Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 Books
Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Survey 50 Shakespeare and Language Volume 50 Shakespeare Survey Series Number 50
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Survey 6 The Histories Volume 6 Shakespeare Survey Series Number 6
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Survey 7 Style and Language Volume 7 Shakespeare Survey Series Number 7
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Survey 8 The Comedies Volume 8 Shakespeare Survey Series Number 8
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Survey 9 Hamlet Volume 9 Shakespeare Survey Series Number 9
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Cambridge University Press God Speed the Plough
Book SynopsisAn analysis of the history and literature of the land in early modern England, which examines a wide range of source material concerned to present a fresh view of the processes of change in rural England.Trade Review"...a recent entry in this notable field, and, while nothing can replace acquaintace with primary texts, it may be recommended as an excellent place to start." Studies in English Literature"The work is characterized by an admirably thorough and ingenuous reading across several genres of printed works." The Sixteenth Century Journal"God Speed the Plough is an innovative and important testimony to the value of interdisciplinary work, which incontestably succeeds in its object of demonstrating "the role of literature as an agent of social change"." Lorna Hutson"In his emphasis on generic particularity on the social and ideological entailments of certain ways of writing, McRae provides a more valuable example of what the new interdisciplinarity can do: not erase difference in a world of homogenized idea, but rather reveal differences, how they have been constructed, and why they matter." Richard Helgerson, University of California"God Speed the Plough is an innovative and important testimony to the value of interdisciplinary work, which incontestably succeeds in its object of demonstrating 'the role of literture as an agent of social change'." JLS"McRae provides a valuable example of what the new interdisciplinary can do: not erase difference in a world of homogenized idea, but rather reveal differences, how they have been constructed, and why they matter. And when all this is accomplished with refernce to matters as significant as the use and distribution of the land, the result is likely to be worth attending to-as is it clearly stated here." Richard Helgerson, Journal of Historical Geography"McRae provides a more valuable example of what the new interdisciplinarity can do..." Richard Helgerson, Journal of Historical Geography"Andrew McRae has written a stimulating book that will be valuable for students of both the history and literature of early modern England....the book is unusually accessible and makes a helpful contribution to our understanding of social change in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries..." Michael Finlayson, Agricultural History"This important interdisciplinary work examines literary representations of the English rural landscape and its economy and society in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Andrew McRae's book differs from many contributions to the `new historicism' in literary criticism in its treatment of an impressive array of printed sources drawn from a variety of genres, a literature McRae explores to uncover the dynamics of an agrarian discourse." Dan Beaver, AlbionTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Versions of Moral Economy: 1. Covetousness in the countryside: agrarian complaint and mid-Tudor reform; 2. Moral economics and the Tudor-Stuart Church; 3. The rural vision of Renaissance satire; 4. Agrarian communism; Part II. Imperatives of Improvement: 5. Husbandry manuals and agrarian improvement; 6. 'To know one's own': the discourse of the estate surveyor; 7. Georgic economics; Part III. The Profits and Pleasures of the Land: 8. Chorography: the view from the gentleman's seat; 9. Rural poetics; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Aphra Behn Cambridge Companions to Literature
Book SynopsisTraditionally known as the first professional woman writer in English, Aphra Behn has now emerged as one of the major figures of the Restoration. She provided more plays for the stage than any other author and greatly influenced the development of the novel with her ground-breaking fiction, especially Love-Letters between a Nobleman and his Sister and Oroonoko, the first English novel set in America. Behn's work straddles the genres: beside drama and fiction, she also excelled in poetry and she made several important translations from French libertine and scientific works. This Companion discusses and introduces her writings in all these fields and provides the critical tools with which to judge their aesthetic and historical importance. It also includes a full bibliography, a detailed chronology and a description of the known facts of her life. The Companion will be an essential tool for the study of this increasingly important writer and thinker.Trade Review'Taken as a group, the essays here assembled make for one of the best volumes to emanate from the excellent Cambridge Companions to Literature series.' Choice'… illuminating … These essays present Aphra Benn's artistic choices as determined by genre, political contingency and an acute sensitivity to theatrical success, as much as by proto-feminism.' The Times Literary Supplement'In short, the Companion offers in a brilliantly condensed form the recent debate on Aphra Behn with valuable introductions to general aspects of her work, e.g. on pastoral or social comedy, and is this indispensable to her students when reading Aphra Behn – in all her diversity and ambiguity.' Cornelia Wilde, Buchhesprechungen'Effective collaboration, commitment to advancing the knowledge of readers at varying levels, and research that is informed and up to date, both digitally and critically, have ensured that this is an informative and inspirational volume which certainly succeeds in its aim to make these important Behn plays accessible for students, scholars, acting companies, and the general reader. No doubt this richly annotated collection will facilitate a wealth of further inspiring discussion on Behn in the future.' Amelia Mills, Women's WritingTable of ContentsChronology Mary Ann O'Donnell; 1. Aphra Behn: the documentary record Mary Ann O'Donnell; 2. Behn, women and society Susan Staves; 3. Aphra Behn and the Restoration theatre Derek Hughes; 4. The political poetry of Aphra Behn Melinda S. Zook; 5. Behn's dramatic response to Restoration politics Susan J. Owen; 6. Tragedy and tragicomedy Janet Todd and Derek Hughes; 7. Behn and the unstable traditions of social comedy Robert Markley; 8. The Cavalier myth in The Rover Helen M. Burke; 9. 'The Story of the heart': Love-Letters between a Nobleman and his Sister Ros Ballaster; 10. Oroonoko: reception, ideology, and narrative strategy Laura J. Rosenthal; 11. 'Others', slaves and colonists in Oroonoko Joanna Lipking; 12. The short fiction (excluding Oroonoko) Jacqueline Pearson; 13. Pastoral and Lyric: Astrea in Arcadia Jessica Munns; 14. Aphra Behn's French translations Line Cottegnies; Further reading.
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Cambridge University Press Disowning Knowledge
Book SynopsisReissued with a new essay on Macbeth this famous collection of essays on Shakespeare's tragedies considers these plays as responses to the crisis of knowledge and the emergence of modern skepticism provoked by the new science of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.Trade Review'These beautiful essays on Shakespeare, lucid, complicated, and deeply moving, are unique … for the conversation they forge between philosophy and literature. Unified by the twin themes of knowledge and acknowledgment, and thus by the relationship between scientific understanding and human understanding, the volume brings together some of the most remarkable literary essays in modern scholarship. Tp his now famous readings of six plays of Shakespeare, Cavell now adds a stunning … piece on Macbeth, containing complicated meditations about gender, sexuality and humanity.' Martha Nussbaum, author of Upheavals of Thought'Disowning Knowledge makes wonderfully clear why Stanley Cavell's career-long struggle with the philosophical problem of skepticism converges so forcefully with his preoccupation with Shakespearean theater. Admirers of Cavell's remarkable 1969 essay on King Lear and of his published readings of Othello and Coriolanus will be delighted to find them together in one volume and complemented by equally challenging commentaries on Antony and Cleopatra, Hamlet and The Winter's Tale. Shakespeareans who do not already know Cavell's previous work should prepare themselves for a demanding encounter with the most distinctive and powerful voice in contemporary Shakespeare criticism.' Professor Richard P. Wheeler, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign'Stanley Cavell's essays on Shakespeare - deep, intellectually tenacious, and humane meditations on the nature of artistic genius - are thrilling and essential reading. They illuminate the relation between skepticism and theater, transform the language of literary criticism, and heighten the ethical significance of aesthetic response.' Professor Stephen Greenblatt, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsPreface and acknowledgements; Preface to the updated edition; 1. Introduction; 2. The avoidance of love: a reading of King Lear; 3. Othello and the stake of the other; 4. Coriolanus and interpretation of politics; 5. Hamlet's burden of proof; 6. Recounting gains, showing losses: reading The Winter's Tale; 7. Macbeth appalled; Index of names and titles.
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Cambridge University Press Twelfth Night
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Cambridge University Press A Midsummer Nights Dream
Book SynopsisFor this second edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream R. A. Foakes has added a new account of important contemporary theatre productions and recent scholarly criticism on the play. The reading list has also been revised and updated.Trade Review'… a fine example of judicious editorial writing. Foakes guides the reader securely and fluently through the critical and scholarly disputes that have accumulated around the play. He manages to be informative without being patronizing, and detached with out failing to offer opinions.' The Times Higher Education SupplementTable of ContentsIntroduction, with new section on recent stage and critical interpretations; Note on the text; List of characters; The play; Textual analysis; Appendix: A further note on sources; Reading list.
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Cambridge University Press Macbeth
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Cambridge University Press Alls Well that Ends Well
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare and Language
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Cambridge University Press The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel
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Cambridge University Press Looking for Sex in Shakespeare
Book SynopsisStanley Wells is one of the best-known and most versatile of Shakespeare scholars. This book, written with characteristic verve and accessibility, considers how far sexual meaning in Shakespeare's writing is a matter of interpretation by actors, directors and critics. Tracing interpretations of Shakespearean bawdy and innuendo from eighteenth-century editors to recent scholars and critics, Wells pays special attention to recent sexually orientated studies of A Midsummer Night's Dream, once regarded as the most innocent of its author's plays. He considers the Sonnets, some of which are addressed to a man, and asks whether they imply same-sex desire in the author, or are quasi-dramatic projections of the writer's imagination. Finally, he looks at how male-to-male relationships in the plays have been interpreted as sexual in both criticism and performance. Stanley Wells's lively, provocative, and open-minded book will appeal to a broad readership of students, theatregoers and ShakespearTrade Review'Looking for Sex in Shakespeare finds one of the most distinguished Shakespearean scholars in top form, witty, erudite and wonderfully sane. Illuminating the deep erotic riddles of the Sonnets, the rich performed life of the plays and the lascivious byways of post-modern criticism with equal insight, this collection is at once sufficiently amusing, serious and sexy to stand alongside the Shakespearean poetry that is its subject.' Michael Dobson'… this book offers clear, good-humoured answers …' Sunday Times'The leading scholar Stanley Wells has collected recent lectures on Bardic bawdy at the Globe into this handy packet of three essays.' The Independent'… stimulating and full of good sense; it contrives to be both fair-minded, and a bracing corrective to some current follies.' Sunday Telegraph'Mr Wells has fun with certain 'lewd interpreters', and everywhere shows a sanity and openness of judgment that critics and actors should note.' The Economist'… thoughtful and amusing … This is only a little book but it touches on some big theses: the relations between text and script and the different focuses of reader and performer (not always the same thing), as well as the frequent silliness of scholars and actors who are as fallible as the rest of us.' Around the Globe'Wells really has no equal writing today in terms of Shakespearean criticism and this superb book blows fresh air up the skirts of many a donnish fancy proving finally to be a corrective to many silliness which occlude the meaning of the plays rather than enhancing them.' Birmingham Post'It is a short, readable volume, which explores its subject with clarity and whose leisurely style reflects its origins in a series of public lectures.' Modern Literary ReviewTable of ContentsForeword Patrick Spottiswoode; Preface; Introduction; 1. Lewd Interpreters; 2. The originality of Shakespeare's Sonnets; 3. 'I Think he Loves the World only for him': Men loving Men in Shakespeare's plays.
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Survey
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Survey
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Cambridge University Press A History of Shakespeare on Screen
Book SynopsisA History of Shakespeare on Screen chronicles how film-makers have re-imagined Shakespeare's plays from the earliest exhibitions in music halls and nickelodeons to today's multi-million dollar productions shown in megaplexes. This edition updates the chronology to 2003, with a new chapter on recent films.Trade Review"...The best book this reviewer has ever read on this subject, this title is a must for any library, where it will serve undergraduates through faculty interested in film and/or Shakespeare." ChoiceTable of ContentsPreface and acknowledgments to second edition; Preface to first edition; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; 1. Shakespeare in silence: from stage to screen; 2. Hollywood's four seasons of Shakespeare; 3. Laurence Olivier directs Shakespeare; 4. Orson Welles: Shakespeare for the art houses; 5. Electronic Shakespeare: from television to the web; 6. Spectacle and song in Castellani and Zeffirelli; 7. Shakespeare movies in the age of angst; 8. Other Shakespeares: translation and expropriation; 9. Shakespeare in the cinema of transgression, and beyond; 10. The renaissance of Shakespeare in moving images; 11. Shakespeare in love, in love with Shakespeare: the adoration after the millennium.
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare and Domestic Loss
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare and Politics
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Cambridge University Press Press Censorship in Elizabethan England
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Cambridge University Press Fairy Tales Sexuality and Gender in France 16901715
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare and the Theatre of Wonder 9 Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture Series Number 9
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare and the Authority of Performance
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Cambridge University Press Milton and Republicanism 35 Ideas in Context Series Number 35
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Milton and EighteenthCentury Literary Editing
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Cambridge University Press Landscape Liberty and Authority
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Cambridge University Press Covenant and Republic
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press Feminist Reading Early Modrn Cultre Emerging Subjects
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Cambridge University Press Salem Story
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare and the Authority of Performance
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Cambridge University Press Literary Patronage in England 16501800
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Cambridge University Press The First Quarto of Othello The New Cambridge Shakespeare The Early Quartos
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Cambridge University Press English Shakespeares Shakespeare on the English Stage in the 1990s
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeares Tragic Cosmos
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Cambridge University Press Impersonations
Book SynopsisWhy was England the only country in Europe to maintain an all-male public theatre in the Renaissance? Stephen Orgel uses this question as the starting point of a fresh and stimulating exploration of the representation of gender in Elizabethan drama and society. Why were boys used to play female roles in drama, and how did such cross-dressing impact on the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries? What was the place of women in the Renaissance theatre, either on the stage or in the audience? And what did society make of those women who significantly and successfully violated accepted gender boundaries? At once provocative and witty, lucid and stylish, Impersonations will reshape our understanding of the Renaissance theatre, and make us rethink our own inadequate categories of gender, power and sexuality.Trade Review'In [this] brilliant short book ... Orgel writes with unfailing clarity and authority, laying bare the steps of his own thinking step by step, encouraging us to entertain objections to his argument, each of which he carefully answers, while never losing sight of the central theme of his book.' New York Review of Books'Orgel's strength is in the sharp local perception - the scholarly insistence, for example, that despite the fantasies of critics and directors the text of Edward II does not call for an on-stage poker. Such rigour is a useful corrective to critical orthodoxies which abjure the unfashionably empirical.' New Theatre QuarterlyTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. The performance of desire; 3. The eye of the beholder; 4. Call me Ganymede; 5. Masculine apparel; 6. Mankind witches; 7. Visible figures.
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Cambridge University Press The Romantic Reformation
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Cambridge University Press Constructing Christopher Marlowe
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Cambridge University Press Textual Intercourse
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Cambridge University Press Press Censorship in Elizabethan England
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Cambridge University Press The Shakespearean Forest
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Cambridge University Press The Making of Jacobean Culture
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Cambridge University Press A Midsummer Nights Dream
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Cambridge University Press Printing Writers and Readers in Renaissance Italy
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Cambridge University Press Narrative and Meaning in Early Modern England Brownes Skull and Other Histories 20 Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture Series Number 20
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Cambridge University Press Catholicism Controversy and the English Literary Imagination 15581660
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Cambridge University Press Miltons Warring Angels
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