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53 produkter
The Emergence of the English Author
Scripting the Life of the Poet in Early Modern England
Av Kevin Pask, Stephen Orgel m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
898 kr
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The historical construction of literary authorship has long been of particular interest to literary scholars. Yet an important aspect of the historical emergence of the author - the literary biography or 'life of the poet' - has received scant attention. In The Emergence of the English Author, …
Staging Domesticity
Household Work and English Identity in Early Modern Drama
Av Wendy Wall, Stephen Orgel m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
654 kr
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What role does food and cooking play in how people imagine themselves and their communities? In this book Wendy Wall argues that representations of housework in the early modern period helped to forge crucial conceptions of national identity. Rich with a detailed account of household practices in …
Theatres and Encyclopedias in Early Modern Europe
Av William N. West, Stephen Orgel m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
586 kr
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In this 2003 book West explores what 'theatre' meant to medieval and Renaissance writers and places Renaissance drama within the influential context of the encyclopedic writings produced at the time. It was an encyclopedic culture, obsessed with sorting knowledge, and early encyclopedias presented …
Shakespeare, Spenser, and the Crisis in Ireland
Av Christopher Highley, Stephen Orgel m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
640 kr
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Ireland is increasingly recognized as a crucial element in early modern British literary and political history. Christopher Highley's book explores the most serious crisis the Elizabethan regime faced: its attempts to subdue and colonize the native Irish. Through a range of literary representations …
The Poetics of English Nationhood, 1590-1612
Av Claire McEachern, Stephen Orgel m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
1029 kr
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The Poetics of English Nationhood is a 1996 study of the formation of English national identity during the early modern period. Claire McEachern aims to recontextualize our understanding of the term literary through an examination of Spenser, Shakespeare and Drayton. She shows how the concept of …
Essays, Mainly Shakespearean
Av Anne Barton
Häftad, 2007
935 kr
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Anne 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 addresses such diverse issues as Shakespeare's trust (and mistrust) of language, the puzzle of Falstaff's …
Shakespeare's Troy
Drama, Politics, and the Translation of Empire
Av Heather James, Stephen Orgel m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
654 kr
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Heather James examines the ways in which Shakespeare handles the inheritance and transmission of the Troy legend. She argues that Shakespeare's use of Virgil, Ovid and other classical sources demonstrates the appropriation of classical authority in the interests of developing a national myth, and …
The Rhetoric of the Body from Ovid to Shakespeare
Av Lynn Enterline, Stephen Orgel m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
640 kr
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This persuasive book analyses the complex, often violent connections between body and voice in Ovid's Metamorphoses and narrative, lyric and dramatic works by Petrarch, Marston and Shakespeare. Lynn Enterline describes the foundational yet often disruptive force that Ovidian rhetoric exerts on …
Theatre, Finance and Society in Early Modern England
Av Theodore B. Leinwand, Stephen Orgel m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
898 kr
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This interesting study examines emotional responses to socio-economic pressures in early modern England, as they are revealed in plays, historical narratives and biographical accounts of the period. These texts yield fascinating insights into the various, often unpredictable, ways in which people …
Eroticism on the Renaissance Stage
Transcendence, Desire, and the Limits of the Visible
Av Celia R. Daileader, Stephen Orgel m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
569 kr
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In this 1998 book, Celia Daileader explores the paradoxes of eroticism on the stage in early modern England, where women and their bodies (represented by boy actors) were materially absent and yet symbolically central. Her starting point is the theoretical and theatrical problem of sexual acts that …
Foreign Bodies and the Body Politic
Discourses of Social Pathology in Early Modern England
Av Jonathan Gil Harris, Stephen Orgel m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
935 kr
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Jonathan Gil Harris examines the origins of modern discourses of social pathology in Elizabethan and Jacobean medical and political writing. Plays, pamphlets and political treatises of this period display an increasingly xenophobic tendency to attribute England's ills to 'foreign bodies' such as …
From Playhouse to Printing House
Drama and Authorship in Early Modern England
Av Douglas A. Brooks, Stephen Orgel m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
486 kr
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This study examines how Shakespeare and his contemporaries made the difficult transition from writing plays for the theatre to publishing them as literary works. Tracing the path from playhouse to printing house, Douglas Brooks analyses how and why certain popular plays found their way into print …
The Performance of Nobility in Early Modern European Literature
Av David M. Posner, Stephen Orgel m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
973 kr
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This valuable study illuminates the idea of nobility as display, as public performance, in Renaissance and seventeenth-century literature and society. Ranging widely from Castiglione and French courtesy manuals, through Montaigne and Bacon, to the literature of the Grand Siècle, David Posner …
Shakespeare and the Theatre of Wonder
Av T. G. Bishop, Stephen Orgel m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
710 kr
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Playwrights throughout history have used the emotion of wonder to explore the relation between feeling and knowing in the theatre. In Shakespeare and the Theatre of Wonder, T. G. Bishop argues that wonder provides a turbulent space, rich at once in emotion and self-consciousness, where the nature …
Writing, Gender and State in Early Modern England
Identity Formation and the Female Subject
Av Megan Matchinske, Stephen Orgel m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
898 kr
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The period from the Reformation to the English Civil War saw an evolving understanding of social identity in England. This book uses four illuminating case studies to chart a discursive shift from mid-sixteenth-century notions of an individually generated, spiritually motivated sense of identity, …
Courtly Letters in the Age of Henry VIII
Literary Culture and the Arts of Deceit
Av Seth Lerer, Stephen Orgel m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
898 kr
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This revisionary study of the origins of courtly poetry reveals the culture of spectatorship and voyeurism that shaped early Tudor English literary life. Through research into the reception of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, it demonstrates how Pandarus became the model of the early modern …
Ben Jonson
Dramatist
Av Anne Barton
Häftad, 1984
767 kr
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Since the Romantic period, Jonson has been an author more respected than read. Frequently compared with Shakespeare, he usually suffers unfairly from the comparison. In this book Anne Barton gives a reading of the plays which completely re-evaluates Jonson as a dramatist. Describing in detail his …
Byron: Don Juan
Häftad, 2008
523 kr
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In her introduction to this brilliant and outrageous literary landmark, Anne Barton places Don Juan within the context of Byron's life and reading, and offers an interpretation of the poem which demonstrates its underlying coherence and artistic integrity, despite Byron's mischievous protestations …
Essays, Mainly Shakespearean
Av Anne Barton
Inbunden, 1994
2153 kr
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Anne 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 addresses such diverse issues as Shakespeare's trust (and mistrust) of language, the puzzle of Falstaff's …
Spenser's Secret Career
Av Richard Rambuss, Stephen Orgel m. fl.
Inbunden, 1993
1473 kr
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Edmund Spenser (c. 1552-99) conducted two careers at once: a celebrated national poet, he also pursued a lifelong career as secretary to various political and ecclesiastical figures. Richard Rambuss's book explores the ways in which this latter career, usually allotted only a cursory mention in …
The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England
Av Valerie Traub, Stephen Orgel m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
973 kr
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The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England is the eagerly-awaited study by the feminist scholar who was among the first to address the issue of early modern female homoeroticism. Valerie Traub analyzes the representation of female-female love, desire and eroticism in a range of early …
Shakespeare and the Geography of Difference
Av John Gillies, Stephen Orgel m. fl.
Häftad, 1994
842 kr
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In this engaging book, John Gillies explores Shakespeare's geographic imagination, and discovers an intimate relationship between Renaissance geography and theatre, arising from their shared dependence on the opposing impulses of taboo-laden closure and hubristic expansiveness. Dr Gillies shows …
The Reformation of the Subject
Spenser, Milton, and the English Protestant Epic
Av Linda Gregerson, Stephen Orgel m. fl.
Inbunden, 1995
1778 kr
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The Reformation of the Subject is a study of the cultural contradictions that gave birth to the English Protestant epic. In lucid and theoretically sophisticated language, Linda Gregerson examines the fraught ideological, political and gender conflicts that are woven into the texture of The Faerie …
Men in Women's Clothing
Anti-theatricality and Effeminization, 1579-1642
Av Laura Levine, Stephen Orgel m. fl.
Häftad, 1994
654 kr
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In 1597 anti-theatricalist Stephen Gosson made the curious remark that theatre 'effeminized' the mind. Four years later Phillip Stubbes claimed that male actors who wore women's clothing could literally 'adulterate' male gender and fifty years after this in a tract which may have hastened the …
Anxious Masculinity in Early Modern England
Av Mark Breitenberg, Stephen Orgel m. fl.
Inbunden, 1996
1551 kr
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To recent studies of Renaissance subjectivity, Anxious Masculinity in Early Modern England contributes the argument that masculinity is unavoidably anxious and volatile in cultures that distribute power and authority according to patriarchal prerogatives. Drawing from current arguments in feminism, …
Shakespeare and Domestic Loss
Forms of Deprivation, Mourning, and Recuperation
Av Heather Dubrow, Stephen Orgel m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
710 kr
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This 1999 book re-examines some of Shakespeare's best-known texts in the light of their engagement with the forms of deprivation which threatened domestic security in early modern England. Burglary, the loss of home, and the early deaths of parents emerge as central and very telling issues in …
Mimesis and Empire
The New World, Islam, and European Identities
Av Barbara Fuchs, Stephen Orgel m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
823 kr
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As powerful, pointed imitation, cultural mimesis can effect inclusion in a polity, threaten state legitimacy, or undo the originality upon which such legitimacy is based. In Mimesis and Empire , first published in 2001, Barbara Fuchs explores the intricate dynamics of imitation and …
Shakespeare and the Theatre of Wonder
Av T. G. Bishop, Stephen Orgel m. fl.
Inbunden, 1996
1872 kr
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Playwrights throughout history have used the emotion of wonder to explore the relation between feeling and knowing in the theatre. In Shakespeare and the Theatre of Wonder, T. G. Bishop argues that wonder provides a turbulent space, rich at once in emotion and self-consciousness, where the nature …
The Poetics of English Nationhood, 1590-1612
Av Claire McEachern, Stephen Orgel m. fl.
Inbunden, 1996
1797 kr
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The Poetics of English Nationhood is a 1996 study of the formation of English national identity during the early modern period. Claire McEachern aims to recontextualize our understanding of the term literary through an examination of Spenser, Shakespeare and Drayton. She shows how the concept of …
The Shakespearean Forest
Av Anne Barton
Inbunden, 2017
1910 kr
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The Shakespearean Forest, Anne Barton's final book, uncovers the pervasive presence of woodland in early modern drama, revealing its persistent imaginative power. The collection is representative of the startling breadth of Barton's scholarship: ranging across plays by Shakespeare (including Titus …
