Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 Books

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  • Cambridge University Press Shakespeares Sonnets

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  • Cambridge University Press Jane Austen and Her Predecessors

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  • Cambridge University Press Shakespeares Professional Skills

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  • Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Shakespeare Guide

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    Book SynopsisAre you studying Shakespeare and looking for a handy summary of plots, characters and interpretations? Or are you a keen theatregoer wanting essential background on the Shakespeare plays you see on stage? Ideal for students and theatre enthusiasts alike, this lively and authoritative guide presents key information, clearly set out, on all Shakespeare's dramatic and poetic works, covering plots and people, sources, context, performance history and major themes. Ordered alphabetically for easy reference, each play entry features a 'key facts' box providing informative and revealing statistics, including a breakdown of each play's major roles. The guide is illustrated with striking performance photographs throughout, and also provides brief accounts of Shakespeare's life and language, Shakespeare in print and theatre in Shakespeare's time. This is an indispensable reference source for all students and theatregoers.Trade Review'This admirably lucid and concise guide will both provide essential information and stimulate fresh thought about Shakespeare and his works.' Stanley Wells'5/5 stars: this is probably the only guide you will ever need to Shakespeare and his plays.' The Bookbag'For students and theatre enthusiasts this Shakespeare guide is a useful resource, providing valuable information for the individual and prompting discussion for groups … I was very impressed by the content, format and style of this authoritative guide.' New Books Magazine'The Cambridge Shakespeare Guide is a beautifully packaged, perfectly sized and consummately written and informed book that serves as an essential reference guide.' New Books Magazine'Even the most avid Shakespearean will learn from the spotlight on the works.' The Independent'I hope this book will find its way onto the shelves of many a Shakespeare enthusiast and into the satchels of many a student. For undergraduates, cramming for the next seminar or tutorial, Emma Smith's guide will, I suspect, become a trusted and valued friend, something you can turn to with a cup a coffee and read on the way to class. For its size and the range of information it offers, I cannot think of a better example of its kind.' Paul Edmondson, Around the GlobeTable of ContentsPart I. The Works: 1. All's Well That Ends Well; 2. Antony and Cleopatra; 3. As You Like It; 4. The Comedy of Errors; 5. Coriolanus; 6. Cymbeline; 7. Hamlet; 8. Julius Caesar; 9. King Henry IV Part 1; 10. King Henry IV Part 2; 11. King Henry V; 12. King Henry VI Parts 1, 2, and 3; 13. King Henry VIII, or All is True; 14. King John; 15. King Lear; 16. King Richard II; 17. King Richard III; 18. Love's Labour's Lost; 19. Macbeth; 20. Measure for Measure; 21. The Merchant of Venice; 22. The Merry Wives of Windsor; 23. A Midsummer Night's Dream; 24. Much Ado About Nothing; 25. Othello; 26. The Phoenix and the Turtle; 27. Pericles; 28. The Rape of Lucrece; 29. Romeo and Juliet; 30. The Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint; 31. The Taming of the Shrew; 32. The Tempest; 33. Timon of Athens; 34. Titus Andronicus; 35. Troilus and Cressida; 36. Twelfth Night; 37. The Two Gentlemen of Verona; 38. The Two Noble Kinsmen; 39. The Winter's Tale; 40. Venus and Adonis; Part II. The Context: 41. Shakespeare's life; 42. Shakespeare's theatre; 43. Shakespeare in print; 44. Shakespearean apocrypha; 45. Shakespeare's language; Further reading.

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  • Cambridge University Press Horace Walpoles Library

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  • Cambridge University Press The Social Relations of Jonsons Theater

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  • Cambridge University Press The Spectator and the City in Nineteenth Century American Literature

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  • Cambridge University Press The Baroque Narrative of Carlos de Siguenza y Gongora

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  • Cambridge University Press Women and Race in Early Modern Texts

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  • Cambridge University Press The English Wits

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  • Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to British Romantic Poetry

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    Book SynopsisThis enjoyable book is an ideal introduction to some of the most powerful and pleasing poems in the English language, written in one of the greatest periods in English poetry. A unique appendix resolves most difficulties new readers might face: unfamiliar words, unusual word order, the subjunctive mood and meter.Table of ContentsPreface; 1. Introduction; 2. The poet; 3. 'Tintern Abbey'; 4. Romantic odes; 5. The French Revolution; 6. Romantic sonnets; 7. Romantic love lyrics; 8. Romantic ballads; 9. Romantic epics and romances; 10. Romantic verse drama; 11. Romantic satire; Appendix; Further reading; Index.

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  • Cambridge University Press An Eighteenth Century Gentlemen and Other Essays

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  • Cambridge University Press Torquato Tasso

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  • Cambridge University Press Shakespeare and the Idea of Late Writing

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  • Cambridge University Press Elizabethan Women and the Poetry of Courtship

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  • Cambridge University Press Sir Philip Sidney A Study of his Life and Works

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  • Cambridge University Press A Companion to Shakespeare Studies

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  • Cambridge University Press The Marble Wilderness

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  • Cambridge University Press An Apologie for Poetrie by Sir Philip Sidney Pitt Press

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  • Cambridge University Press The Substance of Cervantes

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  • Cambridge University Press Reading Society and Politics in Early Modern England

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  • Cambridge University Press Samuel Richardson Tercentenary Essays

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  • Cambridge University Press Literature Mapping and the Politics of Space in Early Modern Britain

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  • Cambridge University Press William Cowper of the Inner Temple Esq.

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  • Cambridge University Press Kleinere Aufsatze I

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  • Cambridge University Press The Shakespeare Company 15941642

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    Book SynopsisThis is the first complete history of the theatre company in which Shakespeare acted and which staged all his plays. Andrew Gurr provides a comprehensive illustrated history of the company's activities, explores its social role in its time and examines its repertoire of plays.Trade Review'Andrew Gurr's The Shakespeare Company, 1594–1642 fills an enormous gap … an important reference work, and a book necessary for every serious scholar of theatre history, Shakespeare and Shakespeare's milieu.' Around the Globe'... comprehensive ... Andrew Gurr has written a definitive and most appealing work, which frequently glitters with the author's own love of theater and its members.' Renaissance Quarterly'An eminent scholar, Gurr brings both a refined (and colossal) body of research and sage insight into this magnificent achievement. He offers a richly detailed, pleasantly readable case study ... Essential.' P. D. Nelson, Choice'Gurr doesn't explicitly say that the 'company versions' are better than that habitual overwriter Shakespeare's maximal versions. But the stakes in the argument are high – our vision of what we value most in Shakespeare, why we value it, and the notion of value itself. And so, in addition to being grateful to Gurr for the wealth of historical detail of Shakespeare's company, we are in debt to him for provoking anew this important argument.' The Wilson QuarterlyTable of ContentsPreface; 1. The plan of 1594; 2. The company's work; 3. 'Will money buy 'em?': company finances; 4. 'Workes are playes': the public repertory; 5. Royal loyalties; 6. The afterlife; Appendix 1. The players; Appendix 2. Documents about the company; Appendix 3. The sharers' papers; Appendix 4. The repertory; Appendix 5. Surviving play-texts; Appendix 6. Court performances; Bibliography; Index.

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  • Cambridge University Press Shakespeare and the Classics

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  • Cambridge University Press The Enlightenment Past

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  • Cambridge University Press Shakespeare for the People

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  • Cambridge University Press Remembering and Repeating

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  • Cambridge University Press The Rise of the English Street Ballad 15501650 European Studies in English Literature

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  • Cambridge University Press Scotland and the Borders of Romanticism

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  • Cambridge University Press The Enduring Legacy Alexander Pope Tercentenary Essays

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  • Cambridge University Press Restoration Drama and The Circle of Commerce Tragicomedy Politics and Trade in the Seventeenth Century

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  • Cambridge University Press Representing Shakespearean Tragedy

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  • Cambridge University Press The Two Gentlemen of Verona

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  • Cambridge University Press Shakespeare and the Power of Performance

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  • Cambridge University Press Shakespeare and Tolerance

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  • Cambridge University Press Journalism and the Novel

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    Book SynopsisLiterary journalism is a rich field of study that has played an important role in the creation of the English and American literary canons. In this original study, Underwood focuses on the notable journalists-turned-novelists found at the margins of fact and fiction.Trade Review"Underwood has written a carefully researched volume on practitioners of both journalism and novel writing from 1700 to almost the present day....Highly Recommended." - M.W. Cox, University of Pittsburgh, Choice"[A] thorough and meticulous work" American Journalism, Madeleine Blais, University of Massachusetts at Amherst"...students and general readers will find much to admire about the book...Underwood’s anecdotal flair, coupled with his conversational prose style, is congenial and informative." -Jack Vespa, nbol-19.orgTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Journalism and the rise of fiction, 1700–1875: Daniel Defoe to George Eliot; 2. Literary realism and the fictions of the industrialized press, 1850–1915: Mark Twain to Theodore Dreiser; 3. Reporters-turned-novelists and the making of contemporary journalistic fiction, 1890–today: Rudyard Kipling to Joan Didion; 4. The taint of journalistic literature and the stigma of the ink-stained wretch: Joel Chandler Harris to Dorothy Parker and beyond; Epilogue: the future of journalistic fiction and the legacy of the journalist-literary figures; Appendix: the major journalist-literary figures: their writings and positions in journalism.

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  • Cambridge University Press The Martin Marprelate Tracts

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    Book SynopsisScandalously witty, racy, and irreverent, the Martin Marprelate tracts are the most famous satires of the English Renaissance. This text was the first fully annotated and modernized edition of the tracts, with a full introduction which details their background, sources, production, authorship, and seventeenth-century afterlife.Trade ReviewReview of the hardback: 'Joseph Black has performed a great service for students of English religion, history, and literature in compiling such an authoritative presentation of the Marprelate pamphlets. … Those coming to Black's edition will also have the pleasure of enjoying in their full display of wit some of the liveliest and most humorous pieces of writing of the early modern period.' ReformationReview of the hardback: '… splendid new edition - the first since William Pierce's of 1911 … The sheer vituperativeness, polemical energy, and bold wit, with which he [the author] voiced these criticisms were unprecedented.' English StudiesReview of the hardback: 'This splendid new edition of the Marprelate tracts will go a long way in making accessible a fascinating and provocative period of ecclesiastical history. Black's sensitive and authoritative editing should allow the voice of Martin Marprelate to be heard loud and clear by a new generation of readers.' Andrew V. Cinnamond, Wandsworth Parish, London'This edition deserves to grace the shelves of any serious student of the English Reformation, however one understands that controversial term. Beyond that, though, as Black's notes make clear, it represents an important contribution to our understanding of Elizabethan literary history: for it reinstates the political pamphlet literature of late sixteenth-century England in an honourable tradition that ultimately leads down via Swift and Hazlitt to Orwell. As such, Black's edition is now 'base camp', as it were, both for historians and literary scholars of the Tracts.' Cahiers Élisabéthains'Joseph Black is to be congratulated for the meticulous care with which he has prepared it, and Cambridge University Press for having the imagination to make these ephemeral but vital works available in a handsome volume.' EnglishTable of ContentsIntroduction; Textual introduction; The Martin Marprelate Tracts: 1. The Epistle; 2. The Epitome; 3. Certain Mineral and Metaphysical Schoolpoints; 4. Hay any Work For Cooper; 5. Theses Martinianae (by 'Martin Junior'); 6. The Just Censure and Reproof of Martin Junior (by'Martin Senior'); 7. The Protestation of Martin Marprelate.

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  • Cambridge University Press Gender Theatre and the Origins of Criticism

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  • Cambridge University Press The Grateful Slave

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