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John Dee
The Politics of Reading and Writing in the English Renaissance
Häftad, 1997
687 kr
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This text presents a reassessment of the career and cultural background of John Dee (1527-1609), one of Elizabethan England's most interesting figures. Challenging the conventional image of the isolated eccentric philosopher, Sherman situates Dee in a fresh context, revealing that he was a …
Politics of Courtly Dancing in Early Modern England
Inbunden, 1998
495 kr
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This book argues that in early modern England, dance was not merely a pleasant pastime, but an intricate network of bodily negotiations of power, sex and territory as well. Traditionally a vital part of popular festivals and seasonal celebrations, dancing moved from public, open spaces into the …
Beyond the Body
The Boundaries of Medicine and English Renaissance Drama
Inbunden, 2005
500 kr
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Book of the Play
Playwrights, Stationers and Readers in Early Modern England
Häftad, 2006
447 kr
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The Book of the Play is a collection of essays that examines early modern drama in the context of book history. Focusing on the publication, marketing, and readership of plays opens fresh perspectives on the relationship between the cultures of print and performance, and more broadly between drama …
Mirror for Magistrates and the Politics of the English Reformation
Av Scott Lucas
Inbunden, 2009
570 kr
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This work offers a bold reassessment of a major work of sixteenth-century English literature. Perhaps no other work of secular poetry was as widely read in Tudor England as the historical verse tragedy collection ""A Mirror for Magistrates"". For over sixty years (1559-1621), this compendium of …
Portable Queen
Elizabeth I and the Politics of Ceremony
Häftad, 2011
666 kr
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Every spring and summer of her forty-four years as queen, Elizabeth I (1533-1603) insisted that her court go "on progress," a series of royal visits to towns and aristocratic homes in southern England. These trips provided the only direct contact most people had with a monarch who made popularity a …
Forms of Association
Making Publics in Early Modern Europe
Av Paul Yachnin
Häftad, 2015
409 kr
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In today's connected and interactive world, it is hard to imagine a time when cultural and intellectual interests did not lead people to associate with others who shared similar views and preoccupations. In this volume of essays, fifteen scholars explore how these kinds of relationships began to …
Love's Quarrels
Reading Charity in Early Modern England
Häftad, 2018
744 kr
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Early modern English writers often complained that ""charity had grown cold,"" lamenting the dissolution of society's communal bonds. But far from diminishing in scope or influence, charity generated heated debates, animated by social, political, and religious changes that prompted urgent questions …
Fêting the Queen
Civic Entertainments and the Elizabethan Progress
Inbunden, 2022
1051 kr
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In a 1572 visit to Warwick, Queen Elizabeth looked out the window of her lodgings and saw local people dancing in the courtyard, a seemingly spontaneous performance meant to entertain her. During her travels, she was treated to fireworks, theatrical performances, and lavish banquets. Reconstructing …
Fêting the Queen
Civic Entertainments and the Elizabethan Progress
Häftad, 2022
413 kr
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In a 1572 visit to Warwick, Queen Elizabeth looked out the window of her lodgings and saw local people dancing in the courtyard, a seemingly spontaneous performance meant to entertain her. During her travels, she was treated to fireworks, theatrical performances, and lavish banquets. Reconstructing …
English Epicures and Stoics
Ancient Legacies in Early Stuart Culture
Av Reid Barbour
Inbunden, 1998
524 kr
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For 17th-century English intellectuals, the ancient Epicureans and Stoics spoke clearly and forcefully to the kinds of problems they most wanted to solve. Whether seeking to define divinity, kingship, nobility or liberty, to determine how people should live, govern, worship, form societies and …
Divulging Utopia
Radical Humanism in Sixteenth-century England
Inbunden, 1999
521 kr
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A study in intellectual history and the history of the book, this work examines the humanist movement in 16th-century England and traces the reception of a single work, Sir Thomas More's ""Utopia"" (1516), in relation to that movement.
Joint Enterprises
Collaborative Drama and the Institutionalization of the English Renaissance Theater
Inbunden, 2004
457 kr
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Over half of the plays of the English Renaissance were written collaboratively. This text explores the diverse motivations driving dramatic collaborations, traces the relationships between writers that developed from such energies and analyses their rhetorical effects in individual plays.
Historical Milton
Manuscript, Print, and Political Culture in Revolutionary England
Inbunden, 2010
1044 kr
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Forms of Association
Making Publics in Early Modern Europe
Av Paul Yachnin
Inbunden, 2015
1041 kr
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In today's connected and interactive world, it is hard to imagine a time when cultural and intellectual interests did not lead people to associate with others who shared similar views and preoccupations. In this volume of essays, fifteen scholars explore how these kinds of relationships began to …
