Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England
Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England

Author: John Leeds Barroll

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

Published: 1996-03

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9780838636411

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Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England is an international volume published every year in hardcover, containing essays and studies as well as book reviews of the many significant books and essays dealing with the cultural history of medieval and early modern England as expressed by and realized in its drama exclusive of Shakespeare.

Bibliotheca Grenvilliana
Bibliotheca Grenvilliana

Author: Thomas Grenville

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2024-05-26

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 3385129990

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1842.

Literary Partnerships and the Marketplace
Literary Partnerships and the Marketplace

Author: David Dowling

Publisher: LSU Press

Published: 2012-01-16

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 0807138495

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This book examines the notable business and personal relationships in nineteenth-century publishing. Literary partnerships between author/publisher, student/mentor, husband/wife, and parent/child are explored in this context.

A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare
A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare

Author: Dympna Callaghan

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2016-03-23

Total Pages: 584

ISBN-13: 111850125X

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The question is not whether Shakespeare studies needs feminism, but whether feminism needs Shakespeare. This is the explicitly political approach taken in the dynamic and newly updated edition of A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare. Provides the definitive feminist statement on Shakespeare for the 21st century Updates address some of the newest theatrical andcreative engagements with Shakespeare, offering fresh insights into Shakespeare’s plays and poems, and gender dynamics in early modern England Contributors come from across the feminist generations and from various stages in their careers to address what is new in the field in terms of historical and textual discovery Explores issues vital to feminist inquiry, including race, sexuality, the body, queer politics, social economies, religion, and capitalism In addition to highlighting changes, it draws attention to the strong continuities of scholarship in this field over the course of the history of feminist criticism of Shakespeare The previous edition was a recipient of a Choice Outstanding Academic Title award; this second edition maintains its coverage and range, and bringsthe scholarship right up to the present day

Cosmetics in Shakespearean and Renaissance Drama
Cosmetics in Shakespearean and Renaissance Drama

Author: Karim-Cooper Farah Karim-Cooper

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2019-01-30

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 1474452744

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Revised and updated critical survey of the field of cosmetics and adornment studiesThis revised edition examines how the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries dramatise the Renaissance preoccupation with cosmetics. Farah Karim-Cooper explores the then-contentious issue of female beauty and identifies a 'culture of cosmetics', which finds its visual identity on the early modern stage. She also examines cosmetic recipes and anti-cosmetic literature focusing on their relationship to drama in its representations of gender, race, politics and beauty.Key FeaturesOffers a new analysis of the construction of whiteness as a racial signifierProvides an original insight into women's cosmetic practice through an exploration of ingredients, methods and materials used to create cosmetics and the perception of make up in Shakespeare's timeIncludes numerous cosmetic recipes from the early modern period found in printed books and never published in a modern edition

Emulation on the Shakespearean Stage
Emulation on the Shakespearean Stage

Author: Vernon Guy Dickson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-03-02

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1317144090

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The English Renaissance has long been considered a period with a particular focus on imitation; however, much related scholarship has misunderstood or simply marginalized the significance of emulative practices and theories in the period. This work uses the interactions of a range of English Renaissance plays with ancient and Renaissance rhetorics to analyze the conflicted uses of emulation in the period (including the theory and praxis of rhetorical imitatio, humanist notions of exemplarity, and the stage’s purported ability to move spectators to emulate depicted characters). This book emphasizes the need to see emulation not as a solely (or even primarily) literary practice, but rather as a significant aspect of Renaissance culture, giving insight into notions of self, society, and the epistemologies of the period and informed by the period’s own sense of theory and history. Among the individual texts examined here are Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus and Hamlet, Jonson’s Catiline, and Massinger’s The Roman Actor (with its strong relation to Jonson’s Sejanus).

Marvelous Protestantism
Marvelous Protestantism

Author: Julie Crawford

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2005-07-20

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 0801881129

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Crawford examines accounts of monstrous births in popular pamphlets along with the strikingly graphic illustrations accompanying them, demonstrating how Protestant reformers used these accounts to guide their public through the spiritual confusion and social turmoil of the time.

The Crisis of Courtesy
The Crisis of Courtesy

Author: Jacques Carré

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 1994-03-01

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 9004247025

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The Crisis of Courtesy examines the apparent decline of the courtesy-book in Britain after the 16th century and suggests that the matter of courtesy was disseminated into a broad range of literary genres such as poetry, the essay and the novel. The authors highlight the pervasive interest in conduct evinced in Georgian and Victorian literature. They show how it became an important source of inspiration for middle-class writers and artists who were eager to help their readers adapt to a changing society, but preferred to write in a humorous, satirical or imaginative vein rather than in a prescriptive manner. The book will be useful to the literary historian, as some major Augustan works such as those of Swift, Fielding and Hogarth are analysed from a new perspective.

Perspectives on Renaissance Drama
Perspectives on Renaissance Drama

Author: Mary Beth Rose

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9780810111950

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Renaissance Drama, an annual and interdisciplinary publication, is devoted to drama and performance as a central feature of Renaissance culture. The essays in each volume explore traditional canons of drama, the significance of performance (broadly construed) to early modern culture, and the impact of new forms of interpretation on the study of Renaissance plays, theater, and performance. Volume XXIV, "Perspectives on Renaissance Drama," includes essays that focus on a wide range of topics about the drama in England, France, and Italy, including female-female eroticism, women's silences in Renaissance texts, early Jacobean political tragedy, and virginity in John Lyly's Love's Metamorphosis.