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  • Atrocity and Early Modern Drama

    by Professor Lisa Hopkins, Professor Douglas Bruster ...
    Series series Arden Studies in Early Modern Drama
    Extreme violence scarred the early modern period. Contemporary commentators grappled to find language to categorize the massacres, genocides, assassinations, enslavements, sacks, rapes, riots and regicides that characterized the period. Some used 'outrages', others 'cruelties', but, significantly, the term 'atrocity' that we use today gained the most currency.Atrocity and Early Modern Drama ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • To Be or Not to Be

    by Professor Douglas Bruster ...
    Series series Shakespeare Now!
    Hamlet's "To be or not to be" soliloquy is quoted more often than any other passage in Shakespeare. It is arguably the most famous speech in the Western world - though few of us can remember much about it. This book carefully unpacks the individual words, phrases and sentences of Hamlet's soliloquy in order to reveal how and why it has achieved its remarkable hold on our culture. Hamlet's speech ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Materializing the East in Early Modern English Drama

    by Professor Lisa Hopkins, Professor Douglas Bruster ...
    Series series Arden Studies in Early Modern Drama
    Despite the popularity of plays about the East, the representation of the East in early modern drama has been either overlooked, marginalized as footnotes or generalized into stereotypes. Materializing the East in Early Modern English Dramafocuses on the multi-layered, often conflicting and changing perceptions of the East and how dramatic works made use of their respective theatrical space to ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Money and Magic in Early Modern Drama

    by Professor Lisa Hopkins, Professor Douglas Bruster ...
    Series series Arden Studies in Early Modern Drama
    Money, magic and the theatre were powerful forces in early modern England. Money was acquiring an independent, efficacious agency, as the growth of usury allowed financial signs to reproduce without human intervention. Magic was coming to seem Satanic, as the manipulation of magical signs to performative purposes was criminalized in the great 'witch craze.' And the commercial, public theatre was ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Interruptions in Early Modern English Drama

    by Michael M. Wagoner, Professor Lisa Hopkins, Professor Douglas Bruster ...
    Series series Arden Studies in Early Modern Drama
    To interrupt, both on stage and off, is to wrest power. From the Ghost's appearance in Hamlet to Celia's frightful speech in Volpone, interruptions are an overlooked linguistic and dramatic form that delineates the balance of power within a scene. This book analyses interruptions as a specific form in dramatic literature, arguing that these everyday occurrences, when transformed into aesthetic ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Seeing Shakespeare’s Style

    by Douglas Bruster ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Early Modern Authorship
    Seeing Shakespeare’s Style offers new ways for readers to perceive Shakespeare and, by extension, literary texts generally. Organized as a series of studies of Shakespeare’s plays and poems, poetry, and prose, it looks at the inner functioning of language and form in works from all phases of this writer’s career. Because the very concept of literary style has dropped out of so many of our ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Staging Britain's Past

    Pre-Roman Britain in Early Modern Drama

    by Kim Gilchrist, Professor Lisa Hopkins, Professor Douglas Bruster ...
    Series series Arden Studies in Early Modern Drama
    Staging Britain's Past is the first study of the early modern performance of Britain's pre-Roman history. The mythic history of the founding of Britain by the Trojan exile Brute and the subsequent reign of his descendants was performed through texts such as Norton and Sackville's Gorboduc, Shakespeare's King Lear and Cymbeline, as well as civic pageants, court masques and royal entries such as ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • Prologues to Shakespeare's Theatre

    Performance and Liminality in Early Modern Drama

    by Douglas Bruster, Robert Weimann ...
    This eye-opening study draws attention to the largely neglected form of the early modern prologue. Reading the prologue in performed as well as printed contexts, Douglas Bruster and Robert Weimann take us beyond concepts of stability and autonomy in dramatic beginnings to reveal the crucial cultural functions performed by the prologue in Elizabethan England. While its most basic task is to seize ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew

    by M.G. Aune, Bruce E. Brandt, Douglas Bruster, Sheila T. Cavanagh, Alice Dailey, Silver Damsen, Laurie Ellinghausen, Laura Grace Godwin, Anne F. Gossage, Peter H. Greenfield, Jay L. Halio, Peter C. Herman, James Hirsch, Shawn Kairschner, Wesley Kisting, Cynthia Lewis, Todd M. Lidh, Laury Magnus, Robert Matz, Michael McClintock, Joseph M. Ortiz, Margaret Maurer, Meg F. Pearson, Joseph Ricke, Edward L. Rocklin, James M. Welsh ...
    Series Book 123 - Approaches to Teaching World Literature
    The impetus for this Approaches to Teaching volume on The Taming of the Shrew grew from the editors' desire to discover why a play notorious for its controversial exploration of conflicts between men and women and the challenges of marriage is enduringly popular in the classroom, in the performing arts, and in scholarship. The result is a volume that offers practical advice to teachers on editions ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

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  • The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare

    Edited by Margreta De Grazia, Stanley Wells ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Written by a team of leading international scholars, this Companion is designed to illuminate Shakespeare's works through discussion of the key topics of Shakespeare studies. Twenty-one essays provide lively and authoritative approaches to recent scholarship and criticism for readers keen to expand their knowledge and appreciation of Shakespeare. The book contains stimulating chapters on ... Read more

    $31.99 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

  • The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment

    Gender, Sexuality, and Race

    Edited by Valerie Traub ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment brings together 40 of the most important scholars and intellectuals writing on the subject today. Extending the purview of feminist criticism, it offers an intersectional paradigm for considering representations of gender in the context of race, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, and religion. In addition to sophisticated textual analysis drawing on ... Read more

    $41.39 USD