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Author: John Lyly
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 88
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume in the Malone Society Reprints series consists of a photofacsimile of the Huntington Library copy of the first edition of Lyly's Sapho and Phao (1584). The volume is prefaced by a detailed bibliographical introduction, and includes the songs from the play, first published in 1632.
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Publisher: CUP Archive
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Total Pages: 716
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Martin Wiggins
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2012-09-13
Total Pages: 537
ISBN-13: 0199265720
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVolume 3 covers the years 1590-1597 and sees the start of Shakespeare's career as a dramatist.
Author: Ellen Greene
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780520206038
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe essays in this volume review the seemingly endless permutations wrought on Sappho through centuries of readings and re-writings.
Author: Harriette Andreadis
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2001-07-02
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780226020082
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Sappho in Early Modern England, Harriette Andreadis examines public and private expressions of female same-sex sexuality in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Before the language of modern sexual identities developed, a variety of discourses in both literary and extraliterary texts began to form a lexicon of female intimacy. Looking at accounts of non-normative female sexualities in travel narratives, anatomies, and even marital advice books, Andreadis outlines the vernacular through which a female same-sex erotics first entered verbal consciousness. She finds that "respectable" women of the middle classes and aristocracy who did not wish to identify themselves as sexually transgressive developed new vocabularies to describe their desires; women that we might call bisexual or lesbian, referred to in their day as tribades, fricatrices, or "rubsters," emerged in erotic discourses that allowed them to acknowledge their sexuality and still evade disapproval.
Author: Eric Pudney
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2019-03-14
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9198376888
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the 2019 Warburg Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities for an outstanding work of literary history This is a study of the representation of witches in early modern English drama, organised around the themes of scepticism and belief. It covers the entire early modern period, including the Restoration, and pays particular attention to three plays in which witchcraft is central: The Witch of Edmonton (1621), The Late Lancashire Witches (1634) and The Lancashire Witches (1681). Always a controversial issue, witchcraft has traditionally been seen in terms of a debate between ‘sceptics’ and ‘believers’. This book argues instead that, while the concepts of scepticism and belief are central to an understanding of early modern witchcraft, they are more fruitfully understood not as static and mutually exclusive positions within the witchcraft debate, but as rhetorical tools used by both sides.
Author: William Beloe
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Published: 1814
Total Pages: 576
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Edmund Kerchever Chambers
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Published: 1923
Total Pages: 588
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Lyly
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Published: 1894
Total Pages: 336
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0198129289
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps the best-loved of Shakespeare's plays, and certainly the one that children are likely to encounter first; its mixture of aristocrats, workers, and fairies meeting in a wood outside Athens has a magic of its own. Simple and engaging on the surface, it isnonetheless a highly original and sophisticated work, remarkable for both its literary and its theatrical mastery. The fact that it is one of the very few of Shakespeare's plays not to draw on a narrative source suggests the degree to which it reflects his deepest imaginative concerns.In his Introduction, defining the play in both the literary and theatrical traditions to which it belongs, Peter Holland pays particular attention to dreams and dreamers, tracing the materials out of which Shakespeare constructs his world of night and shadows in the strange but enchanting amalgam hemakes of them. Both here and in the detailed commentary he draws freely upon the play's extensive performance history to illustrate the wide range of interpretations of which it is capable.
