Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 Books

Book SynopsisSimon Palfrey is Fellow in English, Braesnose College, Oxford University.

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Book SynopsisThis lively and informative guide reveals Hamlet as marking a turning point in Shakespeare''s use of language and dramatic form as well as addressing the key problem at the play''s core: Hamlet''s inaction. It also looks at recent critical approaches to the play and its theatre history, including the recent David Tennant / RSC Hamlet on both stage and TV screen.

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Book SynopsisThe Series Editors are Professor Ann Thompson, King's College London and Professor Lena Orlin, Georgetown University. Ann Thompson is a Professor of English and Director of the London Shakespeare Centre, King's College London. She is a General Editor of the Arden Shakespeare Third Series. Lena Orlin is Chief Executive of the Shakespeare Association of America.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION Ann Thompson THE TEXT AND ITS STATUS Notes and Queries Concerning the Text of Macbeth Anthony B. Dawson Dwelling ‘in doubtful joy’: Macbeth and the Aesthetics of Disappointment Brett Gamboa HISTORY AND TOPICALITY Politic Bodies in Macbeth Dermot Cavanagh ‘To crown my thoughts with acts’: Prophecy and Prescription in Macbeth Debapriya Sarkar Lady Macbeth, First Ladies and the Arab Spring: The Performance of Power on the Twenty-First Century Stage Kevin A. Quarmby CRITICAL APPROACHES AND CLOSE READING ‘A walking shadow’: Place, Perception and Disorientation in Macbeth Darlene Farabee Cookery and Witchcraft in Macbeth Geraldo U. de Sousa The Language of Macbeth Jonathan Hope and Michael Witmore ADAPTATION AND AFTERLIFE The Shapes of Macbeth: The Staged Text Sandra Clark Raising the Violence while Lowering the Stakes: Geoffrey Wright’s Screen Adaptation of Macbeth Philippa Sheppard The Butcher and the Text: Adaptation, Theatricality and the ‘Shakespea(Re)-Told’ Macbeth Ramona Wray

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Book SynopsisLena Cowen Orlin is Professor of English at Georgetown University, USA.Table of ContentsIntroduction - Lena Cowen Orlin (Georgetown University, USA) 1. Two Faced: the Problem of Othello's Visage - Ambereen Dadabhoy (Harvey Mudd College, USA) 2. Eloquent Barbarians: on the Critical Potential of Passionate Character - Lynn Enterline; 3. Audience-Actor Boundaries in Othello - Laurie E. Maguire (University of Oxford, UK) 4. "Speak[ing] Parrot" in Othello: Recontextualizing Black Speech in the Global Renaissance - Robert Hornback (Oglethorpe University, USA) 5. Secrets and Lies - Lois Potter (University of Delaware, USA) 6. Shakespeare's Nobody - Colleen Ruth Rosenfeld (Pomona College, USA) 7. Lucretius and Consummation in Othello - David Schalkwyk (Gallatin School of Individualized Study, USA) 8. Making Ambition Virtue? James Siemon (Washington University, USA) 9. Othello's Black Handkerchief - Ian Smith (Lafayette College, USA) 10. Double Diction and Othello's Dual Identity - Robert N. Watson (UCLA, USA) Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAbigail Rokison is Lecturer in Drama and English in the Education Faculty in Cambridge and Director of Studies in English and Drama at Homerton College, Cambridge, UK. She is Chair of the trustees of the British Shakespeare Association.Trade ReviewAbigail Rokison provides a comprehensive review of some of the many approaches taken by theatre and film directors, publishers and writers to shape the plays to teenagers and provides sharp, pertinent and knowledgeable evaluations of the successes and shortcomings of this body of work ... Rokison's excellent analysis of the plethora of work designed to entice young people into Shakespeare makes this an invaluable book that educators in schools and arts organisations would benefit from reading. -- Georghia Ellinas, Head of Learning with Globe Education * Around the Globe *Abigail Rokison’s new book is an overview of the myriad interesting and dynamic ways in which recent texts have attempted to make Shakespeare and his works, understandable, relatable, and entertaining for young people . . . I found Rokison’s book most engaging in the examination of stage productions of Shakespeare targeted at young people, offering invaluable audience responses, detailed description, and in-depth analysis of these productions . . . The interviews that follow each chapter on the various stage productions are a fascinating insight into the creative process of adapting Shakespeare for young people . . . The variety of films, comics, and other works discussed throughout is a highlight. -- Marina Gerzic, School of Humanities, The University of Western Australia * Parergon *Well written and doesn’t have too much of a critical research project feel, in spite of the numerous quotes and the extensive bibliography. Rokison certainly knows her stuff. -- Ali Warren * Teaching Drama *Offers a wealth of information on adaptations, graphic novels, animations, and original plays based on Shakespeare. -- Roland Greene, Stanford University * Recent Studies in Tudor and Stuart Drama *Table of ContentsIntroduction \ 1. Full-scale Stage Productions for Young People - Shakespeare's Globe: 'Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bankd' - Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing and Macbeth \ 2. Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet, Michael Almereyda's Hamlet and Christine Edzard's The Children's A Midsummer Nights Dream \ 3. 'Shakespeare's Stories': Prose Narratives and Picture Books \ 4. Shakespeare and the Graphic Novel \ 5. Cut-down Stage Versions for Young Children \ 6. Shakespeare: The Animated Tales \ 7. Novel Adaptations of Shakespeare: Hamlet \ 8. Original Plays Based on Shakespeare \ 9. Film Adaptations of Shakespeare - 'Romeo and Juliet the cartoon' and 'High School Dreams' \ Bibliography \ Index

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Book Synopsis'Negative capability', the term John Keats used only once in a letter to his brothers, is a well-known but surprisingly unexplored concept in literary criticism and aesthetics. This book clarifies the meaning of the term and offers an anatomy of its key components, and provides an account of the history of this idea.Trade Review"Elegantly written and cogently argued, this book puts the enigmatic term negative capability into clear focus for the first time and will immensely deepen our understanding of Keats' critical legacy in a way unattempted before. A brilliant tour de force to bring Keats' important concept back into scholarly debate and circulation." - Professor Zhang Longxi, Chair Professor of Comparative Literature and Translation, City University of Hong Kong and Foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities"Li Ou has taken Keats's most treasured critical concept and given it new and vigorous life. Not only has she provided sensitive readings of Keats's own major poems; she has singled out King Lear for a detailed analysis which illuminates both the play itself and Keats's imaginative relationship to it. Finally, in an especially revelatory chapter, she looks at Yeats and Eliot and sees ways - some of them, I think, previously unnoticed - in which 'negative capability' informs those poets also. From first to last, Li Ou's book is carefully embedded in the best scholarship of her predecessors and in her own original and perceptive understanding of the poets." - Edwin G. Wilson, Provost Emeritus, Professor Emeritus of English, Wake Forest University, USA"Li Ou has written an important and overdue book. The pendulum has swung too far: negative capability is a once-overused concept now in sore need of rehabilitation. She shows not only its vital importance in reading Keats but its considerable significance in the wider history of ideas. Well worth reading." - Simon Haines Professor of English, Chair of the Department of English, The Chinese, University of Hong KongTable of ContentsIntroduction: Anatomy of Negative Capability; 1. Genealogy of Negative Capability; 2. King Lear and Negative Capability; 3. Negative Capability and Keats's Poetry; 4. Modernist Heritage of Negative Capability; Conclusion: The Tradition of Negative Capability; Appendices: Keats's markings and marginalia in King Lear; Bibliography; Index.

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Book Synopsis"King Lear" is one of Shakespeare's most performed and studied plays - seen as one of the most significant and universal tragedies of all time. This guide introduces the play's critical and performance history, including notable stage productions alongside TV, film and radio versions.Trade ReviewThis volume provides "all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know" about the challenging experience of King Lear. The coverage is compendious, the research up-to-date, and the essays rich with fresh insights. -- R. S. White, Professor of English, University of Western Australia, AustraliaThis comprehensive approach makes King Lear: A Critical Guide a valuable resource for advanced undergraduates and those who teach them, as it suggests the multitude of reaction to King Lear over time, while also showing what can still be done within this vast tradition. -- William Rhodes, University of Virginia * Sixteenth Century Journal *Table of ContentsSeries Introduction; King Lear Timeline; Introduction; 1. The Critical Backstory, Joan Fitzpatrick (Loughborough University, UK); 2. Performance History, Ramona Wray (Queen's University Belfast, UK); 3. The State of the Art, Philippa Kelly (University of New South Wales, Australia); 4. New Directions: Bowdlerizing and Borrowing: Finding Bits of Lear on the 19th and 20th Century Stage, Lori-Anne Ferrell (Claremont Graduate School, USA); 5. New Directions: 'The Promised End': King Lear and millenarian / utopian ideas in the early seventeenth century, Anthony Parr (University of Western Cape, SA); 6. New Directions: King Lear and Protestantism, John J. Norton (Concordia University, USA); 7. New Directions: King Lear as 'British' play, Willy Maley (University of Glasgow, UK); 8. Resources, Peter Sillitoe (De Montfort University, UK); Notes on Contributors; Index.

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Book SynopsisPaul Yachnin is Tomlinson Professor of Shakespeare Studies and Director of the Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas (IPLAI) at McGill University, Canada.Trade ReviewThis impressive and wide-ranging volume brings together a variety of perspectives to consider the expansive world of words that unfolds on Shakespeare’s stage. One of the most welcome features of Shakespeare’s World of Words is its diverse body of contributors. Essays from literary scholars appear alongside those by theater practitioners and performance scholars … The “opening up” of interpretive possibilities is one of this volume’s best gifts. Readers come away with a renewed perspective on the many elements that render Shakespeare’s world of words so rich. * Shakespeare Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction 1. Well-Won Thrift Michael Bristol (McGill University) and Sara Coodin (University of Oklahoma) 2. Proper Names and Common Bodies: The Case of Cressida David Schalkwyk (Folger Shakespeare Library) 3. Antique/Antic: Archaism, Neologism and the Play of Shakespeare’s Words in Love’s Labor’s Lost and 2 Henry IV Lucy Munro (University of Keele) 4. Learning to Color in Hamlet Miriam Jacobson (University of Georgia) 5. Recasting ‘Angling’ in The Winter's Tale J. A. Shea (Dawson College) 6. ‘What may be and should be’: Grammar Moods and the Invention of History in 1 Henry VI Lynne Magnusson (University of Toronto) 7. Othello and Theatrical Language Sarah Werner (Folger Shakespeare Library) 8. Slips of Wilderness: Verbal and Gestural Language in Measure for Measure Paul Yachnin and Patrick Neilson (McGill University) 9. ‘Captious and Inteemable’: Reading Comprehension in Shakespeare Meredith Evans (Concordia University) 10. ‘Time is their master’: Men and Meter in The Comedy of Errors Jennifer Roberts-Smith (University of Waterloo) Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Tempest contains sublime poetry and catchy songs, magic and low comedy, while it tackles important contemporary concerns: education, power politics, the effects of colonization, and technology. In this guide, Alden T. Vaughan and Virginia Mason Vaughan open up new ways into one of Shakespeare's most popular, malleable and controversial plays.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Series Introduction Notes on Contributors Timeline Introduction (Alden T. Vaughan, Columbia University, USA, Clark University, USA) 1 The Critical Backstory: ‘What’s Past is Prologue’ (Virginia Mason Vaughan, Clark University, USA) 2 A Theatre of Attraction: Colonialism, Gender, and The Tempest’s Performance History (Eckart Voigts, TU Braunschweig, Germany) 3 Recent Perspectives on The Tempest (Brinda Charry, Keene State College, USA) 4 New Directions: Sources and Creativity in The Tempest (Andrew Gurr, University of Reading, UK) 5 New Directions: Commedia dell’Arte, The Tempest, and Transnational Criticism (Helen M. Whall, College of the Holy Cross, USA) 6 New Directions: ‘He needs will be Absolute Milan’: The Political Thought of The Tempest (Jeffrey A. Rufo, Rutgers University, USA) 7 New Directions: Shakespeare’s Revolution – The Tempest as Scientific Romance (Scott Maisano, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA) 8 ‘volumes that / I prize’: Resources for Studying and Teaching The Tempest (Nathaniel Amos Rothschild, St Thomas Aquinas College, USA) Notes Select Bibliography Index

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Book Synopsis"The indispensable critic on the indispensable writer." -Geoffrey O'Brien, New York Review of Books A landmark achievement as expansive, erudite, and passionate as its renowned author, this book is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, writing about, and teaching Shakespeare. Preeminent literary critic-and ultimate authority on the western literary tradition, Harold Bloom leads us through a comprehensive reading of every one of the dramatist's plays, brilliantly illuminating each work with unrivaled warmth, wit and insight. At the same time, Bloom presents one of the boldest theses of Shakespearean scholarships: that Shakespeare not only invented the English language, but also created human nature as we know it today.Trade Review"The most original literary critic in America." --The New York Times"No critic in the English language since Samuel Johnson has been more prolific." --The Paris Review"Bloom is all literature, (he) positively lives it." --Alfred Kazin

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Book SynopsisKevin De Ornellas argues that in Renaissance England the relationship between horse and rider works as an unambiguous symbol of domination by the strong over the weak. There was little sentimental concern for animal welfare, leading to the routine abuse of the material animal. This unproblematic, practical exploitation of the horse led to the currency of the horse/rider relationship as a trope or symbol of exploitation in the literature of the period. Engaging with fiction, plays, poems, and non-fictional prose works of late Tudor and early Stuart England, De Ornellas demonstrates that the horse—a bridled, unwilling slave—becomes a yardstick against which the oppression of England’s poor, women, increasingly uninfluential clergyman, and deluded gamblers is measured. The status of the bitted, harnessed horse was a low one in early modern England—to be compared to such a beast is a demonstration of inferiority and subjugation. To think anything else is to be naïve about the realities of horse management in the period and is to be naïve about the realities of the exploitation of horses and other mammals in the present-day world.Trade ReviewEach chapter contains a wealth of contextual and textual references, and De Ornellas characteristically moves across a variety of forms of writing and historical evidence. . . .There is analysis in each chapter that illuminates the main texts considered (the reading of Shirley’s Hide Park is particularly successful and stimulating) and that enables greater understanding of the importance of horse talk. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments and Preface, i. Introduction Chapter One, “Pricked More with the Spur then the Provender”: Hungry Horses and Woodstock Chapter Two, Agency and/or Containment? Man/Woman and Horse/Rider Relationships in Early Modern England Chapter Three, Trampling on the Bald Pate: Morocco the Wonder Horse and the Humiliation of St Paul’s Chapter Four, Laying the World on Your Mare: the Corrupt Horse-Race in Shirley’s Hide Parke Chapter Five, Constructed Combatants: Political Steeds Before, During, and After the Civil Wars Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe hundreds of biblical references in Shakespeare's plays give ample evidence that he was well acquainted with Scripture. Not only is the range of his biblical references impressive, but also the aptness with which he makes them. Hamlet and Othello each have more than fifty biblical references. No study of Shakespeare's plays is complete that ignores Shakespeare's use of scripture. The Bibles that Shakespeare knew, however, were not those that are in use today. By the time the King James Bible appeared in 1611, Shakespeare's career was all but over, and the Anglican liturgy that is evident in his plays is likewise one that few persons are acquainted with. This volume provides a comprehensive survey of the English Bibles of Shakespeare's day, notes their similarities and differences, and indicates which version the playwright knew best. The thorny question of what constitutes a valid biblical reference is also discussed. This study of Shakespeare's biblical references is not based on secondary sources. The author owned one of the world's largest collections of early English bibles, including over one hundred copies of the Geneva bible and numerous editions of other Bibles, prayer books, and books of homilies of Shakespeare's day. To be of real worth, a study of Shakespeare's biblical references should also enable the reader to determine which references Shakespeare borrowed from his plot sources and which he added from his own memory as part of his design for the play. The author studies every source that Shakespeare is known to have read or consulted before writing each play and has examined the biblical references in those sources. Shaheen then points out which biblical references in his literary sources Shakespeare accepted, and how he adapted them in his plays. This information is especially valuable when assessing the theological meanings that are sometimes imposed on his plays, meanings that often go beyond what Shakespeare intended or what his audience must have understood. Biblical References in Shakespeare's Plays is considerably broader in scope than any other study of its kind and provides the scholarly checks and balances in dealing with the subject that previous studies lacked.

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Book SynopsisAn accessible and entertaining journey through the life, times, and work of the Bard - Enigma. Master of language. The greatest comedian in history? The most famous writer in the world. But isn't he a little bit boring? This is an essential guide for anyone who has previously avoided the Bard, and is the perfect introduction for first time students or seasoned theatre lovers. The book contains a full commentary of all the plays by bestselling and reknowned writer Peter Ackroyd as well as full descriptions of the cast and the drama; not forgetting the best speeches, and the wit and wisdom from across the works. There is also an opportunity to explore the poems and a complete set of sonnets, as well as an investigation of who the dark lady might have been.Contains:The complete sonnets; the greatest speeches; the best lines.Perfect for students struggling through their first play or for theatre lovers anywhere.Entertaining, accessible, Shakespeare without the boring bits.

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Book SynopsisShakespeare, like many of his contemporaries, was concerned with the question of the succession and the legitimacy of the monarch. From the early plays through the histories to Hamlet, Shakespeare's work is haunted by the problem of political legitimacy. Shakespeare and Reniassance Politics examines his works as political events and interventions, and explores the literature of the Renaissance and its relation to fundamental political issues.

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Book SynopsisThis accessible and interdisciplinary volume addresses a fundamental need in current education in language, literature and drama. Many of today's students lack the grammatical and linguistic skills to enable them to study Shakespearean and other Renaissance texts as closely as their courses require. This practical guide will help them to understand and use the structures and strategies of written and dramatic language. Eleven short essays on aspects of literary criticism and performance by an eminent team of contributors are followed by a more detailed exploration of the history of language use, grammar and spelling, plus a glossary of terms offering definitions, contexts and examples. Together these provide an informed and engaging historical understanding of dramatic language in the early modern period.

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Book SynopsisSuzanne Gossett offers a full and critical performance history, with an introduction showing how the play's performance history has paralled the criticism. It then gives an interpretation of this two-generation romance, with its successive male and female central characters, based on a reading 'through the family', and influenced by the feminist and new historicist criticism of the last two decades.The edition integrates cumulative research on Shakespeare's collaborative authorship and the transmission of the text without rewriting the play or ignoring years of emendations.

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Book SynopsisThis open access Pivot book is a comparative study of six early colonial public libraries in nineteenth-century Australia, South Africa, and Southeast Asia. Drawing on networked conceptualisations of empire, transnational frameworks, and ‘new imperial history’ paradigms that privilege imbricated colonial and metropolitan ‘intercultures’, it looks at the neglected role of public libraries in shaping a programme of Anglophone civic education, scientific knowledge creation, and modernisation in the British southern hemisphere. The book’s six chapters analyse institutional models and precedents, reading publics and types, book holdings and catalogues, and regional scientific networks in order to demonstrate the significance of these libraries for the construction of colonial identity, citizenship, and national self-government as well as charting their influence in shaping perceptions of social class, gender, and race. Using primary source material from the recently completed ‘Book Catalogues of the Colonial Southern Hemisphere’ digital archive, the book argues that public libraries played a formative role in colonial public discourse, contributing to broader debates on imperial citizenship and nation-statehood across different geographic, cultural, and linguistic borders.Table of Contents1. Introduction.- 2. From Community to Public Libraries: Liberalism, Education, and Self-Government.- 3. Cultivating Public Readers: Citizens, Classes, and Types.- 4. ‘A mob of light readers’: Holdings, Genre Proportions, and Modes of Reading.- 5. Knowing the ‘Native Mind’: Ethnological and Philological Collections.- 6. Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis collection of essays explores the remarkable range and cultural significance of the engagement with ‘infancy’ during the Romantic period. Taking its point of departure in the commonplace claim that the Romantics invented childhood, the book traces that engagement across national boundaries, in the visual arts, in works of educational theory and natural philosophy, and in both fiction and non-fiction written for children. Essays authored by scholars from a range of national and disciplinary backgrounds reveal how Romantic-period representations of and for children constitute sites of complex discursive interaction, where ostensibly unrelated areas of enquiry are brought together through common tropes and topoi associated with infancy. Broadly new-historicist in approach, but drawing also on influential theoretical descriptions of genre, discipline, mediation, cultural exchange, and comparative methodologies, the collection also seeks to rethink the idea of a clear-cut dichotomy between Enlightenment and Romantic conceptions of infancy.Table of ContentsIntroduction: the Romantic cultures of infancy 1. ‘A detached peninsula’: infancy in the work of Thomas De Quincey. Martina Domines Veliki and Cian Duffy 2. William Blake’s Infant Joy. Robert Rix 3. The infant, the mother, and the breast in the paintings of Marguerite Gérard. Loren Lerner 4. Mother at the source: romanticism and infant education. Robert A. Davis 5. Coleridge, the ridiculous child, and the limits of Romanticism. Andrew McInnes 6. Educational experiments: childhood sympathy, regulation and object relations in Maria Edgeworth’s writing about education. Charles Armstrong 7. ‘Advice [...] by one as insignificant as a MOUSE’: human and non-human infancy in eighteenth-century moral animal tales. Anja Höing 8. William Godwin, Romantic-era historiography and the political cultures of infancy. John-Erik Hansson 9. Experimenting with children: infants in the scientific imagination. Lisa Ann Robertson 10. ‘A wretch so sad, so lorn’: the feral child and the Romantic cultures of infancy. Rolf Lessenich

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Table of ContentsFrontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Goethe the Novelist -- Goethe als Novellist -- Greatness, Saintliness, Usefulness Character Configurations in Goethe's Oeuvre -- Werthers Leiden an der Literatur -- The Theatrical Mission of the Lehrjahre -- Geheime Lenkung. Zur Turmgesellschaft in Goethes Wilhelm Meister -- Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre and the Poetic Unity of the Novel in Early German Romanticism -- Analogies for Love: Goethe's Die Wahlverwandtschaften and Plato's Symposium -- Views from the Summerhouse: Goethe's Wahlverwandtschaften and its Literary Successors -- Revolutionary Realism in Goethe's Wanderjahre -- Tensions in Goethe's Novelle -- Goethe's Novel, Campagne in Frankreich -- Register -- Backmatter

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Book SynopsisBand I von Reiner Wilds Gesamtdarstellung der Alterslyrik Goethes behandelt die Zeitspanne zwischen dem Todesjahr Schillers 1805 und 1813/14, dem Ende der napoleonischen Ära. Der Autor zeigt, dass sich Goethes Dichtungsverständnis nach 1805 grundlegend ändert, von der Lyrik des subjektiven Ausdrucks hin zum Gedicht als Medium der Kommunikation. Die Mehrzahl der ca. 150 Gedichte dieser Zeit sind Gelegenheitsgedichte, vor allem Gedichte an Personen, und Lieder zu geselligen Anlässen. Hinzu kommt eine Reihe von Balladen, in denen sich Goethe mit den Zeittendenzen auseinandersetzt. Zu den Neuerungen dieser Jahre gehört Goethes Interesse an Spruchdichtung, deren Produktion vor allem nach 1810 stetig zunimmt. Mit der Analyse der Gedichte und ihrer Entstehungs- und Verwendungszusammenhänge entsteht ein neues, differenzierteres Bild von Goethes lyrischem Alterswerk.Table of ContentsEinleitung.- 1. Das Ende der Klassik.- 2. Sonette.- 3. Gelegenheit.- 4. Selbstvergewisserung.- 5. Liebeslyrik.- 6. Die neue Werkausgabe.

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Book SynopsisIn der frühen Neuzeit beschäftigen sich zahlreiche Texte mit Berufen, indem sie das jeweils erforderliche Wissen, einzelne Aufgabenfelder, Zweck, Ursprung und Prestige darstellen. Humanistisch ist der Argumentationsgang, insofern er meist vom Menschen ausgeht. Prägend ist dabei die antike Vorstellung vom Vorrang der Kopfarbeit vor der Handarbeit. Die Bedeutung Spaniens ergibt sich daraus, dass der spanische König Karl V. zugleich Kaiser und Herrscher über die Kolonien in Amerika war, also nach damaligen Verhältnissen ein Weltreich regierte. Nach der Erörterung einiger zentraler Kategorien werden Gesamtdarstellungen des Wissens, der Berufe und der herausragenden Berufsvertreter vorgestellt. Dabei ist die Hierarchisierung und deren Relativierung durch die Satire aufschlussreich. Anhand einzelner als charakteristische Beispiele ausgewählter Berufe mit jeweiligem spezifischen Wissen werden dann die mechanischen Künste und die artes liberales vorgeführt. Den Abschluss bilden die höheren Fakultäten Medizin, Theologie und Jurisprudenz mit ihren Vertretern. Table of Contents1 Konzeptionen von Arbeit.- 2 Alternativen zur Arbeit.- 3 Sammlungen.- 4 Mechanische Künste.- 5 Artes liberales.- 6 Höhere Fakultäten.- 7 Handwerk und Hierarchie.

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Book SynopsisQuantifiable citizenship in the form of birth certificates, census forms, and immigration quotas is so ubiquitous that today it appears ahistorical. Yet before the modern colonial era, there was neither a word for population in the sense of numbers of people, nor agreement that monarchs should count their subjects. Much of the work of naturalizing the view that people can be represented as populations took place far outside government institutions and philosophical treatises. It occurred instead in the work of colonial writers who found in the act of counting a way to imagine fixed boundaries between intermingling groups. Counting Bodies explores the imaginative, personal, and narrative writings that performed the cultural work of normalizing the enumeration of bodies. By repositioning and unearthing a literary pre-history of population science, the book shows that representing individuals as numbers was a central element of colonial projects. Early colonial writings that describe routine and even intimate interactions offer a window into the way people wove the quantifiable forms of subjectivity made available by population counts into everyday life. Whether trying to make sense of plantation slavery, frontier warfare, rapid migration, or global commerce, writers framed questions about human relationships across different cultures and generations in terms of population.Trade ReviewFarrell's Counting Bodies examines ways of counting people in the British Colonial Atlantic using forms of literature such as poetry, captivity narratives and travel writing and mortality bills. Farrell makes the claim that such texts, disparate as they may be, nonetheless offer insight into what she terms 'human accounting' in the seventeenth and eighteenth century colonial context. * Philippa Chun, British Society for Literature and Science *I was continually excited by this book, and was especially struck by the way that Farrell's focus on the literary representation of population, and particularly on bodies that are difficult to count, might open up new possibilities for thinking about the complexity and variability of colonial American ideas of community. I'm persuaded, for example, that her book can help us think about colonial understandings of disability, another form of human categorization that was just beginning to emerge during this period. ... Just as important, however, is her careful attention to how writers in early America obstructed, disallowed, and resisted this kind of counting. Farrell's book is worth thinking with, and I'm eager to see how her methods and conclusions might further expand and enliven our understanding of what it meant to count and be counted in colonial communities. * Nicholas Junkerman, Common Place *Counting Bodies takes a very stimulating approach to its subject matter, and as an alternative route to understanding the emergence of population ideas it is to be welcomed. * Robert J. Mayhew, Journal of Historical Geography *If we take the counting of bodies today as an ordinary act of the state, Farrell invites us to consider a time when counting bodies was unusual and, further, takes us deep into the historical quandaries surrounding the counting of bodies. What is a countable body? Where does one body stop and another begin? In this book, Farrell brilliantly sounds the literary pre-history of the concept of population on colonial ground, illuminating the work that gender and race perform in the history of settler colonialism and European imperial expansion in early America. * Elizabeth Dillon, author of New World Drama: The Performative Commons in the Atlantic World, 1649-1849 *By providing the reader with insight into the history of biopolitics before 'biopolitics' became the chief method of government, Farrell accomplishes something quite remarkable. Still more to her credit, she adds to the growing archive of early American texts by exploring the aesthetic dimension of literature, which doubled the perspective of these same procedures to expose the blindnesses induced by numerical representations of human life. * Leonard Tennenhouse, author of Power on Display: The Politics of Shakespeare's Genres *This is a marvellously rich reading of the conceptual logics associated with counting peoples. Treating colonialism, mortality, race and constitutionalism, Counting Bodies offers a compelling poetics of the enumerative imagination. It powerfully highlights the political implications of counting people * dead, alive or unbornpopulating the margins of systems of race, gender and religion.Peter Thompson, co-editor of State and Citizen: British America and the Early United States *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Stories of Cataclysm and Population Chapter 1: Poetics of the Ark Ashore Chapter 2: Measuring Caribbean Aesthetics Chapter 3: Counting in King Philip's War Chapter 4: The Death and Life of Colonial Mortality Bills Epilogue: Mourning the Figure of Three-fifths Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThis edition of As You Like It reprints the Bevington edition of the play accompanied by four sets of primary documents and illustrations. Including pastoral poetry, ballads, diatribes, jest books, maps and woodcuts, the documents contextualizes a variety of themes exploring the joys and trials of rural life.Table of ContentsTo be confirmed.

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Book SynopsisFirst Published in 2002. This is a collection of essays and commentary on the later Shakespearian tragedies of Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Macbeth, Coriolanus, Anthony and Cleopatra and Richard II.Table of ContentsChapter 1 On Imaginative Interpretation; Chapter 2 The Torch of Life: An Essay on Julius Caesar; Chapter 3 The Eroticism of Julius Caesar; Chapter 4 Rose of May: An Essay on Life-Themes in Hamlet; Chapter 5 The Milk of Concord: An Essay on Life-Themes in Macbeth; Chapter 6 The Royal Occupation: An Essay on Coriolanus; Chapter 7 The Transcendental Humanism of Antony and Cleopatra; Chapter 8 The Diadem of Love: An Essay on Antony and Cleopatra; Chapter 9 Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra; Chapter 10 A Note on Antony and Cleopatra; Chapter 11 The Prophetic Soul;

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Book SynopsisLa Cazzaria is the most outspoken erotic text of the Italian Renaissance-a ribald dialogue about politics, sex, and desire. The book is remarkable for its frank discussions of sexuality and explicit homoeroticism-especially when compared to other writings of the period-and for its sophisticated treatment of sexual and political power.Trade Review"The sexiest and most enjoyable book of the year." -- Dean Kuipers, LA Times"Because it is such unabashed fun, it makes a sharp commentary on current writing about sex." -- Dean Kuipers, LA Times"Controversy--political, sexual, and otherwise--always sells books... . Political intrigue and scandal are also the main topics in La Cazzaria: The Book of the Prick, by Antonio Vignali, edited and translated by Ian Frederick Moulton (Routledge; April). A cross between Machiavelli's The Prince and the most scandalous pornography of its time, this 16th-century " erotic dialogue "-- translated for the first time -- redefines the possibilities of sexual politics." -- Michael Bronski, Boston Phoenix"Recommended for collections dealing with the history of sexuality or erotica." -- Mary Morgan Smith, LibraryJournal"His [Mouton's] exemplary introduction is nearly as long as the text itself and twice as worthwhile. It provides the historical perspective and intellectual sobriety missing from what Moulton tactfully describes as 'learned, but childish,' fable that is, even by most liberal modern standards, a complete gross-out-though probably not to anyone who has tuned into Howard Stern. A radically obscene satire on politics and sex." -- TheNew Yorkern"His [Mouton's] exemplary introduction is nearly as long as the text itself and twice as worthwhile. It provides the historical perspective and intellectual sobriety missing from what Moulton tactfully describes as 'learned, but childish,' fable that is, even by most liberal modern standards, a complete gross-out-though probably not to anyone who has tuned into Howard Stern. A radically obscene satire on politics and sex." -- TheNew Yorker"Moulton's translation and edition of Vignali's Lacazzaria constitutes a useful instrument to understand further the strong links among knowledge, power, and sexuality in the early modern period. Moulton's remarkable introduction to Vignali's dialogue places the text in its historical context, thus making this edition a useful instrument for scholars in gender studies, queer studies, and early modern political and intellectual history." -- Monica Calabritto, City University of New York, Hunter College, Renaissance Quarterly"Moulton's translation and edition of Vignali's La cazzaria constitutes a useful intstrument to understand further the strong links among knowledge, power, and sexuality in the early modern period... a useful instrument for scholars in gender studies, queer studies, and early modern political and intellectual history." -- Monica Calabritto, the City University of New York, Hunter College, Renaissance QuarterlyTable of ContentsINTRODUCTION, Ian Frederick Moulton; Part 1 La Cazzaria; Chapter 1 La Cazzaria;

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Book SynopsisShakespeare's potent use of garden imagery has captivated successive generations of readers and inspired the making of gardens across the globe. Laced with quotations and abounding with illustrations drawn from sources including Elizabethan gardening books, embroidered fabrics and hand-coloured herbals, The Quest for Shakespeare's Garden tells the story of the Bard's own garden at New Place in Stratford-upon-Avon, revealing its place in garden history.Trade Review'This elegant little book takes on the character of a detective story as Strong […] uncovers the way Shakespeare became a gateway for early gardening historians' - Daily Telegraph'Artily produced [with] an unmissable text by Sir Roy Strong' - Robin Lane Fox, Financial Times'A total delight, rich with quotations and sumptuous images' - Birmingham Mail'Wholly original … thoughtfully illustrated' - Archives of Natural History

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Book SynopsisIntroducing key themes and the history of the play's performance and critical reception, this is a comprehensive guide to Macbeth by leading international scholars.Table of ContentsSeries Introduction, Andrew Hiscock and Lisa Hopkins Macbeth Timeline Introduction, John Drakakis and Dale Townshend 1. The Critical Backstory, Sandra Clarke 2. Performance History, Laury Magnus 3. The State of the Art, Julie Sanders 4. New Directions i. Macbeth in the Present, Terence Hawkes ii. Unsexing Macbeth, Dale Townshend iii. Macbeth, Religion and Nationalism, Adrian Streete iv. Macbeth and Sovereignty 5. Resources, Christy Desmet Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThis multi-genre anthology brings together a wide selection of women's published writing from the Early Modern period.

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Book SynopsisThis new guide to the English renaissance's most erudite and yet most street-wise dramatist strongly asserts the theatrical brilliance of his greatest plays in performance, then and now.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of abbreviations used List of Illustrations Chronology Introduction Chapter One: Life and Culture (i) Jonson's Life (ii) The Roots of Jonson's Theatre: Classicism and Humanism (iii) Jonson and Authority Chapter Two: The Early Comedies (1597-1601) The Case is Altered (1597)

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Book SynopsisThis bold new collection offers an innovative discussion of Shakespeare on screen after the millennium. Cutting-edge, and fully up-to-date, it surveys the rich field of Bardic film representations, from Michael Almereyda''s Hamlet to the BBC ''Shakespea(Re)-Told'' season, from Michael Radford''s The Merchant of Venice to Peter Babakitis'' Henry V. In addition to offering in-depth analyses of all the major productions, Screening Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century includes reflections upon the less well-known filmic ''Shakespeares'', which encompass cinema advertisements, appropriations, post-colonial reinventions and mass media citations, and which move across and between genres and mediums.Arguing that Shakespeare is a magnet for negotiations about style, value and literary authority, the essays contend that screen reinterpretations of England''s most famous dramatist simultaneously address concerns centred upon nationality and ethnicity, gender and romance, and ''McDonaldisation'' and the political process, thereby constituting an important intervention in the debates of the new century. As a result, through consideration of such offerings as the Derry Film Initiative Hamlet, the New Zealand The Maori Merchant of Venice and the television documentary In Search of Shakespeare, this collection is able to assess as never before the continuing relevance of Shakespeare in his local and global screen incarnations.Trade ReviewThe ten essays in this collection ! have something new and special to offer. The book is cutting-edge not only because it is sharply focused on the latest screen versions of Shakespeare, but also because of its twenty-first century approach to the subject. Brings the study of Shakespeare on film bang up to date...These are engaged and provocative critical assessments of twenty-first-century Shakespeare and post-millennial culture in general. -- Ewan Fernie, Department of English, Royal Holloway College, University of London The editors' period- and theme-based approach offers (in addition to the excitement of genuinely new and illuminating approaches) real clarity and direction. -- Peter S. Donaldson, Department of Literature, MIT, & Director of the Shakespeare Electronic Archive Screening Shakespeare is the first anthology specifically to address screen Shakespeare in the new millennium ... this consistently superb collection offers the critical state of the art. ... The contributions are so strong that it is difficult to single out essays for special praise. ...provides refreshing and current insight... Film & History The ten essays in this collection ! have something new and special to offer. The book is cutting-edge not only because it is sharply focused on the latest screen versions of Shakespeare, but also because of its twenty-first century approach to the subject. Brings the study of Shakespeare on film bang up to date...These are engaged and provocative critical assessments of twenty-first-century Shakespeare and post-millennial culture in general. The editors' period- and theme-based approach offers (in addition to the excitement of genuinely new and illuminating approaches) real clarity and direction. Screening Shakespeare is the first anthology specifically to address screen Shakespeare in the new millennium ... this consistently superb collection offers the critical state of the art. ... The contributions are so strong that it is difficult to single out essays for special praise. ...provides refreshing and current insight...Table of ContentsIntroduction; Mark Thornton Burnett and Ramona Wray; 1. 'If I'm right': Michael Wood's In Search of Shakespeare, Richard Dutton; 2. 'I see my father' in 'my mind's eye': Surveillance and the Filmic Hamlet, Mark Thornton Burnett; 3. Backstage Pass(ing): Stage Beauty, Othello and the Make-up of Race, Richard Burt; 4. The Postnostalgic Renaissance: The 'Place' of Liverpool in Don Boyd's My Kingdom, Courtney Lehmann; 5. Our Shakespeares: British Television and the Strains of Multiculturalism, Susanne Greenhalgh and Robert Shaughnessy; 6. Looking for Shylock: Stephen Greenblatt, Michael Radford and Al Pacino, Samuel Crowl; 7. Speaking Maori Shakespeare, Catherine Silverstone; 8. 'Into a thousand parts divide one man', Sarah Hatchuel; 9. Screening the McShakespeare in Post-Millenial Shakespeare Cinema; 10. Shakespeare and the Singletons, Ramona Wray; Notes on Contributors; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book is new in the way it tackles the problem of imagining performances of Shakespeare as you read his plays.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; A note on style; Chronology; Introduction; How Shakespeare's works come down to us; Part One. Dramatic Genres; Chapter One. Comedies: A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595) and Much Ado About Nothing (1598); Transformation, translation, and plays to pass the time; Much Ado About Nothing; Soldiers turned lovers; Determining genre; Dirty jokes and sexual mores; Chapter Two. Histories: Richard 2 and Henry 5; This England; Providence; Serialized history and the Tudor Myth; The order of composition; What kind of king is Henry 5?; Chapter Three. Tragedies: Hamlet and Othello; Large and small affairs in Hamlet; Sex, suicide, and scepticism; Testing the supernatural; The character of Othello in isolation; The character of Othello in the world; Racial difference -- cultural difference -- multiculturalism; Chapter Four. Problem plays and Romances: All's Well that Ends Well and The Winter's Tale; Not Hamlet in a dress, nor Helen in breeches; Choosing among the men; Helen's quest; Unsuitable husbands; Do Hermione and Polixenes paddle palms?; The Winter's Tale as proto-novel; Summer/Winter -- Man/Woman -- Land/Class; Part Two. Critical Approaches; Chapter Five. Authority and authorship: Measure for Measure; History: Then; Proposing to Isabella; Being a nun; Meaning: Now; Recovering Shakespeare's version; Chapter Six. Performance: Macbeth; The witches; The timing of exits and entrances; The bipolar stage; The apparitions; Indeterminacy; Chapter Seven. Identities: The Tempest; The identity of Caliban; Nature/Nurture; The New World; Colonialism in general; Ariel as subaltern; Chapter Eight. Materialism: Timon of Athens; Base and superstructure; Timon as unaccommodated man; Money, gold, and g(u)ilt: Shakespearian alchemy; The second law of thermodynamics; The new materialism versus Gaia; Conclusion; Student Resources; Electronic Resources and Reference Resources; Glossary; Guide to Further Reading.

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Book SynopsisThis study looks at the epistemological significance of maternity in early modern England.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Note on the Text; List of Illustrations; Introduction: Constructing Maternal Knowledge; 1. Flesh and Stone: Dissecting Maternity in the Theatre of Anatomy; 2. The Cabinet of Wonders: Monstrous Conceptions in the Theatre of Nature; 3. Strange Labours: Maternity and Maleficium in the Theatre of Justice; 4. Speaking Stones: Memory and Maternity in the Theatre of Death; Postscript; Selected Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a lively introduction to all of the plays of Christopher Marlowe and to the central concerns of his age, many of which are still important to us--religious uncertainty, the clash between Islam and Christianity, ideas of sexuality, and the rôle of the marginalised inidividual in society.Each chapter focuses on a specific aspect of Marlowe''s work and its cultural contexts: Marlowe''s life and death; the Marlowe canon; the theatrical contexts and stage history of the plays; Marlowe''s interest in old and new branches of knowledge; the ways in which he transgresses against established norms and values; and the major issues which have been raised in critical discussions of his plays.Trade ReviewThere is much useful material here for readers new to Marlowe ... Hopkins offers some inspired readings of the plays. H-Net There is much useful material here for readers new to Marlowe ... Hopkins offers some inspired readings of the plays.Table of ContentsContents; 1. Marlowe's Life and Death; 2. The Marlowe Canon; 3. Marlowe on Stage, 1587-2007: Theatrical Contexts and Dramaturgical Practice; 4. Marlowe as Scholar: Old and New Knowledges in the Plays; 5. Marlowe the Horizon-Stretcher: Daring God out of Heaven and conquering new worlds; 6. Critical Issues.

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Book SynopsisThis study introduces readers to the eighteenth-century novel through a consideration of contemporary social issues.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1 Oroonoko, or, The History of the Royal Slave and Race Relations 2 The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Born Again Theology and Intelligent Design 3 Gulliver's Travels, Multiculturalism and Cultural Difference 4 Pamela; Or, Virtue Rewarded and Sexual Abstinence 5 The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling and Anti-Social Behaviour 6 The Female Quixote; or, The Adventures of Arabella and Northanger Abbey: The Power of the Media and Popular Culture 7 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, and Genetic Inheritance 8 The Mysteries of Udolpho, A Romance and Family Values 9 Caleb Williams, or, Things As They Are and the Surveillance Society 10 Waverley, or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since and Disputed Sovereignty 11 Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus and Artificial Life 12 The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner and Fundamentalist Terrorism Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis study introduces readers to the eighteenth-century novel through a consideration of contemporary social issues.Trade ReviewIf you want your students to connect with 18th-century literature, put this book on your course. It is accessible, challenging and guaranteed to liven up the dullest seminar. -- Gary Day Times Higher Education Supplement If you want your students to connect with 18th-century literature, put this book on your course. It is accessible, challenging and guaranteed to liven up the dullest seminar.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1 Oroonoko, or, The History of the Royal Slave and Race Relations 2 The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Born Again Theology and Intelligent Design 3 Gulliver's Travels, Multiculturalism and Cultural Difference 4 Pamela; Or, Virtue Rewarded and Sexual Abstinence 5 The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling and Anti-Social Behaviour 6 The Female Quixote; or, The Adventures of Arabella and Northanger Abbey: The Power of the Media and Popular Culture 7 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, and Genetic Inheritance 8 The Mysteries of Udolpho, A Romance and Family Values 9 Caleb Williams, or, Things As They Are and the Surveillance Society 10 Waverley, or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since and Disputed Sovereignty 11 Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus and Artificial Life 12 The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner and Fundamentalist Terrorism Conclusion Bibliography Index

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