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Book SynopsisHomer's Iliad is the acknowledged masterpiece of Greek literature. Reading Homer makes it accessible to students who have only recently begun learning the language. It builds on their existing knowledge and enables them to appreciate the poem in its context.Table of ContentsList of illustrations; Preface; List of abbreviations; Notes for the reader; Introduction: A. Homer and the Iliad; B. The story of the Iliad; C. Reading Homer; D. Homer's language; E. Metre; Select bibliography; Iliad Book 16; Iliad Book 18; Vocabulary; Grammar index.

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Book SynopsisFor the first time in print, this complete, critical edition presents reconstructions of obliterated poems, alongside surviving plays of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea. This first volume provides established texts of Finch's early manuscript books, including poems written under her pen name, Ardelia.Trade Review'With remarkable success and rigor, Jennifer Keith's and Claudia Kairoff's first volume of the Works of Anne Finch investigates and analyzes complex sets of evidence and revisions in manuscript and in print, providing an extensive scholarly apparatus and historical notes on the conditions of production, not just of Finch's own writing but of its reception and publication. Rivaling the best examples of traditional critical editions, the Works of Anne Finch offers fresh approaches to questions of variants and emendations while supplying a clean, readable text of Finch's extensive literary production.' Citation, Society for Textual Scholarship'… a major event in English literary studies … The literary world is fortunate that Finch's complicated canon met its match in the editorial skills and intellectual commitment of Jennifer Keith and the team of talented experts she assembled … Anne Finch's poetry is the expression of her heart, the expression of an age, and the expression of the general human condition. In other words, she is a major poet whose works are finally accorded in this edition the establishment of texts and contexts needed for literary history to begin to acknowledge that fact.' Elizabeth Kraft, The Scriblerian'Henceforth, no scholar of Anne Finch's poetry can write about her oeuvre without studying these two volumes.' Ellen Moody, The Eighteenth-Century IntelligencerTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Preface and acknowledgments; Chronology; Abbreviations; Note; General introduction Claudia Thomas Kairoff, Jennifer Keith and Jean I. Marsden; Textual introduction Jennifer Keith; Account of the texts Jennifer Keith; Works excluded from this edition Molly Hand and Jennifer Keith; From Poems on Several Subjects written by Ardelia (The Northamptonshire Manuscript); Miscellany Poems with Two Plays by Ardelia (The Folger Manuscript); Some peices out of the First Act of the Aminta of Tasso; The Triumphs of Love and Innocence: a tragecomedy; Aristomenes, or the Royal Shepheard: a tragedy; Aditional Poems Cheifly upon Subjects Devine and Moral; Explanatory and textual notes; List of source copies; Select bibliography; Index of titles; Index of first lines.

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Book SynopsisAscanius is the most prominent child hero in Virgil''s Aeneid. He accompanies his father from Troy to Italy and is present from the first book of the epic to the last; he is destined to found the city of Alba Longa and the Julian family to which Caesar and Augustus both belonged; and he hunts, fights, makes speeches, and even makes a joke. In this first book-length study of Virgil''s Ascanius, Anne Rogerson demonstrates the importance of this character not just to the Augustan family tree but to the texture and the meaning of the Aeneid. As a figure of prophecy and a symbol both of hopes for the future and of present uncertainties, Ascanius is a fusion of epic and dynastic desires. Compelling close readings of the representation and reception of this understudied character throughout the Aeneid expose the unexpectedly childish qualities of Virgil''s heroic epic.Trade Review'This fine and stimulating book discusses multivalent and slippery prophecies, significant names and their etymologies, and especially the importance of variant and inconsistent versions of myth.' James J. O'Hara, Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. The heir and the spare; 3. Old names and new; 4. Andromache and Dido; 5. Trojan games; 6. Trojan fire; 7. Protecting Ascanius; 8. Growing up; 9. Relegating Ascanius; 10. Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisDiverse modernist poems, far from advertising a capacity to prefigure utopia or save society, understand themselves to be complicit in the unhappiness and injustice of an imperfect or fallen world. Combining analysis of technical devices and aesthetic values with broader accounts of contemporary critical debates, social contexts, and political history, this book offers a formalist argument about how these poems understand themselves and their situation, and a historicist argument about the meanings of their forms. The poetry of the canonical modernists T. S. Eliot, Mina Loy, and Wallace Stevens is placed alongside the poetry of Ford Madox Ford, better known for his novels and his criticism, and the poetry of Joseph Macleod, whose work has been largely forgotten. Focusing on the years from 1914 to 1930, the book offers a new account of a crucial moment in the history of British and American modernism.Trade Review'Poetry, Modernism, and an Imperfect World offers a compelling account of poetic modernism's ambivalent relationship to a fallen modernity through nuanced readings of a spectrum of canonical and lesser-known British and American poets, among them Ford Madox Ford, D. H. Lawrence, T. S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, Mina Loy, Edith Sitwell, and Joseph Todd Gordon Macleod. Bookended by his absorbing account of Ford's 'On Heaven' and his recuperation of Macleod's extraordinary esoteric masterpiece, The Ecliptic, Sean Pryor's exploration of 'the incompatibility of poetry and heaven' is a significant intervention in modernist studies.' Lee Jenkins, University College Cork, Ireland'Pryor's account of the poem is subtle and generative, demonstrating that the real strength of his book lies more in its close textual encounters …' Peter Nicholls, Modern Philology'An insightful meditation on modernist poetry as at once a reflection of a fallen world and an attempt to grapple with that condition through poetic forms that are by necessity doomed to fail in their endeavours, Pryor's work is remarkably clear in its argument and moving in its articulation of how and why modernist poetry recognizes its own limitations when faced with the problem of the world it inhabits, and with the problem of its own generic identity.' Matthew Levay, The Year's Work in English StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Ford's fall; 3. Eliot's line; 4. Loy's cries; 5. Stevens's accidence; 6. Macleod's signs; 7. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisBel-vedére; or The Garden of the Muses is an early modern printed commonplace book containing an anthology of nearly 4,500 short verse quotations arranged under topical headings. The book first appeared in 1600 and a second edition was published in 1610. It is of exceptional importance for the early historical reception of early modern authors such as William Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, and Christopher Marlowe (whose verse it includes); for the late Elizabethan practice of commonplacing; for the rising status of English literature (including dramatic literature); and for early modern English canon formation. Until now the book has never been properly edited. This edition provides the first full analysis of the contents of Bel-vedére, presenting the text for today''s readers and filling an important gap in the study of early modern English literature.Trade Review'This meticulously edited volume, which has a splendidly substantial introduction, provides us with a window into late Elizabethan culture and its role in establishing the tradition of English literature.' Andrew Hadfield, The Times Literary Supplement'Erne and Singh … have done a wonderful job editing Bel-vedére, an important commonplace book originally published in 1600 …Their introduction is informative, the attributions of authorship for quotations are established through well-defined research in respected sources, and the appendixes aid the reader in the use and understanding of the book. This is an excellent and delightful scholarly work.' J. D. Sharpe, Choice'[Erne and Singh's] edition is an exemplary scholarly achievement in every way … this volume is a major contribution to Elizabethan literary history, beautifully produced by Cambridge University Press.' Brian Vickers, The Review of English Studies'this edition is an exemplary scholarly achievement in every way.' Brian Vickers, The Review of English StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Early modern commonplacing; 2. The Bodenham miscellanies; 3. The structure of Bel-vedére; 4. Identifying Bel-vedére's sources: from Thomas Park to Charles Crawford; 5. Identifying Bel-vedére's sources: the present edition; 6. The contents of Bel-vedére; 7. Textual introduction; A note on the text; A note on the annotation; List of authors and editions quoted in the annotation; Bel-vedére or The Garden of the Muses; Glossary notes; Textual notes; Appendix 1. Index of authors and texts quoted or adapted in Bel-vedére; Appendix 2. The paratext of the first edition of Bel-vedére (1600); Appendix 3. Origins of the source identifications of the passages in Bel-vedére; Appendix 4. Bel-vedére and England's Parnassus (1600); Index.

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Book SynopsisSteven Connor, one of the most influential critics of twentieth-century literature and culture, has spent much of his career writing and thinking about Samuel Beckett. This book presents Connor's finest published work on Beckett alongside fresh essays that explore how Beckett has shaped major themes in modernism and twentieth-century literature. Through discussions of sport, nausea, slowness, flies, the radio switch, religion and academic life, Connor shows how Beckett's writing is characteristic of a distinctively mundane or worldly modernism, arguing that it is well-attuned to our current concern with the stressed relations between the human and natural worlds. Through Connor's analysis, Beckett's prose, poetry and dramatic works animate a modernism profoundly concerned with life, worldly existence and the idea of the world as such. Lucid, provocative, wide-ranging, and richly informed by critical and cultural theory, this book is required reading for anyone teaching or studying BeckTable of Contents1. Introduction: Beckett's finitude; Part I. Bodies: 2. 'My fortieth year had come and gone and I still throwing the javelin': Beckett's athletics; 3. The nauseous character of all flesh; 4. Making flies mean something; Part II. Timepieces: 5. 'I switch off': the ordeals of radio; 6. Looping the loop: tape-time in Burroughs and Beckett; 7. 'In my soul I suppose, where the acoustics are so bad': writing the white noise; 8. Slow going; Part III. Worlds: 9. Beckett's low church; 10. The loutishness of learning; 11. Beckett and the world; 12. 'On such and such a day… in such a world'.

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Book SynopsisLyrical Ballads (1798) is a work of huge cultural and literary significance. The volume of poetry, in which Coleridge''s Rime of the Ancyent Marinere and Wordsworth''s Lines written above Tintern Abbey were first published, lies at the heart of British Romanticism, establishing a poetics of powerful feeling, that is, nonetheless, expressed in direct, conversational language and exploring the everyday realities of common life. This engaging, accessible collection provides a comprehensive overview of current approaches to Lyrical Ballads, enabling readers to find fresh ways of understanding and responding to the volume. Sally Bushell''s introduction explores how the Preface to the second edition (1800) became a potent manifesto for the Romantic movement. Broad in scope, the Companion includes accessible essays on Wordsworth''s experiments with language and metre, ecocritical approaches, the reception of the volume in America and more; furnishing students and scholars with a range of entrTrade Review'This bright new Cambridge Companion to 'Lyrical Ballads' is a thoughtfully conceived and well-executed collection that illuminates the famous book from several angles.' Seamus Perry, The Wordsworth CircleTable of ContentsPart I. Part and Whole; 1. Wordsworth's 'Preface': A Manifesto for British Romanticism Sally Bushell; 2. Collaboration, Domestic Co-partnery and Lyrical Ballads Polly Atkin; 3. Coleridgean Contributions Tim Fulford; 4. Lyric Voice, Ballad Voice Pete Newbon; Part II. Subjects and Situations from Common Life; 5. Conversation in Lyrical Ballads Frances Ferguson; 6. The Power of Things in Lyrical Ballads Paul H. Fry; 7. Marginal Figures Philip Shaw; Part III. Feeling and Thought; 8. Silence and Sympathy in Lyrical Ballads Andrew Bennett; 9. Domestic Affections and the Home Susan Wolfson; Part IV. Language and the Human Mind; 10. A 'Radical Difference': Wordsworth's Experiments in Language and Metre Brennan O'Donnell; 11. Awkward Relations: Poetry and Philosophy in Lyrical Ballads Alexander Regier; Part V. A Global Lyrical Ballads; 12. Ecocritical Approaches to Lyrical Ballads James C. McKusick; 13. Rhyming Revolutionaries: Lyrical Ballads in America Joel Pace; 14. The Indigenous Lyrical Ballads Nikki Hessell.

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Book SynopsisThe early years of the twenty-first century saw several losses for the American theatre but also marked the emergence of a new generation of exciting playwrights. In this book, Christopher Bigsby explores the work of nine of these developing talents, and the importance of issues including race, gender and politics for their writing. Increasingly, these new figures are gaining their reputations not on Broadway but in small theatres and small towns or even abroad, bringing fresh and diverse perspectives to contemporary American drama. With a focus on female writers and on issues of personal and public identity in contemporary society, this volume investigates the styles and techniques these playwrights favour, the themes they raise, and their role in a changing America and a changing world.Trade Review'By looking at emerging voices who are slowly but surely making a mark on the US stage and building their reputations, Bigsby charts changes in American theater and drama not just in terms of its thematic focus on the politics of identity, but also in terms of the degree to which such themes now penetrate small theaters across the country. Recommended.' ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Annie Baker; 2. Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig; 3. Katori Hall; 4. Amy Herzog; 5. Tracy Letts; 6. David Lindsay-Abaire; 7. Lynn Nottage; 8. Sarah Ruhl; 9. Naomi Wallace.

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Book SynopsisLyrical Ballads (1798) is a work of huge cultural and literary significance. The volume of poetry, in which Coleridge''s Rime of the Ancyent Marinere and Wordsworth''s Lines written above Tintern Abbey were first published, lies at the heart of British Romanticism, establishing a poetics of powerful feeling, that is, nonetheless, expressed in direct, conversational language and exploring the everyday realities of common life. This engaging, accessible collection provides a comprehensive overview of current approaches to Lyrical Ballads, enabling readers to find fresh ways of understanding and responding to the volume. Sally Bushell''s introduction explores how the Preface to the second edition (1800) became a potent manifesto for the Romantic movement. Broad in scope, the Companion includes accessible essays on Wordsworth''s experiments with language and metre, ecocritical approaches, the reception of the volume in America and more; furnishing students and scholars with a range of entrTrade Review'This bright new Cambridge Companion to 'Lyrical Ballads' is a thoughtfully conceived and well-executed collection that illuminates the famous book from several angles.' Seamus Perry, The Wordsworth CircleTable of ContentsPart I. Part and Whole; 1. Wordsworth's 'Preface': A Manifesto for British Romanticism Sally Bushell; 2. Collaboration, Domestic Co-partnery and Lyrical Ballads Polly Atkin; 3. Coleridgean Contributions Tim Fulford; 4. Lyric Voice, Ballad Voice Pete Newbon; Part II. Subjects and Situations from Common Life; 5. Conversation in Lyrical Ballads Frances Ferguson; 6. The Power of Things in Lyrical Ballads Paul H. Fry; 7. Marginal Figures Philip Shaw; Part III. Feeling and Thought; 8. Silence and Sympathy in Lyrical Ballads Andrew Bennett; 9. Domestic Affections and the Home Susan Wolfson; Part IV. Language and the Human Mind; 10. A 'Radical Difference': Wordsworth's Experiments in Language and Metre Brennan O'Donnell; 11. Awkward Relations: Poetry and Philosophy in Lyrical Ballads Alexander Regier; Part V. A Global Lyrical Ballads; 12. Ecocritical Approaches to Lyrical Ballads James C. McKusick; 13. Rhyming Revolutionaries: Lyrical Ballads in America Joel Pace; 14. The Indigenous Lyrical Ballads Nikki Hessell.

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Book SynopsisThe mouth, responsible for both physical and spiritual functions - eating, drinking, breathing, praying and confessing - was of immediate importance to medieval thinking about the nature of the human being. Where scholars have traditionally focused on the mouth''s grotesque excesses, Katie L. Walter argues for the recuperation of its material ''everyday'' aspect. Walter''s original study draws on two rich archives: one comprising Middle English theology (Langland, Julian of Norwich, Lydgate, Chaucer) and pastoral writings; the other broadly medical and surgical, including learned encyclopaedias and vernacular translations and treatises. Challenging several critical orthodoxies about the centrality of sight, the hierarchy of the senses and the separation of religious from medical discourses, the book reveals the centrality of the mouth, taste and touch to human modes of knowing and to Christian identity.Trade Review'A genuinely interdisciplinary achievement, Middle English Mouths will be of great value equally to literary scholars interested especially in Langland's Piers Plowman, scholars of medieval medicine and science (including multisenoriality), Christianity and soteriology, speech and song, vernacular theology and intellectual history.' Sarah Star, Medium ÆvumTable of Contents1. Natural knowledge; 2. The reading lesson; 3. Tasting, eating and knowing; 4. The epistemology of kissing; 5. Surgical habits.

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Book SynopsisOffers up-to-date coverage of screen versions of King Lear, featuring films, TV productions, translations, free retellings and appropriations from around the world. This book will appeal to libraries and specialists working on King Lear in courses within Shakespeare studies, Shakespeare in performance and Shakespeare on screen.Trade Review'… this volume provides a perfect foundation from which to disperse and dislocate Lear's screen presence ever further.' Peter Kirwan, Cahiers Élisabéthains: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies'The empathy that pervades the latest addition to the excellent Shakespeare on Screen series is at times overwhelming … this volume provides a perfect foundation from which to disperse and dislocate Lear's screen presence ever further.' Peter Kirwan, The Shakespeare Newsletter'The collection contains more richly suggestive essays than I have space to mention; it will be indispensable to students of King Lear. The editors' calculated broad approach creates a collection that is more than the sum of its parts, and which is animated by a sense of conscience and compassion.' Sally Barnden, Shakespeare BulletinTable of Contents1. Introduction: dis-locating King Lear on screen Victoria Bladen, Sarah Hatchuel and Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin; Part I. Surviving Lear: Revisiting the Canon: 2. Lear's Fool on film: Peter Brook, Grigori Kozintsev, Akira Kurosawa Samuel Crowl; 3. Wicked humans and weeping Buddhas: (post)humanism and Hell in Kurosawa's Ran Melissa Croteau; Part II. Lear en abyme: Metatheater and the Screen: 4. Filming metatheater: the 'Dover cliff' scene on screen Sarah Hatchuel; 5. New ways of looking at Lear: changing relationships between theatre, screen and audience in live broadcasts of King Lear (2011–2016) Rachael Nicholas; 6. Re-shaping old course in a country new: producing nation, culture and King Lear in Slings and Arrows Lois Leveen; Part III. The Genres of Lear: 7. Negotiating authorship, genre and race in King of Texas (2002) Pierre Kapitaniak; 8. Romancing King Lear: Hobson's Choice, Life Goes On and beyond Diana E. Henderson; 9. 'Easy Lear': Harry and Tonto and the American road movie Douglas M. Lanier; Part IV. Lear on the Loose: Migrations and Appropriations of Lear: 10. Relocating Jewish culture in The Yiddish King Lear (1934) Jacek Fabiszak; 11. The Trump effect: exceptionalism, global capitalism and the war on women in early twenty-first century films of King Lear Courtney Lehmann; 12. Looking for Lear in The Eye of the Storm Victoria Bladen; 13. Between political drama and soap opera: appropriations of King Lear in US television series Boss and Empire Sylvaine Bataille and Anaïs Pauchet; 14. Afterword: Godard's King Lear Peter Holland; 15. King Lear on screen: select film-bibliography José Ramón Díaz Fernández.

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Book SynopsisEarly modern England was a nation alive with intense religious debate, with often violent results. Central to these debates were questions of prayer, questions powerful enough to splinter the English church and to fuel a ferocious civil war. This collection of thirteen newly commissioned essays traces the controversy and value given to the performance of prayer, through the body, the spoken word and written text, as well as its representation on stage. Through close readings of the works of Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, John Donne, John Milton and Henry Vaughan amongst others, this book examines the performative aspects of prayer in a range of literary modes. This broad range of study is expanded further with chapters focussing on the private religious diaries of men and women throughout the seventeenth century, and the convergence of music and prayer in the work of William Byrd.Trade Review'Here, a range of voices deliver fresh insights in concentrated bursts that make for stimulating reading.' William T. FitzGerald, Bunyan StudiesTable of Contents1. Prayer, bodily ritual and performative utterance: Bucer, Calvin, and the Book of Common Prayer Brian Cummings; 2. The tradition of High Church Prayer in the seventeenth century Graham Parry; 3. Performed prayer and sixteenth-century non-conformism Joseph William Sterrett; 4. Enter Mercury, sleeping: delivering prayers on the early modern stage Chloe Preedy; 5. Prayer, performance and community in early modern drama Alison Findlay; 6. Playing at prayer: the spiritual failure of performance in Hamlet Christopher Hodgkins; 7. Prayer and musical performance: the verse anthem Simon Jackson; 8. The Protestant diary and the act of prayer Efrosini Botonaki; 9. Prayer in context: the dynamics of worship in Donne's Encænia Sermon (1623) Katrin Ettenhuber; 10. 'Your suit is granted': performing prayer in early modern English poetry Helen Wilcox; 11. 'The Royal Actor': King Charles I and the performance of prayer Robert Wilcher; 12. Vaughan's devotional prose as political act and prayer Donald Dickson; 13. 'The spirit of prayer inspired': invocation as prayer in Milton's poetic imagination Noam Reisner.

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Book SynopsisThis book is an anthology of Greek poetry written during the third to first centuries BC, the Hellenistic period. It is intended to make available to undergraduates and graduate students a selection of texts which are for the most part not easily accessible elsewhere. The volume contains a wide and representative range of poetry including hymns, didactic verse, pastoral poetry, epigrams and epic. An introduction provides cultural and historical background, and a full commentary elucidates problems of language and reference in the texts. In this second edition, many notes have been rewritten and the bibliography has been updated. The selection has also been augmented with three hundred more lines of Greek text (Theocritus poems 5 and 15), and is now more than 2000 lines in length.Trade Review'This A Hellenistic Anthology - now issued as a second edition, with a greater contribution from Theocritus - is a welcome addition to the Green-and-Yellow series. The Introduction manages to convey a lot of information in a relatively short space … We then have the Commentary. [Hopkinson] introduces each poet, at greater or lesser length with a terse bibliography. The notes are a model of their kind: relevant, concise, precise … This is unequivocally excellent.' Colin Leach, Classics for All'I feel confident that Professor Hopkinson will continue to live on as a 'brilliant and devoted teacher' in this and in his other well-received publications.' James J. Clauss, Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. The apparatus criticus; Commentary; Appendix. Doric dialect; Indexes.

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Book SynopsisThis updated critical edition includes a completely new introduction which draws on the latest research in theatre history, recent productions and adaptations (in film, theatre, music, dance and fiction), as well as offering an accessible and comprehensive critical introduction to the play.Trade Review'Sometimes, Romeo and Juliet's very familiarity makes it surprisingly difficult to read, to teach, and to perform. Hester Lees-Jeffries' wonderful introduction refreshes its lyric and emotional possibilities. She combines empathy with analysis, uncovering a play that is at once deeply rooted in Elizabethan poetry and in the ongoing psychology of ideas about love, youth, and tragedy. I felt she was giving us this most famous of plays anew.' Emma Smith, University of Oxford'Hester Lees-Jeffries' introduction is as accessible as it is wide-ranging and profoundly learned. It takes the reader on a journey through key themes and the play's long and complex performance history, which includes opera, musicals, and ballet. The scholarship and sensibility are up-to-the-minute and the writing, while not pulling any punches where they are deserved, is profoundly attuned to the play's own lyricism and tenderness. With a final section dedicated to productions screened during the COVID-19 pandemic, this is a landmark edition for a new generation of readers.' Pascale Aebischer, University of Exeter'In popular imagination Romeo and Juliet stands out as a tower among Shakespeare's plays, thanks to its secure place in school curricula, its famous speeches and scenes, its rich production history, and the frequency with which it has been turned into operas, ballets, and films. Lees-Jeffries' new introduction adjusts this splendid isolation by platting the play's connections round about: with romantic poems of the 1590s, with scripts that Shakespeare was writing at the same time, with actors who likely first played the roles, with changing ideas about marriage in the period, with dueling practices, with sexuality and body-language, and with reimaginings of the play across more than four centuries and in multiple media. Lees-Jeffries offers not only a sympathetic and wide-ranging introduction to Romeo and Juliet but a concise history of performance practices and social history in Shakespeare's time.' Bruce R. Smith, University of Southern CaliforniaTable of ContentsIntroduction; Help and Advice; Note on the Text; List of Characters; The Play; Supplementary Notes; Note on Textual Analysis; Textual Analysis; Reading List.

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Book SynopsisThe 72nd in the annual series of volumes devoted to Shakespeare study and production. The articles are drawn from the programme of the International Shakespeare Conference held in Stratford-upon-Avon in the summer of 2018. The theme is ''Shakespeare and War''.Trade Review'… it is a most useful collection offering many new insights into Shakespeare's plays. It proves particularly instructive, often original, and always pleasant to read.' Sophie Chiari, CerclesTable of ContentsList of illustrations; 1. Henry V after the War on Terror Ramona Wray; 2. Economies of gunpowder and ecologies of peace: accounting for sustainability; Randall Martin; 3. Shakespeare and religious war: new developments on the Italian sources of Twelfth Night Elisabetta Tarantino; 4. 'Thou laidst no sieges to the music-room': anatomising wars, staging battles Michael Hattaway; 5. Shakespearian narratives of war: trauma; repetition; and metaphor Ros King; 6. War without Shakespeare: reading Shakespearean absence, 1642–1649 Eoin Price; 7. Antic dispositions: Shakespeare, war, and cabaret Irene Makaryk; 8. The comedy of Hamlet in Nazi-occupied Warsaw: an exploration of Lubitsch's To be or not to be (1942) Reiko Oya; 9. The lion and the lamb: Hamlet in London during World War II Zoltán Márkus; 10. Dividing to conquer or joining the ReSisters: Shakespeare's Lady Anne (and Woolf's Three Guineas) in the wake of #MeToo Diana Henderson; 11. The Homeland of Coriolanus: war homecomings between Shakespeare's stage and current complex TV Christina Wald; 12. Scholarly method, truth, and evidence in Shakespearian textual studies Gabriel Egan; 13. Beautiful polecats: the living and the dead in Julius Caesar Lisa Hopkins; 14. Ancient aesthetics and current conflicts: Indian Rasa theory and Vishal Bhardwaj's Haider (2014) Melissa Croteau; 15. Failure to thrive Elizabeth Mazzola; 16. Tippett's Tempest: Shakespeare in The Knot Garden Michael Graham; 17. Tautological character: Troilus and Cressida and the problems of personation Samuel Fallon; 18. 'Rude wind': King Lear – canonicity versus physicality Peter Smith; 19. Content but also unwell: distributed character and language in The Merchant of Venice Elena Pellone and David Schalkwyk; 20. This autistic island's mine: neurodiversity, autistic culture, and the Hunter Heartbeat Method Sonya Freeman Loftis; 21. The Senecan tragedy of Feste in Twelfth Night Judith Rosenheim; 22. Shakespearean performance in England, 2018 Stephen Purcell and Paul Prescott; 23. Professional Shakespeare productions in the British Isles, 2017 James Shaw; 24. The year's contribution to Shakespeare studies: critical studies reviewed by Charlotte Scott; Shakespeare in performance reviewed by Russell Jackson; Editions and textual studies reviewed by Peter Kirwan; Abstracts.

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Book SynopsisShakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948, Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism. Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of that year''s textual and critical studies and of the year''s major British performances. The theme for Volume 73 is ''Shakespeare and the City''. The complete set of Survey volumes is also available online at https://www.cambridge.org/core/what-we-publish/collections/shakespeare-survey This fully searchable resource enables users to browse by author, essay and volume, search by play, theme and topic and save and bookmark their results.Table of Contents1. Continental Shakespeare Karen Newman; 2. The stranger at the door: belonging in Shakespeare's Ephesus Nandini Das; 3. City origins, lost identities and print errors in The Comedy of Errors Alice Leonard; 4. The circulation of youthful energy on the early modern London stage: migration, intertheatricality, and 'growing to common players' Harry R. McCarthy; 5. In conversation with Shakespeare in Jacobean London: social insanity and its taming schools in 1 and 2 Honest Whore Chi-Fang Sophia Li; 6. Hearing voices: signal vs urban noise in Coriolanus and Augustine's Confessions Lars Engle; 7. Caesar and Lear in Hong Kong: appropriating Shakespeare to express the inexpressible Miriam Lau Leung Che; 8. Before we sleep: Macbeth and the curtain lecture Neil Rhodes; 9. 'The story shall be changed': antique fables and agency in A Midsummer Night's Dream Charlotte Scott; 10. A lawful magic: new worlds of precedent in Mabo and The Winter's Tale Nicholas Luke; 11. 'Cabined, cribbed, confined': advice to actors and the priorities of Shakespearean scholarship' Michael Cordner; 12. 'What country, friends, is this?': Tim Supple's Twelfth Night revisited Peter J. Smith; 13. Through a glass darkly: Sophie Okonedo's Margaret as racial other in The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses Jennie M. Votava; 14. 'Who's there?': Britain's twenty-first century obsession with celebrity Hamlet (2008-2018) Gemma Kate Allred; 15. Shakespearean performance in England 2019 Stephen Purcell and Paul Prescott; 16. Professional Shakespeare productions in the British Isles 2018 James Shaw; 17. Critical studies Charlotte Scott; 18. Shakespeare in performance Russell Jackson; 19. Editions and textual studies Peter Kirwan.

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Book SynopsisAphra Behn (1640-1689) is renowned as the first professional woman of literature and drama in English. Her career in the Restoration theatre extended over two decades, encompassing remarkable generic range and diversity. Her last five plays, written and performed between 1682 and 1696, include city comedies (The City-Heiress, The Luckey Chance), a farce (The Emperor of the Moon), a tragicomedy (The Widdow Ranter), and a comedy of family inheritance (The Younger Brother). These plays exemplify Behn''s skills in writing for individual performers, and exhibit the topical political engagement for which she is renowned. They witness to Behn''s popularity with theatre audiences during the politically and financially difficult years of the 1680s and even after her death. Informed by the most up-to-date research in computational attribution, this fully annotated edition draws on recent scholarship to provide a comprehensive guide to Behn''s work, and the literary, theatrical and political history of the Restoration.Trade Review'This is an encyclopaedic edition, with a full command of modern historical scholarship and of contemporary plays, pamphlets and polemics … Behn's is a witty, humorous, indignant, but pessimistic and truly distinctive voice. This fine edition allows it to be heard clearly for our time and, with luck, will lead to more performances of her plays. In the meantime, one thing is sure: that Aphra Behn would have relished the new attention and publicity it brings and, since she complained about the negligence of her printers, the extreme care of the production.' Derek Hughes and Janet Todd, The Times Literary Supplement'No doubt this richly annotated collection will facilitate a wealth of further inspiring discussion on Behn in the future.' Amelia Mills, Women's Writing'an impressive production that does full justice to Behn's now canonical status… this first glimpse into the Cambridge Edition offers a refreshing presentation of Behn's oeuvre, setting her texts in light of recent scholarly interests and in a wealth of contextual detail regarding Restoration English culture that has become increasingly available in recent years … the series promises to become not only the indispensable scholarly resource for all serious research on Behn, but also an indispensable collection for all serious research on Restoration culture.' The Review of English StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction; Editorial Conventions; 1. The City-Heiress; 2. The Luckey Chance; 3. The Emperor of the Moon; 4.The Widdow Ranter; 5. The Younger Brother.

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Book SynopsisShakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948, Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism. Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of that year''s textual and critical studies and of the year''s major British performances. The theme for Volume 74 is ''Shakespeare and Education. The complete set of Survey volumes is also available online at https://www.cambridge.org/core/what-we-publish/collections/shakespeare-survey This fully searchable resource enables users to browse by author, essay and volume, search by play, theme and topic and save and bookmark their results.Table of Contents1. Whither goest thou, Public Shakespearian? Sharon O'Dair and Timothy Francisco; 2. Teaching Shakespeare in a Time of Hate Alexa Alice Joubin and Lisa S. Starks; 3. Playful Pedagogy and Social Justice: Digital Embodiment in the Shakespeare Classroom Gina Bloom, Nicholas Toothman, and Evan Buswell; 4. Digital Resources, Teaching Online and Evolving International Pedagogic Practice Christie Carson; 5. Teaching Shakespeare with Performance Pedagogy in an Online Environment Esther Schupak; 6. PPE for Shakespeareans: Pandemic, Performance, and Education Kevin A. Quarmby; 7. 'In India': Shakespeare and Prison in Kolkata and Mysore Sheila T. Cavanagh; 8. Shakespeare for Cops Jeffrey R. Wilson; 9. Younger Generations and Empathic Communication: Learning to Feel in Another Language with Shakespeare at the Silvano Toti Globe Theatre in Rome Maddalena Pennacchia; 10. Shakespeare in nineteenth-century Bengal: An Imperative of 'New Learning' Madhumita Saha; 11. Forging a Republic of Letters: Shakespeare, politics and a new university in early twentieth-century Portugal Rui Carvalho Homem; 12. Cultural Inclusivity and Student Shakespeare Performances in Late-Colonial Singapore, 1950-9 Emily Soon; 13. Using performance to strengthen the higher education sector: Shakespeare in twenty-first century Vietnam Sarah Olive; 14. Counterpublic Shakespeares in the American Education Marketplace Jillian Snyder; 15. Taking Love's Labour's Lost seriously Nigel Wood; 16. The Thyestean Language of English Revenge Tragedy on the University and Popular Stages Elizabeth Sandis; 17. Going to School with(out) Shakespeare: Conversations with Edward's Boys Harry R. McCarthy and Perry Mills; 18. Intimacy and Schadenfreude in Reports of Problems in Early Modern Productions Ceri Sullivan; 19. The True Tragedy as a Yorkist Play? Problems in Textual Transmission Richard Stacey; 20. Henry VIII and Henry IX: Unlived lives and re-written histories Laura Jayne Wright; 21. 'And his works in a glass case': The Bard in the Garden and the Legacy of the Shakespeare Ladies Club Genevieve Kirk; 22. Hamlet and John Austen's Devil with a (Dis)pleasing Shape Luisa Moore; 23. Shakespeare, #MeToo, and his New Contemporaries Pamela Royston Macfie; 24. 'While memory holds a seat in this distracted globe': A Look Back at the Arden Shakespeare Third Series Jennifer Young; 25. Shakespeare Productions in London Lois Potter; 26. Productions Outside London Peter Kirwan; 27. Professional Productions in the British Isles, January – December 2019 James Shaw; 28. The Year's Contribution to Shakespeare Studies: 1. Critical Studies reviewed by Jane Kingsley-Smith; 2. Editions and Textual Studies reviewed by Emma Depledge.

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Book SynopsisThis edition of the complete Works of Cotton Nero A.x.---Patience, Purity, Pearl, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight---is the first collected edition since the manuscript itself. Charles Moorman's hope is that this work will facilitate studies of the whole Gawain-Poet, in addition to those of his individual works. In addition, this edition should provide a basis for comparative study and aid in an evaluation of the poet's development. Designed for the professional scholar, the student, and the general reader with no training in Middle English, this edition brings together the tools for both introductory and advances study. Moorman has tried to make the text as readable, the notes as succinct and informative, and the glossary as useful as possible. The new reader will find before him everything necessary for a convenient first reading, and the scholar will see and appreciate the results of generations of scholarship. These four poems---two dramatic biblical narratives, an elegy, and a chivalric romance---are, next to the works of Chaucer, the finest poems of the fourteenth century, an age abounding in great literature. Their variety, their rich imagery, their depth of mood and feeling, and particularly their sensitive responsiveness to the moral dilemmas of human life make these poems an endless, if not wholly translatable, source of both despair and comfort. The Works of the Gawain-Poet presents a number of distictive features: a conservatively edited text; the original manuscript illustrations; apparatus, glosses, and notes on the page with the text; and a full introduction and bibliography. The book should prove useful both as a reading and reference edition and as a graduate text.

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