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Cambridge University Press Modern British Drama The Twentieth Century By Christopher Innes published December 2002
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Cambridge University Press The Theatre in NineteenthCentury Spain
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Cambridge University Press The Middle English Mystery Play
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare and the Mannerist Tradition
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Cambridge University Press The Politics of Performance in Early Renaissance Drama
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Cambridge University Press Analyzing Shakespeares Action
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare and Social Dialogue
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare and the Hunt
Book SynopsisShakespeare and the Hunt is a book-length 2001 study of Shakespeare's works in relation to the culture of the hunt in Elizabethan and Jacobean society. Situating Shakespeare's works in this rich cultural context, Berry illuminates the plays from fresh angles and explores topics generally unfamiliar to Shakespeareans.Trade Review'This is a comprehensive, stimulating, necessary, and very informative study …' Folio'This exploration produces an admirably immediate picture of the world of the English hunt in the decades surrounding 1600. … anyone interested in the history of hunting as sport - regardless of his or her acquaintance with Shakespeare - will find reading this book worth the effort.' The International Journal of the History of Sport'… learned and sensitive … Edward Berry's informative study is a pleasure to read, not only for the unostentatious elegance and lucidity of its style. The author succeeds in making the hunt, which at first glance may seem to provide merely a limited insight into Shakespeare's art, an issue of prime critical importance … Berry's historicist interpretations are illuminating … Shakespeare and the Hunt is a notable achievement that provides useful insights into the playwright's ambivalent relationship with Elizabethan aristocratic culture.' Shakespeare JahrbuchTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Preface; Glossary; 1. Introduction: the culture of the hunt and Shakespeare; 2. Huntresses in Venus and Adonis and Love's Labour Lost; 3. 'Solemn' hunting in Titus Andronicus and Julius Caesar; 4. The 'manning' of Katherine: falconry in The Taming of the Shrew; 5. The 'rascal' Falstaff in Windsor; 6. Pastoral hunting in As You Like It; 7. Political hunting: Prospero and James I; 8. Conclusion: Shakespeare on the culture of the hunt; Notes; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare and Multiplicity
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare and Dickens
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Cambridge University Press Staged Properties in Early Modern English Drama
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Cambridge University Press Subjectivity and Subjugation in SeventeenthCentury Drama and Prose
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Cambridge University Press Recovering Shakespeares Theatrical Vocabulary
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Cambridge University Press American Drama The Bastard Art 5 Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama Series Number 5
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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 Verbal Violence in Contemporary Drama
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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 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 The Authorship of Shakespeares Plays
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeares Victorian Stage
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Cambridge University Press Performing Shakespeare in the Age of Empire
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare and the Theatre of Wonder
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Cambridge University Press Travel and Drama in Shakespeares Time
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Cambridge University Press Performing the American Frontier 18701906 13 Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama Series Number 13
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Cambridge University Press AngloAmerican Interplay in Drama
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeares History Plays
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Cambridge University Press Widows Suitors Modern Eng Comedy
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Cambridge University Press Ben Jonson and Possessive Authorship
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Cambridge University Press Gender and the Italian Stage From the Renaissance to the Present Day
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Cambridge University Press The Texts of King Lear and Their Origins
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeares Serial History Plays
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare in Print
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Survey v55 An Annual Survey of Shakespeare Studies and Production King Lear and Its Afterlife Shakespeare Survey Series Number 55
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Survey v56 An Annual Survey of Shakespeare Studies and Production Shakespeare and Comedy Shakespeare Survey Series Number 56
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Cambridge University Press The Dramatic Works in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon
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Cambridge University Press The Dramatic Works in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon
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Cambridge University Press The Dramatic Works in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon
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Cambridge University Press Dramtc Wrks Beaumont Fletcher v5 Volume 5 the Mad Lover the Loyal Subject the Humorous Lieutenant Women Pleased the Island Mad Lover the Loyal Works in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon
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Cambridge University Press The Dramatic Works in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon
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Cambridge University Press The Dramatic Works in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon
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Cambridge University Press The Dramatic Works in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon
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Cambridge University Press The Dramatic Works In The Beaumont And Fletcher Canon Volume 1 The Knight Of The Burning Pestle The Masque Of The Inner Temple And GrayS Inn The By Beaumont Francis Author Jun 2009 Paperback
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare National PoetPlaywright
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Cambridge University Press The Theatre of Medieval Europe New Research in Early Drama 9 Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Series Number 9
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare and the Victorian Stage
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