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Aspekt B.V., Uitgeverij Susanna Shakespeare: Shakespeare's Daughter &
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HarperCollins Publishers The KitCat Club
Book SynopsisOphelia Field’s ‘Kit-Cat Club’ is a story of a changing time in 17th-century Britain, during the reigns of Queen Anne and George I, when a group of men and their enterprising initiatives paved the way for new literary and political viewpoints, born out of the most unexpected circumstances.Trade Review‘The decades after the Civil Wars have been rich pickings for cultural historians. These were the years of coffee houses and clubs, an atmosphere captured in Ophelia Field's wonderrful THE KIT-KAT CLUB.’ Dominic Sandbrook, Daily Telegraph (Book of the Year) Christian Tyler, Financial Times (Book of the Year) ‘Field is meticulous in describing the literary and other artistic achievements of the wits in the club: but the fascination of this book lies in the tale she tells of their social advancement and, to an extent, of the way the club altered manners and attitudes to class around the country.' Literary Review ‘In a general book such as this, with such broad general themes, the details matter. Here Field has succeeded admirably. She has a native gift for historical retrieval so that we see the past in close-up, as it were, as well as in wide view.’ The Times 'After reading this stimulating book, it is shocking to realise that the Kit-Cat Club has had to wait so long for its influence to be recognised. Field offers rich compensation, in a book that is both instructive and engrossingly readable.' Guardian (Book of the Week) 'What particularly distinguishes this book is the humane perspective in which the writer places her protagonists…As an essay in group biography her book presents an authoritative portrait of a genuinely revolutionary era.' Sunday Telegraph ‘Elegantly written…this deeply researched book is a fitting memorial to a remarkable body of men who contributed so much to British politics and culture.’ Sunday Times
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HarperCollins The Shakespeare Guide to Italy Retracing the Bards Unknown Travels
Book SynopsisThe author spent more than twenty years traveling the length and breadth of Italy to seek out and document the locations in which Shakespeare set his ten Italian Plays. This title includes more than 150 maps, photographs, and paintings that make the author's journey through Shakespeare's Italy.Trade Review"A fascinating look at a largely untouched aspect of Shakespeare's identity and influences. Recommended for Shakespeare enthusiasts and scholars as well as travelers looking for a new perspective, this is also particularly intriguing as a companion to specific plays." -- Library Journal (starred review) "An exceptionally entertaining, enlightening, and handsome companion for a thrillingly literate Italian sojourn." -- Booklist "Exciting, original, and convincing...This book is essential reading for all concerned with who really wrote the works of Shakespeare. A thrilling journey of discovery." -- Sir Derek Jacobi "This is a revolutionary and revelatory book, part thrilling detective story and part sober scholarly treatise." -- Michael York, Shakespearean actor of stage and screen and co-author of A Shakespearean Actor Prepares "This represents a hugely significant intervention in the study of Shakespeare and his dramatic works." -- Dr. William Leahy, Head of the School of Arts, Shakespeare Authorship Studies, Brunel University "Unless someone can prove him wrong, anyone who claims to have written the plays of Shakespeare needs to show some Italian travel documents." -- Mark Rylance, Founding Artistic Director, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, London
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Penguin Publishing Group Henry Vi Part 2 Revised Edition Pelican Shakespeare
Book SynopsisThe acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare’s time, an introduction to the individual play, and a detailed note on the text used. Updated by general editors Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller, these easy-to-read editions incorporate over thirty years of Shakespeare scholarship undertaken since the original series, edited by Alfred Harbage, appeared between 1956 and 1967. With definitive texts and illuminating essays, the Pelican Shakespeare will remain a valued resource for students, teachers, and theater professionals for many years to come. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 title
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Penguin Publishing Group Henry Vi Part 3 Revised Edition The Pelican Shakespeare
Book SynopsisThe acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare’s time, an introduction to the individual play, and a detailed note on the text used. Updated by general editors Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller, these easy-to-read editions incorporate over thirty years of Shakespeare scholarship undertaken since the original series, edited by Alfred Harbage, appeared between 1956 and 1967. With definitive texts and illuminating essays, the Pelican Shakespeare will remain a valued resource for students, teachers, and theater professionals for many years to come. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 title
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Penguin Random House Australia Pericles
Book SynopsisThe acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare’s time, an introduction to the individual play, and a detailed note on the text used. Updated by general editors Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller, these easy-to-read editions incorporate over thirty years of Shakespeare scholarship undertaken since the original series, edited by Alfred Harbage, appeared between 1956 and 1967. With definitive texts and illuminating essays, the Pelican Shakespeare will remain a valued resource for students, teachers, and theater professionals for many years to come. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 title
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Penguin Publishing Group Cymbeline
Book SynopsisI feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them and the distinguished scholarship of the general editors, Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller who understand that these are plays for performance as well as great texts for contemplation. (Patrick Stewart)The distinguished Pelican Shakespeare series, which has sold more than four million copies, is now completely revised and repackaged.Each volume features:* Authoritative, reliable texts* High quality introductions and notes* New, more readable trade trim size* An essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare and essays on Shakespeare's life and the selection of texts
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Penguin Random House Australia Coriolanus
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Penguin Publishing Group The Narrative Poems Revised Edition The Pelican Shakespeare
Book SynopsisThe acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare’s time, an introduction to the individual play, and a detailed note on the text used. Updated by general editors Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller, these easy-to-read editions incorporate over thirty years of Shakespeare scholarship undertaken since the original series, edited by Alfred Harbage, appeared between 1956 and 1967. With definitive texts and illuminating essays, the Pelican Shakespeare will remain a valued resource for students, teachers, and theater professionals for many years to come. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 title
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Penguin Publishing Group The Life of Timon of AthensRevised Edition The Pelican Shakespeare
Book SynopsisThe acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare’s time, an introduction to the individual play, and a detailed note on the text used. Updated by general editors Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller, these easy-to-read editions incorporate over thirty years of Shakespeare scholarship undertaken since the original series, edited by Alfred Harbage, appeared between 1956 and 1967. With definitive texts and illuminating essays, the Pelican Shakespeare will remain a valued resource for students, teachers, and theater professionals for many years to come. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 title
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Oxford University Press, USA Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions
Book SynopsisOne of John Donne's major prose works, Devotions speaks today for the philosophical mind such as it never has before, giving its readers exactly what Donne wished to give them: an understanding of their moral predicament in philosophical adversity.Trade Review`(This edition,) beautifully and scrupulously edited, adds something to our real wealth. The text that Raspa has established must be as close to finality as anything can be ... the erudition of the introduction scarcely to be surpassed.`___The Times Literary Supplement.
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Oxford University Press Desire and Domestic Fiction
Book SynopsisIn this strikingly original treatment of the rise of the novel, Nancy Armstrong argues that the novels and non- fiction written by and for women in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England paved the way for the rise of the modern English middle class. Most critical studies of the novel mistakenly locate political power exclusively in the official institutions of state, ignoring the political domain over which women hold authority, which includes courtship practices, family relations, and the use of leisure time. To remedy this, Armstrong provides a dual analysis, tracing both the rise of the novel and the evolution of female authority as part of one phenomenon.Trade Review`The provocative thesis Armstrong....develops challenges traditional descriptions of the rise of the novel...The result is a genuine contribution to the growing shelf of feminist criticism.' Choice `Armstrong offers a complicated scholarly feminist view of literary history just when you thought this burgeoning academic industry was running out of steam.' Library Journal
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Oxford University Press Selected Writings of Judith Sargent Murray Women Writers in English 13501850
Book SynopsisAs a novelist, essayist, dramatist, and poet, Judith Sargent Murray candidly and often humorously asserted her opinions about the social and political conditions of women in late eighteenth-century America. As a committed feminist, she urged American women to enter a new era in female history, yet published her own writings under a man''s name in the hopes of more widely disseminating her ideas. This volume includes selections from The Gleaner, her major work, and other publications.Trade ReviewThe anthology will prove useful for courses in literature, women's studies, and history....Scholars working on women's literature and history will find it a valuable starting point. Together with Mulford's edition of Stockton and Harris's own selection of Murray's writings, this collection promised to open exciting new avenues in the study of early American women writers. * William and Mary Quarterly *
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OUP/British Academy The Horrid Popish Plot
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Clarendon Press Women Writing and Revolution 17901827
Book SynopsisCombines a survey of women's writing in the period of 1790-1827, with analyses of the critically neglected work of three important writers: Helen Maria Williams, Mary Hays and Elizabeth Hamilton. It also looks at the links between women writers, the French Revolution and romanticism.Trade Review'His study is informative and admirably appreciative of the work of three fascinating women.' Times Higher Education Supplement'a lucid and densely documented overview of the gendered politics of writing in the period ... in this detailed , lucid, and suggestive account of gender and cultural change, Kelly has once again provided a most valuable map for anyone engaged in trying to define the continuities - and discontinuities - in feminist histories in this period.' Vivien Jones, University of Leeds, Eighteenth-Century Fiction 6:4Kelly is deeply read in this literature * English Studies Vol 75 no 6 *Gary Kelly's expertise on all aspects of the prose writing of the Romantic period is indubitable. Women, Writing, and Revolution must be an essential text for both students and teachers of women's writing of this important period of English literature and cultural politics. * Harriet Devine Jump, Edge Hill College, Review of English Studies, Vol. 47, No. 186, May '96 *Table of ContentsPart 1 Women and writing in the Revolutionary decade: feminizing revolution - Helen Maria Williams; Mary Hays and revolutionary sensibility; Elizabeth Hamilton and counter-revolutionary feminism. Part 2 Women, writing and the Revolutionary aftermath: Helen Maria Williams in post-Revolutionary France; Mary Hays - women, history and the state; Elizabeth Hamilton - domestic woman and national reconstruction.
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Clarendon Press Printed CommonplaceBooks and the Structuring of Renaissance Thought
Book SynopsisThis text looks at printed commonplace-books and the structuring of Renaissance thought. It should be of interest to scholars and students of Renaissance literature, cultural history, rhetoric, theology and philosophy.Trade Reviewhighly stimulating ... very welcome. ... Moss analyses and compares many books which have barely been mentioned by previous scholars. ... With extraordinary bibliographical thoroughness and exemplary clarity Moss has produced an indispensable survey of the theory and practice of the printed commonplace-book. ... embellished with precious scholarly insights * Peter Mack, University of Warwick, Renaissance Studies, Vol 15, No 1 *she has produced a lively and learned history of Renaissance Europe's primary text-processing tool * Times Literary Supplement *This book provides us at last with a meticulously detailed account of the origins, flowering, and decline of the commonplace-book in early modern Europe. Ann Moss is always sensitive to confessional or pedogogical differences ... Ann Moss offers a generous supply of materials and possible leads which one may follow up according to one's preferences and priorities as a reader of the early modern. Whatever one's perspective ... no one who is seriously interested in early modern culture, the history of pedagogy, or the history of ideas can afford to neglect this major contribution. * Terence Cave, Rhetoria 15.3 *Not just a study of commonplace books but of though (Latin locus, Greek topos, English commonplace), of testimony of quotation, this is a magisterial work. It is impossible to reduce Moss's detailed survey to generalizations. L.E. Maguire. The Yearbook of English Studies 1999.Ann Moss provides a learned historical account of the rise and fall of the Renaissance commonplace book ... Moss has read and analyzed a very large number of original sources from the Middle Ages through the seventeenth century ... this is an excellent book: it will become required reading for anyone interested in rhetoric, Latin education, and the broader intellectual world of northern Europe during the Renaissance. * Paul F. Grendler, Renaissance Quarterly *
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Oxford University Press Society and Politics in the Plays of Thomas Middleton
Book SynopsisA comprehensive reassessment of Middleton''s cultural importance, this wide-ranging study examines both the writer''s dramatic and non-dramatic texts to show how he laid bare the complicit interests at work behind assumptions about sex, morality, society, and politics in late feudal culture.Middleton''s importance has long been acknowledged in the modern theatre, but academic criticism still seems distracted by questions regarding his morals and `Puritanism''. Swapan Chakravorty argues again the reductivism of such enquiries, and demonstrates the complexity behind the texts'' disengagement from received ideological premises and gneric formulae. Combining close reading with lively historical analysis, Society and Politics in the Plays of Thomas Middleton reveals Middleton to have been a pioneer of politically self-conscious theatre. Full of insight, this study brings alive the plays'' meanings by engaging with the social, political, and cultural concerns of Middleton''s day.Trade ReviewChakravorty provides superb analyses of the ways in which Middleton consistently inverts traditional motifs, themes, and characters to create new insights. * Sixteenth Century Journal *
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Oxford University Press The Oxford Shakespeare The History of King Lear
Book SynopsisBased on the 1608 quarto of "King Lear", this commentary aims to help readers understand the language and dramaturgy of the play, in relation to the theatres in which it was performed.Table of ContentsLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; INTRODUCTION; TEXTUAL INTRODUCTION AND EDITORIAL PROCEDURES; ABBREVIATIONS AND REFERENCES; KING LEAR; THE BALLAD OF KING LEAR; OFFSHOOTS OF KING LEAR; ALTERATIONS TO LINEATION; INDEX
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Oxford University Press Shakespeare and Ovid
Book SynopsisThis is the first comprehensive account of the relationship between Shakespeare and his favourite poet, Ovid.Jonathan Bate examines the full range of Shakespeare''s work, identifying Ovid''s presence not only in the narrative poems and pastoral comedies, but also in the Sonnets and mature tragedies. He shows how profoundly creative Ovid''s influence was, from the raped Lavinia''s turning of the pages of the Metamorphoses in Titus Andronicus, and the staging of Pyramus and Thisbe in A Midsummer Night''s Dream, to the reanimation of Hermione''s statue in The Winter''s Tale and Prospero''s renunciation of his magic in The Tempest. The Heroides are shown to have been vital to Shakespeare''s female characters, but it is the Metamorphoses which animate Professor Bate''s book, just as they animated the whole of Shakespeare''s career.This original and elegantly written book reveals Shakespeare as an extraordinarily sophisticated reader of Ovidian myth and as a metamorphic artist as fluid and nTrade ReviewThis fascinating book introduces us to yet another dimension of his genius. It also wipes out the memory of static classroom excerpts and reveals Ovid in his full splendour. * Patrick Leigh Fermor, "Books of the Year", Spectator *Bate is, again and again, brilliant ... This is literary criticism of the highest order. * A. D. Nuttall, London Review of Books *"The clarity and detail of argument, and elegance of style, make this a delightful book ... Bate's work is grounded in a solid historical knowledge of the period ... Bate has produced a fine synoptic treatment, which deserves the widest possible readership." Isabella Wheater, Oxford, Review of English Studies, 1999We have needed and awaited the definitive book on Shakespeare and Ovid for many years now. It is here and it is brilliant ... Literary criticism came in with The Iron Age, but now and then someone comes along and does it so nimbly, profoundly, and movingly, that one may suppose it was an art of The Silver Age, lost in the interim and newly discovered. Jonathan Bate's book is like that. * Charles Whitworth, Cahiers Elisabëthains *
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Oxford University Press, USA The Shakespeare First Folio The History of the Book Volume II A New World Census of First Folios 2
Book SynopsisThis major reference book for Shakespeare scholars and bibliographers is the second part of the story of 'the greatest book' in the English language. Listing 228 copies of the First Folio, the Census gives concise descriptions of each, covering condition, special features, provenance, and binding. It traces the search for copies, and much more.Trade Review... here is evidence gathered on a scale that has been accorded to no other book. * Times Literary Supplement *The sheer extent and reach of West's researches, which have seen him in transit across the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Rest of the World not only suggest the excitement of following leads and locating copies, but say more of the hard work and hard travelling that has gone into the production of his book. * The Library *As an exercise in census-making, West's book is exemplary ... As a piece of functional scholarship that will prompt and enable future Shakespearean scholars securely to embark upon this and other projects, West's Census is warmly to be welcomed. * The Library *Review from Volume I: Genuinely monumental ... Through a combination of careful archival research and tireless legwork, West has located 228 copies - a remarkable 70 more than were listed in Sidney Lee's 1902 Census ... This is an essential reference work for Shakespeareans, librarians, book-collectors, and antiquarian book dealers ... a monumental achievement. * Eric Rasmussen, Shakespeare Survey *"[A] work of painstaking scholarship that will be the standard reference tool for the field." * Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 *'(West's) thorough and comprehensive census...provides not only a fresh and reliable work of reference, but also an indispensible tool for future researchers...All future workers in the field will owe a debt of gratitude to Dr. West both for his impressive achievement and for the stimulus to further and different investigations that they will derive from his invaluable books.' Richard Proudfoot, from the Foreword to Volume IIFrom Volume I 'a magisterial study of the posthumous history of a book . . . Dr West's enterprise is comparable in scope to that of the compilers of the Folio itself. . . . his monumental study forms a major contribution to the shelf of volumes essential to the Shakespeare scholar.' * Stanley Wells, Foreword to Volume I *Review from Volume I: An amazing piece of scholarship ... West's study is the first comprehensive study of the book as book and as cultural object. One wonders why we had to wait nearly four centuries for such a study. * Notes and Queries *
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Clarendon Press The World of John Taylor the WaterPoet 15781653
Book SynopsisJohn Taylor was a prolific and colourful popular writer who gives us a unique picture of England from James I to the civil war through the eyes of a London waterman. This is the first full study of the self-styled `King's Water-Poet' who carved out a pioneering role for himself as a `media celebrity' and became a national institution.Trade ReviewClearly written and tightly organised, it provides a model of sound argument based on an impressive range of reading...this short but thoughtful book makes a distinctive contribution to the social and cultural history of early modern England * Sixteenth Century Journal *Bernard Capp's informative new book analyzes the life and writings of one seventeenth-century "Amphibium," ... Taylor emerges from Capp's lucid, richly detailed study as a man who strove to create an identity for himself by negotiating the divided and distinguished worlds of early modern English society and culture. Literary scholars will be most interested by Capp's account of Taylor's struggle to gain respect as an author. * Marjorie Swann, University of Kansas, Albion, Winter '95 *
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Oxford University Press The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare
Book SynopsisSituated within the Oxford Handbooks to Literature series, the group of Oxford Handbooks to Shakespeare are designed to record past and present investigations and renewed and revised judgments by both familiar and younger Shakespearean specialists. Each of these volumes is edited by one or more internationally distinguished Shakespeareans; together, they comprehensively survey the entire field. An essential resource for the study of Shakespeare, The Oxford Handbook to Shakespeare is edited by esteemed scholar Arthur Kinney and contains forty specially written essays. It provides fresh and imaginative readings of his plays and poems, reflects on the current state of Shakespeare Studies, and suggests the likely future directions it will take. The Handbook is divided into five sections: ''Texts'' explores how Shakespeare wrote, who he collaborated with, the ways in which his works were transmitted, and the reactions of his early readers; ''Conditions'' examines the economic, social, artisTrade Reviewinventive and inspiring. * Julia Reinhard Lupton, Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 *Table of ContentsI. TEXTS; II. CONDITIONS; III. WORKS; IV. PERFORMANCES; V. CURRENT SPECULATIONS
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OUP Oxford The Oxford Handbook of the Georgian Theatre 17371832
Book SynopsisThe Oxford Handbook of the Georgian Theatre 1737-1832 provides an essential guide to theatre in Britain between the passing of the Stage Licensing Act in 1737 and the Reform Act of 1832 a period of drama long neglected but now receiving significant scholarly attention. Written by specialists from a range of disciplines, its forty essays both introduce students and scholars to the key texts and contexts of the Georgian theatre and also push the boundaries of the field, asking questions that will animate the study of drama in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries for years to come. The Handbook gives equal attention to the range of dramatic forms not just tragedy and comedy, but the likes of melodrama and pantomime as they developed and overlapped across the period, and to the occasions, communities, and materialities of theatre production. It includes sections on historiography, the censorship and regulation of drama, theatre and the Romantic canon, women and the stage, and tTrade Reviewexceptionally clear ... an indispensable teaching resource ... Showcasing the very latest research in this field in an accessible and detailed manner, and capturing all of the vibrancy and dynamism of the Georgian theatre, this Handbook will remain a vital resource for those teaching and researching Georgian culture for many years to come. * David Kennerley, BARS Review *The Oxford Handbook of the Georgian Theatre 1737-1832 is a superb achievement, not only because it is the most comprehensive guide to the period's theatre to date, but also because it showcases a fine and fascinating body of intellectual work--one that extends well beyond its pages and is changing how we view theatre and drama, from the Licensing Act through the Romantic era. * Terry F. Robinson, Eighteenth-Century Fiction *Beautifully illustrated, lucidly organized, and, above all, powerfully argued, The Oxford Handbook of Georgian Theatre 17371832 provides not only an authoritative reference guide, but a compelling read from cover to cover. * Susan Vallandares, Review of English Studies *Table of ContentsAbbreviations and Conventions List of Figures List of Contributors David Francis Taylor: Introduction Theatre, Theory, Historiography Angie Sandhu: Enlightenment, Exclusion, and the Publics of the Georgian Theatre Betsy Bolton: Theorizing Audience and Spectatorial Agency Marvin Carlson: Theorizing the Performative Event David Francis Taylor: Theatre Managers and the Managing of Theatre History Legislating Drama David Thomas: The 1737 Licensing Act and its Impact Julia Swindells: The Political Context of the 1737 Licensing Act Matthew J. Kinservik: The Dialectics of Print and Performance after 1737 Katherine Newey: The 1832 Select Committee Jim Davis: Looking Towards 1843 and the End of the Monopoly The Changing Cultures of Performance Frederick Burwick: Georgian Theories of the Actor Heather McPherson: Theatrical Celebrity and the Commodification of the Actor Gefen Bar-On Santor: Shakespeare in the Georgian Theatre Kristina Straub: Performing Variety, Packaging Difference Peter P. Reed: Interrogating Legitimacy in Britain and America The Whole Show: Spectacles, Sounds, Spaces Kathryn R. Barush: Painting the Scene Shearer West: Manufacturing Spectacle Vanessa L. Rogers: Orchestra and Theatre Music Erin J. Smith: Dance and the Theatre Colin Blumenau: Restoring a Georgian Playhouse Genres and Forms Misty G. Anderson: Genealogies of Comedy Felicity Nussbaum: The Challenge of Tragedy John O'Brien: Pantomimic Politics Jeffrey N. Cox: The Gothic Drama: Tragedy or Comedy? Michael Burden: The Writing and Staging of Georgian Romantic Opera Catherine Burroughs: The Stages of Closet Drama Matthew S. Buckley: The Formation of Melodrama Theatre and the Romantic Canon John Gardner: The Case of Byron's Marino Faliero Jacqueline Mulhallen: Shelley, Viganò, and Coreodramma David O'Shaughnessy: William Godwin and the Politics of Playgoing Penny Gay: Jane Austen's Stage Women and the Stage Helen E. M. Brooks: Theorizing the Woman Performer Thomas C. Crochunis: Women Theatre Managers Marjean D. Purinton: Women Playwrights Paula R. Backscheider: Retrieving Elizabeth Inchbald Performing Race and Empire Bridget Orr: Empire, Sentiment, and Theatre Daniel O'Quinn: Theatre, Islam, and the Question of Monarchy Odai Johnson: The Georgian Theatre in Colonial America Prathibha Kanakamedala: Staging Atlantic Slavery Nandini Bhattacharya, Mita Choudhury, Frank Felsenstein, Jean I. Marsden: Colman's Inkle and Yarico: four perspectives Marcus Wood: Historic Williamsburg: Theatre, Memory, and Colonial Slavery Index
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Oxford University Press Fulke Greville and the Culture of the English Renaissance
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Oxford University Press, USA Shakespeares Names Oxford Shakespeare Topics Hardcover
Trade ReviewMaguire seems to have enjoyed writing Shakespeare's Names and it is correspondingly enjoyable to read. * Tom Rutter Notes and Queries *...a crucial text not only for those interested in Shakespearian drama but for anyone interetsed in language more generally... * Edel Lamb MLR *Her detailed account of performances...are hugely illuminating. This is a book as much for theatre lovers as for linguists. And anyone who tries to be both will be delighted that she has written it. * David Crystal, Around the Globe *[a] stimulating book... criticism of such distinction * Alastair Fowler, Times Literary Supplement *engaging, learned, and far-reaching... Shakespeares Names is, to borrow a phrase from Loves Labours Lost, a great feast of language (5.1.36-7), both in its graceful writing and its endearing subject. * David Bevington, Modern Philology *the book's tone and level of discussion will appeal to a wide variety of readers...it evinces... the antiquary's delighted love for his or her material, a form of delight that this book communicates with intelligence and generosity. * Philip Schwyzer, Times Higher Education *[A] witty and learned study * Stratford-upon-Avon Herald *a reader-friendly delight to academics, students and Shakespeare nuts alike. * Annie Martirosyan, Huffington Post *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. What's in a name? ; 2. The patronym: Montague and Capulet ; 3. The mythological name: Helen ; 4. The diminutive name: Kate ; 5. The place name: Ephesus ; Works Cited
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Oxford University Press The Literary Culture of the Reformation
Book SynopsisBrian Cummings examines the place of literature in the Reformation, considering both how arguments about biblical meaning and literary interpretation influenced the new theology, and how developments in theology in turn influenced literary practices. Part One focuses on Northern Europe, reconsidering the relationship between Renaissance humanism (especially Erasmus) and religious ideas (especially Luther). Parts Two and Three examine Tudor and early Stuart England. Part Two describes the rise of vernacular theology and protestant culture in relation to fundamental changes in the understanding of the English language. Part Three studies English religious poetry (including Donne, Herbert, and in an Epilogue, Milton) in the wake of these changes. Bringing together genres and styles of writing which are normally kept apart (poems, sermons, treatises, commentaries), Cummings offers a major re-evaluation of the literary production of this intensely verbal and controversial period.Trade ReviewReview from previous edition I cannot think of a book more keenly aware of the linguistic complexities of early modern texts and of their political implications. * Renaissance Studies *The argument is bold and, as it is formulated here, a novel one. Moreover, Cummings has a talent for the striking and memorable formulation * Renaissance Studies *One of the notable strengths of Cummings' book is its ability to follow Erasmus's lead in allowing for a certain amount of ambiguity in interpretation. * Reformation *This is one of the most important books on the Reformation to have been published in our time. * Patrick Collinson, The English Historical Review *... fascinating work ... covers an impressive range of material ... The first section is an impressive piece of scholarship reminding one of what can be achieved by historically informed and theoretically sophisticated literary criticism ... Cummings's study is one of a very rare breed - a work of literary criticism that one is not embarrassed to recommend to one's historical colleagues. * Journal of Ecclesiastical History *... the real strength of this book is the way it combines careful readings of complex Reformation texts with a narrative of cultural change that embraces the sixteenth century. Cummings's work on Erasmus and Luther is insightful, detailed and a pleasure to read. * Journal of Ecclesiastical History *The publication of Brian Cummings's book is an event of some importance for both historians and literary critics ... Deeply learned and displaying an enviable command of the several fields of enquiry upon which it impinges, The Literary Culture of the Reformation wears the postmodern theory which suffuses it very lightly on its sleeve ... casts compelling new light on some of the most challenging and doctrinally ambiguous poems in the English Language * Cultural and Social History *[Cummings] writes with a clarity and wit all too rare in scholarly works. But this is not just a masterly survey of a fascinating subject; it demonstrates that literary, linguistic and philosophical issues will always be intertwined, and that we improverish ourselves by hiving them off into different disciplines. * Gabriel Josipovici, Books of the Year, Times Literary Supplement *... a powerful and learned study, which splendidly succeeds in describing the relationship between the alliterated nouns of the title. * Church Times *Cummings's argument is strikingly innovative because of his concentration on the grammatical nitty-gritty of differing theological concepts. * Church Times *I cannot recall when I last read a work of literary scholarship which I finished with such strong feelings of intellectual exhilaration and refreshment. * David Womersley, The Review of English Studies *A groundbreaking and immensely important book. Cummings links an impressive knowledge of sixteenth-century theology and humanist culture to a penetrating analysis of linguistic issues and problems to produce literary criticism of the highest order. * Andrew Hadfield, Times Literary Supplement *Cummings provides wonderful examples of the protean qualities of language and its uses in times of religious strife and uncertainty. * Renaissance Quarterly *This is a book of many virtues: a fully fledged interdisciplinary study of religion and literature. it will be a model for future studies, especially in its strong consideration of reading and marginalia in religious and literary context. * Sixteenth Century Journal *...this is a marvellous book, written with style and humour, explaining complex issues with enviable clarity. * Sixteenth Century Journal *Table of ContentsNote to the Reader ; Abbreviations ; Prologue: The Reformation and Literary Culture ; I. HUMANISM AND THEOLOGY IN NORTHERN EUROPE 1512-1527 ; The Reformation of the Reader ; New Grammar and New Theology ; Erasmus contra Luther ; II. THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND THE ENGLISH REFORMATIONS 1521-1603 ; Vernacular Theology ; Protestant Culture ; III. LITERATURE AND THE ENGLISH REFORMATIONS 1580-1640 ; Calvinist and Anti-Calvinist ; Recusant Poetry ; God's Grammar ; Epilogue: Revolutionary English ; Primary Sources ; Secondary Sources ; Index
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Oxford University Press Rehearsal from Shakespeare to Sheridan
Book SynopsisAttention is often given to the performance of a text, but not to the shaping process behind that performance. The question of rehearsal is seldom confronted directly, though important textual moments - like revision - are often attributed to it. Whatismore, up until now, facts about theatrical rehearsal have been considered irrecoverable. In this groundbreaking new study, Tiffany Stern gathers together two centuries'' worth of historical material which shows how actors received and responded to their parts, and how rehearsal affected the creation and revision of plays. This is the first history of the subject, from the sixteenth century to the eighteenth. It examines the nature and changing content of rehearsal, drawing on a mass of autobiographical, textual, and journalistic sources, and in so doing throws new light on textual revision and transforms accepted notions of Renaissance, Restoration, and eighteenth-century theatrical practice. Plotting theatrical change over time, this boTrade ReviewAs Tiffany Stern demonstrates in her remarkable Rehearsal from Shakespeare to Sheridan, it may be possible to know more about the preparations for an early modern performance than about the performance itself. Assembling a truly daunting number of instances from archives and from references embedded in playtexts themselves, Stern offers a wonderful three-dimensional look into the process of preparing and performing plays between 1567 and 1780. This encyclopaedic study is indispensable for those interested in the conditions of England¹s early modern theatre. * Seventeenth-Century News *One of the outstanding features of Tiffany Stern's highly original monograph is the amount of research that has gone into its preparation...The persuasive and intelligently constructed argument is its second outstanding feature. * Notes and Queries *The book goes well beyond the limitations of its title, providing a comprehensive survey of the whole process of theatre work, form the first consideration of a text to the first night and beyond...Provides a rich repository of newly assembled information for theatre historians. At the same time it offers an unsentimental account of the life in the theatre during 200 formative years, from which actors and directors in "the business" can draw both fun and profit. * Essays in Criticism *It deserves to become a long-lived reference work.... This is a mature book, one based on a reassuringly large and diverse body of evidence, moving from Shakespeare's to Garrick's theatre with no sense of strain, and elegantly written throughout, with several good new stories for connoisseurs of theatrical anecdote.... Its wide range makes it of especial use for Restoration and eighteenth-century material. * Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsConventions and references ; Introduction ; Rehearsal in the theatres of Peter Quince and Ben Jonson ; Rehearsal in Shakespeare's theatre ; Rehearsal in Betterton 's theatre ; Rehearsal in Cibber 's theatre ; Rehearsal in Garrick 's theatre - and later ; Bibliography ; Index
£44.64
Oxford University Press, USA Shakespeare and the Origins of English
Book SynopsisWhat did Shakespeare learn at school? Did he study creative writing? This book addresses these and similar questions as the author shows where the modern subject of 'English' came from, and what part Shakespeare played in its formation. By looking at the origins of English we gain a new perspective on the subject as it is practised today.Trade ReviewShakespeare and the Origins of English will keep provoking and inspiring not only Renaissance scholars, but all kinds of students of all kinds "Englishes". * Veronika Ruttkay, The AnaChronist *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. Renaissance Articulations ; 2. Did Shakespeare Study Creative Writing? ; 3. Both Sides Now ; 4. Vernacular Values ; 5. Commonplace Shakespeare ; 6. The Origins of English ; Afterword
£47.49
Oxford University Press Shakespeare
Book SynopsisEdited by Stanley Wells and Lena Cowen Orlin, Shakespeare: An Oxford Guide provides a practical and stimulating guide to all aspects of Shakespeare studies. The volume comprises over 40 specially commissioned essays by an outstanding team of Shakespeare scholars; each essay is written in an accessible and engaging style, and is followed by annotated suggestions for further reading.The volume is divided into four key parts, which as a whole offer a valuable balance of factual and critical content. In the first Part, chapters provide information about and discuss Shakespeare, the theatres of his time, the society in which he lived, the language of his period, the conventions of playwriting, and his contemporary impact. The second Part offers critical overviews of Shakespeare''s achievement in the principal genres, and each overview is followed by a practical reading exploring Shakespeare''s use of the traditions, scope and boundaries of that genre in one of his key works. Part Three offeTrade ReviewAt 700 pages and with over 40 well-known contributors, this breezeblock of a Guide is the quintessential college textbook. And a very good textbook it is. Coherently organised in four sections ... a wealth of information is presented at a reading level mainly that of an able college student who already has some acquaintance with Shakespeare.' * Rex Gibson, Around the Globe 1/9/03 *Table of ContentsI. SHAKESPEARE'S LIFE AND TIMES ; II. SHAKESPEARIAN GENRES ; III. SHAKESPEARE CRITICISM ; IV. SHAKESPEARE'S AFTERLIFE
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Oxford University Press The JeNeSaisQuoi in Early Modern Europe Encounters with a Certain Something
Book SynopsisWhat is the je-ne-sais-quoi? How-if at all-can it be put into words? In addressing these questions, Richard Scholar offers the first full-length study of the je-ne-sais-quoi and its fortunes in early modern Europe. He describes the rise and fall of the expression as a noun and as a topic of debate, examines its cluster of meanings, and uncovers the scattered traces of its ''pre-history''. The je-ne-sais-quoi is often assumed to belong purely to the realm of the literary, but in the early modern period it serves to articulate problems of knowledge in natural philosophy, the passions, and culture, and for that reason it is approached here from an interdisciplinary perspective. Placing major figures of the period such as Montaigne, Shakespeare, Descartes, Corneille, and Pascal alongside some of their lesser-known contemporaries, Scholar argues that the je-ne-sais-quoi serves above all to capture first-person encounters with a ''certain something'' that is as difficult to explain as its efTrade ReviewThoughtful and erudite work [...] Nothing less than a stunning scholarly achievement [...] Above all, Scholars book shows how our drive to delineate the boundaries of the comprehensible must remain intrinsically connected to contemporary methods of inquiry and understanding, and why the early modern period is one of the most fruitful areas of inquiry for making this connection. * TEMS, H-France Review *Richard Scholar's book is a cheerful and exhaustive attempt to describe this phenomenon, readily - and consciously - embracing its inarticulability even while exploring nearly every corner of its territory...I applaud...Scholar's willingness, throughout the book, to attempt to explain something that by definition cannot be explained: as his own argument clearly shows, if you know what it is, it's not what you're looking for * David M. Posner, Renaissance Quarterly *[a] wonderfully rich and challenging study of the je-ne-sais-quoi. It is extraordinary how [...] relatively little work has been done on the provenance and history of the term. This book fills the gap triumphantly, covering fields as diverse as theology, natural science, poetry, philosophy, and theatre * Nicholas Hammond, Modern Language Review *riveting...I try to keep an eye on the university press ads because occasionally great delights and surprises turn up ...The history of the je- ne-sais-quoi tells us a good deal about how human beings inhabit the world. * Jenny Diski, LRB *Richard Scholar's wonderfully rich and challenging study of the je-ne-sais-quoi ... the elegance, detail and...scholarship of Scholar's book. * Nicholas Hammond, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge *Table of ContentsPART I: WORD HISTORY ; 1. A Modish Name ; PART II: CRITICAL HISTORIES ; 2. A Secret of Nature? Descartes and the Philosophers ; 3. The Stroke of Passion: Pascal and the Poets ; 4. A Sign of Quality: Bouhours and the Polite Circle ; PART III: PRE-HISTORY ; 5. A Certain Something: Montaigne ; 6. Beyond Pre-history: The Case of Shakespeare
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Oxford University Press, USA Milton and the Manuscript of De Doctrina Christiana
Book SynopsisDebate about the authorship of the manuscript known to us as De Doctrina Christiana has bedevilled Milton studies over recent years. In this book four leading scholars give an account of the research project that demonstrated its Miltonic provenance beyond reasonable doubt. But the authors do much more besides, locating Milton''s systematic theology in its broader European context, picking open the stages and processes of its composition, and analysing its Latinity.Trade ReviewThis book offers a highly scrupulous reconsideration of the history, composition, style, and doctrines of Milton's major theological treatise. It is a significant contribution to Milton studies and to our understanding of seventeenth-century theology. * David Loewenstein, University of Wisconsin-Madison *This book is the result of the most thorough investigations of the De Doctrina manuscript even undertaken in Milton studies * Sarka Kuhnova, Notes and Queries *Table of ContentsPreface ; Citations and Abbreviations ; List of Tables and Figures ; 1. The controversy ; 2. The history of the manuscript ; 3. The making of the manuscript ; 4. Stylometric analysis ; 5. The theology of the manuscript ; 6. The Latin style ; 7. Conclusions ; Bibliography ; The authors
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Oxford University Press Grossly Material Things
Book SynopsisIn A Room of One''s Own, Virginia Woolf described fictions as ''grossly material things'', rooted in their physical and economic contexts. This book takes Woolf''s brief hint as its starting point, asking who made the books of the English Renaissance, and what the material circumstances were in which they did so. It charts a new history of making and use, recovering the ways in which women shaped and altered the books of this crucial period, as co-authors, editors, translators, patrons, printers, booksellers, and readers. Drawing on evidence from a wide range of sources, including court records, letters, diaries, medical texts, and the books themselves, ''Grossly Material Things'' moves between the realms of manuscript and print, and tells the stories of literary, political, and religious texts from broadside ballads to plays, monstrous birth pamphlets to editions of the Bible. In uncovering the neglected history of women''s textual labours, and the places and spaces in which women wenTrade ReviewSmith has produced a study that argues convincingly for the integral engagement of women with the materiality of the printed text. The strength of this work comes from the wealth of illustrative examples placed within a convincing discussion of the many facets affecting the production and use of early modern books. * Jessica Malay, Women's History Review *Far from mere handmaids to their more accomplished male contemporaries, the early modern women who people this extraordinary book are revealed not only as patrons, printers, and translators of male-authored works, but also as stationers, chapwomen, and active readers who shape those works' very meanings. A welcome corrective to the familiar emphasis on prescriptive literature, Smith's work immerses us in the dirty, noisy world of early modern England where men and women jostled for position in the burgeoning economy of London and beyond. * Christina Luckyj, Early Theatre *brings a wealth of new insights to the field of book history * Alice Eardley, Journal of the Northern Renaissance *Smith's emphasis on materiality certainly alerts us to some tantalizing glimpses of the place of women in both printing houses and Stationers' Hall. * Maureen Bell, Times Literary Supplement *Smith presents a meticulous study of the participation of women in all aspects of book production ... the volume may prove useful to anyone researching the social, economic, and intellectual composition of the book trade. * N.C. Aldred, The Library *Helen Smith's fascinating Grossly Material Things opens an important window onto the basic circumstances of the Renaissance printing house and sheds new light on the significant roles women played in early modern Englands print marketplace ... Combining elegant writing with an abundance of useful details, Smith's study demands that we pay greater attention to the colophons of our favorite Renaissance books ... When others explore the role of women in the production of books in other markets, those scholars would do well to take Helen Smith's book as a model. * Andrew Fleck, Renaissance Quarterly *Helen Smith's Grossly Material Things is a fascinating, insightful, superbly researched book on the contributions women made to manuscript and book production in the Early Modern period. Anyone interested in the history of reading or of the book will learn a great deal from her investigation ... The great strength of her work is to refocus our attention on the web of gendered relations in writing, translating, patronizing, publishing and reading in this period. * Tom Rooney, Early Modern Literary Studies *Smith prods scholars to widen their definitions of textual labor to include books' physicality - an unexamined aspect of their cultural and intellectual impact. * Kathryn Narramore, Textual Cultures: Texts, Contexts, Interpretation *This ambitious, well-researched, and timely study sets out to revise our understanding not only of early modern women's roles in book production (as its subtitle promises) but also of their myriad contributions to the entire communications circuit, including the commissioning, manufacture, distribution, and consumption of print publications in England, and between England and the Continent ... it will be of interest to a wide array of readers including, but not limited to, specialists in book history. * Natasha Korda, Joural of British Studies *This monograph will be indispensable for early modern book historians as well as scholars of women's writing in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. * Gillian Wright, SHARP News *Table of ContentsList of abbreviations ; List of illustrations ; Acknowledgments ; Note to the reader ; Introduction: 'Grossly Material Things' ; 1. 'Pen'd with double art': Women at the Scene of Writing ; 2. 'A dame, an owner, a defendresse': Women, Patronage, and Print ; 3. 'A free Stationers wife of this companye': Women and the Stationers ; 4. 'Certaine women brokers and peddlers': Beyond the London Book Trades ; 5. 'No deformitie can abide before the sunne': Imagining Early Modern Women's Reading ; Bibliography of Works Cited ; Index
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Oxford University Press, USA Women and the Bible in Early Modern England
Book SynopsisWomen and the Bible in Early Modern England provides an account of the uniquely important role of the Bible in the development of female interpretative and literary agency, as well as in the expression of female subjectivity in early modern England. In the later sixteenth and throughout the seventeenth century women''s religious writing diversified in genre and entered increasingly into a public literary sphere. Femke Molekamp shows that the Bible was at the heart of female reading culture, and that women can be seen to have participated in multiple modes of reading it, which, in turn, fostered various kinds of literary writing.The sources used in this book to reconstruct reading practices, and trace their connection to religious writing, are drawn from diverse archives, to include the annotations, biographical writing, commonplace books, letters, treatises, and other literary writings in print and manuscript of both prominent early modern women well known to us, and women who have so Trade ReviewFemke Molekamp should be congratulated with particular warmth for her detective work in this area, which has definitely enlarged the body of evidence on which future scholars can draw. * Alison Shell, The Times Literary Supplement *Collectively Molekamp's study adds to our knowledge about the cultural place of the Bible in early modern England, contributing to the scholarly conversations around this broad topic. * William E. Smith III, Clio *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Vernacular Bible and Early Modern Englishwomen: Shifting Possibilities ; 1. The Geneva Bible in the Household ; 2. Early Modern Englishwomen and Modes of Bible-Reading ; 3. Female Religious Community: Reading and Writing ; 4. Women and Affective Religious Reading and Writing ; 5. The Sidney-Herbert Psalms and the Countess of Pembroke as a Reader of the Geneva Bible ; 6. Regarding the Passion: Aemelia Lanyer, Constance Aston Fowler, and Elizabeth Delaval ; Epilogue: The Female Bible-Reader: 'no longer a consumer but a producer of texts'
£118.75
Oxford University Press, USA Forms of Engagement Women Poetry and Culture 16401680 Oxford English Monographs
Book SynopsisWhat does it mean for a woman to write an elegy, ode, epic, or blazon in the seventeenth century? How does their reading affect women''s use of particular poetic forms and what can the physical appearance of a poem, in print and manuscript, reveal about how that poem in turn was read?Forms of Engagement shows how the aesthetic qualities of early modern women''s poetry emerge from the culture in which they write. It reveals previously unrecognized patterns of influence between women poets Katherine Philips, Lucy Hutchinson, and Margaret Cavendish and their peers and predecessors: how Lucy Hutchinson responded to Ben Jonson and John Milton, how Margaret Cavendish responded to Thomas Hobbes and the scientists of the early Royal Society, and how Katherine Philips re-worked Donne''s lyrics and may herself have influenced Abraham Cowley and Andrew Marvell. This book places analysis of form at the centre of an historical study of women writers, arguing that reading for form is reading for influence. Hutchinson, Philips, and Cavendish were immersed in mid-seventeenth century cultural developments, from the birth of experimental philosophy, to the local and state politics of civil war and the rapid expansion of women''s print publication. For women poets, reworking poetic forms such as elegy, ode, epic, and couplet was a fundamental engagement with the culture in which they wrote. By focusing on these interactions, rather than statements of exclusion and rejection, a formalist reading of these women can actually provide a more nuanced historical view of their participation in literary culture.Trade Reviewso many of the close readings of passages throughout the book are splendidly illuminating. * Neil Forsyth, Times Literary Supplement *this excellent book raises many of the issues at stake. It should be thoughtfully read by anyone interested in seventeenth-century literature. * Neil Forsyth, Universite de Lausanne, The Journal of the English Association *Scott-Baumann's meticulous attention to a refreshingly wide range of formal properties and her acute readings of Philips, Hutchinson and Cavendish in relation to their literary influences offer original insights into the work of all three poets ... an impressive contribution to our understanding of the complexity and importance of all three poets. * Hero Chalmers, The Seventeenth Century *brilliant close readings ... a larger, sophisticated argument for the relation of reading to form ... an impressively rich account of early modern women writers' important poetic and intellectual contributions to their culture. * Catharine Gray, Modern Philology *Forms of Engagement makes a valuable contribution to histories of reading, intertextuality and intellectual milieus in seventeenth-century England. The book is to be commended for its imbrication of questions of form with questions of historicity and materiality, and also for its ability to breathe new life into such supposedly staid topics as prosody and metrical regularity. For the women writers who are, ultimately, the central object of this study, Scott-Baumann has produced an erudite testament to their formal sophistication, to the self-consciousness with which they engaged and occasionally challenged literary conventions and to the seriousness of their distinctive literary practices. * Patricia Pender, Review of English Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Reading, gender and form ; 1. Margaret Cavendish, Nature, and Originality ; 2. Margaret Cavendish as Editor and Reviser ; 3. Katherine Philips and Abraham Cowley: Solitude, Dialogue, and the Ode ; 4. Katherine Philips and Lucy Hutchinson Reading John Donne ; 5. Lucy Hutchinson's Elegies, the Country-House Poem and Female Complaint ; 6. Lucy Hutchinson, the Bible, and Order and Disorder ; Afterword: Untracked paths
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Oxford University Press Magic Doe
Book SynopsisMirigavati or The Magic Doe is the work of Shaikh Qutban Suhravardi, an Indian Sufi master who was also an expert poet and storyteller attached to the glittering court-in-exile of Sultan Husain Shah Sharqi of Jaunpur. Composed in 1503 as an introduction to mystical practice for disciples, this powerful Hindavi or early Hindi Sufi romance is a richly layered and sophisticated text, simultaneously a spiritual enigma and an exciting love-story full of adventures. The Mirigavati is both an excellent introduction to Sufism and one of the true literary classics of pre-modern India, a story that draws freely on the large pool of Indian, Islamic, and European narrative motifs in its distinctive telling of a mystical quest and its resolution. Adventures from the Odyssey and the voyages of Sindbad the Sailor--sea voyages, encounters with monstrous serpents, damsels in distress, flying demons and cannibals in caves, among others--surface in Suhravardi''s rollicking tale, marking it as first-rate Trade ReviewWe are very fortunate to have this remarkable work in a sparkling verse translation whose brio effortlessly carries the reader forward. All is well supported by a rich introduction. This is the work, and I must say the labour of love, of a brilliant young scholar of the University of Pennsylvania, Aditya Behl, who died in 2009 aged forty-two. His teacher, Wendy Doniger of the University of Chicago, has ensured that it has been published. It should undermine the ignorance which has surrounded Hindavi literature and, most importantly, bring it to a wider audience. * Francis Robinson, Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsForeword: In Memory of Aditya Behl by Wendy Doniger ; Introduction ; The Prologue ; The Story of Mirigavati and Rajkunvar ; Envoi ; Notes
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University of Notre Dame Press Genius to Improve an Invention
Book SynopsisThe Genius to Improve an Invention derives its title from John Dryden's phrase for the British tendency to take up literary masterpieces from the past and perfect them. Distinguished literary scholar Piero Boitani adopts Dryden's notion as a framework for exploring ways in which classical and medieval texts, scenes, and themes have been rewritten by modern authors.Boitani focuses on a concept of literary transition that takes into account both T.S. Eliot's idea of tradition and individual talent and Harold Bloom's anxiety of influence. In five elegant essays he examines a wide range of authors and texts, including Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Shakespeare, Chaucer, Voltaire, Goethe, Sartre, Dante, and Keats. Appearing for the first time in an English translation, The Genius to Improve an Invention will appeal to anyone interested in the Western literary tradition.Trade Review“The book’s linguistic vicissitudes are intriguingly appropriate to its topic, which is the (mostly) translingual commerce between literary texts in which the difference evident in imitation can be understood as an inspired improvement." -- American Journal of Philology“Boitani’s slim book more than lives up to its unique production history in the extraordinary range of its subjects and insights. It is the kind of book that great men of letters once wrote.... [The Genius to Improve an Invention], once opened, it is a book almost impossible to put down.” -- Medium Aevum“This book deserves the attention of all who are interested in the processes of literary continuity and change.” -- Frank Kermode, King’s College, Cambridge University“The Genius to Improve an Invention is both substantial and graceful–a fascinating journey through some of the greatest works of Western literature, with a guide who is at once learned and entertaining, impassioned and moving.” -- Jill Mann“The Genius to Improve an Invention is supported with a thorough theoretical awareness and a flexible intelligence enabling Boitani to move comfortably within a vast array of texts and thus take the reader on a fascinating literary journey. Through his pressing and detailed argumentations, the author suggests original approaches to some of the great works of European literature—each of them is considered as a solution to a specific problem and, at the same time, as a probative argument in favor of applied rationality. Reading these essays calls to mind what Henry James once said, ‘all the pieces of the game [are] on the table together and each unconfusedly and contributively placed, as triumphantly scientific.’” -- Mario Lavagetto, University of Bologna
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Pennsylvania State University Press The New England Milton Literary Reception and
Book SynopsisThe New England Milton concentrates on the poet's place in the writings of the Unitarians and the Transcendentalists, especially Emerson, Thoreau, William Ellery Channing, Jones Very, Margaret Fuller, and Theodore Parker, and demonstrates that his reception by both groups was a function of their response as members of the New England elite to older and broader sociopolitical tensions in Yankee culture as it underwent the process of modernization. For Milton and his writings (particularly Paradise Lost) were themselves early manifestations of the continuing crisis of authority that later afflicted the dominant class and professions in Boston; and so, the Unitarian Milton, like the Milton of Emerson's lectures or Thoreau's Walden, quite naturally became the vehicle for literary attempts by these authors to resolve the ideological contradictions they had inherited from the Puritan past.Trade Review“Scholars who seek the roots of Milton's influence in the early republic will have in one volume precisely the kind of information they need. And those who wish to understand Milton's place among the American Romantics more generally will [find here] fine chapters on Emerson, Thoreau, and the other Transcendentalists. This book will have wide appeal among Miltonists and people in American literature, but even more so for those who wish to be stimulated to reconsider transatlantic literary culture.”—Philip F. Gura,University of North Carolina“Van Anglen has written a fascinating chapter in New England literary sociology, [revealing] how early nineteenth-century New England used the poetry, example, and person of Milton to solve the problem of authority. The author knows the material thoroughly. His scholarship is inclusive and up-to-date. This is a solid achievement.”—Robert D. Richardson,Wesleyan University
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Pennsylvania State University Press Posthumous America Literary Reinventions of
Book SynopsisAn English translation of Benjamin Hoffmann’s French monograph L’Amérique posthume. Examines the literary idealization of a lost American past in eighteenth-century French literature. Trade Review“Benjamin Hoffmann presents, with wonderful insight, a portrait of a young American nation by three French writers. The particular oddity of their perspective, hence the delightful originality of this work, is that what they depict in their various ways is a society and polity that they know to be no longer valid—for which Hoffmann coins the term of ‘posthumous’ narrative, sometimes tainted with nostalgia or outright fiction, in an already-archaic American landscape.”—Philip Stewart,author of Engraven Desire: Eros, Image, and Text in the French Eighteenth Century “A welcome reexamination of major texts.”—Stamos Metzidakis H-FranceTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: New World Paradoxes1. Saint-John de Crèvecoeur and Nostalgia for Colonial America2. Lezay-Marnésia and Nostalgia for the American Golden Age3. Chateaubriand and Nostalgia for French AmericaConclusion: America, a Mobile SignAppendixNotesBibliographyIndex
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Pennsylvania State University Press Textual Spaces French Renaissance Writings on the Italian Voyage Early Modern Studies
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Yale University Press Shakespeare the Kings Playwright
Book SynopsisSoon after James Stuart became King of England in 1603, William Shakespeare became the royal playwright. In this book the author looks at the court performances of some of Shakespeare's most famous plays, examining them in their settings at the royal palaces of Whitehall and Hampton Court.Table of ContentsIntroduction - Shakespeare at the Stuart Court; Art and Theatre in the Service of the Leviathan State; Blood Revenge in Elsinore and in Holyrood - "Hamlet", Hampton Court, Christmas 1603; The King's Prerogative and the Law - "Measure for Measure", Whitehall, December 26th 1604; The Politics of Madness and Demonism - "Macbeth", Hampton Court, August 7th 1606; The True King - Lear, Whitehall, Christmas 1606; Sex and Favour in the Court - "Antony and Cleopatra", Whitehall, Christmas 1607; Military and the Court Aristocracies - Coriolanus, Whitehall, Christmas 1608; The King and the Poet - "The Tempest", Whitehall, Winter 1613; Shakespeare's Sonnets and Patronage Art; What the King Saw, What the Poet Wrote. Appendices: Theatrical Calendar of the King's Men, 1603-14; The Great Hall at Christ Church, Oxford, August 1605.
£32.67
Yale University Press The Milton Encyclopedia
Book SynopsisAn encyclopedia that offers information about Milton. It presents articles covering each poem and prose work by Milton; the life of Milton and the members of his family; various events and contemporary and historical figures mentioned significantly in his writings; and, those whose own writing was shaped by Milton's influence.
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Yale University Press A New Mimesis
Book SynopsisIn pursuit of a common-sense argument about realism, this work discusses English 18th-century and French neo-classical conceptions of realism, and considers "Julius Caesar", "Coriolanus", "The Merchant of Venice", "Othello", and both parts of "King Henry IV" as a feat of mimesis, with emphasis on Shakespeare's perception of society and culture.Trade Review"Nuttall's most important book on Shakespeare seems as fresh and challenging as ever."—Graham Bradshaw, author of Shakespeare's Scepticism -- Graham Bradshaw
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Yale University Press Romantic Europe and the Ghost of Italy
Book SynopsisConsiders Italian Romanticism and the modern myth of Italy. Ranging across European and international borders, this book examines the metaphors, facts, and fictions about Italy that were born in the Romantic age and haunt the global literary imagination.Trade Review“Luzzi has accomplished the first wide-ranging analysis in English of Italian Romanticism and the myths associated with it.”—Bruce Redford, Boston University -- Bruce Redford“An important and much needed study of Italian Romanticism in a comparative perspective.”—Roberto M. Dainotto, Duke University -- Roberto M. DainottoChosen as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2009 by Choice Magazine * Choice *
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Yale University Press Making MakeBelieve Real
Trade Review"As entertainingly readable as it is broadly informative.”—John Simon, New York Times Book Review on Rome and Rhetoric -- John Simon * New York Times Book Review *
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Random House USA Inc Novels Tales Journeys
Book SynopsisUniversally acknowledged as Russia’s greatest poet, Pushkin wrote with the rich, prolific creative powers of a Mozart or a Shakespeare. His prose spans a remarkable range, from satires to epistolary tales, from light comedies to romantic adventures in the manner of Sir Walter Scott, from travel narratives to historical fiction. The haunting dream world of “The Queen of Spades” draws on his own experiences with high-stakes society gambling. The five short stories of The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin are deceptively light as they reveal astonishing human depths, and his short novel, The Captain’s Daughter, a love story set during the Cossack rebellion against Catherine the Great, has been called the most perfect book in Russian literature. By turns daringly dramatic and sparklingly comic, written in the exquisite cadences of a master, Novels, Tales, Journeys captures the essence of nineteenth-century Russia—and
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Ideas of Order
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WW Norton & Co Hamlet Oedipus The Norton Library N799 0799 Norton Library Paperback
Book SynopsisThe Freud-Jones view of Hamlet is very widely known and probably this century's most distinctive contribution to Shakespearean criticism. -Norman N. Holland, Director, Center for the Psychological Study of the Arts, State University of New York at Buffalo, in Psychoanalysis and Shakespeare
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Language Poets Use
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