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  • The Lives and Afterlives of the Sidney Women Writers

    Edited by Aurélie Griffin, Alison Findlay ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Women's Literature
    The Lives and Afterlives of the Sidney Women Writers charts the multifarious connections between the lives and works of Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (1561– 1621), and Mary Sidney, Lady Wroth (1587– 1651).Bringing together essays by renowned experts on the Sidney women and a new generation of scholars, the collection shows how the Sidney women did not so much write about their lives as ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Early Modern Bonds of Trust

    From Shakespeare to Milton

    Edited by Professor Alison Findlay, Helen Wilcox, Joseph Sterrett ...
    Series series Arden Studies in Early Modern Drama
    The concepts of trust and risk provide important insights into the social and cultural life of early modern England but remain relatively unexplored in early modern literary studies.This collection addresses that gap by exploring a wide range of literary genres and texts including comic drama, lyric verse, emblem books, ledgers, wills, polemical prose and religious epic. Contributors explore ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Women in Shakespeare

    A Dictionary

    by Professor Alison Findlay ...
    Series series Arden Shakespeare Dictionaries
    This is a comprehensive reference guide examining the language employed by Shakespeare to represent women in the full range of his poetry and plays. Including over 350 entries, Alison Findlay shows the role of women within Shakespearean drama, their representations on the Shakespearean stage, and their place in Shakespeare's personal and professional lives. ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Much Ado About Nothing

    by Professor Alison Findlay ...
    Series series Shakespeare Handbooks
    This Handbook provides an introductory guide to Much Ado About Nothing offering a scene-by-scene theatrically aware commentary, contextual documents, a brief history of the text and first performances, case studies of key productions, a survey of film and TV adaptation, a wide sampling of critical opinion and further reading. ... Read more

    $26.49 USD

  • Shakespeare and Greece

    by Professor Alison Findlay, Professor Vassiliki Markidou ...
    This book seeks to invert Ben Jonson's claim that Shakespeare had 'small Latin and less Greek' and to prove that, in fact, there is more Greek and less Latin in a significant group of Shakespeare's texts: a group whose generic hybridity (tragic-comical-historical-romance) exemplifies the hybridity of Greece in the early modern imagination. To early modern England, Greece was an enigma. It was the ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • Women and Dramatic Production 1550 - 1700

    by Alison Findlay, Gweno Williams, Stephanie Wright ...
    Series series Longman Medieval and Renaissance Library
    There is a traditional view that women were absent from the field of dramatic production in the early modern period because of their exclusion from professional theatre. Women and Dramatic Production 1550-1700 challenges this view and breaks new ground in arguing that, far from writing in closeted retreat, a select number of women took an active part in directing and controlling dramatic self ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

  • Twelfth Night: A Critical Reader

    by Professor Alison Findlay, Dr Liz Oakley-Brown ...
    Series series Arden Early Modern Drama Guides
    Twelfth Night is the most mature and fully developed of Shakespeare's comedies and, as well as being one of his most popular plays, represents a crucial moment in the development of his art. Assembled by leading scholars, this guide provides a comprehensive survey of major issues in the contemporary study of the play.Throughout the book chapters explore such issues as the play's critical reception ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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  • Reading Shakespeare Historically

    by Lisa Jardine ...
    Reading Shakespeare Historically is a passionate, provocative book by one of the most renowned and popular Renaissance scholars writing today. Charting ten years of critical development, these challenging, witty essays shed new light on Renaissance studies. It also raises intriguing questions about how the culture and history of the past illuminates the key social and political issues of today. ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • The Oxford History of Poetry in English

    Volume 4. Sixteenth-Century British Poetry

    Edited by Catherine Bates, Patrick Cheney ...
    Series series Oxford History of Poetry in English
    The Oxford History of Poetry in English is designed to offer a fresh, multi-voiced, and comprehensive analysis of 'poetry': from Anglo-Saxon culture through contemporary British, Irish, American, and Global culture, including English, Scottish, and Welsh poetry, Anglo-American colonial and post-colonial poetry, and poetry in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Caribbean, India, Africa, Asia, and ... Read more

    $122.39 USD

  • Reading Memory in Early Modern Literature

    by Andrew Hiscock ...
    'He who remembers or recollects, thinks' declared Francis Bacon, drawing attention to the absolute centrality of the question of memory in early modern Britain's cultural life. The vigorous debate surrounding the faculty had dated back to Plato at least. However, responding to the powerful influences of an ever-expanding print culture, humanist scholarship, the veneration for the cultural ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Archaic Style in English Literature, 1590–1674

    by Lucy Munro ...
    Ranging from the works of Shakespeare, Spenser, Jonson and Milton to those of Robert Southwell and Anna Trapnel, this groundbreaking study explores the conscious use of archaic style by the poets and dramatists between 1590 and 1674. It focuses on the wide-ranging, complex and self-conscious uses of archaic linguistic and poetic style, analysing the uses to which writers put literary style in ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The Oxford History of Poetry in English

    Volume 5. Seventeenth-Century British Poetry

    by Laura L. Knoppers ...
    Series series Oxford History of Poetry in English
    The Oxford History of Poetry in English (OHOPE) is designed to offer a fresh, multi-voiced, and comprehensive analysis of 'poetry': from Anglo-Saxon culture through contemporary British, Irish, American, and Global culture, including English, Scottish, and Welsh poetry, Anglo-American colonial and post-colonial poetry, and poetry in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Caribbean, India, Africa, ... Read more

    $143.99 USD