Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 books

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The Ethical Implications of Shakespeare in Performance and Appropriation

The Ethical Implications of Shakespeare in Performance...

Author: Louise Geddes ,  Kathryn Vomero Santos
ISBN: 9781399524919
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Redefines the ways in which performance studies and appropriation theory can be used to approach Shakespeare  Read More >>

The Unfolding of The Seasons: A Study of James Thomson's Poem

The Unfolding of The Seasons: A Study of James Thomson's...

Author: Ralph Cohen
ISBN: 9781032155289
Format: Paperback
$62.99

First published in 1970, The Unfolding of The Seasons provides an interpretation of James Thomson’s poem The Seasons....  Read More >>

Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope

Author: G.S. Fraser
ISBN: 9781032212692
Format: Paperback
$58.99

First published in 1978, Alexander Pope is an introduction to Pope’s life and work, which sets the poet solidly...  Read More >>

Publishing the History Play in the Time of Shakespeare: Stationers Shaping a Genre

Publishing the History Play in the Time of Shakespeare:...

Author: Amy Lidster (University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9781009044493
Format: Paperback
$59.49

For scholars and students of Shakespeare Studies, Book History and Early Modern Drama, this book overturns how we...  Read More >>

Liberty and the Politics of the Female Voice in Early Stuart England

Liberty and the Politics of the Female Voice in Early...

Author: Christina Luckyj (Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia)
ISBN: 9781108949521
Format: Paperback
$59.49

This study argues that the female voice occupied a key role in the early Stuart political imaginary as a means of...  Read More >>

Staging Disgust: Rape, Shame, and Performance in Shakespeare and Middleton

Staging Disgust: Rape, Shame, and Performance in Shakespeare...

Author: Jennifer Panek (University of Ottawa)
ISBN: 9781009379823
Format: Paperback
$43.99

This Element turns to the stage to ask a simple question about gender and affect: what causes the shame of the early...  Read More >>

Tragedy and the Paradox of the Fortunate Fall

Tragedy and the Paradox of the Fortunate Fall

Author: Herbert Weisinger
ISBN: 9781032730493
Format: Hardback
$189.00

First published in 1953, Tragedy and the Paradox of the Fortunate Fall argues that our response to tragedy is made...  Read More >>

The Prose of Allan Ramsay

The Prose of Allan Ramsay

Author: Rhona Brown ,  Craig Lamont
ISBN: 9781399506977
Format: Hardback
$258.75

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Cavendish and Shakespeare, Interconnections

Cavendish and Shakespeare, Interconnections

Author: Katherine Romack ,  James Fitzmaurice
ISBN: 9781138263048
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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Imagining the Nation in Seventeenth-Century English Literature

Imagining the Nation in Seventeenth-Century English...

Author: Daniel Cattell ,  Philip Schwyzer
ISBN: 9780367510916
Format: Paperback
$81.99

This volume brings together new work on the image of the nation and the construction of national identity in English...  Read More >>

Shakespeare through Islamic Worlds

Shakespeare through Islamic Worlds

Author: Ambereen Dadabhoy
ISBN: 9781032100883
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Shakespeare through Islamic Worlds investigates the peculiar absence of Islam and Muslims from Shakespeare’s corpus....  Read More >>

Fictions of Consent: Slavery, Servitude, and Free Service in Early Modern England

Fictions of Consent: Slavery, Servitude, and Free Service...

Author: Urvashi Chakravarty
ISBN: 9781512826272
Format: Paperback
$79.07

"In Fictions of Consent Urvashi Chakravarty excavates the ideologies of slavery that took root in early modern England...  Read More >>

Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race

Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture...

Author: Noémie Ndiaye ,  Geraldine Heng
ISBN: 9781512826074
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Scripts of Blackness shows how the early modern mass media of theatre and performance culture at-large helped turn...  Read More >>

Venus and Adonis

Venus and Adonis

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781804470947
Format: Paperback
$12.94

Long before Shakespeare’s name was synonymous with the stage he built a name as a poet, and Venus and Adonis was...  Read More >>

Waste Paper in Early Modern England: Privy Tokens

Waste Paper in Early Modern England: Privy Tokens

Author: Anna Reynolds (University Teacher in Early Modern Literature, University Teacher in Early Modern Literature, University of Sheffield)
ISBN: 9780198882701
Format: Hardback
$188.95

Waste Paper in Early Modern England argues that rhetorical commonplaces referring to waste paper are indicative...  Read More >>

Jane Austen and Lord Byron: Regency Relations

Jane Austen and Lord Byron: Regency Relations

Author: Christine Kenyon Jones (King's College London, UK)
ISBN: 9781350381391
Format: Paperback
$39.99

"""The first book to examine the curious and often overlooked ways in which the lives, interests, work and sense...  Read More >>

Jane Austen and Lord Byron: Regency Relations

Jane Austen and Lord Byron: Regency Relations

Author: Christine Kenyon Jones (King's College London, UK)
ISBN: 9781350381407
Format: Hardback
$130.00

"""The first book to examine the curious and often overlooked ways in which the lives, interests, work and sense...  Read More >>

Digital Pedagogy in Early Modern Studies – Method and Praxis

Digital Pedagogy in Early Modern Studies – Method and...

Author: Andie Silva ,  Scott Schofield
ISBN: 9781649590602
Format: Paperback
$184.67

A collection of essays on early modern digital humanities by leading scholars in the field.   This collection...  Read More >>

Economies of Praise: Value, Labor, and Form in Seventeenth-Century English Poetry

Economies of Praise: Value, Labor, and Form in Seventeenth-Century...

Author: Ryan Netzley
ISBN: 9780810146709
Format: Hardback
$171.60

Reevaluates early modern poems of praise as, paradoxically, challenging an artistic economy that values exchange...  Read More >>

Death and Gender in the Early Modern Period

Death and Gender in the Early Modern Period

Author: Enrique Fernandez ,  Darlene Abreu-Ferreira
ISBN: 9789004244450
Format: Hardback
$348.48

In late medieval and early modern Europe, death could reinforce, question or efface the category of gender, as evidenced...  Read More >>

The Writings of Phillis Wheatley Peters

The Writings of Phillis Wheatley Peters

Author: Vincent Carretta (Professor Emeritus, Professor Emeritus, University of Maryland)
ISBN: 9780192885296
Format: Paperback
$82.95

This edition includes all of the known surviving writings of the poet Phillis Wheatley Peters (1753-1784), several...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and the Royal Actor: Performing Monarchy, 1760-1952

Shakespeare and the Royal Actor: Performing Monarchy,...

Author: Sally Barnden (King's College London)
ISBN: 9780198894971
Format: Hardback
$188.95

Explores the extent to which members of the royal family have appropriated the creative legacy of Shakespeare, from...  Read More >>

Early Modern Catholicism and the Printed Book: Agents – Networks – Responses

Early Modern Catholicism and the Printed Book: Agents...

Author: Justyna Kiliańczyk-Zięba ,  Magdalena Komorowska
ISBN: 9789004538665
Format: Hardback
$496.32

The present volume will serve its purpose if it consolidates the view of early modern Catholic book culture as an...  Read More >>

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