Love's Labyrinth
Love's Labyrinth

Author: John Henry Brown

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-04-27

Total Pages: 70

ISBN-13: 9780259461760

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Excerpt from Love's Labyrinth: A Play Second Youth. Aye, 'tis noised abroad War will come surely, and our master vows He'll have us follow him to serve the king. Old Man. Good service truly; an' were I but young, I'd trail a matchlock, as beyond the seas I served our youthful master and Mountjoy. Ah those were times indeed. Who served the queen Served her who had the right, and to our Charles Hath come her right and might. Therefore I say Let's cheer the king, and also our good lord. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Shakespeare Play as Poem
The Shakespeare Play as Poem

Author: S. Viswanathan

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1980-11-20

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 0521225477

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A balanced critique of the reading of Shakespeare's plays as dramatic poems.

The Boy in the Labyrinth
The Boy in the Labyrinth

Author: Oliver de la Paz

Publisher:

Published: 2019-07-30

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9781629221724

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In a long sequence of prose poems, questionnaires, and standardized tests, The Boy in the Labyrinth interrogates the language of autism and the language barriers between parents, their children, and the fractured medium of science and school. Structured as a Greek play, the book opens with a parents' earnest quest for answers, understanding, and doubt. Each section of the Three Act is highlighted by "Autism Spectrum Questionnaires" which are in dialogue with and in opposition to what the parent perceives to be their relationship with their child. Interspersed throughout each section are sequences of standardized test questions akin to those one would find in grade school, except these questions unravel into deeper mysteries. The depth of the book is told in a series of episodic prose poems that parallel the parable of Theseus and the Minotaur. In these short clips of montage the unnamed "boy" explores his world and the world of perception, all the while hearing the rumblings of the Minotaur somewhere in the heart of an immense Labyrinth. Through the medium of this allusion, de la Paz meditates on failures, foundering, and the possibility of finding one's way.

Textual Transformations
Textual Transformations

Author: Tessa Whitehouse

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2020-01-12

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 019880881X

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Early modern books were not stable or settled outputs of the press but dynamic shape-changers, subject to reworking, re-presentation, revision, and reinterpretation. Their history is often the history of multiple, sometimes competing, agencies as their texts were re-packaged, redirected, and transformed in ways that their original authors might hardly recognize. Processes of editing, revision, redaction, selection, abridgement, glossing, disputation, translation, and posthumous publication resulted in a textual elasticity and mobility that could dissolve distinctions between text and paratexts, textuality and intertextuality, manuscript and print, author and reader or editor, such that title and author's name are no longer sufficient pointers to a book's identity or contents. This collection brings together original essays by an international team of eminent scholars in the field of book history that explore these various kinds of textual inconstancy and variability. The essays are alive to the impact of commercial and technological aspects of book production and distribution (discussing, for example, the career of the pre-eminent bookseller John Nourse, the market appeal of abridgements, and the financial incentives to posthumous publication), but their interest is also in the many additional forms of agency that shaped texts and their meanings as books were repurposed to articulate, and respond to, a variety of cultural and individual needs. They engage with early modern religious, political, philosophical, and scholarly trends and debates as they discuss a wide range of genres and kinds of publication including fictional and non-fictional prose, verse miscellanies, abridgements, sermons, religious controversy, and of authors including Lucy Hutchinson, Richard Baxter, John Dryden, Thomas Burnet, John Tillotson, Henry Maundrell, Jonathan Swift, Samuel Richardson, John Wesley, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The result is a richly diverse collection that demonstrates the embeddedness of the book trade in the cultural dynamics of early modernity.