Barbarous Play
Barbarous Play

Author: Lara Bovilsky

Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 0816649642

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"Exploring the similar underpinnings of early modern and contemporary ideas of difference, this book examines the English Renaissance understandings of race as depicted in drama. Reading plays by Shakespeare, Marlow, Webster, and Middleton, Lara Bovilskyoffers case studies of how racial meanings are generated by narratives of boundary crossing--especially miscegenation, religious conversion, class transgression, and moral and physical degeneracy. In the process, she reveals the parallels between the period's conceptions of race and gender"--From publisher description.

The Life of John Milton
The Life of John Milton

Author: Barbara K. Lewalski

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-04-15

Total Pages: 816

ISBN-13: 0470776846

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Providing a close examination of Milton's wide-ranging prose and poetry at each stage of his life, Barbara Lewalski reveals a rather different Milton from that in earlier accounts. Provides a close analysis of each of Milton's prose and poetry works. Reveals how Milton was the first writer to self consciously construct himself as an 'author'. Focuses on the development of Milton's ideas and his art.