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Cambridge University Press Politeness and Its Discontents
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Cambridge University Press Theatre Court and City 15951610
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Cambridge University Press Poetry and Jacobite Politics in EighteenthCentury Britain and Ireland
Book SynopsisThis book questions assumptions about the Augustan era through an exploration of Jacobite ideology in canonical and non-canonical literature. The 'four nations' literary history emerges, defined in terms of a struggle for control of the language of authority between Jacobite and Hanoverian writers.Trade Review"This book provides a valuable contribution to our understanding of the precarious state of the Union." Times Literary Supplement"This is a timely book with a passionate edge....By knitting together a great deal of overlooked or ignored scholarship in Scottish, Irish, and Welsh literature and developing a general interpretation of the significance of the Jacobite cause for their mutual resonance and development, Pittock has challenged the existing verities and offered an alternative theory, which literary historians will have to consider in future analyses of the context, message, and voice of eighteenth-century literature." Albion"This is a timely book with a passionate edge....By knitting together a great deal of overlooked or ignored scholarship in Scottish, Irish, and Welsh literature and developing a general interpretation of the significance of the Jacobite cause for their mutual resonance and development, Pittock has challenged the existing verities and (just as importantly) offered an alternative theory, which literary historians will have to consider in future analyses of the context, message, and voice of eighteenth-century literature." Albion"This is in many respects an impressive and learned volume, full of interest. It traces the vigor and variety of the Jacobite literary response to defeat and exile, from Dryden and savage, throughout Burns, Hogg and Scott." John Cannon, Journal of English and Germanic Philology"...this book provides an excellent introductory survey of the history of Jacobite poetic discourse, one that will no doubt be read for a very long time." Gerald MacLean, Modern PhilologyTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Invasion and xenophobia; 2. The wee, wee German lairdie; 3. The codes of the canon; 4. Jacobite political culture in Scotland; 5. Jacobite culture in Ireland and Wales; 6. The demon's light; 7. The tartan curtain; Additional works; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeares Ovid
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Cambridge University Press Analyzing Shakespeares Action
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Cambridge University Press Constructing Christopher Marlowe
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Cambridge University Press Theatre and Humanism
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare and Social Dialogue
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Spenser the Cris
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Cambridge University Press Spensers Secret Career 3 Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture Series Number 3
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Cambridge University Press The Poetics of English Nationhood 1590 1612
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Cambridge University Press Reading the French Enlightenment
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare and Multiplicity
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Cambridge University Press An Index of Characters in Early Modern English Drama
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare on Masculinity
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Cambridge University Press Women and Romance Fiction in the English Renaissance
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Cambridge University Press Space and the EighteenthCentury English Novel
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Cambridge University Press Catholicism Controversy and the English Literary Imagination 1558 1660
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Cambridge University Press The Discourse of Enlightenment in EighteenthCentury France
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Cambridge University Press The Country and the City Revisited
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Cambridge University Press A History of Augustan Fable
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Cambridge University Press Sade Narratives of Transgression 52 Cambridge Studies in French Series Number 52
Book SynopsisThis major collection of essays on the Marquis de Sade, first published in 1995, encompasses a wide range of critical approaches to his Åuvre, including some of the most celebrated texts in Sade scholarship. It focuses on several distinctly contemporary areas of interest: the explicitly libidinal components of Sade's work and the effects they engender, the textual and narrative apparatus which supports these operations, the ethical and political concerns which arise from them, and the problematic issues surrounding the conceptual closure of representation. Sade is placed at the centre of current debates in literary and philosophical criticism, feminist and gender theory, aesthetics, rhetoric and eighteenth-century French cultural history, and this volume will be of interest to a wide range of readers across these disciplines.Trade Review'This excellent collection of essays merits closer consideration by advanced specialists. In addition to making classical texts on Sade published in French available to the English reader, the text offers an updated perspective on more recent scholarship.' French ReviewTable of ContentsList of contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The use value of D. A. F. Sade (An open letter to my current comrades) Georges Bataille; 2. Sade, or the philosopher-villain Pierre Klossowski; 3. Libidinal economy in Sade and Klossowski Jean-François Lyotard; 4. A political minimalist Philippe Roger; 5. The Society of the Friends of Crime Alphonso Lingis; 6. Sade, mothers and other women Jane Gallop; 7. The encyclopedia of excess Marcel Hénaff; 8. 'Sex', or, the misfortunes of literature Dalia Judovitz; 9. Structures of exchange, acts of transgression Allen S. Weiss; 10. Gender and narrative possibilities Nancy K. Miller; 11. Sade's literary space Lawrence Schehr; 12. Fantasizing Juliette Chantal Thomas; Select bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Recovering Shakespeares Theatrical Vocabulary
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Cambridge University Press Ceremony and Community from Herbert to Milton
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Cambridge University Press Drama and Politics in the English Civil War
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Cambridge University Press Women and Property in the EighteenthCentury English Novel
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Cambridge University Press Pascal the Arts of the Mind
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Cambridge University Press The First Quarto of King Henry V
Book SynopsisThis is the first modernized critical edition of Shakespeare's Henry V in the form of its original staging at the Globe in 1599. Andrew Gurr provides a most extensive commentary on the Quarto text of Shakespeare's last English history.Trade Review"Gurr's contentions will ignite interest among all serious readers of Shakespeare and may detonate a barrage of scholarly responses. Highly recommended for upper-division undergraduates through faculty and for professional collections." Choice"The sixth release in Cambridge's useful books on the early quartos, this volume prompts fresh regard for what the quartos have to tell. Gurr's content will ignite interest among all serious readers of Shakespeare and may detonate a barrage of scholarly responses. Highly recommended for upper-division undergraduates through faculty and for professional collections." ChoiceTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Preface; Abbreviations and conventions; Introduction; 1. The significance of the quarto text; 2. The nature of playhouse manuscripts; 3. The history of Henry V's quarto text; 4. The quarto printings; 5. The copy for and printing of Q1; 6. The so-called 'reporters' of Q1; 7. Compositor errors in Q1; 8. Mishearings from dictation; 9. Re-lineation; 10. Premeditated revisions; 11. Reassignments of parts; 12. Q's use of the cuts from F; 13. Verbal alterations for consistency; 14. Shakespeare's changes or the players'?; 15. Stage history; Note on the text; List of characters; The Play; Textual notes; Appendix 1: some of Q's re-lining of verse; Appendix 2: Q's rendering of Pistol's lines as verse; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press Jonson Shakespeare Early Mod
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Cambridge University Press Essays Mainly Shakespearean
Book SynopsisAnne Barton's essays on Shakespeare and his contemporaries are characterized by their combination of intelligence, humanity and elegance. In this linked but wide-ranging collection she looks at both major and neglected plays and the ongoing dialogue between them.Trade Review"Humane, learned, un-showily stylish and at times moving in their tender intelligence, these essays by Anne Barton...are nourishing to the spirit." London Review of Books"[Barton's] writing is never jargon-ridden or mechanical, and she often illuminates by means of metaphor and simile." Garret, Theatre Magazine"...[a] stunning collection of essays, surely among the best assembled on Shakespeare and his epoch. Barton's breadth and depth of learning and insight are transmitted with clarity, eloquence, and sometimes painful understanding. On Shakespeare and his connection to us, there is simply no one better." Grace Tiffany, Comparative Drama"...a solid body of informed, sensitive, and sensible commentary of which any scholar could be proud and with which future writers on Shakespeare will have to be acquainted. It is a big book but not a formidable one, and a consistent pleasure to read....The book is not one to be read at a sitting, but to be studied long and meditated on longer. It's not often that a book of criticism combines a gift for critical argument with an equal gift for critical appreciation." Robert M. Adams, New York Review of Books"...I was impressed with the book as a whole, which unlike many such collections seems more than merely the sum of its parts....Barton's work is recognizably all of a piece: her focus on ethical issues, her lack of dogmatism, and her alertness to the significance of performance practice make her criticism unique in emphasis and range of perception....Barton makes inspired suggestions about the way the increasing technical sophistication of the Jacobean theater may have influenced Shakespeare's assumptions about the relationship between that familiar duo, nature and art." Katherine Eisaman Maus, SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900"All of the essays, in their detailed and illuminating comparisons, revitalize our sense of Shakespeare's astonishing supremacy within his age, but are also characterized by a steady respect for the less familiar plays of the period, and an evident pleasure in exploring their qualities....[Barton] drives us back to Shakespeare's text with new eyes, new questions, and new understanding." Ian Donaldson, Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Part I: 1. 'Wrying but a little': marriage, law and sexuality in the plays of Shakespeare; 2. Love's Labour's Lost (1953); 3. Shakespeare and the limits of language (1971); 4. Falstaff and the comic community (1985); 5. As You Like It and Twelfth Night: Shakespeare's 'sense of an ending' (1972); 6. 'Nature's piece 'gainst fancy': the divided catastrophe in Antony and Cleopatra (1974/1992); 7. Livy, Machiavelli and Shakespeare's Coriolanus (1985); 8. Leontes and the spider: language and speaker in Shakespeare's last plays (1980); 9. 'Enter Mariners wet': realism in Shakespeare's last plays (1986); Part II: 10. The king disguised: Shakespeare's Henry V and the comical history (1975); 11. 'He that plays the king': Ford's Perkin Warbeck and the Stuart history play (1977); 12. Oxymoron and the structure of Ford's The Broken Heart (1980) 13. Shakespeare and Jonson (1983); 14. London comedy and the ethos of the city (1979); 15. Comic London; 16. Parks and Ardens (1992); Index.
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Cambridge University Press Theatrical Convention and Audience Response in Early Modern Drama
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Cambridge University Press Natural Law in English Renaissance Literature
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Cambridge University Press English Comedy
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Cambridge University Press Libertines and Radicals in Early Modern London
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Cambridge University Press Shakespearean Suspect Texts
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeares Troy Drama Politics and the Translation of Empire 22 Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture Series Number 22
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Cambridge University Press William Empson
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Cambridge University Press The Authorship of Shakespeares Plays
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Cambridge University Press EighteenthCentury Satire
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Cambridge University Press Britannias Issue
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Cambridge University Press Politics Poetics and Hermeneutics in Miltons Prose
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeares Victorian Stage
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Cambridge University Press The Rhetoric of Courtship in Elizabethan Language and Literature
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Cambridge University Press Sheridan Studies
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Cambridge University Press Performing Shakespeare in the Age of Empire
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Cambridge University Press The Making of Jacobean Culture
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Cambridge University Press Rhetoric Body Ovid to Shakespeare 35 Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture Series Number 35
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Cambridge University Press Theatre Finance and Society in Early Modern England
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