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  • Arden of Faversham: A Critical Reader

    by Professor Lisa Hopkins, Dr Andrew Hiscock ...
    Series series Arden Early Modern Drama Guides
    One of the earliest domestic tragedies, Arden of Faversham is a powerful Elizabethan drama based on the real-life murder of Thomas Arden. This Critical Reader presents the first collection of essays specifically focused upon Arden of Faversham. It highlights the way in which this important play from the early 1590s stands at several different critical intersections.Focused research chapters ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Shakespeare, Violence and Early Modern Europe

    by Andrew Hiscock ...
    Shakespeare, Violence and Early Modern Europe broadens our understanding of the final years of the last Tudor monarch, revealing the truly international context in which they must be understood. Uncovering the extent to which Shakespeare's dramatic art intersected with European politics, Andrew Hiscock brings together close readings of the history plays, compelling insights into late Elizabethan ... Read more

    $25.49 USD

  • Coriolanus: A Critical Reader

    by Professor Lisa Hopkins, Dr Andrew Hiscock ...
    Series series Arden Early Modern Drama Guides
    Coriolanus is the last and most intriguing of Shakespeare's Roman tragedies. Critics, directors and actors have long been bewitched by this gripping character study of a warrior that Rome can neither tolerate nor do without. Caius Martius Coriolanus is a terrifying war machine in battle, a devoted son to a wise and ambitious mother at home, and an inflammatory scorner of the rights and rites of ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • The Merchant of Venice: A Critical Reader

    by Professor Lisa Hopkins, Dr Andrew Hiscock ...
    Series series Arden Early Modern Drama Guides
    Arden Early Modern Drama Guides offer students and academics practical and accessible introductions to the critical and performance contexts of key Elizabethan and Jacobean plays. Essays from leading international scholars give invaluable insight into the text by presenting a range of critical perspectives, making the books ideal companions for study and research.Key features include:- Essays on ... Read more

    $97.19 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

  • Troilus and Cressida: A Critical Reader

    by Dr Andrew Hiscock, Professor Lisa Hopkins ...
    Series series Arden Early Modern Drama Guides
    Troilus and Cressida: A Critical Reader offers an accessible and thought-provoking guide to this complex problem play, surveying its key themes and evolving critical preoccupations. Considering its generic ambiguity and experimentalism, it also provides a uniquely detailed and up-to-date history of the play's stage performance from Dryden's rewriting up to Mark Ravenhill and Elizabeth LeCompte's ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Shakespeare Handbook

    Edited by Dr Andrew Hiscock, Dr Stephen Longstaffe ...
    Literature and Culture Handbooks are an innovative series of guides to major periods, topics and authors in British and American literature and culture. Designed to provide a comprehensive, one-stop resource for literature students, each handbook provides the essential information and guidance needed from the beginning of a course through to developing more advanced knowledge and skills. Written ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern English Literature and Religion

    Edited by Andrew Hiscock, Helen Wilcox ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    This pioneering Handbook offers a comprehensive consideration of the dynamic relationship between English literature and religion in the early modern period. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were the most turbulent times in the history of the British church and, perhaps as a result, produced some of the greatest devotional poetry, sermons, polemics, and epics of literature in English. The ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Memory

    Edited by Andrew Hiscock, Lina Perkins Wilder ...
    Series series Routledge Literature Handbooks
    The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Memory introduces this vibrant field of study to students and scholars, whilst defining and extending critical debates in the area. The book begins with a series of "Critical Introductions" offering an overview of memory in particular areas of Shakespeare such as theatre, print culture, visual arts, post-colonial adaptation and new media. These essays both ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Hustlers, Hash and Wastepaper baskets

    by Andrew Hiscock ...
    Simon is a normal guy. He grew up in a small town in the heart of Middle England. He has a loving mother and a loving father. A better than average student, he was popular with his peers and his teachers. Simon travelled and, like many middle-class kids, maybe he took too many drugs, but that wasn't too unusual. Simon was no different to many kids who grew up in Middle England in the 80s and 90s. ... Read more

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  • Eastern Promises

    by Andrew Hiscock ...
    Simon is a normal guy. He grew up in a small town in the heart of Middle England. He has a loving mother and a loving father. A better than average student, he was popular with his peers and his teachers. Simon travelled and, like many middle-class kids, maybe he took too many drugs, but that wasn't too unusual. Simon was no different to many kids who grew up in Middle England in the 80s and 90s. ... Read more

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  • Simon Says - Everyday Murder

    by Andrew Hiscock ...
    Simon is a normal guy, he grew up in a small town, in the heart of middle England. He has a loving mother and a loving father. Simon was a better than average student, he was popular with his piers and his teachers. Simon travellelled, like many Middle Class kids, maybe he took too many drugs, but that wasn't too unusual. Simon was no different to many kids who grew up in Middle England in the 80s ... Read more

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