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A Handbook of Romanticism Studies

A Handbook of Romanticism Studies

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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How to Live

How to Live

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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Reading Shakespeare's Sonnets

Reading Shakespeare's Sonnets

A New Commentary

Author: Don Paterson

"Shakespeare's Sonnets" are as important and vital today as they were when first published four hundred years ago. Perhaps no collection of verse before or since has so captured the imagination of readers and lovers; cer ...
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The Tempest: Language and Writing

The Tempest: Language and Writing

Author: Brinda Charry

Arden Student Guides: Language and Writing offer a new type of study aid which combines lively critical insight with practical guidance on the critical writing skills you need to develop in order to engage fully with Sha ...
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Macbeth: Language and Writing

Macbeth: Language and Writing

Author: Emma Smith

Arden Student Guides: Language and Writing offer a new type of study aid which combines lively critical insight with practical guidance on the critical writing skills you need to develop in order to engage fully with Sha ...
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The English Clown Tradition from the Middle Ages to Shakespeare

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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The Unimagined in the English Renaissance

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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Approaches to Teaching the Story of the Stone (Dream of the Red Chamber)

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Renaissance Drama

Renaissance Drama

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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Women Beware Women

Women Beware Women

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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Damon and Pithias

Damon and Pithias

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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Metaphysical Poetry

Metaphysical Poetry

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A key anthology for students of English literature, "Metaphysical Poetry" is a collection whose unique philosophical insights are some of the crowning achievements of Renaissance verse, edited with an introduction and no ...
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The Reception of Ossian in Europe

The Reception of Ossian in Europe

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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Literary Culture and Female Authorship in Canada 1760-2000

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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The Shakespeare Thefts

In Search of the First Folios

Author: Eric Rasmussen

Published in 1623, the 750 copies of the first edition of William Shakespeare's collected works, known as the "First Folio," has been sought after relentlessly by kings, earls, and bibliophiles. In his effort to track ...

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Solo Performances

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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The First Translations of Machiavelli's Prince

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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Veiled Encounters

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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Aliens and Englishness in Elizabethan Drama

Aliens and Englishness in Elizabethan Drama

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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His Mistress' Thrall

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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