Early Modern Literature in History – serie
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174 produkter
Performances of Mourning in Shakespearean Theatre and Early Modern Culture
Av T. Döring
Inbunden, 2006
1259 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 …
Pirates? The Politics of Plunder, 1550-1650
Av Claire Jowitt, Claire Jowitt
Inbunden, 2006
634 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 …
Shakespeare's Hybrid Faith
History, Religion and the Stage
Av J. Mayer
Inbunden, 2006
634 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 …
Politics and Political Culture in the Court Masque
Av J. Knowles
Inbunden, 2015
1259 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
Inbunden, 2008
634 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 …
Performing Childhood in the Early Modern Theatre
The Children's Playing Companies (1599-1613)
Av Edel Lamb
Inbunden, 2008
634 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 …
Quoting Death in Early Modern England
The Poetics of Epitaphs Beyond the Tomb
Av S. Newstok
Inbunden, 2008
1385 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
Inbunden, 2009
1259 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 …
Material Letter in Early Modern England
Manuscript Letters and the Culture and Practices of Letter-Writing, 1512-1635
Av J. Daybell
Inbunden, 2012
1385 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 …
Material Readings of Early Modern Culture
Texts and Social Practices, 1580-1730
Av J. Daybell, P. Hinds
Inbunden, 2010
1510 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 …
Intellectual Culture of Puritan Women, 1558-1680
Av J. Harris, E. Scott-Baumann
Inbunden, 2010
634 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 …
Diplomacy and Early Modern Culture
Inbunden, 2010
1134 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
Häftad, 2006
1420 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 …
Writing Rape, Writing Women in Early Modern England
Unbridled Speech
Av J. Catty
Häftad, 1999
634 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. …
Metaphor and Shakespearean Drama
Unchaste Signification
Av M. Fahey
Inbunden, 2011
634 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
Av F. Schurink
Inbunden, 2012
634 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
Inbunden, 2011
634 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 …
Foreign and Native on the English Stage, 1588-1611
Metaphor and National Identity
Inbunden, 2011
634 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 …
Early Modern Women in Conversation
Av K. Larson
Inbunden, 2011
634 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 …
Edmund Spenser's War on Lord Burghley
Av B. Danner
Inbunden, 2011
634 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 …
Early Modern Drama and the Bible
Contexts and Readings, 1570-1625
Av A. Streete
Inbunden, 2011
634 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 …
Persian Empire in English Renaissance Writing, 1549-1622
Av J. Grogan
Inbunden, 2014
634 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 …
Early Modern Women's Writing and the Rhetoric of Modesty
Av P. Pender
Inbunden, 2012
634 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
Inbunden, 2012
634 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, …
Drama and the Sacraments in Sixteenth-Century England
Indelible Characters
Av D. Coleman
Inbunden, 2007
634 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 …
Rethinking the Turn to Religion in Early Modern English Literature
The Poetics of All Believers
Av G. Kneidel
Inbunden, 2008
634 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 …
Staging Shakespeare at the New Globe
Av P. Kiernan
Inbunden, 1999
1259 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 …
Betraying Our Selves
Forms of Self-Representation in Early Modern English Texts
Av NA NA, Henk Dragstra m. fl.
Inbunden, 2000
1080 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 …
'This Double Voice'
Gendered Writing in Early Modern England
Av NA NA, Danielle Clarke m. fl.
Inbunden, 2000
634 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 …
Royalism and Poetry in the English Civil Wars
Av J. Loxley
Inbunden, 1997
1259 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 …
