Classical Myths and Legends in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Classical Myths and Legends in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Author: H. David Brumble

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 1998-02-01

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 1136797378

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While numerous classical dictionaries identify the figures and tales of Greek and Roman mythology, this reference book explains the allegorical significance attached to the myths by Medieval and Renaissance authors. Included are several hundred alphabetically arranged entries for the gods, goddesses, heroes, heroines, and places of classical myth a

Blind Cupid
Blind Cupid

Author: Karyn Gerrard

Publisher: Decadent Publishing Company

Published: 2014-04

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9781613336694

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"Was Cupid blind?" Madam Rea chose the name The Blind Cupid for her brothel because she knew love would never take root in the den of sin. Rea and her employees hide wretched pasts and devastating secrets while remaining cool and detached with regard to their carnal dealings. But Desmond, Lila, and Rea cannot deny the desire they feel or the fact their hidden emotions and passions are awakened. Can they learn to trust again and let love into their lives? This anthology includes the following stories: THE BLIND CUPID THE GOVERNESS AND THE BEAST THE COPPER AND THE MADAM .".".the story really evolves. The story goes above and beyond to show just how beautiful flaws and imperfections can be and explores how deeply touching it can be to open ones self up to someone and get to know who they truly are before passing judgment." Cocktail and Books"

Cupid Painted Blind
Cupid Painted Blind

Author: Marcus Herzig

Publisher: Marcus Herzig

Published: 2016-10-21

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 1386967246

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Few things are more exciting and, frankly, unnerving than your first day of high school. Except, maybe, coming out to your friends when they already kinda knew you were gay. Or finding out that the breathtakingly handsome guy you’ve just met is best buddies with your archnemesis who happens to be a homophobic bully. Or being teamed up for a school assignment with that decidedly unattractive, facially-deformed, freaky-looking weirdo who hasn’t got a friend in the world. Or all of the above. Matthew Dunstan, closeted freshman, future bestselling author, and frequently blushing teenager is on a quest to find himself, find love, and live happily ever after. Sounds easy enough, right? But when the opportunities for failure are endless, it doesn’t take much to turn your life upside down. And that’s not exactly what you need when you try to catch someone’s eye without attracting everyone’s attention. Cupid Painted Blind is a heartbreaking, heartwarming, and occasionally hilarious roller coaster ride through an awkward freshman’s first few weeks of high school that will appeal to readers of all ages who enjoy Young Adult LGBTQ fiction.

Painted Palaces: The Rise of Secular Art in Early Renaissance Italy
Painted Palaces: The Rise of Secular Art in Early Renaissance Italy

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Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9780271048307

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Even many Renaissance specialists believe that little secular painting survives before the late fifteenth century, and its appearance becomes a further argument for the secularizing of art. This book asks how history changes when a longer record of secular art is explored. It is the first study in any language of the decoration of Italian palaces and homes between 1300 and the mid-Quattrocento, and it argues that early secular painting was crucial to the development of modern ideas of art. Of the cycles discussed, some have been studied and published, but most are essentially unknown. A first aim is to enrich our understanding of the early Renaissance by introducing a whole corpus of secular painting that has been too long overlooked. Yet "Painted palaces" is not a study of iconography. In examining the prehistory of painted rooms like Mantegna's Camera Picta, the larger goal is to rethink the history of early Renaissance art.

Shakespeare's Universe of Discourse
Shakespeare's Universe of Discourse

Author: Keir Elam

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1984-06-21

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9780521225922

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This book makes ample use of approaches to language within linguistics, semiotics, the philosophy of language and sociology, in order to do justice to the subtlety of Shakespeare's verbal artistry. Keir Elam adopts a fresh approach to the language of Shakespeare's comedies, considering it not simply as 'style' but as the principal dramatic and comic substance of the plays. Traditional analysis of the language as 'diction', 'expression' or 'verbal structure' is not adequate to describe the range and importance of linguistic functions in these plays. This book shows that in Shakespearean comedy language, or rather 'discourse', language in use, is always a dynamic, active protagonist of the drama. The author explores the extraordinary gamut of verbal activities or 'language-games' that contribute to the rich rhetorical make-up of the comedies. The historical framework complements the application of critical theory which will assure a readership among students and teachers of Shakespeare as well as those interested in liguistics and semiotics.

Queer Shakespeare
Queer Shakespeare

Author: Goran Stanivukovic

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2017-07-13

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 1474295274

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Queer Shakespeare: Desire and Sexuality draws together 13 essays, which offer a major reassessment of the criticism of desire, body and sexuality in Shakespeare's drama and poetry. Bringing together some of the most prominent critics working at the intersection of Shakespeare criticism and queer theory, this collection demonstrates the vibrancy of queer Shakespeare studies. Taken together, these essays explore embodiment, desire, sexuality and gender as key objects of analyses, producing concepts and ideas that draw critical energy from focused studies of time, language and nature. The Afterword extends these inquiries by linking the Anthropocene and queer ecology with Shakespeare criticism. Works from Shakespeare's entire canon feature in essays which explore topics like glass, love, antitheatrical homophobia, size, narrative, sound, female same-sex desire and Petrarchism, weather, usury and sodomy, male femininity and male-to-female crossdressing, contagion, and antisocial procreation.

The Tragedy of King Lear
The Tragedy of King Lear

Author: William Shakespeare

Publisher: Ignatius Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 9781586171377

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One of the most popular of Shakespeare's plays, King Lear is also one of the most thought-provoking. The play turns on the practical ramifications of the words of Christ that we should render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's. When confronted with the demand that she should render unto Caesar that which is God's, Cordelia chooses to "love and be silent". As the play unfolds each of the principal characters learns wisdom through suffering. This edition includes new critical essays by some of the leading lights in contemporary literary scholarship.

The Tragedie of Romeo and Juliet
The Tragedie of Romeo and Juliet

Author: William Shakespeare

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2014-01-10

Total Pages: 489

ISBN-13: 0786456418

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This annotated edition of The Tragedie of Romeo and Juliet provides two valuable textual services to its readers. It restores the language of Shakespeare to that of the First Folio of 1623, with its idiosyncratic but illuminating spelling, capitalization, and punctuation. It also provides footnotes and annotations that are candid and plainspoken in their accounting of Shakespeare's themes, especially his frequent if oft-overlooked and underappreciated bawdy puns and allusions. An extensive introduction is included, as are appendices detailing typographical errors, stage directions, emended lineations and character tags from the First Folio.