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“amanda holton”

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  • Rhyme and the Construction of Love in English Lyric 1300–1579

    by Amanda Holton ...
    This book, which is underpinned by a database of all the rhymes in c. 925 courtly love lyrics produced between 1300 and 1579, demonstrates that rhyme is far from being a superficial decorative feature: instead rhyme fundamentally determines and structures subject-matter. The book focuses in particular on the relationship between rhyme and the ideas about love in courtly lyrics between 1300 and ... Read more

    $103.99 USD

  • The Sources of Chaucer's Poetics

    by Amanda Holton ...
    Focusing on four aspects of Chaucer's poetics-use of narrative, speech, rhetoric, and figurative language-this is the first book-length study to identify Chaucer's distinctive poetic strategies by making specific comparisons with known textual sources. The author provides a combination of analysis of both poetic stylistics and sources, reading The Legend of Good Women and five of The Canterbury ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Tottel's Miscellany

    Songs and Sonnets of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Sir Thomas Wyatt and Others

    by Amanda Holton ...
    Songs and Sonnets (1557), the first printed anthology of English poetry, was immensely influential in Tudor England, and inspired major Elizabethan writers including Shakespeare. Collected by pioneering publisher Richard Tottel, it brought poems of the aristocracy - verses of friendship, war, politics, death and above all of love - into wide common readership for the first time. The major poets of ... Read more

    $23.49 USD

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  • Macbeth (Mobi Classics)

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    Macbeth is among the best-known of William Shakespeare's plays, and is his shortest tragedy, believed to have been written between 1603 and 1606. It is frequently performed at both amateur and professional levels, and has been adapted for opera, film, books, stage and screen. Often regarded as archetypal, the play tells of the dangers of the lust for power and the betrayal of friends. For the plot ... Read more

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  • Romeo and Juliet

    by William Shakespeare, Adrian Poole ...
    'Shakespeare invented the human as we continue to know it' Harold BloomSet in a city torn apart by feuds and gang warfare, Shakespeare's immortal drama tells the story of star-crossed lovers, rival dynasties and bloody revenge. Romeo and Juliet is a hymn to youth and the thrill of forbidden love, charged with sexual passion and violence, but also a warning of death: a dazzling combination of bawdy ... Read more

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  • The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Illustrated, Inline Footnotes)

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    by William Shakespeare, Oakshot Press ...
    Series series Oakshot Press Classics
    Each play Illustrated with Illustrations unique to this release, over 350 Illustrations in total.Biography and literary critique includes annotated inline footnotes.The Plays.The Comedies of William Shakespeare.All's Well That Ends Well. (Illustrated)As You Like It. (Illustrated)Comedy of Errors. (Illustrated)Cymbeline. (Illustrated)Love's Labour's Lost. (Illustrated)Mea... ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus

    by Christopher Marlowe, M. G. Scarsbrook ...
    Declared by Swinburne as having 'no parallel in all the range of tragedy', Doctor Faustus is considered Christopher Marlowe's greatest work. This edition of his play gathers together both published versions of The Tragical History Of Doctor Faustus, from the Quarto of 1604, and the Quarto of 1616, each with modernized spelling and full textual notes. Optimized for navigation as an eBook, with a ... Read more

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  • Troilus And Cressida (Mobi Classics)

    by Geoffrey Chaucer ...
    Troilus and Criseyde (circa 1380-87) is Geoffrey Chaucer's poem in rhyme royal (rime royale) re-telling the tragic love story of Troilus, a Trojan prince, and Criseyde. Scholarly consensus is that Chaucer completed Troilus and Criseyde by the mid 1380's. Many Chaucer scholars regard this as his best work, even including the better known but incomplete Canterbury Tales.Troilus and Criseyde is an ... Read more

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  • John Donne

    by John Donne ...
    John Donne (1572-1631) forfeited his Parliamentary seat and was briefly imprisoned when his secret marriage to Ann More was uncovered in 1601. He spent the subsequent decade in poverty, trying to rehabilitate his reputation. He entered the Church in 1615, and become Dean of St Paul's. His first volume of poetry was published posthumously in 1633.In this series, a contemporary poet selects and ... Read more

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  • English Renaissance Poetry

    A Collection of Shorter Poems from Skelton to Jonson

    Edited by John Williams ...
    AN ANTHOLOGY FROM THE AUTHOR OF STONERPoetry in English as we know it was largely invented in England between the early 1500s and 1630, and yet for many years the poetry of the era was considered little more than a run-up to Shakespeare. The twentieth century brought a reevaluation, and the English Renaissance has since come to be recognized as the period of extraordinary poetic experimentation ... Read more

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  • Complete Works of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (Delphi Classics)

    by Henry Howard Earl of Surrey, Delphi Classics ...
    Series Book 13 - Delphi Poets Series
    One of the most influential and important figures of the Renaissance, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey was the first poet to use blank verse in English literature, later influencing the works of Shakespeare, Spenser and Milton. This new edition of the bestselling Delphi Poets Series offers superior formatting of the complete surviving works of Surrey, with beautiful illustrations and the usual Delphi ... Read more

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