Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600 Books

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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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.

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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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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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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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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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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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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... 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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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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