Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 Books
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Christopher Marlowe Four Plays
Book SynopsisChristopher Marlowe (1564-93) was an English playwright and poet, who through his establishment of blank verse as a medium for drama did much to free the Elizabethan theatre from the constraints of the medieval and Tudor dramatic tradition. His first play Tamburlaine the Great, was performed that same year, probably by the Admiral's Men with Edward Alleyn in the lead. With its swaggering power-hungry title character and gorgeous verse the play proved to be enormously popular; Marlowe quickly wrote a second part, which may have been produced later that year. Marlowe's most famous play, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, based on the medieval German legend of the scholar who sold his soul to the devil, was probably written and produced by 1590, although it was not published until 1604. Historically the play is important for utilizing the soliloquy as an aid to character analysis and development. The Jew of Malta (c. 1590) has another unscrupulous aspiring
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Oxford University Press Popular Fiction before Richardson Narrative Patterns 17001739 Clarendon Paperbacks
Book SynopsisNow issued for the first time in paperback with a new introduction by the author, this is a study of those narratives which were written and widely read in England during the first forty years of the eighteenth century, but which have been hitherto neglected or despised by historians of the novel. The author makes no claims for these works as literary achievements. They are seen, rather, as vigorous and highly successful commercial exploitations of enduring stereotypes such as the criminal, the traveller-merchant, the persecuted maiden, and the aristocratic seducer. Placing them against the background of the age, the book sets out to account for the attractiveness of such figures and their characteristic adventures, and to evaluate the importance of these narratives in providing a set of conventional and meaningful characters and situations for the mid-eighteenth century masters of the novel such as Richardson and Fielding.Trade Review`excellent and intelligent book' Times Literary Supplement`a real book, a good book. He is thoughtful and he makes you think. He sees the inherent triviality of his material, but sees in this a far from trivial question, "What is the use of bad art?" To raise the question at all is to give the book substance. It tells us that the material is going to be handled intelligently.' Review of English StudiesTable of ContentsThe rise of the novel reconsidered; rogues and whores - heroes and anti-heroes; travellers, priates and pilgrims - the pirate, Faustian ruffian, Crusoe and after; "as long as Atalantis shall be read" - the scandal chronicles of Mrs Manley and Mrs Haywood; Mrs haywood and the Novella - the erotic and the pathetic; the novel as pious polemic - Mrs Aubin and Mrs Barker, Mrs Elizabeth Rowe; the relevance of the unreadable.
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University of Pennsylvania Press Botanical Poetics: Early Modern Plant Books and
Book SynopsisDuring the middle years of Queen Elizabeth’s reign, the number of books published with titles that described themselves as flowers, gardens, or forests more than tripled. During those same years, English printers turned out scores of instructional manuals on gardening and husbandry, retailing useful knowledge to a growing class of literate landowners and pleasure gardeners. Both trends, Jessica Rosenberg shows, reflected a distinctive style of early modern plant-thinking, one that understood both plants and poems as composites of small pieces—slips or seeds to be recirculated by readers and planters. Botanical Poetics brings together studies of ecology, science, literary form, and the material text to explore how these developments transformed early modern conceptions of nature, poetic language, and the printed book. Drawing on little-studied titles in horticulture and popular print alongside poetry by Shakespeare, Spenser, and others, Rosenberg reveals how early modern print used a botanical idiom to anticipate histories of its own reading and reception, whether through replanting, uprooting, or fantasies of common property and proliferation. While our conventional narratives of English literary culture in this period see reading as an increasingly private practice, and literary production as more and more of an authorial domain, Botanical Poetics uncovers an alternate tradition: of commonplaces and common ground, of slips of herbs and poetry circulated, shared, and multiplied.
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Yale University Press DreamChild
Book SynopsisAn in-depth look into the life of Romantic essayist Charles Lamb and the legacy of his workTrade Review“Eric G. Wilson’s excellent Dream-Child, the first full-length biography since [E. V.] Lucas’s in 1905, marks an important staging post on [Lamb’s] road back to respectability.”—Clare Bucknell, New York Review of BooksNamed by the New Yorker as a Best Book of 2022“[An] electrifying portrait of Charles Lamb.”—New Yorker“A literary life in the fullest sense . . . this biography is alive all over . . . a huge and eloquent book.”—Australian Book Review“A narrative rich in complexity and nuance. . . . One of the strengths of Wilson’s work is that he makes Lamb unfamiliar, as he constantly recurs to the unstable explorations of authorship and identity that run through Lamb’s work. . . . [Wilson] is a superb reader of Lamb. . . . Dream-Child brings Lamb’s mind alive through his own words and is at its best when it cleaves closely to Lamb’s writing.”—Daisy Hay, Times Literary Supplement“[Wilson] pins Lamb down by becoming Lamb-like himself. His biography is important because it is written in this spirit of becoming; it goes therefore a little headlong, almost beyond the genre; and it urges us, in sum, to explore for ourselves the twilit streets of the London of Lamb’s spirit, bedimmed with the dark shapes of sanity, and the softer shadows of insanity that stalk his peculiar but enduring genius.”—Adam Neikirk, Review 19“Needle by needle, point by point, Wilson uncovers the social scaffolding of Lamb’s literary genius.”—Madoc Cairns, The Tablet“While this book is based on rigorous scholarship, it does not assume extensive prior knowledge. Instead, it serves as a good introduction for non-specialists and will hopefully encourage more to seek out Lamb’s works. . . . For all his subject’s evasiveness, Wilson helps us see behind the mask, capturing Lamb’s authentic and somewhat tortured character.”—Edward Weech, Literary Review“An engagingly detailed investigation of Charles Lamb’s remarkable life.”—Mark Jones, Albion Magazine “Wilson combines shrewd analysis with original insights and discoveries to provide a valuable addition to the existing corpus of Lamb criticism.”—Duncan Wu, Georgetown University“A highly evocative and deeply informed life—the first for a century—of one of the most complex and sympathetic literary personalities of his time and one of the greatest English essayists of any age.”—Seamus Perry, University of Oxford“We have waited a long time for the definitive full-scale scholarly biography of Charles Lamb—master of the witty and winding essay—but now it has arrived. Eric Wilson’s Dream-Child is not only a labor of love for a lovable figure, but also a vivid and skillful placing of Lamb in the context of Romanticism and early nineteenth-century London life.”—Sir Jonathan Bate, author of Radical Wordsworth
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Penguin Books Ltd The Obedience of a Christian Man Penguin Classics
Book SynopsisOne of the key foundation books of the English Reformation, The Obedience of a Christian Man (1528) makes a radical challenge to the established order of the all-powerful Church of its time. Himself a priest, Tyndale boldly claims that there is just one social structure created by God to which all must be obedient, without the intervention of the rule of the Pope. He argues that Christians cannot be saved simply by performing ceremonies or by hearing the Scriptures in Latin, which most could not understand, and that all should have access to the Bible in their own language - an idea that was then both bold and dangerous. Powerful in thought and theological learning, this is a landmark in religious and political thinking.
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Oxford University Press The Child in Shakespeare
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Oxford University Press Common The Development of Literary Culture in SixteenthCentury England
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Oxford University Press King Lear Shakespeares Dark Consolations My
Book SynopsisA book on the experience of reading Shakespeare's 'dark plays' which 'often begin with lives falling apart: an event--shipwreck, exile, doubt, or unexpected love--derails what had seemed secure. Those who participate in the plays, as players, audience members, or readers, are invited to see in those events the vulnerability of their own lives.Table of ContentsPrologue: A Tale of Two Families Vulnerable Reading The Unravelling The Refuge of Second Selves The Lost, the Mad, and the Image of Horror Reconciliations Living With an Unpromised End How King Lear Helps Tragic Sharing Coda: In Place of the Jig
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Oxford University Press No Hamlets German Shakespeare from Nietzsche to Carl Schmitt
Book SynopsisNo Hamlets is the first critical account of the role of Shakespeare in the intellectual tradition of the political right in Germany from the founding of the Empire in 1871 to the ''Bonn Republic'' of the Cold War era. In this sustained study, Andreas Höfele begins with Friedrich Nietzsche and follows the rightist engagement with Shakespeare to the poet Stefan George and his circle, including Ernst Kantorowicz, and the literary efforts of the young Joseph Goebbels during the Weimar Republic, continuing with the Shakespeare debate in the Third Reich and its aftermath in the controversy over ''inner emigration'' and concluding with Carl Schmitt''s Shakespeare writings of the 1950s. Central to this enquiry is the identification of Germany and, more specifically, German intellectuals with Hamlet. The special relationship of Germany with Shakespeare found highly personal and at the same time highIy political expression in this recurring identification, and in its denial. But Hamlet is not the only Shakespearean character with strong appeal: Carl Schmitt''s largely still unpublished diaries of the 1920s reveal an obsessive engagement with Othello which has never before been examined. Interest in German philosophy and political thought has increased in recent Shakespeare studies. No Hamlets brings historical depth to this international discussion. Illuminating the constellations that shaped and were shaped by specific appropriations of Shakespeare, Höfele shows how individual engagements with Shakespeare and a whole strand of Shakespeare reception were embedded in German history from the 1870s to the 1950s and eventually 1989, the year of German reunification.Trade ReviewIn taking this long view, Höfele rectifies any misconceptions we might have that 'right-wing Shakespeare' is purely a phenomenon of the Second World War, and in doing so he sheds fascinating light on less familiar aspects of German history in relation to right-wing politics and ideals and Shakespeare's role within these ... The position of Shakespeare comes full circle, from serving anti-democratic, racist, and fundamentalist causes, only to re-emerge as a powerful force in the midst of liberating and forward-thinking voices. Shakespeare, Hamlet, and to some extent Othello, thus become the keys to understanding German history, psyche, and identity in this powerful study. Höfele's work has all the potential to become an instant classic, a standard work for academics and teachers alike. * Alessandra Bassey, Modern Language Review *I cannot remember reading so compelling, important, and revelatory a Shakespeare book as this one ... This is a wonderfully, indeed movingly well-written book but the quality which particularly singles out No Hamlets is its intellectual and moral honesty. * Shakespeare Jahrbuch *Höfele tells a remarkable story about the way Shakespeare provides imaginative resources for some of the most challenging and troubling thought of the modern era ... also very much engaged with current conversations in early modern studies. * Kevin Curran, Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations A Note on Texts and Translations Introduction 1: Highest Formula: Nietzsche's Shakespeare 2: Shakespeare in the Master's Circle: Stefan George and the 'Secret Germany' 3: In the Master's Circle (II): Ernst Kantorowicz 4: Millions of Ghosts: Weimar Hamlets and the Sorrows of Young Goebbels 5: Little Otto: Carl Schmitt and the Moor of Venice 6: Third Reich Shakespeare 7: 'But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue': Hamlet in Inner Emigration 8: Hamlet in Plettenberg: Carl Schmitt and the Intrusion of the Time 9: Epilogue: Welcome to the Machine. Berlin 1989 Bibliography Index
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Oxford University Press The Writings of Phillis Wheatley Peters
Book SynopsisThis edition includes all of the known surviving writings of the poet Phillis Wheatley Peters (1753-1784), several of which have been discovered since the last attempt at a complete edition in 2001. The poems and the extant prose writings are accompanied by an Introduction to her life and times, and textual and explanatory notes.Trade ReviewVincent Carretta's edition will be essential reading for anyone seriously interested in Wheatley Peters's life and work... The vanishing point of [Wheatley Peters's] work stands at the far side of the history of enslavement. Given that the poems do exist, the critical imperative is to think carefully about how, and under what conditions, they came to be. Carretta makes a crucial contribution to this project. * Andrea Haslanger, Eighteenth - Century Fiction *This text leaves no stone unturned to provide a clear path for teaching the Wheatley corpus with the added benefit of drawing new and contemporary allusions to the study of "racism, sexism, and slavery", as "issues" that the early Black American poet "subtly and indirectly confronts"... Clearly, Writings is soon to become a standard for early American literature courses and one of the most practical, convenient, and useful classroom tools. * April Langley, University of Missouri-Columbia, Early American Literature *This edition, prepared by the outstanding scholar in the field, supersedes previous collections from Julian D. Mason (1966; 1989), John C. Shields (1988) and Carretta himself (Penguin, 2001). It is the fullest in scope, with abundant bibliographical detail, and it takes advantage of the steady growth in secondary literature... the most generally informative and revealing edition that has ever appeared. * Pat Rogers, Author of The Poet and the Publisher: The Case of Alexander Pope, Esq., of Twickenham versus Edmund Curll, Bookseller in Grub Street, Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Editorial Note Note on Money The Writings of Phillis Wheatley Textual and Explanatory Notes Index of First Lines of Titles of Phillis Wheatley's Poems Index of First Lines of Phillis Wheatley's Poems General Index
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Oxford University Press Milton in Translation
Book SynopsisMilton in Translation represents an unprecedented collaboration that demonstrates the breadth of John Milton''s international reception, from the seventeenth century through today. This book collects in one volume new essays written on the translation of Milton''s works written by an international roster of experts: stalwart and career-long Miltonists, scholars primarily of translation studies, and practitioners who have translated Milton''s works. Chapters are grouped geographically but also, by and large, chronologically, given that Milton''s works radiated further abroad over time. The chapters on the twenty-three individual languages showcased in this volume are framed by ''Part I: Approaches'', consisting of an introduction and two major essays on the global reach and the aural nature of Milton''s poetry, and by an epilogue. ''Part II: Influential Translations'' features the most influential languages in translations of Milton''s works (English, Latin, German, French). Then, accouTrade ReviewWinner of the Milton Society of America's Irene Samuel Memorial Award (2017)[Milton in Translation] is important for bringing to notice the existence of over 300 translations of Milton into ?fty-seven languages, and the fact that there have been more such translations in the last thirty years than the preceding 300. It is fascinating to read, across a number of essays, of Milton's appropriation as a revolutionary in, for example, the Protestant colonies of North America (Thomas N. Corns), the Catholic colonies of postindependence Latin America (Mario Murgia), and in both Maoist and contemporary China (Bing Yan). * Catherine Bates, Studies in English Literature *What Angelica Duran, Islam Issa, and Jonathan R. Olson have put together for Milton in Translation proves that translation continues to serve an important role in the interpretation of literature. Duran, Issa, and Olson also make an important contribution to Milton studies, despite the exhaustive corpus of literary studies devoted to John Milton's work ... Overall, the editors and contributors provide an engaging look at Milton studies through translation studies and a text that will appeal to scholars and students in both areas. * William John Silverman Jr., Renaissance Quarterly *The volume creates an impressive panopticon of the diversity of target-language-specific reformulations of Milton's epic vision ... this [is a] marvelous insightful, and truly pioneering volume. * Anne-Julia Zwierlein, Milton Quarterly *[Milton] would have approved of Milton in Translation...In total, twenty-three languages are represented in this fascinating volume, including Chinese, Korean, Bulgarian, Czech, Serbo-Croatian and the Finno-Ugric languages. * Neil Forsyth, Times Literary Supplement *Winner of the Milton Society of America's Irene Samuel Memorial Award (2017)Fifty years ago, William Riley Parker opined that 'A good book on the translating of Milton into other languages (and his influence on other literatures) is long overdue.' Here is that book, appearing close to the 350th anniversary of the first appearance of Paradise Lost. * John Hale, Translation and Literature *Milton in Translation (2017) offers an expansive and novel study of the global reach of John Milton through translations into twenty-three languages, bringing together a wealth of knowledge by a wide variety of specialists in their respective fields. Ranging from western Europe to Asia and the Americas, the volume strives to be as inclusive as possible. Given the rising interest in the combined approach of translation and literary studies, this volume demonstrates the potential fruitfulness of such research in both a historical and a more contemporary context. * Rena Bood, H-Nationalism *This is an important collection of essays on the wide range of translations that have been made of Milton's works, encompassing several centuries of publication...The sheer number of translations that the collection manages to catalogue is breathtaking, ranging over the major European languages, through Latin and Hebrew, as well as noting cultural reception from South America to Asia...one can imagine Milton would have approved of the demonstration of this global engagement with his work. * Esther van Raamsdonk, The Modern Language Review *Table of ContentsPart I Approaches 1: Angelica Duran and Islam Issa: Introduction: From 'Cambalu' to 'El Dorado' 2: Thomas N. Corns: Milton's Global Reach 3: Beverley Sherry: Lost and Regained in Translation: The Sound of Paradise Lost Part II Influential Translations 4: Aaron Shapiro: 'Levelling the Sublime': Translating Paradise Lost into English in the Eighteenth Century 5: Estelle Haan: 'Translated Verse': Milton's Latin Poetry in the Long Eighteenth Century 6: Estelle Haan: 'Latinizing' Milton: Paradise Lost, Latinitas, and the Long Eighteenth Century 7: Curtis Whitaker: Domesticating and Foreignizing the Sublime: Paradise Lost in German 8: Christophe Tournu: 'The French Connection' among French Translations of Milton and within du Bocage's Paradis terrestre Part III Western European and Latin American Translations 9: Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen: Paradise Lost in Dutch, 1728-2003: Form, Politics, Religion 10: Anne Lange: A Vision in Times of Need: Milton in Estonia 11: David Robertson: Traces of the Birth of the State of Finland in Jylhä's Translation of Paradise Lost 12: Ástráður Eysteinsson: Iceland's Milton: On Jón Þorláksson's Translation of Paradise Lost 13: Daniele Borgogni: 'Censur'd to Be Much Inferiour': Paradise Lost and Regained in Italian 14: Hélio J.S. Alves: Milton in Portuguese: A Story in Blank Verse 15: Angelica Duran: Paradise Lost in Spanish Translation and as World Literature 16: Mario Murgia: Either in Prose or Rhyme: Translating Milton in(to) Latin America Part IV Central and Eastern European Translations 17: Alexander Shurbanov: The Quest for the Right Accent: Milton in Bulgarian Translation 18: %SárkaTobrmanová: Jungmann's Translation of Paradise Lost in the Vanguard of Modern Czech Culture 19: Miklós Péti: In 'Milton's Prison': Milton in Hungarian Translation 20: Joanna Rzepa: Translation as Resistance: Three Centuries of Paradise Lost in Polish 21: Marjan Strojan: Milton in Serbian/Montenegrin: Paradise Lost from behind Bars 22: Marjan Strojan: Milton in Illyria Part V Middle Eastern Translations 23: Islam Issa: Paradise Lost in Arabic: Images, Style, and Technique 24: Noam Reisner: Pre-Eminent among Gentiles: Milton's Major Poetry in Hebrew Translations 25: Jeffrey Einboden: Plotting a Persian Paradise: Milton's Iranian Afterlives Part VI East Asian Translations 26: Bing Yan: Milton in China 'Yet Once More' 27: Hiroko Sano: Translating Milton's Poetry into Japanese with a Case Study of Samson Agonistes 28: Kim Hae Yeon with Angelica Duran: The 1960s and Paradise Lost in Korean Gordon Campbell: Epilogue: Multilingual and Multicultural Milton
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Oxford University Press Inc Macbeth before Shakespeare
Book SynopsisMacbeth before Shakespeare is a history of the medieval King Macbeth and his legend that was the basis for William Shakespeare's Tragedie of Macbeth. It traces the life of the real man and his important innovations, while showing how different legends were created in subsequent eras.Trade ReviewBenjamin Hudson's Macbeth before Shakespeare is a very entertaining and educating read. It succeeds very well in bringing out the man behind the myth, as well as explaining how the man became the myth. Hudson is a master of all the materials and languages required for the job, and he knows the history of Ireland and Britain around the year 1000 intimately. * Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, National University of Ireland, Galway *Here at last we have a solid and detailed account of the historical Macbeth. Ben Hudson is the historian of Celtic Scotland in the central Middle Ages, and he provides us with a readable narrative of the origins of the kingdom of the Scots and Macbeth's role as one of its most energetic and effective kings prior to Scotland's vassalage to their Anglo-Norman neighbor to the south. We see here the process by which Shakespeare inherited the history and legends surrounding Macbeth and the 'three weird sisters,' how Scots were generally perceived in Tudor England, and whether or not there could have been surviving children of Macbeth and his Lady. This is a meticulously constructed history of Scots, Viking, and English relations in the tumultuous eleventh century and a fascinating glimpse into how this particular Scottish monarch—called by one contemporary poet 'the red king'—made his way onto the Elizabethan stage. * Christopher A. Snyder, author of The Britons *This fascinating examination is an important contribution to medieval and early modern Scottish and British history, literature, folklore, and drama. Combining an unrivalled mastery of a complex array of sources with expert use of multiple methodologies, Benjamin Hudson deftly unveils the story of one of Scotland's most enigmatic figures across half a millennium as he explores the evolution of Macbeth from an historical, eleventh-century ruler of Scotland to the infamous Shakespearean literary villain of five-and-a-half centuries later. * R. Andrew McDonald, Brock University *Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty. * Choice *Table of ContentsNote on Methodology List of Abbreviations Acknowledgments Preface Introduction: A Man and a Legend Chapter 1: Macbeth: Place and Past Chapter 2: Macbeth Emerges Chapter 3: King of All the Scots Chapter 4: Fame and Defamation Chapter 5: Not the Beginning of the Legend Chapter 6: Weird Sisters and the Prior of Loch Leven Chapter 7: Macbeth and Renaissance Scotland Chapter 8: The Scot in Tudor England Chapter 9: Macbeth before Shakespeare Conclusion Appendix 1: Children of Macbeth Appendix 2: Andrew of Wyntoun's Macbeth Episode: A Translation Notes Index
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Oxford University Press Typographies of Performance in Early Modern England
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Oxford University Press Passion and Action
Book SynopsisPassion and Action explores the place of the emotions in seventeenth-century understandings of the body and mind, and the role they were held to play in reasoning and action. Interest in the passions pervaded all areas of philosophical enquiry, and was central to the theories of many major figures, including Hobbes, Descartes, Malebranche, Spinoza, Pascal, and Locke. Yet little attention has been paid to this topic in studies of early modern thought. Susan James surveys the inheritance of ancient and medieval doctrines about the passions, then shows how these were incorporated into new philosophical theories in the course of the seventeenth century. She examines the relation of the emotions to will, knowledge, understanding, desire, and power, offering fresh analyses and interpretations of a broad range of texts by little-known writers as well as canonical figures, and establishing that a full understanding of these authors must take account of their discussions of our affective life. Trade ReviewWhen philosophers write about the importance of the emotions today, they usually begin by condemning earlier philosophers for separating the emotions from reason (and then all but ignoring them). Nothing could be further from the approach of Susan James ... in this beautifully written study. Her subtle and erudite interpretations of major texts of the seventeenth century show that the passions were at the heart of early modern philosophy ... her recovery of the treatment of the passions and of action in a wealth of authors from Descartes to Locke provides a perspective from which we can free ourselves a little from the unsatisfactory way we view the emotions today, and so enables us to think differently about their proper place in a sound human life. Her study also shows how early modern philosophers were open to and deeply influenced by areas of European culture other than philosophy where the emotions were at centre stage. * James Tully, Common Knowledge *
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Oxford University Press Shakespeare and the Remains of Richard III
Book SynopsisThis book explores how recollections and traces of the reign of Richard III survived a century and more to influence the world and work of William Shakespeare. In Richard III, Shakespeare depicts an era that had only recently passed beyond the horizon of living memory. The years between Shakespeare''s birth in 1564 and the composition of the play in the early 1590s would have seen the deaths of the last witnesses to Richard''s reign. Yet even after the extinction of memory, traces of the Yorkist era abounded in Elizabethan England - traces in the forms of material artefacts and buildings, popular traditions, textual records, and administrative and religious institutions and practices. Other traces had notoriously disappeared, not least the bodies of the princes reputedly murdered in the Tower, and the King''s own body, which remained lost until its dramatic rediscovery in the summer of 2012. Shakespeare and the Remains of Richard III charts the often complex careers of these pieces of Trade Reviewa nuanced and well-written study ... I would recommend this fascinating, engaging book to those interested in Shakespeare's drama, the reception history of Richard III, early modern collective memory, or sixteenth- and seventeenth-century attitudes towards the recent English past. * Chloe Kathleen Preedy, Renaissance Studies *At a time when historicism as a method is frequently critiqued as an outmoded and limiting mode of literary scholarship, Schwyzer's study wonderfully achieves its goal of making readers 'think more deeply about what it means to set and see a work of art within its historical context'. Its concept of history is fluid and dynamic and its attention to both historical detail and textual nuance is exemplary. * Ian Frederick Moulton, Literature and History *an excellent study in how his reputation was formed during the Tudor era. It is well written and contains several useful illustrations. * Matthew Ward, The Ricardian *entrancing * Dominique Goy-Blanquet, Review of English Studies *Table of Contents1. 'Where is Plantagenet?' ; 2. Lees and Moonshine: Memory and Oral Tradition ; 3. Trophies, Relics, and Props: The Life Histories of Objects ; 4. 'He lived wickedly, yet made good laws': Institutions and Practices ; 5. 'Every tale condemns me for a villain': Stories ; 6. Now
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Oxford University Press Shakespeare and the Political Way
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Oxford University Press The Rhetoric of the Page
Book SynopsisThis wide-ranging and entertaining book explores blank space from incunabula to Google books. Blanks are a paradox--simultaneously nothing and something, gesturing to what was once there or might be there. They are also a creative opportunity for readers as well as writers: readers respond to what is not there and writers come to anticipate that response. Thus, blank space develops literary and ludic applications. Each chapter focuses on one typographical form of what is not there on the page: physical gaps (Chapter One), marks of incompletion such as &c (Chapter Two), and the asterisk as a stand-in for things that cannot be said (Chapter Three). By looking at the early-modern page as a visual unit as well as a verbal unit, this volume shows how the relationship between textual layout and textual content is as productive for writers as it is for readers. Mise-en-page influences readers in the same way that rhetoric influences readers. It is thus possible to speak of ''the rhetoric of the page''.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: 'This page intentionally left blank'; or, the apophatic page 2: Et cetera / etcetera / &c; or, the aposiopetic page 3: The asterisk; or, the gnomic page Epilogue Works Cited
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Oxford University Press A Mad World My Masters and Other Plays
Book SynopsisThomas Middleton (1580-1627) was a writer of great versatility, and his career as a London dramatist spans the most productive, innovative, and exciting period of theatrical activity in the history of English drama. Best known for his tragedies, he also wrote many successful comedies of city life. This volume brings together the greatest among them: A Mad World, My Masters, Michaelmas Term, A Trick to Catch the Old One, and No Wit, No Help Like a Woman''s. The first three plays, written between 1604 and 1606, are witty and rambunctious satires on the predatory life of the aspiring London citizen. Sex and money are the characters'' obsessions; their caustic exposure Middleton''s. In the later play, No Wit (1612), satire shades into romance, prose into verse. Together the four plays reveal the range and exuberance of Middleton''s writing for the comic stage. Under the General Editorship of Michael Cordner of the University of York, the plays have been newly edited and are presented witTable of ContentsA Mad World, My Masters ; Michaelmas Term ; A Trick to Catch the Old One ; No Wit, No Help Like a Woman's
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OUP Oxford Five Plays
Book SynopsisThe five plays in this collection are Everyman in his Humour, the tragedy Sejanus, Volpone, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair. They represent the full range and complexity of Jonson's art as a playwright. The text is the modernized version of Herford and Simpson's edition (OUP 1925-52), with full annotation.Table of ContentsEveryman in His Humour ; Sejanus ; Volpone ; The Alchemist ; Bartholomew Fair
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The University of Chicago Press In the Kings Wake
Book SynopsisThis text traces the emergence of a post-absolutist culture in France across a range of works and genres including: Saint-Simon's memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency; Voltaire's first tragedy, Oedipe; Watteau's last great painting, L'Enseigne de Gersaint; and the plays of Marivaux.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction 1. A Post-Absolutist Subject: Saint-Simon 2. "Le Poète Roy": Voltaire's Oedipe 3. The King's Insignia: Watteau, L'Enseigne de Gersaint 4. Love and Speculation: Marivaux 5. Drawing Kings: Casanova and Voltaire Conclusion Notes Index
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The University of Chicago Press Loving Dr. Johnson
Book SynopsisUses the enormous popularity of Samuel Johnson to understand a singular case of author love and to reflect upon what the love of authors has to do with the love of literature. This book is for students of English literature and literary scholars keenly interested in canon formation.Trade Review"A brilliant work about a high canonical figure whose mind and body inspire passions that are at once exemplary and peculiar. Deutsch's study is as much about Johnson - as a writer, an institution, and a national figure - as it is about ourselves and our intense and sometimes rather bizarre investments in him. This is an original and important book." - Claudia L. Johnson, Princeton University"
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The University of Chicago Press Catos Tears the Making of AngloAmerican Emotion
Book SynopsisHow did the public expression of feeling become central to political culture in England and the United States? This revisionist account of a much expanded Age of Sensibility traces the evolution of the politics of emotion on both sides of the Atlantic, from the late-17th to early-19th century.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Someday Bridges May Have Feelings Too Chapter 1: Conspiracy, Sensibility, and the Stoic Chapter 2: Cato's Tears Chapter 3: The Deathbed of the Just Chapter 4: Female Authorship, Public Fancy Chapter 5: Vagrant Races Chapter 6: Walkers, Stalkers, Captives, Slaves Conclusion: Liberal Guilt and Libertarian Revival Notes Index
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The University of Chicago Press Shakespeares Noise
Book SynopsisThis work explores Shakespeare's deep fascination with dangerous and disorderly forms of speaking - especially rumour, slander, insult, vituperation and curse - and through them offers a vision of the work of words in his plays.
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The University of Chicago Press William Blake and the Impossible History of the
Book SynopsisTaking into account Blake's unique brand of literary and artistic production, Makdisi challenges the idea that to understand Blake one must assimilate him within the radical struggle against the order of the old regime.
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The University of Chicago Press Reading Holinsheds Chronicles
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The University of Chicago Press Shakespeare the Actor and the Purposes of Playing
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The University of Chicago Press Posthumous Love Eros and the Afterlife in
Book SynopsisFor Dante and Petrarch, posthumous love was a powerful conviction. Exploring the boundaries that Renaissance English poets drew between earthly and heavenly existence, this book seeks to understand this shift and its consequences for English poetry.Trade Review"Posthumous Love sets out a compelling case about a large and important point about English Renaissance love literature-one that perhaps should have been obvious for a long time but has never been brought into such sharp focus. The material may be familiar, but Targoff's treatment is genuinely fresh, and her well-researched book traces a clear narrative arc from Petrarch to the carpe diem poems of the seventeenth century, with nuanced assertions about the sonneteers of the 1590s, the poetry of Donne, and Shakespeare in between." (Gordon Braden, University of Virginia)"
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The University of Chicago Press A Probable State The Novel the Contract the
Book SynopsisThis work builds an argument about liberalism and the realist movement by shifting the focus from the rise of both in the 18th century, to their breakdown at the end of the 19th century. The decline of realism and the eroding logic of liberalism is related to the question of Jewish characters.
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The University of Chicago Press My Dark Room
Book SynopsisExamines spaces of inner life in eighteenth-century England to shed new light on interiority in literature and visual and material culture. In what kinds of spaces do we become most aware of the thoughts in our own heads? In My Dark Room, Julie Park explores places of solitude and enclosure that gave eighteenth-century subjects closer access to their inner worlds: grottos, writing closets, landscape follies, and the camera obscura, that beguiling dark room inside which the outside world in all its motion and color is projected. The camera obscura and its dreamlike projections within it served as a paradigm for the everyday spaces, whether in built environments or in imaginative writing, that generated the fleeting states of interiority eighteenth-century subjects were compelled to experience and inhabit. My Dark Room illuminates the spatial and physical dimensions of inner life in the long eighteenth century by synthesizingmaterial analyses of diverse media, from optical devices and landscape architecture to women's intimate dress, with close readings of literary texts not traditionally considered together, among them Andrew Marvell's country house poem Upon Appleton House, Margaret Cavendish's experimental epistolary work Sociable Letters, Alexander Pope's heroic verse epistle Eloisa to Abelard, and Samuel Richardson's novel Pamela. Park also analyzes letters and diaries, architectural plans, prints, drawings, paintings, and more, drawing our attention to the lively interactions between spaces and psyches in private environments. Park's innovative method of spatial formalism reveals how physical settings enable psychic interiors to achieve vitality in lives both real and imagined.Trade Review“A beautiful book on the privacies of writing, the rapt silences of the mind’s darkened room, lit by rays of the everyday: the habitations of thought that those before Proust conceived. My Dark Room answers to my sensibility; it teaches me who I am and where I come from, providing new coordinates and new darknesses between the points of light.” * Alexander Nemerov, author of 'The Forest: A Fable of America in the 1830s' *“My Dark Room explores the ways in which the camera obscura, both materially and conceptually, provided the corridor through which the interior lives of eighteenth-century subjects passed. In a dazzling sequence of chapters Julie Park captures the excitements and tensions that emerged as imaginative private worlds were projected on real geographies and spaces. My Dark Room will unsettle the now very long-standing assumptions about the primacy of fiction and the novel in the construction of eighteenth-century subjectivities, as it makes a compelling case for the subject in space created through interior projections.” * Peter de Bolla, University of Cambridge *“Park animates the camera obscura trope as a perceptual dynamic for which, until now, we've had so few words. She interweaves a material history of the camera obscura with several disciplines until it becomes possible to reenvision eighteenth-century literary fiction as a transhistorical and intermedial home for the psyche. My Dark Room opens interiors we once assumed were shut, unsettling familiar narratives about the post-Enlightenment mind. This lucidly dreamed study is a feat of the critical imagination to be experienced as well as read. It will be admired and referenced for years to come.” * Jayne Lewis, University of California, Irvine *"My Dark Room is a wonderful mix of discovery and analysis. With an impressive range of historical and philosophical contexts and delightful close readings of architectural and literary works, Park reveals the camera obscura modelling the spatial relationship between mind, landscape, and narrative." * Cynthia Wall, University of Virginia *"Park is a tireless scholar; she clearly loves what she's discovering spirited away in the archives, and her sense of wonder and delight can be contagious." * Book Post *“In a book that takes illumination and insight as its subject, [Park’s] meticulous close readings and case studies open up rich possibilities for future work.” * Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Country House: Making Storylines at Nun Appleton 2. Closet: Margaret Cavendish’s Writing Worlds 3. Grotto: Design and Projection in Alexander Pope’s Garden 4. Pocket: Pamela’s Mobile Settings and Spatial Forms 5. Folly: Fictions of Gothic Space in Eighteenth-Century Landscapes Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Chicago Press John Donnes Physics
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The University of Chicago Press Shakespeares Reparative Comedies A Psychoanalytic
Book SynopsisJoseph Westlund brings recent developments in psychoanalytic thought to his elegant and sensitive readings of Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, All's Well That Ends Well, and Measure for Measure. Westlund departs from the usual preoccupation in psychoanalytic criticism with conflict and guilt to rely instead on Melanie Klein's theory of reparation, which emphasizes the impulse in life to resolve and transcend conflict. Through interpretations that are new and convincing, Westlund views the interactions of characters in the six comedies as attempts to work through anger and guilt to effect reparations for themselves and for us.
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Yale University Press Staging The Mysterious Mother
Book SynopsisThe first book-length study of Horace Walpole’s scandalous The Mysterious Mother, including critical essays, an abridged script, and a facsimile editionTrade Review“This handsome, erudite, and entertaining volume is in every way the perfect companion to Horace Walpole’s rarely recognized masterpiece.”—George E. Haggerty, University of California, Riverside“Every expert contribution to Staging ‘The Mysterious Mother,’ like every room of Horace Walpole’s Gothic Strawberry Hill, contains well-curated treasures.”—Joseph Roach, Yale University“This outstanding volume propels Horace Walpole’s Mysterious Mother out of the closet and onto the boards in illustrious fashion. Bringing the insights of brilliant scholars into conversation with both the shocking original and a masterfully cut text provides a daring provocation for us all to stage this ‘theatre of monstrous guilt.’”—Lisa A. Freeman, University of Illinois Chicago
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ABC-CLIO The Critical Response to Ann Radcliffe
Book SynopsisThis book brings together, for the first time, almost one hundred documents on her work, including contemporary reviews, letters, diary entries, the most important critical assessments, and several new pieces. The chapters that follow consist of chronologically arranged critical analyses of particular works by Radcliffe.Table of ContentsSeries Foreword by Cameron Northouse Acknowledgments Introduction Chronology The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne (1789) A Sicilian Romance (1790) The Romance of the Forest (1791) The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) A Journey Made in the Summer of 1794 (1795) The Italian (1797) Gaston de Blondeville; St. Alban's Abbey (Posthumously, 1826) General Responses, 1789-1826 General Responses, 1827-1899 General Responses, The 20th Century Selected Additional Readings Index
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WW Norton & Co Candide
Book SynopsisCandide has been delighting readers since 1759 with its satiric wit, provocations and warnings.Trade Review"I have used this text in Western Civ courses many times. It is definitely the best and most accessible Candide available. The annotations are especially helpful to students (and to their professors)." -- Mark W. McLeod, Gonzaga University "The Norton Critical Edition of Candide is a teaching gem, with clear, unmistakable glosses, an accurate translation and just enough background and criticism for undergraduate study as well as graduate-level reference. This is an excellent start!" -- Frank E. Meek, Colorado Mountain College "An excellent translation with helpful footnote information and background information. And at a most affordable price for students." -- W. M. Howe, Blue Mountain Community College
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Henry Fielding
Book SynopsisThe Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer''s work, enabling students and researchers to read the material themselves.Table of ContentsThe Author's Farce (30 March 1730), I JOHN PERICIVAL first Earl of Egmont, from diary entry, 24 April 1730, 2 Letter signed IBAVIUS' {JOHN MARTYN], II June 1730, 3 The Modern Husband (14 February 1731-2) 4 Letter signed 'DRAMATICUS' [SIR WILLIAM YONGB (1), 5 .[THOMAS COOKU], from The Comedian or Philosophical The Covent-Garden Tragedy (I June 1732.) 6 Letter signed 'PUBLICUS', The Grub-street Journal. 5 June 1732, 7 Letter signed 'DRAMATICUS' [SIR WILLIAM YONGB, 8 Letters signed 'PROSAICUS' 29June 1732, 9 Letters signed 'DRAMATICUS' WILLIAM YONCE July 1732 /Part Contents
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Laurence Sterne The Critical Heritage Critical Heritage S
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Tobias Smollett The Critical Heritage Critical Heritage S
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Taylor & Francis Adaptations of Shakespeare An Anthology of Plays
Book SynopsisShakespeare's plays have been adapted or rewritten in various ways since the seventeenth century. This anthology brings together thirteen theatrical adaptations of Shakespeare's work from around the world and across the centuries.Trade Review'A wonderfully rich collection of plays ... an important new resource for students and scholars interested in Shakespeare's drama and its afterlives'. - Susan Bennett, University of CalgaryTable of ContentsIntroduction 1.The Women's Prize or the Tamer Tamed 2.The History of King Lear 3.King Stephen: a Fragment or a Tragedy 4.The Public (El Público) 5.The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui 6.uMabatha 7.Measure for Measure 8.Hamletmachine 9.Lear's Daughters 10.Desdemona: a Play about a Handkerchief 11.This Island's Mine 12.Harlem Duet Further adaptations
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Taylor & Francis Reading Early Modern Women An Anthology of Texts
Book SynopsisThis anthology assembles 144 primary texts and documents written by women between 1550 and 1700 and reveals a comprehensive view of the intellectual and literary lives of women in early modern England. The writings range from poetry to philosophical treatises, addressing a wide array of subjects.Trade Review"Reading Early Modern Women is an essential resource for teaching and research, providing as it does a wide array of texts not easily accessed, from medical books, through prophecies and letters, to poetry and music. Contextualized both critically and historically, this book allows contemporary readers to benefit from the dazzling array of early modern women's writing." -- Marion Wynne-Davies, University of Dundee"This book should certainly be recommended to students as an expert guide through a range of materials which will be new to them; it will also be of invaluable use to scholars in the field, as it makes available and discusses a fascinating number of texts otherwise available only in archives. One of the book's many strengths is the way in which each text and each genre is not only adeptly introduced, but is also cross-referenced with other works, primary and secondary, both in the anthology and beyond it. This serves not only to open up the expanding field of early modern women's writing to the newcomer, but also to indicate ways in which researchers can expand their studies across a number of interrelated literary areas." -- Hilary Hinds, Lancaster University, UK"Reading Early Modern Women is an astonishing achievement. Bringing together 150 manuscript and print texts--many published here for the first time--as well as commentaries by more than 80 scholars, this remarkable collection introduces us to a very broad spectrum of the literary achievements of women. It should quickly become the centerpiece of many undergraduate and graduate courses in early modern literature, history, and women's studies. Thanks to Ostovich and Sauer's extraordinary efforts, early modern women writers may finally get the Renaissance they so richly deserve." -- Douglas A. Brooks, Texas A&M University"This imaginatively conceived and brilliantly executed anthology with its ingeniously chosen texts, its illustrative images from the original books or manuscripts, and its impressive array of distinguished contributing editors shows that whatever their disadvantages and the injustices of their society early modern women did indeed have not just a room of their own but a whole house, a whole palace, and even (as Christine de Pisan insisted), a whole city. Ostovich and Sauer have produced an invaluable resource for anybody interested in Renaissance literature or women's studies." -- Anne Lake Prescott, Professor of English at Barnard College and coeditor of Female and Male Voices in EarlyModern England: A Renaissance Anthology"Reading Early Modern Women is an astonishing achievement. Bringing together 150 manuscript and print texts--many published here for the first time--as well as commentaries by more than 80 scholars, this remarkable collection introduces us to a very broad spectrum of the literary achievements of women. It should quickly become the centerpiece of many undergraduate and graduate courses in early modern literature, history, and women's studies. Thanks to Ostovich and Sauer's extraordinary efforts, early modern women writers may finally get the Renaissance they so richly deserve." -- Douglas A. Brooks, Texas A&M UniversityTable of ContentsINTRODUCTION: REREADING WOMEN’S LITERARY HISTORY 1 Legal Documents/Women’s Testimony 2 The Status of Women 3 Mothers’ Legacies and Medical Manuals 4 Religion, Prophecy, and Persecution 5 Letters 6 Life-writing: Nonfiction and Fiction CHAPTER 7 Translations/Alterations 8 Poetry 9 Plays 10 Applied Arts and Music
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Cambridge University Press Philos Dialogue in Brit Enlightment Theology Aesthetics and the Novel 31 Cambridge Studies in EighteenthCentury English Literature and Thought Series Number 31
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Cambridge University Press Medical Writing in Early Modern English Studies in English Language
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Cambridge University Press Players of Shakespeare 4 Further Essays In
Book SynopsisThis 1998 book is the fourth volume of essays by actors with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Twelve actors describe the Shakespearian roles they played in productions between 1992 and 1997. The contributors are Christopher Luscombe, David Tennant, Michael Siberry, Richard McCabe, David Troughton, Susan Brown, Paul Jesson, Jane Lapotaire, Philip Voss, Julian Glover, John Nettles, and Derek Jacobi. The plays covered include The Merchant of Venice, Love's Labours Lost, The Taming of the Shrew, The Winter's Tale, and Romeo and Juliet, among others. The essays divide equally among comedies, histories, and tragedies, with emphasis among the comedies on those notoriously difficult 'clown' roles. A brief biographical note is provided for each of the contributors and an introduction places the essays in the context of the Stratford and London stages.Trade Review' … excellent reading … The fluency and wit with which all of these actors discuss the texts they perform puts us professional academics to shame. The book is thoroughly to be recommended.' The Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Preface; Introduction Robert Smallwood; Lancelot Gobbo in The Merchant of Venice and Moth in Love's Labour's Lost Christopher Luscombe; Touchstone in As You Like It David Tennant; Petruccio in The Taming of the Shrew Michael Siberry; Autolycus in The Winter's Tale Richard McCabe; Richard III David Troughton; Queen Elizabeth in Richard III Susan Brown; Henry VIII Paul Jesson; Queen Katherine in Henry VIII Jane Lapotaire; Menenius in Coriolanus Philip Voss; Friar Lawrence in Romeo and Juliet Julian Glover; Brutus in Julius Caesar John Nettles; Macbeth Derek Jacobi; Production credits.
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Cambridge University Press A Midsummer Nights Dream
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Pearson Education Gullivers Travels and A Modest Proposal
Book SynopsisYork Notes Advanced offer a fresh and accessible approach to English Literature. This market-leading series has been completely updated to meet the needs of today's A-level and undergraduate students. Written by established literature experts, York Notes Advanced intorduce students to more sophisticated analysis, a range of critical perspectives and wider contexts.
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Wiley Shakespeare
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Shakespeare
Book SynopsisShakespeare: Criticism and Theory is an anthology of the most significant essays and book chapters published on Shakespeare in the second half of the twentieth century. An anthology of about 50 of the most significant essays and book chapters published on Shakespeare in the second half of the twentieth century. Introduces students to the variety of theoretical positions, thematic claims, methodologies, and modes of argument in Shakespeare criticism over the last 50 years. Critical views represented range from the old style historicism of E.M.W. Tillyard and the new criticism of William Empson to the new historicism of Stephen Greenblatt and the feminist perspective of Catherine Belsey. Pieces are organised into categories of critical thought and introduced in clear language. Most pieces are reproduced in their entirety. Table of ContentsPreface x Acknowledgments xiv Part I Authorship 1 1 Looney and the Oxfordians 4 S. Schoenbaum Part II New Criticism 15 2 The Naked Babe and the Cloak of Manliness 19 Cleanth Brooks 3 ‘‘Honest’’ in Othello 35 William Empson 4 ‘‘Introductory’’ Chapter About the Tragedies 50 Wolfgang Clemen 5 The ‘‘New Criticism’’ and King Lear 63 William R. Keast Part III Dramatic Kinds 89 6 The Argument of Comedy 93 Northrop Frye 7 Ambivalence: The Dialectic of the Histories 100 A. P. Rossiter 8 The Saturnalian Pattern 116 C. L. Barber 9 The Jacobean Shakespeare: Some Observations on the Construction of the Tragedies 125 Maynard Mack Part IV The 1950s and 1960s: Theme, Character, Structure 149 10 Reflections on the Sentimentalist’s Othello 152 Barbara Everett 11 Form and Formality in Romeo and Juliet 164 Harry Levin 12 King Lear or Endgame 174 Jan Kott 13 The Cheapening of the Stage 191 Anne Righter [Barton] 14 How Not to Murder Caesar 209 Sigurd Burckhardt Part V Reader-Response Criticism 221 15 On the Value of Hamlet 225 Stephen Booth 16 Rabbits, Ducks, and Henry V 245 Norman Rabkin Part VI Textual Criticism and Bibliography 265 17 The New Textual Criticism of Shakespeare 269 Fredson Bowers 18 Revising Shakespeare 280 Gary Taylor 19 Narratives About Printed Shakespeare Texts: ‘‘Foul Papers’’ and ‘‘Bad Quartos’’ 296 Paul Werstine Part VII Psychoanalytic Criticism 319 20 ‘‘Anger’s my meat’’: Feeding, Dependency, and Aggression in Coriolanus 323 Janet Adelman 21 The Avoidance of Love: A Reading of King Lear 338 Stanley Cavell 22 To Entrap the Wisest: Sacrificial Ambivalence in The Merchant of Venice and Richard III 353 René Girard 23 What Did the King Know and When Did He Know It? Shakespearean Discourses and Psychoanalysis 365 Harry Berger, Jr. 24 The Turn of the Shrew 399 Joel Fineman Part VIII Historicism and New Historicism 417 25 The Cosmic Background 422 E. M. W. Tillyard 26 Invisible Bullets: Renaissance Authority and its Subversion, Henry IV and Henry V 435 Stephen Greenblatt 27 The New Historicism in Renaissance Studies 458 Jean E. Howard 28 ‘‘Shaping Fantasies’’: Figurations of Gender and Power in Elizabethan Culture 481 Louis Adrian Montrose Part IX Materialist Criticism 511 29 Shakespeare’s Theater: Tradition and Experiment 515 Robert Weimann 30 King Lear (ca. 1605–1606) and Essentialist Humanism 535 Jonathan Dollimore 31 Give an Account of Shakespeare and Education, Showing Why You Think They Are Effective and What You Have Appreciated About Them. Support Your Comments with Precise References 547 Alan Sinfield Part X Feminist Criticism 565 32 Egyptian Queens and Male Reviewers: Sexist Attitudes in Antony and Cleopatra Criticism 570 L. T. Fitz [Linda Woodbridge] 33 ‘‘I wooed thee with my sword’’: Shakespeare’s Tragic Paradigms 591 Madelon Gohlke Sprengnether 34 The Family in Shakespeare Studies; or Studies in the Family of Shakespeareans; or The Politics of Politics 606 Lynda E. Boose 35 Disrupting Sexual Difference: Meaning and Gender in the Comedies 633 Catherine Belsey Part XI Studies in Gender and Sexuality 651 36 ‘‘This that you call love’’: Sexual and Social Tragedy in Othello 655 Gayle Greene 37 The Performance of Desire 669 Stephen Orgel 38 The Secret Sharer 684 Bruce R. Smith 39 The Homoerotics of Shakespearean Comedy 704 Valerie Traub Part XII Performance Criticism 727 40 Shakespeare and the Blackfriars Theatre 732 Gerald Eades Bentley 41 The Critical Revolution 745 J. L. Styan 42 William Shakespeare’s Romeo þ Juliet : Everything’s Nice in America? 750 Barbara Hodgdon 43 Deeper Meanings and Theatrical Technique: The Rhetoric of Performance Criticism 762 William B. Worthen Part XIII Postcolonial Shakespeare 777 44 Nymphs and Reapers Heavily Vanish: The Discursive Con-texts of The Tempest 781 Francis Barker and Peter Hulme 45 Sexuality and Racial Difference 794 Ania Loomba 46 Discourse and the Individual: The Case of Colonialism in The Tempest 817 Meredith Anne Skura Part XIV Reading Closely 845 47 Shakespeare’s Prose 848 Jonas A. Barish 48 The Play of Phrase and Line 861 George T. Wright 49 Transfigurations: Shakespeare and Rhetoric 880 Patricia Parker Index 908
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Harvard University Press The Art of Shakespeares Sonnets
Book SynopsisIn detailed commentaries on Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets, Vendler reveals previously unperceived imaginative and stylistic features of the poems, pointing out not only new levels of import in particular lines, but also the ways in which the four parts of each sonnet work together to enact emotion and create dynamic effect.Trade ReviewThis book is a great achievement, the work of an author with an almost devout passion for good poems, a passion that the academy has not succeeded in killing. -- Frank Kermode * New Republic *Helen Vendler discloses, with great patience and ingenuity, how similarly adequate to the perceived splendor and urgency of the sonnets are their rhetorical conventions, devices that "work" as multifariously for lyric poetry as the stage contrivances of the Elizabethan (and Jacobean) theater did for the plays...Vendler is confident that "the sonnets will remain intelligible, moving and beautiful to contemporary and future readers." They will, if such readers also read Vendler's book. For hers is the most intricately inquiring and ingeniously responding study of these poems yet to be undertaken...Hers will prove to be the most valuable critical performance in recent American literature on classic texts...The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets is an authentic act of contemporary criticism as well as a reading of the most cherished lyric poetry in the English language. It constitutes a ground of poetic apprehension that cannot be gainsaid, and it offers the opportunity to enjoy the art of poetry where we all agree it must be found, as one enjoys most what one understands best. -- Richard Howard * New York Times Book Review *Reading the sonnets knowing that Ms. Vendler is about to have her say serves to sharpen your awareness of the poetry considerably. In fact, with her reading over your shoulder, so to speak, you see deeper into the poetry than ever before. Each essay forces you to reread the sonnet under discussion and come a little closer to understanding this guy Shakespeare in the poem. -- Christopher Lehmann-Haupt * New York Times *Helen Vendler...has produced here what is probably the least irrelevant and most critically illuminating of all extended commentaries on the Sonnets. -- John Bayley * New York Review of Books *A few pages of this marvelous study convince us that "no poet ever found more linguistic forms to replicate human responses than Shakespeare in the Sonnets." * The Guardian *This eagerly awaited work has been nine years coming, an understandable period considering the magnitude of Helen Vendler's project...In her valuable introduction, Vendler declares that the sonnets represent "the largest tract of unexamined Shakespearean lines left open to scrutiny." Readers like me, who thought they were relatively familiar with these poems, will discover just how unfamiliar their various sequences turn out to be…It is consistent with Vendler's total immersion in the sonnets that she has learned them all by heart, as an enabling means of support for the 'evidential' criticism--in which "instant and sufficient linguistic evidence" is produced to back up every critical remark--she so unfailingly and brilliantly practices. -- William H. Pritchard * Boston Sunday Globe *Helen Vendler's long study of the art of Shakespeare's Sonnets is that purely aesthetic study of poetic language in action...Reading it is like being offered a huge plate of oysters, or doing a Spot-the-Ball competition, or playing obsessively with a Rubik's Cube that always comes out right after the effort of following a tight technical argument...It is Vendler's supreme critical virtue that she can write from inside a poem, as if she is in the workshop witnessing its making...Again and again, I want to haul out examples of this supreme critical imagination at work, but it should be apparent that criticism of the Sonnets, and by extension, critical accounts of poetry, will never be the same again. This is an epic, innovatory study which ought to mark a new beginning for criticism. -- Tom Paulin * London Review of Books *From time to time, a work of criticism appears that promises to inaugurate a new phase of the art...Roland Barthes, Paul de Man, Stephen Greenblatt: each heralded, in different ways, a paradigm shift in critical practice. And now Helen Vendler...makes a bold attempt to change criticism again. Her ambitious chef d'oeuvre, the fruit of decades of memorizing and meditating on Shakespeare's Sonnets, significantly takes the form of a critical commentary...She has chosen her topic strategically. The Sonnets is the supreme lyric masterpiece in English, yet, although often edited, it has been neglected critically, as if too challenging and demanding, too dangerous for direct response. Yet Vendler's originality goes further. For she has decided to return criticism to the study of art; to the sort of response that leads to appreciative evaluation rather than manipulation...The rapid adumbration of Shakespeare's variety is as brilliant as anything Vendler has written. But in commenting on each individual sonnet in turn, she surpasses herself, again and again making fresh observations on poems we thought familiar. In almost any other critic this would be a tour de force. But in her it is simply honest empiricism, free from any agenda but that of being receptive. -- Alastair Fowler * Times Literary Supplement *The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets by Helen Vendler is a superb close reading of the sonnets one by one. It is also an invaluable master class on how to read a poem, how to attend to the patterns of sound within a poem, how to explore the way in which sense and sound combine in the sonnets. -- Colm Tóibín * Times Literary Supplement *[The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets is] a heady journey into the sounds, structures, and strategies of the sonnets, led by a guide as perceptive and rigorously instructive as one could wish for...Anyone glancing at just a few of the essays will benefit from Vendler's microscopic examinations. To read the book from start to finish, however, is to receive a thorough education in how to look at a poem. One feels that when Shakespeare wrote the line, 'A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass,' he hoped one day for a reader who would see in this image what Vendler sees: 'the emotionally labile contents of any sonnet as they preserve their mobility within the transparent walls of prescribed length, meter, and rhyme.' This outstanding work of criticism has made those walls and what lies behind them very clear. -- Robert Atwan * Boston Review *[Featured in "The Globe 100" for 1998]Vendler stresses Shakespeare's hyperconsciousness as a writer, a quality she seems to share. She approaches her detailed study with the utter scrupulousness of a true scholar, explicating the poems as poems. Her strict emphasis on poetics and her thoroughness separate her study from its predecessors. -- Philippa Sheppard * Toronto Globe and Mail *Though intricate and technical, Vendler's analysis of the sonnets is never boring...Her meticulous structures of analysis are a gift: They quietly allow one's own interpretive faculty to rise. By clearing up all the mechanical obstacles to understanding, your own apprehension of the poem emerges whole, and you've only to recognize it...Vendler's myriad attentions to the minute patterning of words and sounds yield...mysterious glories. She diligently, even stringently, employs her technical surveys, and what emerges from beneath their grid is surprising, substantial, evanescent. -- Mona Simpson * Los Angeles Times *Vendler has lived with these works all her life, and spent much of the past nine years working on this hefty book. The result is more than a reliable guide, it is a portable critical encyclopedia...In short, this is just the book for anybody wishing to spend a little quality time with our greatest poet. * Washington Post *Vendler's careful and sympathetic examination of the poems' organizing principles (such as the 'strategies of unfolding' that Shakespeare uses to shift a sonnet's emotional terrain, sometimes repeatedly, as the poem proceeds) yields surprising insights...Vendler proposes that her book serve as a supplement to annotated texts such as the Penguin and the Yale editions, but she is probably selling herself short. Her volume is fuller than the Penguin, and more inviting than Stephen Booth's impressive but rather forbidding Yale edition. A reader who has never tried the sonnets in their entirety, or at least looked at them in college, would have no trouble with this engaging and enlightening edition. -- Gregory Feeley * Philadelphia Inquirer *[The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets] adds enormously to our understanding and prods us to continue to make our own discoveries…[It] grafts new feathers onto the wings of our understanding, lifting us closer to Heaven's gate, and it once more confirms Vendler's status as one of the smartest critics around. -- Jay Ragoff * Books in Review *[Best of 1998 issue]If you are a writer who still uses English words (rather than chockablock bricks of jargon), this is the book for you. Professor Vendler takes Shakespeare's sonnets one by one and word by word. She talks about what poems do and how they do it--their architecture, narrative, music, and language--so, along with the aperçus and sharp insights, there are nifty charts and graphs. There is also a CD of Vendler reading the sonnets aloud [available with the hardcover edition only], lest we forget that words are noise as well as ink -- Dave Hickey * Artforum *Vendler has created an exhaustive and wonderful work on Shakespeare's sonnets...This study will become a standard work and is essential for all academic libraries. -- Teresa Berry * Library Journal *Close readings that train a brilliant spotlight on Shakespeare's poetic performance...A celebrated and prolific critic, reviewer, and lecturer on poetry, Vendler offers an illuminating companion for Bardolators of all levels and stripes...Vendler analyzes each sonnet in turn (they appear in both original and modernized formats), explicating in an accessible manner the structures that organize them...An immensely enriching account of Shakespeare's complex verse: readings whose perspicuity and accuracy will form a solid basis for many more. * Kirkus Reviews *With admirable self-reliance and hardly a glance at the main stream of historical and gender-studies criticism, the famed Harvard professor reads the poems pragmatically, as 'verbal contraptions,' explaining how and why they work the way they do. The result is not just a few brilliant perceptions about, say, Shakespeare's use of clichés or chiasmus (although those are here), but the best teachers' edition on the market. Vendler's preface, and the essays that accompany each sonnet...will make a nearly perfect introduction for college students--or for anyone else who wants to learn how to read the poems for their skill and originality. * Publishers Weekly *There is so much more to these sonnets than meets the eye, Vendler's insights into their poetics are more than useful: they are indispensable. -- Tom Mayo * Dallas Morning News *[A] magisterial work...[and] an invaluable contribution to the serious study of Shakespeare's sonnets by a preeminent critic of lyric poetry, widely viewed as the best close reader of poetry writing today. -- Michael Shinagel * Harvard Review *Table of Contents* Conventions of Reference * Introduction * The Sonnets * Appendix 1: Key Words * Appendix 2: Defective Key Words * Words Consulted * Index of First Lines
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Princeton University Press How to Think like Shakespeare
Book SynopsisTrade Review"One of the Times Literary Supplement's Books of the Year 2020""Finalist for the PROSE Award in Literature, Association of American Publishers""Shortlisted for the Parnassus Prize, Memoria College""Clever. . . . An incisive commentary on the pitfalls of contemporary American education. . . . A smart and valuable new book."---Daniel Blank, Los Angeles Review of Books"A wonderful new book."---Martha Barnette, public radio's A Way with Words"Newstok argues persuasively for a return to some of the pedagogical methods that proved so effective in the 1500s."---Paul Muldoon, Times Literary Supplement"With crisp, lapidary prose, Newstok writes authoritatively about the educational norms and practices that helped shape Shakespeare’s mind. . . . As Newstok essays the contours of a Renaissance education, he demonstrates with verve the effect it’s had on his own thinking. Put otherwise, the book is Newstok’s essay at thinking—and it’s a sterling attempt. . . . It will be of interest to any reader or teacher of Shakespeare—and it should be of interest to any serious reader or teacher. Watching Newstok think with Shakespeare is inspiring, and he proves an amiable guide."---Nathan M. Antiel, Principia: A Journal of Classical Education"Eminently sensible. . . . An emphatic appreciation of just how valuable the pedagogical insights of four centuries ago remain today."---David McInnis, Australian Book Review"Even in giving concrete, practical advice, Newstok displays a flexible virtuosity; he is a practiced craftsman at home in the workshop of language."---Joshua P. Hochschild, First Things"A delightful book. . . . Intelligent, perceptive, readable, useful."---Matthew Stewart, University Bookman"In 14 short, pithy chapters, Newstok shows how to recover the lost art of thinking."---Casey Chalk, American Conservative"Newstok convinces the reader that Shakespeare was indeed a great critical thinker, and was more creative, not less so, than we initially thought. What’s more, his many real-life examples show that the creativity and meaningful scrutiny attributed to Shakespeare are not only beneficial, but possible for all of us. How to Think like Shakespeare is a unique analysis of both Shakespeare’s formative education and his art, and will be useful for both educators seeking to break from current, quantitative, test-based pedagogical strategies and for creatives aspiring to hone their craft. It is also an insightful manual on how we can all improve our ability to think deeper and think better."---Melissa Johnson, Teachers College Record"This delightful book is an odd treasure. . . . [How to Think like Shakespeare is] an educational manifesto that should make for better people, better schools, colleges and universities, and better social relations between and among free citizens. There is a potential revolution in this odd treasure of a little book. Give it to some of your colleagues, if you think it isn't too late for them, but give it to all of your students. Let them know what they may have been missing – before it is too late."---Scott Crider, Ben Jonson Journal"An engaging, witty, wide-ranging critique of contemporary pedagogical fads and a spirited provocation to return to classical and Renaissance models. . . . A book of heavy import, lightly tossed, it is at once instructive and amusing, elucidating why and how Shakespeare is good to think with."---Louis J. Kern, Key Reporter"An absolutely delightful new book . . . a luscious and stimulating read."---Michael Cathcart, Stage Show, ABC Radio National"Scott Newstok’s latest book, How to Think like Shakespeare, could be just the game changer the teacher (and administrator should have) ordered. . . . I couldn’t help but be won over by his earnest enthusiasm for the subject and ended up wanting to hear still more."---Robert M. LoAlbo, PlayShakespeare.com"As a concise history of Western pedagogical development, How to Think like Shakespeare succeeds beautifully. . . . By the end of How To Think like Shakespeare, [Newstok] has us thoroughly convinced. To think and create effectively requires one to train and practice. By apprenticing ourselves to the past, we can ourselves become links in the glorious chain of human intellectual achievement."---Fernanda Moore, Chapter 16"How to Think like Shakespeare is not the work of an activist militating for his cause but a thinker reveling in his work. Newstok reminds us that this work is, above all, fun, and the calling on display is infectious."---Karl Schuettler, Patient Cycle"A lively and evocative new volume . . . a beautifully written, succinct description of educational principles derived from the best features of a renaissance education. The book is 'deliberately short,' but packed with quotations from the Bard and scores of great authors, all combined to make us think – and, with a little luck, to think more like 'our myriad-minded Shakespeare.' I highly recommend Newstok’s book for its pith, clarity, and insight – and the sheer breadth of its bibliography, including delightful footnotes, a bibliographic essay, and an index of Shakespearean cornucopia."---Rob Jackson, Institute for Classical Education"How to Think like Shakespeare by Scott Newstok attempts to capture what education really is, as well as what it ought to be, while also arguing where our modern system falls short, creating a disconnection from a life that is well-ordered and well-lived. . . . In an age of so much technology and lack of time for thoughtfulness, a conversation with the past might prove helpful, or at the very least expand our vocabulary."---Axie Barclay, San Francisco Book Review"Scott Newstok’s How to Think like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education really is a feel good book. A thick lather of the author’s enthusiasm, a comprehensive coverage of his subject matter, and the common sense inherent in his value judgments, work together to whip up a likeminded enthusiasm in his readers . . . I found the experience of reading Newstok nothing short of exhilarating"---Ian Lipke, Queensland Reviewers Collective"A playful, quote filled romp into the mind of Shakespeare." * Fourteen Lines blog *"Part humanist manifesto, part commonplace book, [How to Think like Shakespeare] combines erudition and accessibility in an inviting package that is a joy to read." * Sententiae Antiquae Reviews *"How to Think like Shakespeare is a book that does not fit neatly into any established genre. Above all it’s about how to think and how to teach people to think, but it’s not a how to manual. At a time when higher education is stampeding toward everything shiny, new, and up to date, this book is deliberately backward looking. It looks unapologetically to the past for ideas, models, and habits of mind that Newstok contends are just as relevant now as they were in Shakespeare’s time."---Erik Gilbert, BadAssessment.org"A clever new book."---Ian Warden, Canberra Times"[How to Think like Shakespeare is] a serious history of thinking, and although serious, it’s very readable, and even playful. . . . How To Think like Shakespeare is a refreshing book and a stimulating read. The lively writing is a great treat, with things to smile at as you read."---Ralph Goldswain, No Sweat Shakespeare"Great energy and clarity . . . [How to Think like Shakespeare] is entertaining throughout: the writer convinces us that he is learning with us, that we are learning with him… One of the great features of this eloquent, uplifting, enthusiastic yet realistic and beautifully produced book is its strong sense of moment."---Tony Voss, Shakespeare in Southern Africa"In fourteen concise essays, Scott Newstok endeavors to diagnose and treat, if not to cure, the most persistent and pernicious ills of American education. . . . Newstok is always gracious and never polemical . . . [How to Think like Shakespeare’s] most remarkable trait is its form, which is a multi-layered figure for the kind of education that Newstok hopes to revive. . . . Teachers will be refreshed to learn about the commonsense principles and practices of their lost intellectual heritage."---Christopher D. Schmidt, Moreana"What a joy it was to read a book about Renaissance literature and education that not only describes these things with full respect for their historical peculiarities, but also entertains the idea that they belong (or could belong) to us in the present, as equipment for living. . . . I thoroughly enjoyed this book and recommend that anyone who cares about teaching and learning read it again and again."---Sean Keilen, Cahiers Élisabéthains: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies"Clever"---John Warner, Chicago Tribune"The chief advantage of this book is the author’s replication of the Renaissance style he advocates. He makes his case with a hurricane of citations, references, and analogies that would have made Erasmus proud. . .This may be the strongest argument for rhetorical education: the Renaissance model may prepare students for the rough and tumble of social media far more effectively than the privatized, isolated pedagogy of the media based classroom."---John D. Schaeffer, Style"A bracing, witty argument for a pedagogy that is at once old and new. . . . What he demonstrates in his playful, infectiously enthusiastic pages is a more modest and more proximate idea of freedom: the kind that appears in the sheer joy of reading and learning. That joy, and the freedom it brings, come when we care about what we study. And no one has ever cared—not really—about a test."---Samuel Fallon, Renaissance Quarterly"Heavily but delightfully peppered with great quotes from great minds throughout history, How to Think like Shakespeare makes for a thoroughly enjoyable read. . . . through metaphor and wit, it makes just as compelling an argument as you’d expect from a mathematical proof. . . . All in all, this is a book I couldn’t do justice in any way in a simple review. Newstok has a deep and wide-ranging knowledge of literature, insight into why words have power, and an understanding of how to craft them. It presents valuable ideas in an engaging format, and will help you understand both our education systems and your own mind better."---Alexandru Micu, ZME Science"How to Think Like Shakespeare playfully juxtaposes early modern and contemporary habits of thought by way of wide-ranging examples. . . . Thought-provoking and enjoyable. . . . it is the type of book that I would like to recommend to my university students to read for pleasure—precisely because it is brief and lively and could easily engender serious reflection about how we think."---Michael Cop, Parergon"Newstok has a deep and wide-ranging knowledge of literature, insight into why words have power, and an understanding of how to craft them. [The book] presents valuable ideas in an engaging format, and will help you understand both our education systems and your own mind better. It will also give you the tools you need to guide the latter one better, and the insight as to where you want it to go. I thoroughly recommend you give this one a try."---Alexandru Micu, ZME Science"Newstok explains how Shakespeare’s generation was educated, and how we can return to these methods in this surprisingly enjoyable read. He romps through the world’s greatest thinkers and artists, drawing on their words and a good deal of humor to make his case. Think of Newstok as an erudite guide giving you a themed tour of his commonplace book. This was a great read."---Andrew Perlot, The Monthly Reading List
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