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“emma depledge”

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  • Making Milton

    Print, Authorship, Afterlives

    Edited by Emma Depledge, John S. Garrison, Marissa Nicosia ...
    This volume consists of fourteen original essays that showcase the latest thinking about John Milton's emergence as a popular and canonical author. Contributors consider how Milton positioned himself in relation to the book trade, contemporaneous thinkers, and intellectual movements, as well as how his works have been positioned since their first publication. The individual chapters assess Milton ... Read more

    $82.79 USD

  • Renaissance Shakespeare/Shakespeare Renaissances

    Proceedings of the Ninth World Shakespeare Congress

    by Stanley Wells, Joel Rodgers, Randall Martin, Robert Darcy, Atsuhiko Hirota, Darryl Chalk, Supriya Chaudhuri, Kimberly R. West, Sukanta Chaudhuri, Margaret Shewring, Richard Fotheringham, Ros King, James J. Marino, Brian Walsh, Eleanor Collins, M. A. Katritzky, Martin Hilský, Ann Jennalie Cook, Vlasta Gallerová, Karel Kríž, Robert Sturua, Jean-Christophe Mayer, Galz Engler, Madalina Nicolaescu, Kaori Kobayashi, Patrick Lonergan, Zeno Ackermann, Tina Krontiris, Emily Oliver, Shaul Bassi, Barry Freeman, Carla della Gatta, Cristiane Busato Smith, Sharon O'Dair, Emma Depledge, Anna Cetera, Courtney Lehmann, Poonam Trivedi, Bi-Qi Beatrice Lei, Graham Holderness, Jill L. Levenson, Hersh Zeifman ...
    Selected contributions to the Ninth World Shakespeare Congress, which took place in July 2011 in Prague, represent the contemporary state of Shakespeare studies in thirty-eight countries worldwide. Apart from readings of Shakespeare’s plays and poems, more than forty chapters map Renaissance contexts of his art in politics, theater, law, or material culture and discuss numerous cases of the impact ... Read more

    $48.29 USD

  • Canonising Shakespeare

    Stationers and the Book Trade, 1640–1740

    Edited by Emma Depledge, Peter Kirwan ...
    Canonising Shakespeare offers the first comprehensive reassessment of Shakespeare's afterlife as a print phenomenon, demonstrating the crucial role that the book trade played in his rise to cultural pre-eminence. 1640–1740 was the period in which Shakespeare's canon was determined, in which the poems resumed their place alongside the plays in print, and in which artisans and named editors crafted ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Shakespeare's Rise to Cultural Prominence

    Politics, Print and Alteration, 1642–1700

    by Emma Depledge ...
    Shakespeare's rise to prominence was by no means inevitable. While he was popular in his lifetime, the number of new editions and revivals of his plays declined over the following decades. Emma Depledge uses the methodologies of book and theatre history to provide a re-assessment of the reputation and dissemination of Shakespeare during the Interregnum and Restoration. She demonstrates the crucial ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

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  • Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies

    How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature

    by Elizabeth Winkler ...
    An “extraordinarily brilliant” and “pleasurably naughty” (André Aciman) investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays became an act of blasphemy…and who the Bard might really be.The theory that Shakespeare may not have written the works that bear his name is the most horrible, unspeakable subject in the history of English ... Read more

    $15.99 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

  • Who Wrote Shakespeare?

    The Case for William Shakespeare of Stratford

    by James Shapiro ...
    This ebook is an excerpt from Contested Will by James Shapiro, and originally appeared as the last section titled "Shakespeare." In this chapter, Shapiro succintly and eloquently makes the case for why no one else but Shakespeare could have written Shakespeare's plays. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Shakespeare Beyond Doubt

    Evidence, Argument, Controversy

    Edited by Paul Edmondson, Stanley Wells ...
    Did Shakespeare write Shakespeare? The authorship question has been much treated in works of fiction, film and television, provoking interest all over the world. Sceptics have proposed many candidates as the author of Shakespeare's works, including Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe and Edward De Vere, the seventeenth Earl of Oxford. But why and how did the authorship question arise and what does ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Shakespeare's First Folio

    Four Centuries of an Iconic Book

    by Emma Smith ...
    This is a biography of a book: the first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays printed in 1623 and known as the First Folio. It begins with the story of its first purchaser in London in December 1623, and goes on to explore the ways people have interacted with this iconic book over the four hundred years of its history. Throughout the stress is on what we can learn from individual copies now ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Shakespeare's Library

    Unlocking the Greatest Mystery in Literature

    by Stuart Kells ...
    The quest to find Shakespeare’s personal library—one of literature’s most enduring enigmas—is at the heart of this “enchanting work that bibliophiles will savor and Shakespeare fans adore” (Kirkus Reviews).Millions of words of scholarship have been expended on the world’s most famous author and his work. And yet a critical part of the puzzle, Shakespeare’s library, is a mystery. For four centuries ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 30 Great Myths about Shakespeare

    by Laurie Maguire, Emma Smith ...
    Think you know Shakespeare? Think again . . .Was a real skull used in the first performance of Hamlet? Were Shakespeare's plays Elizabethan blockbusters? How much do we really know about the playwright's life? And what of his notorious relationship with his wife? Exploring and exploding 30 popular myths about the great playwright, this illuminating new book evaluates all the evidence to show how ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry, Donne to Marvell

    Edited by Thomas N. Corns ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    English poetry in the first half of the seventeenth century is an outstandingly rich and varied body of verse, which can be understood and appreciated more fully when set in its cultural and ideological context. This student Companion, consisting of fourteen new introductory essays by scholars of international standing, informs and illuminates the poetry by providing close reading of texts and an ... Read more

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