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  • Filming and Performing Renaissance History

    Edited by M. Burnett, A. Streete ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Over the last century, many 16th- and 17th-century events and personalities have been brought before home, cinema, exhibition, festival and theatrical audiences. This collection examines these representations, looking at recent television series, documentaries, pageantry, theatre and popular culture in various cultural and linguistic guises. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Early Modern Drama and the Bible

    Contexts and Readings, 1570-1625

    Edited by A. Streete ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Early modern drama is steeped in biblical language, imagery and stories. This collection examines the pervasive presence of scripture on the early modern stage. Exploring plays by writers such as Shakespeare, Marlowe, Middleton, and Webster, the contributors show how theatre offers a site of public and communal engagement with the Bible. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • Killing Physicians

    Shakespeare's Blind Heroes and Reformation Saints

    by John J. Norton ...
    Killing Physicians: Shakespeare's Blind Heroes and Reformation Saints is intended to give its reader a street-level perspective of Shakespeare's great tragedies and late plays:* Hamlet* The Tempest* King Lear* Henry VIII* Othello* The Winter's Tale* CymbelineDiving into the social and theological tensions alive in sixteenth-century London neighborhoods, this book uncovers what may have been ... Read more

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  • Shakespeare's Common Prayers

    The Book of Common Prayer and the Elizabethan Age

    by Daniel Swift ...
    Societies and entire nations draw their identities from certain founding documents, whether charters, declarations, or manifestos. The Book of Common Prayer figures as one of the most crucial in the history of the English-speaking peoples. First published in 1549 to make accessible the devotional language of the late Henry the VIII's new church, the prayer book was a work of monumental religious, ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Milton

    Edited by Dennis Danielson ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    An accessible, helpful guide for any student of Milton, whether undergraduate or graduate, introducing readers to the scope of Milton's work, the richness of its historical relations, and the range of current approaches to it. This second edition contains several new and revised essays, reflecting increasing emphasis on Milton's politics, the social conditions of his authorship and the climate in ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Paradise Lost

    Edited by Louis Schwartz ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Fifteen short, accessible essays exploring the most important topics and themes in John Milton's masterpiece, Paradise Lost. The essays invite readers to begin their own independent exploration of the poem by equipping them with useful background knowledge, introducing them to key passages, and acquainting them with the current state of critical debates. Chapters are arranged to mirror the way the ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • Ecclesiastes Through the Centuries

    by Eric S. Christianson ...
    Series Book 37 - Wiley Blackwell Bible Commentaries
    Ecclesiastes Through the Centuries“A rich tour down many significant streams of Western interpretation of this fascinating biblical book… Heartily recommended, without reservation.”Bible and Critical Theory“A fundamental resource on biblical interpretation, especially in the modern world, this book is a winner.”International Review of Biblical Studies“The introduction and commentary proper cover ... Read more

    $45.00 USD

  • Shakespeare and the Grammar of Forgiveness

    by Sarah Beckwith ...
    Shakespeare lived at a time when England was undergoing the revolution in ritual theory and practice we know as the English Reformation. With it came an unprecedented transformation in the language of religious life. Whereas priests had once acted as mediators between God and men through sacramental rites, Reformed theology declared the priesthood of all believers. What ensued was not the tidy ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Drama

    Edited by Thomas Betteridge, Greg Walker ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook to Tudor Drama is the authoritative secondary text on Tudor drama. It both integrates recent important research across different disciplines and periods and sets a new agenda for the future study of Tudor drama, questioning a number of the central assumptions of previous studies. Balancing the interests and concerns of scholars in theatre history, drama, and literary studies, ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • The Christian Tradition in English Literature

    by Paul Cavill, Heather Ward ...
    Features:• Wide chronological coverage of English literature, especially texts found in the Norton, Oxford, Blackwell and other standard anthologies• Short, punchy essays that engage with the texts, the critics, and literary and social issues• Background and survey articles• Glossaries of Bible themes, images and narratives• Annotated bibliography and questions for class discussion or personal ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • John Milton

    A Biography

    by Neil Forsyth ...
    John Milton has usually been regarded as 'the other great poet' in English literature, after Shakespeare. He is the only one of the world's great poets also to have been actively engaged in politics. A radical Protestant and staunch republican, he served as Latin secretary to Oliver Cromwell during the Commonwealth. After the restoration of Charles II, his life was probably saved by his fame as a ... Read more

    $13.95 USD

  • The Poetics of Conversion in Early Modern English Literature

    Verse and Change from Donne to Dryden

    by Molly Murray ...
    Christians in post-Reformation England inhabited a culture of conversion. Required to choose among rival forms of worship, many would cross - and often recross - the boundary between Protestantism and Catholicism. This 2009 study considers the poetry written by such converts, from the reign of Elizabeth I to that of James II, concentrating on four figures: John Donne, William Alabaster, Richard ... Read more

    $45.99 USD