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Performances of Mourning in Shakespearean Theatre and Early Modern Culture
AvT. Döring
Inbunden, Engelska, 2006
1 258 kr
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This study takes a look at a controversial question: what do the acts and shows of grief performed in early modern drama tell us about the religious culture of the world in which they were historically staged? Drawing on performance studies, it provides detailed readings of play texts to explore the politics, pathologies and parodies of mourning.
Pirates? The Politics of Plunder, 1550-1650
AvClaire Jowitt,Claire Jowitt
Inbunden, Engelska, 2006
633 kr
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This book provides an insight to the cultural work involved in violence at sea in this period of maritime history. It is the first to consider how 'piracy' and representations of 'pirates' both shape and were shaped by political, social and religious debates, showing how attitudes to 'piracy' and violence at sea were debated between 1550 and 1650.
Shakespeare's Hybrid Faith
History, Religion and the Stage
AvJ. Mayer
Inbunden, Engelska, 2006
633 kr
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This book throws new light on the issue of the dramatist's religious orientation by dismissing sectarian and one-sided theories, tackling the problem from the angle of the variegated Elizabethan context recently uncovered by modern historians and theatre scholars. It is argued that faith was a quest rather than a quiet certainty for the playwright.
Politics and Political Culture in the Court Masque
AvJ. Knowles
Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
1 258 kr
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Politics and Political Culture in the Court Masque considers the interconnections of the masque and political culture. It examines how masques responded to political forces and voices beyond the court, and how masques explored the limits of political speech in the Jacobean and Caroline periods.
Religions of the Book
Christian Perceptions, 1400-1660
AvM. Dimmock,A. Hadfield
Inbunden, Engelska, 2008
633 kr
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This is the first study to explore the relationship between Christianity, Judaism and Islam in the Early Modern period. Contributors debate the complicated terms in which these 'Religions of the Book' interacted. The collection illuminates this area of European culture from the late Middle Ages to the end of the Seventeenth century.
Performing Childhood in the Early Modern Theatre
The Children's Playing Companies (1599-1613)
AvEdel Lamb
Inbunden, Engelska, 2008
633 kr
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This book investigates how the Children of Paul's (1599-1606) and the Children of the Queen's Revels (1600-13) defined their players as children and, via an analysis of their plays and theatrical practices, it examines early modern theatre as a site in which children have the opportunity to articulate their emerging selfhoods.
Quoting Death in Early Modern England
The Poetics of Epitaphs Beyond the Tomb
AvS. Newstok
Inbunden, Engelska, 2008
1 383 kr
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An innovative study of the Renaissance practice of making epitaphic gestures within other English genres. A poetics of quotation uncovers the ways in which writers including Shakespeare, Marlowe, Holinshed, Sidney, Jonson, Donne, and Elizabeth I have recited these texts within new contexts.
Shakespeare and Religious Change
AvK. Graham,P. Collington
Inbunden, Engelska, 2009
1 258 kr
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This balanced and innovative collection explores the relationship of Shakespeare's plays to the changing face of early modern religion, considering the connections between Shakespeare's theatre and the religious past, the religious identities of the present and the deep cultural changes that would shape the future of religion in the modern world.
Material Letter in Early Modern England
Manuscript Letters and the Culture and Practices of Letter-Writing, 1512-1635
AvJ. Daybell
Inbunden, Engelska, 2012
1 383 kr
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The first major socio-cultural study of manuscript letters and letter-writing practices in early modern England. Daybell examines a crucial period in the development of the English vernacular letter before Charles I's postal reforms in 1635, one that witnessed a significant extension of letter-writing skills throughout society.
Material Readings of Early Modern Culture
Texts and Social Practices, 1580-1730
AvJ. Daybell,P. Hinds
Inbunden, Engelska, 2010
1 508 kr
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This book explores the significance of the physicality of manuscripts and printed early modern texts. Focusing on the material aspects and social practices of texts as a new way of reading meaning, it reassesses the developing relationships between cultures of manuscript and print from the late sixteenth to early eighteenth century.
Intellectual Culture of Puritan Women, 1558-1680
AvJ. Harris,E. Scott-Baumann
Inbunden, Engelska, 2010
633 kr
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This collection of essays by leading scholars in the field reveals the major contribution of puritan women to the intellectual culture of the early modern period. It demonstrates that women's roles within puritan and broader communities encompassed translating and disseminating key texts, producing an impressive body of original writing.
Diplomacy and Early Modern Culture
AvR. Adams,R. Cox
Inbunden, Engelska, 2010
1 133 kr
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Offering a fresh approach to the study of the figure of the diplomat in the early modern period, this collection of diverse readings of archival texts, objects and contexts contributes a new analysis of the spaces, activities and practices of the Renaissance embassy.
Law in Shakespeare
AvC. Jordan,K. Cunningham
Häftad, Engelska, 2006
1 376 kr
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Leading scholars in the field analyze Shakespeare's plays to show how their dramatic content shapes issues debated in conflicts arising from the creation and application of law. Individual essays focus on such topics such as slander, revenge, and royal prerogative; these studies reveal the problems confronting early modern English men and women.
Writing Rape, Writing Women in Early Modern England
Unbridled Speech
AvJ. Catty
Häftad, Engelska, 1999
633 kr
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The word 'rape' today denotes sexual appropriation; yet it originally signified the theft of a woman from her father or husband by abduction or elopement. In the early modern period, its meaning is in transition between these two senses, while rapes and attempted rapes proliferate in literature. This age also sees the emergence of the woman writer, despite a sexual ideology which equates women's writing with promiscuity. Classical myths, however, associate women's story-telling with resistance to rape. This comprehensive study of rape and representation considers a wide range of texts drawn from prose fiction, poetry and drama by male and female writers, both canonical and non-canonical. Combining close attention to detail with an overview of the period, it demonstrates how the representation of gender-relations has exploited the subject of rape, and uses its understanding of this phenomenon to illuminate the issues of sexual and discursive autonomy which figure largely in women's texts of the period.
Metaphor and Shakespearean Drama
Unchaste Signification
AvM. Fahey
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
633 kr
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Metaphor and Shakespearean Drama explores the fruitful and potentially unruly nature of metaphorical utterances in Shakespearean drama, with analyses of Othello , Titus Andronicus , King Henry IV Part 1 , Macbeth , Hamlet , and The Tempest.
Tudor Translation
AvF. Schurink
Inbunden, Engelska, 2012
633 kr
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Leading scholars from both sides of the Atlantic explore translations as a key agent of change in the wider religious, cultural and literary developments of the early modern period, and restore translation to the centre of our understanding of the literature and history of Tudor England.
Local Negotiations of English Nationhood, 1570-1680
AvJohn M. Adrian
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
633 kr
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Even in an age of emerging nationhood, English men and women still thought very much in terms of their parishes, towns, and counties. This book examines the vitality of early modern local consciousness and its deployment by writers to mediate the larger political, religious, and cultural changes of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Foreign and Native on the English Stage, 1588-1611
Metaphor and National Identity
AvJane Pettegree
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
633 kr
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This original and scholarly work uses three detailed case studies of plays – Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra , King Lear and Cymbeline – to cast light on the ways in which early modern writers used metaphor to explore how identities emerge from the interaction of competing regional and spiritual topographies.
Early Modern Women in Conversation
AvK. Larson
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
633 kr
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In 16th and 17th century England conversation was an embodied act that held the capacity to negotiate, manipulate and transform social relationships. Early Modern Women in Conversation illuminates the extent to which gender shaped conversational interaction and demonstrates the significance of conversation as a rhetorical practice for women.
Edmund Spenser's War on Lord Burghley
AvB. Danner
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
633 kr
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Edmund Spenser's censored attacks on Lord Burghley (Elizabeth I's powerful first minister) serve as the basis for a reassessment of the poet's mid-career, challenging the dates of canonical texts, the social and personal contexts for scandalous topical allegories, and the new historicist portrait of Spenser's 'worship' of power and state ideology.
Early Modern Drama and the Bible
Contexts and Readings, 1570-1625
AvA. Streete
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
633 kr
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Early modern drama is steeped in biblical language, imagery and stories. This collection examines the pervasive presence of scripture on the early modern stage. Exploring plays by writers such as Shakespeare, Marlowe, Middleton, and Webster, the contributors show how theatre offers a site of public and communal engagement with the Bible.
Persian Empire in English Renaissance Writing, 1549-1622
AvJ. Grogan
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
633 kr
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The Persian Empire in English Renaissance Writing, 1549-1622 studies the conception of Persia in the literary, political and pedagogic writings of Renaissance England and Britain. It argues that writers of all kinds debated the means and merits of English empire through their intellectual engagement with the ancient Persian empire.
Early Modern Women's Writing and the Rhetoric of Modesty
AvP. Pender
Inbunden, Engelska, 2012
633 kr
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An in-depth study of early modern women's modesty rhetoric from the English Reformation to the Restoration. This book provides new readings of modesty's gendered deployment in the works of Anne Askew, Katharine Parr, Mary Sidney, Aemilia Lanyer and Anne Bradstreet.
Re-imagining Western European Geography in English Renaissance Drama
AvM. Matei-Chesnoiu
Inbunden, Engelska, 2012
633 kr
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Matei-Chesnoiu examines the changing understanding of world geography in sixteenth-century England and the concomitant involvement of the London theatre in shaping a new perception of Western European space. Fresh readings are offered of Shakespeare, Jonson, Marlowe, Middleton, Dekker, Massinger, Marston, and others.
Drama and the Sacraments in Sixteenth-Century England
Indelible Characters
AvD. Coleman
Inbunden, Engelska, 2007
633 kr
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This is the first book-length study of the relationship between early modern drama and sacramental ritual and theology. It examines dramatic forms, such as morality plays. Offering new insights into the religious practices on which early modern subjectivity is founded. Coleman offers radical new ways of reading canonical Renaissance plays.
Rethinking the Turn to Religion in Early Modern English Literature
The Poetics of All Believers
AvG. Kneidel
Inbunden, Engelska, 2008
633 kr
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Offering new readings of major eary modern English poets such as Spenser, Milton and Donne, Kneidel counters the trend among literary critics to associate early modern religion with Pauline inwardness and self-formation by showing how these writers took Saint Paul as a model of rhetorical skill and political acumen.
Staging Shakespeare at the New Globe
AvP. Kiernan
Inbunden, Engelska, 1999
1 258 kr
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What have we learned from the first experiments performed at the reconstructed Globe on Bankside? What light have recent productions shed on the way Shakespeare intended his plays to be seen? Written by the Leverhulme Fellow appointed to study and record actor use of this new-old playhouse, here is the first analytical account of the discoveries that have been made in its important first years, in workshops, rehearsals and performances. It shows how actors, directors and playgoers have responded to the demands of 'historical' constraints (and unexpected freedoms) to provide valuable new insights into the dynamics of Elizabethan theatre.
Betraying Our Selves
Forms of Self-Representation in Early Modern English Texts
AvNA NA,Henk Dragstram. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2000
1 079 kr
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This is a lively study of the autobiographical instinct in a variety of 16th and 17th century modes of writing in English, from letters and memoirs to pastoral, polemic and street ballads. The book's central concern is how "selves" are "betrayed" in texts, particularly in the centuries before the autobiography was a recognized genre. It suggests that self-representation in the early modern period was often indirect, emerging in oblique and surprising ways.
'This Double Voice'
Gendered Writing in Early Modern England
AvNA NA,Danielle Clarkem. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2000
633 kr
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The Double Voice reassesses the notions of gender which have been used to analyze Renaissance literature. Rather than assuming that men and women write differently because of background, education, and culture, it tries to unsettle the connections between the sex of the author and the constructions of gender in texts, and to reconsider the prevalent determinist model of reading which tends to consign women writers to the private, domestic sphere and to render male negotiations of gender invisible and transparent.
Royalism and Poetry in the English Civil Wars
AvJ. Loxley
Inbunden, Engelska, 1997
1 258 kr
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English literary history has long incorporated the category of 'Cavalier' verse, and the critical presuppositions that have shaped such a category continue, even now, to determine the ways in which much civil war writing is read. Through a detailed study of both manuscript and printed texts, James Loxley arrives at an account of the interaction between poetry and royalist political activity which for the first time presents a sustained and coherent challenge to such presuppositions.

Early Modern Literature in History – serie

Performances of Mourning in Shakespearean Theatre and Early Modern Culture

Pirates? The Politics of Plunder, 1550-1650

Shakespeare's Hybrid Faith

Politics and Political Culture in the Court Masque

Religions of the Book

Performing Childhood in the Early Modern Theatre

Quoting Death in Early Modern England

Shakespeare and Religious Change

Material Letter in Early Modern England

Material Readings of Early Modern Culture

Intellectual Culture of Puritan Women, 1558-1680

Diplomacy and Early Modern Culture

Law in Shakespeare

Writing Rape, Writing Women in Early Modern England

Metaphor and Shakespearean Drama

Tudor Translation

Local Negotiations of English Nationhood, 1570-1680

Foreign and Native on the English Stage, 1588-1611

Early Modern Women in Conversation

Edmund Spenser's War on Lord Burghley

Early Modern Drama and the Bible

Persian Empire in English Renaissance Writing, 1549-1622

Early Modern Women's Writing and the Rhetoric of Modesty

Re-imagining Western European Geography in English Renaissance Drama

Drama and the Sacraments in Sixteenth-Century England

Rethinking the Turn to Religion in Early Modern English Literature

Staging Shakespeare at the New Globe

Betraying Our Selves

'This Double Voice'

Royalism and Poetry in the English Civil Wars