Author: Joel Faflak & Julia M. Wright
The Handbook to Romanticism Studies is an accessible and indispensible resource providing students and scholars with a rich array of historical and up-to-date critical and theoretical contexts for the study of Romanticis ... |
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A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
Author: Sarah Bakewell
How to get on well with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love? How to live? This question obsessed Renaissance nobleman Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-92), who wrote free-roaming e ... |
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Author: Robert Hornback
From the late-medieval period through to the seventeenth century, English theatrical clowns carried a weighty cultural significance, only to have it stripped from them, sometimes violently, by the close of the Renaissanc ... |
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Poetry and the Limits of Mimesis
Author: Andrew Mattison
When we read poetry, we tend to believe that we are getting a glimpse of the interior of the poet's mind-pictures from the poet's imagination relayed through the representative power of language. But poets themselves som ... |
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Author: Sandra Clark
Renaissance Drama provides a comprehensive and engaging new account of one of the richest periods of theatre history: the drama of early modern England produced for the professional theatre. It brings new insights to bea ... |
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A Critical Guide
Author: Andrew Hiscock
This is a comprehensive introduction to Thomas Middleton's "Women Beware Women" - introducing its critical history, performance history, the current critical landscape and new directions in research on the play. Thomas M ... |
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The King's Men and Their Intellectual Property
Author: James J. Marino
Copyright is by no means the only device for asserting ownership of a work. Some writers, including playwrights in the early modern period, did not even view print copyright as the most important of their authorial right ... |
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Author: Peter De Voogd & John Neubauer
This is a comprehensive volume of international research on the European reception of Laurence Sterne.The intellectual scope and cultural impact of British writers in Europe cannot be assessed without reference to their ... |
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Author: Howard Gaskill
This is a collection of international research surveying the reception of James Macpherson's Ossian poems in European literature and culture.The intellectual scope and cultural impact of British writers cannot be assesse ... |
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Author: Richard Edwards
"Damon and Pithias" (or Pythias) is the only surviving play by Richard Edwards. It is based on the Greek legend of the same name exemplifying true friendship and loyalty. |
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Spanning the Elizabethan age to the Restoration and beyond, Metaphysical poetry sought to describe a time of startling progress, scientific discovery, unrivaled exploration and deep religious uncertainty. This compelling ... |
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Author: Faye Hammill
"There are two ladies in the province, I am told, who read," writes Frances Brooke's Arabella Fermor, "but both are above fifty and are regarded as prodigies of erudition." Brooke's The History of Emily Montague (1769) w ... |
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Genese Et Evolution D'une Piece a Scandale
Author: Bride Robert Mc
Moliere et son premier Tartuffe sheds light on one of the most enduring mysteries in world theatre: the nature, structure and purpose of the first and no longer extant version of his most controversial play, Le Tartuffe. ... |
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Staging the Early Modern Self in England
Author: Ute Berns
In this volume an international cast of scholars explores conceptions of the self in the literature and culture of the Early Modern England. Drawing on theories of performativity and performance, some contributors revisi ... |
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From the Sixteenth to the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
Author: Roberto De Pol
This book is the first complete study of the translations of Machiavelli's "Prince "made in Europe and the Mediterranean countries during the period from the sixteenth to the first half of the nineteenth century: the fir ... |
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Representing the Orient in 17th-century French Travel Literature
Author: Michael Harrigan
Travel narratives were the principal source of knowledge about the lands of the Near East and the Indian Ocean Basin in 17th-century France. Claiming the authority of first-hand observation, they paradoxically rely for t ... |
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Author: Lloyd Edward Kermode
Covering a wide variety of plays from 1550-1600, including Shakespeare's second tetralogy, this book explores moral, historical, and comic plays as contributions to Elizabethan debates on Anglo-foreign relations in Engla ... |
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An Account of William Shakespeare's Love Affair with Mary Browne Wriothesley, the Earl of Southampton's Mother, as Revealed in the Sonnets
Author: Peggy Jo Hall
Shall I compare thee to a summeras daya]a Shakespeare tells Mary Browne Wriothesley early in their relationship. Years later, he assured her, aYou are my rose, you are my all.a But William Shakespeare had a wife and chil ... |
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Indian Missionary-writers in Antebellum America
Author: Bernd Peyer
"Peyer has been a pioneer in rediscovering and making available Indian writers. Here he turns this expertise to a comprehensive account of missionary-writers and the result is a detailed and richly textured study of some ... |
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