rare birds, and it should serve as an encouragement to all."--Birding Community E-Bulletin "This work pays homage to the books that have covered the same ground for the rarities in Europe and has been long overdue in North America. Rare Birds of North America is worth every cent of its price tag and deserves to find its way on the bookshelves of every North American birder plus a few other bookshelves elsewhere in the world."--Urban Birder "Rare Birds of North America provides unparalleled insights into vagrancy and avian migration, and will enrich the birding experience of anyone interested in finding and observing rare birds."--Carrie Laben, Nature Travel Network "This book fills a much needed niche. A lot of filed guides have 'Accidental' species and that is what we have relied on in the past for identification of these birds. But now there is a comprehensive treatise on vagrants in North America and I recommend it for your library."--William Saur, Passionate Birder "A technical tour de force."--Gabriel Thoumi, Mongabay.com "Beautifully printed and illustrated. Rare Birds of North America is a useful, if highly selective, book that will certainly appeal to serious North American birders that enjoy chasing rarities or to the armchair ornithologist that dreams about chasing rarities."--Colin Talcroft, Sonoma County Bird Watching Spots "The first of its kind: a comprehensive and illustrated guide to the vagrant birds who make an appearance in the United States and Canada."--Lee and J.J. MacFadden, Bristol Herald Courier "These experienced and widely traveled birders illustrate and provide information about 262 avian species that should be on all our search lists."--Gerry Rising, Buffalo News "[E]ssential reading ... significant... [T]he detailed treatment here is not only valuable, but in some cases the best available anywhere... [N]othing short of exceptional ... this book has everything to recommend it."--Dominic Mitchell, Birdwatch Magazine "Fascinating ... browsing this book presents a perfect opportunity for armchair birders to daydream about rare birds and about traveling to where the birds might be found."--Dan Tallman's Bird Blog "No North American lister should be without this book. The beautiful illustrations alone would make it a joy to own. But it would be the first port of call if you turned up something not in the North American guides. Here you will find solid information to help you identify the bird and judge the likelihood that it is what you think it is. The frequency and geographical pattern of rarity occurrences is invaluable in this respect. Nicely written and beautifully produced to Princeton's normal high standard."--Fatbirder "The book provides an excellent overview of birds rare to North America and serves as a worthy partner to your favorite North American field guide."--Steve Shultz, CBC Newsletter "How about, just once, a field guide that focuses on these rare and vagrant birds that make birders' hearts, and then their cars, race? A guide for those incurable hopefuls looking for birds that aren't supposed to be there. A guide like Rare Birds of North America... Anyone who regularly birds one of the states where vagrants routinely show up--Florida, Texas, Arizona, California, or Alaska--absolutely should have Rare Birds of North America handy at all times. But I'd urge any birder in North America who chases rarities or, especially, wants to find one themselves to have this book and study it. It will make you a better, more attuned birder."--Grant McCreary, Birder's Library "[T]his is a very interesting book especially for those who want to take their birding to a whole new level of challenge by seeking out rare and vagrant birds."--GrrlScientist "If you take your birds rare, don't miss out on this impressive testament to the study of vagrancy in North American birds."--Matthew Bettelheim, (bio)accumulation "A masterclass in identification from two of America's finest field birders... [Ian Lewington's] brushstrokes breathe life into birds like no other illustrator, distilling the very essence of what makes one species different from another no matter how similar they look to even the most discerning of observers."--Stuart Winter, Sunday Express "This is a very nice book, which serious birders will own."--Choice "Arizona birders will not want to be without Rare Birds. Not only does the book prepare us to identify the next vagrant that wafts our way, but it provides the reader with new ways to think about where our birds come from and why. And the only thing more fun than birding is thinking about it all."--Rick Wright, Vermilion Flycatcher "This volume is sure to be a revered resource in any birder's library for the wealth of information it contains as well as the beauty of Lewington's paintings."--USA Today "[An] impressive work... The 275 plates by Ian Lewington are outstandingly clear... A combination of thorough research and beauty."--Keith Betton, Bird Watching Magazine "The identification texts here are probably the most advanced ever produced in a North American guide. This is an invaluable reference... The book's value is not limited to American birders. There's a lot of great information here for the European audience, too. The informative comparisons between the Common Moorhen and Common Gallinule, Gray and Great Blue Herons, and Common and Wilson's Snipe are probably better than in any European guide... Howell, Lewington, and Russell have done a fantastic job with this book. The illustrations, the detailed identification texts, and the original thought presented here make Rare Birds of North America a 'must-have' for the discerning birder."--Graham Etherington, Birding, ABA "The book provides unparalleled insights into vagrancy and avian migration... Serious birders will want a copy of Rare Birds of North America."--Frederic H. Brock, Wildlife Activist "This will doubtless prove to be one of the most important birding books of 2014. It is a pleasure to browse through, an endless source of curious and surprising information and a key reference in the identification literature. So, a hearty approval from me. A wonderful book!"--Curious Naturalist "Clearly this is a must buy book for the passionate list keepers, particularly those who are strongly competitive. But there are good reasons for the rest of us owning this book... It is an education of field observation just to read this book. It is great value for the price and a highly recommended purchase for all birders."--Roy John, Canadian Field Naturalist "This book is a must-buy for anyone visiting the vagrant traps of North America and should appeal to any birder with an interest in vagrancy or simply with a desire to increase their knowledge or identification skills."--David Hodkinson, BTO News "[S]ome of the identification texts here are probably the most advanced ever produced in a North American guide... These illustrations, the detailed texts, and the original thought the authors present all make Rare Birds of North America a must have for the discerning birder."--Graham Etherington, Birding "It was with great anticipation that I waited to receive this book. I had been aware of its existence for a while, as I knew that Ian was working on the plates. But this book is more than just a showcase for Ian's work, it is a class act. The text is very well written, succinct and with the insight of great familiarity, and this book is a great addition to any birder's library."--Brian Small, British Birds "This is an excellent text. It does a superb job of summarizing where and when to look for vagrants, and provides a valuable resource for identifying these rare birds... Rare Birds of North America makes an excellent companion to contemporary field guides to the US and Canada and is highly recommended for anyone interested in North American vagrants and patterns of vagrancy."--Christopher J. Butler, IBISTable of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments ix How to Use This Book xi Abbreviations and Terminology xv Geographic Terms xvii INTRODUCTION WHAT IS A 'RARE BIRD'-AND WHEN AND WHENCE? 1 MIGRATION AND VAGRANCY IN BIRDS 4 MIGRATION 4 VAGRANCY 6 Drift 7 Misorientation 10 Overshooting 14 Dispersal 14 Association 16 Disorientation 16 False Vagrancy 16 WHERE DO NORTH AMERICAN VAGRANTS COME FROM? 16 OLD WORLD SPECIES 16 East Asia 19 Western Eurasia-Africa 22 NEW WORLD SPECIES 24 Mainland 24 Island 29 PELAGIC SPECIES 30 Temperate Southern Hemisphere 30 Subtropical and Equatorial 30 TOPOGRAPHY, MOLT, AND AGING 32 BIRD TOPOGRAPHY 32 MOLTS AND PLUMAGES 32 MOLT AND AGING 35 Waterfowl 36 Pelagic Seabirds 38 Gulls and Terns 39 Shorebirds 39 Wading Birds 39 Raptors and Owls 40 Larger Landbirds 40 Aerial Landbirds 40 Songbirds 41 SPECIES ACCOUNTS WATERFOWL 44 OLD WORLD 44 NEW WORLD 65 SUNGREBES 70 ALCIDS 71 PELAGIC SEABIRDS 74 PETRELS 74 ALBATROSSES 92 STORM-PETRELS 104 TROPICBIRDS 111 FRIGATEBIRDS 112 BOOBIES 117 GULLS AND TERNS 124 SHOREBIRDS 141 OLD WORLD 141 Plovers 142 Oystercatchers 151 Stilts 152 Sandpipers 154 Pratincoles 189 NEW WORLD 190 Thick-knees 190 Plovers 191 WADING BIRDS 194 OLD WORLD 194 Herons 194 Cranes 203 Rails 206 NEW WORLD 210 Herons 210 Storks 211 Rails 213 Jacanas 215 RAPTORS AND OWLS 217 OLD WORLD 217 NEW WORLD 230 LARGER LANDBIRDS 237 OLD WORLD 237 Nightjars 237 Pigeons 238 Cuckoos 240 Hoopoes 243 Woodpeckers 244 Corvids 246 NEW WORLD 248 Pigeons 248 Cuckoos 251 Trogons 252 Kingfishers 254 AERIAL LANDBIRDS 255 OLD WORLD 255 Swifts 255 Swallows 259 NEW WORLD 260 Hummingbirds 261 Swifts 272 Swallows 274 SONGBIRDS 278 OLD WORLD 278 Old World Flycatchers 279 Shrikes 286 Accentors 288 Chats and Thrushes 289 Old World Warblers 303 Wagtails and Pipits 315 Larks 322 Old World Buntings 323 Finches 334 NEW WORLD 342 Tyrant-flycatchers and allies 343 Mimids 362 Thrushes 365 Silkies (Silky-flycatchers) 373 Wrens 374 Vireos 375 Wood-warblers 377 Grassquits 385 Tanagers 388 New World Grosbeaks and Allies 393 New World Orioles 398 Appendices Appendix A. Species New to North America, Fall 2011-Summer 2012 403 Appendix B: Species of Hypothetical Occurrence 404 Appendix C: Birds New to North America, 1950-2011 408 Literature Cited 411 Index 425
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Princeton University Press Shakespeares Festive Comedy
Book SynopsisRevealing the interplay between social custom and dramatic form, this book shows how the Elizabethan antithesis between everyday and holiday comes to life in the comedies' combination of seriousness and levity.Trade ReviewWinner of the 1961 George Jean Nathan Award for Drama Criticism "Well-considered, subtly thought-out commentaries that move easily between structural analysis of the larger actions and sensitive dissection of local textures ... a first-rate work of impressive imagination."--Modern PhilologyTable of ContentsForeword stephen greenblatt xi Preface xvii Chapter One: Introduction: The Saturnalian Pattern 1 Through Release to Clarification 5 Shakespeare's Route to Festive Comedy 10 Chapter Two: holiday custom and entertainment 16 The May Game 19 The Lord of Misrule 25 Aristocratic Entertainments 32 Chapter Three: Misrule as Comedy; Comedy as Misrule 39 License and Lese Majesty in Lincolnshire 40 The May Game of Martin Marprelate 56 Chapter Four: Prototypes of Festive Comedy in a Pageant Entertainment: Summer's Last Will and Testament 64 "What can be made of Summer's last will and testament?" 64 Presenting the Mirth of the Occasion 68 Praise of Folly: Bacchus and Falstaff 75 Festive Abuse 82 "Go not yet away, bright soul of the sad year" 90 Chapter Five: The Folly of Wit and Masquerade in Love's Labour's Lost 98 "lose our oaths to find ourselves" 100 "sport by sport o'erthrown" 105 "a great feast of languages" 107 Wit 112 Putting Witty Folly in Its Place 116 "When ... Then ..."--The Seasonal Songs 128 Chapter Six: May Games and Metamorphoses on a Midsummer Night 135 The Fond Pageant 141 Bringing in Summer to the Bridal 149 Magic as Imagination: The Ironic Wit 159 Moonlight and Moonshine: The Ironic Burlesque 168 The Sense of Reality 179 Chapter Seven: The Merchants and the Jew of Venice: Wealth's Communion and an Intruder 185 Making Distinctions about the Use of Riches 188 Transcending Reckoning at Belmont 197 Comical/Menacing Mechanism in Shylock 201 The Community Setting Aside Its Machinery 209 Sharing in the Grace of Life 212 Chapter Eight: Rule and Misrule in henry iv 219 Mingling Kings and Clowns 223 Getting Rid of Bad Luck by Comedy 234 The Trial of Carnival in Part Two 243 Chapter Nine: The Alliance of Seriousness and Levity in A You Like It 252 The Liberty of Arden 254 Counterstatements 257 "all nature in love mortal in folly" 260 Chapter Ten: Testing Courtesy and Humanity in Twelfth Night 272 "A most extracting frenzy" 275 "You are betroth'd both to a maid and man" 277 Liberty Testing Courtesy 281 Outside the Garden Gate 292 Index 297
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Princeton University Press A History of Modern French Literature
Book SynopsisAn accessible and authoritative new history of French literature, written by a highly distinguished transatlantic group of scholars This book provides an engaging, accessible, and exciting new history of French literature from the Renaissance through the twentieth century, from Rabelais and Marguerite de Navarre to Samuel Beckett and Assia Djebar.Trade Review"In this splendid essay anthology, Prendergast gathers a stellar cast of scholars to provide a wide-ranging and thoughtful introduction to French literature... [E]very contribution here brings the history of French literature to vivid life, providing rich insights and inviting well-repaid rereading."--Publishers Weekly "[A] survey of 400 years of literature in French that is both useful and interesting... [A]nyone preparing to teach a French literature survey for the first time will find the book a godsend."--ChoiceTable of ContentsContents List of Contributors, ix Introduction (1): Aims, Methods, Stories, 1 Christopher Prendergast Introduction (2): The Frenchness of French Literature, 20 David Coward Erasmus and the "First Renaissance" in France, 47 Edwin M. Duval Rabelais and the Low Road to Modernity, 71 Raymond Geuss Marguerite de Navarre: Renaissance Woman, 91 Wes Williams Ronsard: Poet Laureate, Public Intellectual, Cultural Creator, 113 Timothy J. Reiss Du Bellay and La deffence et illustration de la langue francoyse, 137 Hassan Melehy Montaigne: Philosophy before Philosophy, 155 Timothy Hampton Moliere, Theater, and Modernity, 171 Christopher Braider Racine, Phedre, and the French Classical Stage, 190 Nicholas Paige Lafayette: La Princesse de Cleves and the Conversational Culture of Seventeenth-Century Fiction, 212 Katherine Ibbett From Moralists to Libertines, 229 Eric Mechoulan Travel Narratives in the Seventeenth Century: La Fontaine and Cyrano de Bergerac, 250 Judith Sribnai The Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns, 269 Larry F. Norman Voltaire's Candide: Lessons of Enlightenment and the Search for Truth, 291 Nicholas Cronk Disclosures of the Boudoir: The Novel in the Eighteenth Century, 312 Pierre Saint-Amand Women's Voices in Enlightenment France, 330 Catriona Seth Comedy in the Age of Reason, 351 Susan Maslan Diderot, Le neveu de Rameau, and the Figure of the Philosophe in Eighteenth-Century Paris, 371 Kate E. Tunstall Rousseau's First Person, 393 Joanna Stalnaker Realism, the Bildungsroman, and the Art of Self-Invention: Stendhal and Balzac, 414 Aleksandar Stevic Hugo and Romantic Drama: The (K)night of the Red, 436 Sarah Rocheville and Etienne Beaulieu Flaubert and Madame Bovary, 451 Peter Brooks Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud: Poetry, Consciousness, and Modernity, 470 Clive Scott Mallarme and Poetry: Stitching the Random, 495 Roger Pearson Becoming Proust in Time, 514 Michael Lucey Celine/Malraux: Politics and the Novel in the 1930s, 534 Steven Ungar Breton, Char, and Modern French Poetry, 554 Mary Ann Caws Cesaire: Poetry and Politics, 575 Mary Gallagher Sartre's La Nausee and the Modern Novel, 595 Christopher Prendergast Beckett's French Contexts, 615 Jean-Michel Rabate Djebar and the Birth of "Francophone" Literature, 634 Nicholas Harrison Acknowledgments, 653 Index, 655
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Princeton University Press Inside Paradise Lost Reading the Designs of
Book SynopsisOpens up readings and ways of reading Milton's epic poem by mapping out the intricacies of its narrative and symbolic designs and by revealing and exploring the deeply allusive texture of its verse. This book shows how Milton radically revises the epic tradition and the Genesis story itself by arguing that it is better to create than destroy.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2015 James Holly Hanford Award, The Milton Society of America One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014 Shortlisted for the 2015 Christian Gauss Award, Phi Beta Kappa Society "As in a great lecture, Quint never roams far from the language of the poem and as the first half of the book moves through the poem chronologically, it would be a particularly useful guide for advanced undergraduates."--Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, Times Literary Supplement "This learned, groundbreaking study illuminates the intricate narrative patterns that are woven into the fabric of Paradise Lost and demonstrates the poem's deeply allusive relationship to prior epic... This book is necessary reading for Miltonists and scholars interested in the epic tradition. And the clear prose and carefully articulated arguments make it fully accessible and helpful to less experienced readers."--Choice "This learned, carefully pondered, and admirably lucid book combines some of the features of a scholarly monograph with those of a critical overview of Milton's greatest poem."--David Hopkins, Milton Quarterly "For its playful style and learned approach, readers will relish, as I did, the chance to return to originals newly brought to light, to attend to delicious intricacies of text, to quarrel, even, with findings. This is a bravura performance, a deeply learned book that should be read by students and scholars of Renaissance comparative literature, and those interested in classical reception, and will be required reading for Milton scholars and students."--Sharon Achinstein, Renassiance Quarterly "Some books matter for what they say, others for when they say it. Inside Paradise Lost matters for both these reasons, and especially for the latter. It is a timely aesthetic study which will be read and re-read by Milton scholars and students. It will be mined for its learning, discussed, challenged, and enjoyed. Literary studies will be so much the better for it."--Leah Whittington, The Cambridge Quarterly "Quint proves a deeply engaging and illuminating guide to the designs, both large and small, of Milton's epic and his career... Quint has a gift for pithy and apt eloquence... There have been many fine books on Milton's epic and its relation to the long epic tradition, but none finer than Quint's."--Stephen M. Fallon, Modern Philology "David Quint's elegant, learned, and nuanced study of Paradise Lost and its designs contains enormous riches... It is a pleasure to read a critical book so sensitive to the rich poetic texture of Milton's work. Thanks to his substantial knowledge of early modern European literature and classical reception, Quint offers a wealth of fresh readings of the poem's allusions to classical and European epics, as well as to scriptural texts."--David Loewenstein, Modern Language QuarterlyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1.MILTON'S BOOK OF NUMBERS: BOOK 1 AND ITS CATALOG 15 The Shape of the Catalog 17 Moloch and Belial 1 18 Moloch and Saturn 1 19 Moloch and Saturn 2: A Miniature Aeneid 20 Moloch and Belial 2: Libya and Sodom 22 Egypt 23 The Catalog and Pandaemonium 24 The Logic of the Similes in Book 1 26 Raising Devils 29 Appendix: Demonic Swashbucklers 35 2.ULYSSES AND THE DEVILS: THE UNITY OF BOOK 2 38 The Council 41 Moloch and Belial Again: Ajax and Ulysses 42 Mammon and Beelzebub: A Thersites Is Rebuked 48 Satan and the Doloneia 50 Meanwhile, Back in Hell ... 52 Milton's Telegony 55 Satan's Odyssey 58 Whose Odyssey? 59 3.FEAR OF FALLING: ICARUS, PHAETHON, AND LUCRETIUS 63 Icarus and Satan's Fall Through Chaos 64 Virgil and Lucretius 64 Dante, Tasso, Ovid 67 Satan Voyager 71 Phaethon, the Son, and the War in Heaven 75 Flight and Fall 85 A Poetry Against Falling 88 4.LIGHT, VISION, AND THE UNITY OF BOOK 3 93 Structure and Design 96 Universal Blank 99 Vision 106 The Sun 109 The Paradise of Fools 111 Sun Worshippers 114 Poetry and Science 118 5.THE POLITICS OF ENVY 122 Envy and the New Dispensation 124 Angels and Courtiers 132 Brotherhood versus Kingship in Books 11-12 144 6.GETTING WHAT YOU WISH FOR: A READING OF THE FALL153 The Seduction of Eve 156 The Second Adam as Second Eve 169 Adam's Choice: "One flesh" 176 "Not vastly disproportionall" 185 Changing Places 188 Appendix: A Note on the Separation Scene 195 7.REVERSING THE FALL IN BOOK 10 197 Virgilian Coordinates and the End of Satan 200 Creation and Anti-creation 202 Anti-triumphs 203 The Triumphs of the Son 206 Satan's Triumph 208 Adam and the Winds 211 The Recovery of Human Choice 212 Cherishing Eve 218 Dido and Armida; Creusa 219 Pandora 223 The Exposed Matron 229 8.LEAVING EDEN 234 Deconsecrated Earth 236 Good-bye 245 Notes 249 Bibliography 285 Index 301
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Manchester University Press Doctor Faustus A and B Texts 1604 Christopher
Book SynopsisThis volume in the "Revel Plays" series, offers reading editions, with modern spelling, of the 1604 and 1616 editions of Marlowe's play, arguing that the two cannot be conflated into one. Included are sources and commentary, literary criticism, style and staging/performance assessments.Table of ContentsIntroduction to "Dr Faustus"; date; sources and background; "Dr Faustus" - the orthodox framework; "Dr Faustus" and humanist inspiration; "Dr Faustus" - magic and poetry; genre and structure; style and imagery; staging and themes in the 1616 quarto; "Dr Faustus" in performance; the texts of "Dr Faustus" - "Dr Faustus", A-text (1604), "Dr Faustus", B-text (1616).
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Manchester University Press Volpone or the Fox Ben Jonson Revised The Revels
Book SynopsisThe most thoroughly investigated edition of Volpone to dateTable of ContentsIntroduction1. The text2. The play3. Critical appreciation4. Stage historyVolpone, or The FoxAppendicesA. The music (by John P Cutts)B. Source materials and analoguesC. Modern productions and adaptationsD. Collations of 1607 Quarto and 1616 FolioIndex to the annotations
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Manchester University Press The Spanish Tragedy Revels Student Edition Thomas
Book SynopsisThe "revenge" play became the most durable and commercially successful type of drama on the Elizabethan stage. This example by Thomas Kyd, who was one of the originators of the genre, brings to life the intrigues of the Spanish court, dramatically juxtaposing romantic passion with violent death.
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Manchester University Press The Revengers Tragedy Revels Student Editions
Book SynopsisDepicts a morally corrupt world where the desire for justice is contaminated by the obsession for revenge. The characters take pleasure in watching adultery, incest and murder. The play's chief moral spokesman, Vindice, is at the same time enamoured of and disgusted by, the luxury of the court.
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Manchester University Press The Changeling
Book SynopsisThis classic text is the tale of a woman who becomes involved in murder without realizing the terrible price she will pay for it. This edition includes an introduction which analyzes the play in detail, and a commentary illuminating difficulties in the play for the modern reader.
£14.24
Manchester University Press The Witch of Edmonton By William Rowley Thomas
Book SynopsisThis edition of the multi-authored text The Witch of Edmonton offers a thorough reconsideration of the text, comprehensive notes and glossary, together with a complete transcription of the original pamphlet by Henry Goodcole.Table of ContentsIntroductionThe Witch of EdmontonAppendixNotes
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Manchester University Press Sejanus His Fall By Ben Jonson The Revels Plays
Book SynopsisThis new edition of Jonson's great Roman tragedy provides fresh information on the play, its author and the Jacobean text. The text is based on extensive collation of the 1605 and 161 version and takes the earlier version as "copy-text".Table of ContentsIntroduction1. The text2. Date, and place in Jonson's career3. Sources, influences and characterisation4. Sejanus and the Privy Council5. Critical assessment6. Jonson's way with Roman history7. Stage HistorySejanus
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