Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “estelle murphy”
Skip side bar filters

  • Queen Anne and the Arts

    by Barbara Benedict, Brian Corman, Julia Fawcett, Jayne Lewis, Estelle Murphy, Nicholas Seager, Philip Smallwood, Abigail Williams, Amanda Winkler, Kevin L. Cope, Juan Christian Pellicer0, James A. Winn1, Cedric D. Reverand II3 ...
    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850
    The cultural highlights of the reign of Queen Anne (1702-1714) have long been overlooked. However, recent scholarship, including the present volume, is demonstrating that Anne has been seriously underestimated, both as a person, and as a monarch, and that there was much cultural activity of note in what might be called an interim period, coming after the deaths of Dryden and Purcell but before the ... Read more

    $52.69 USD

People who read this also enjoyed

  • The Year of Lear

    Shakespeare in 1606

    by James Shapiro ...
    Preeminent Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro, author of Shakespeare in a Divided America**, shows how the tumultuous events in 1606 influenced three of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies written that year—King Lear, Macbeth,** and Antony and Cleopatra. **“**The Year of Lear is irresistible—a banquet of wisdom” (<strong... ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • 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

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Heart and Stomach of a King

    Elizabeth I and the Politics of Sex and Power

    by Carole Levin ...
    In her famous speech to rouse the English troops staking out Tilbury at the mouth of the Thames during the Spanish Armada's campaign, Queen Elizabeth I is said to have proclaimed, "I may have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king." Whether or not the transcription is accurate, the persistent attribution of this provocative statement to England's most ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Albion

    The Origins of the English Imagination

    by Peter Ackroyd ...
    With his characteristic enthusiasm and erudition, Peter Ackroyd follows his acclaimed London: A Biography with an inspired look into the heart and the history of the English imagination. To tell the story of its evolution, Ackroyd ranges across literature and painting, philosophy and science, architecture and music, from Anglo-Saxon times to the twentieth-century. Considering what is most English ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $7.99 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

  • English Literature from the Old English Period Through the Renaissance

    by J.E. Luebering ...
    Series series The Britannica Guide to World Literature
    Retaining the thrill and tone of oral storytelling as the written word became increasingly widespread was the charge of early English writing. Beginning in the OldEnglish period and continuing through the Medieval and Renaissance periods, writers such as Geoffrey Chaucer and William Shakespeare began to elevate the place of literature in society. This volume details the evolution of early English ... Read more

    $42.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Drama

    Edited by Thomas Betteridge, Greg Walker ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook to Tudor Drama is the authoritative secondary text on Tudor drama. It both integrates recent important research across different disciplines and periods and sets a new agenda for the future study of Tudor drama, questioning a number of the central assumptions of previous studies. Balancing the interests and concerns of scholars in theatre history, drama, and literary studies, ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • The Life of William Shakespeare

    A Critical Biography

    by Lois Potter ...
    Series Book 14 - Wiley Blackwell Critical Biographies
    The Life of William Shakespeare is a fascinating and wide-ranging exploration of Shakespeare's life and works focusing on oftern neglected literary and historical contexts: what Shakespeare read, who he worked with as an author and an actor, and how these various collaborations may have affected his writing.Written by an eminent Shakespearean scholar and experienced theatre reviewerPays particular ... Read more

    $31.00 USD

  • Literary Names

    Personal Names in English Literature

    by Alastair Fowler ...
    Why do authors use pseudonyms and pen-names, or ingeniously hide names in their work with acrostics and anagrams? How has the range of permissible given names changed and how is this reflected in literature? Why do some characters remain mysteriously nameless? In this rich and learned book, Alastair Fowler explores the use of names in literature of all periods - primarily English but also Latin, ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Medieval Shakespeare

    Pasts and Presents

    Edited by Ruth Morse, Helen Cooper, Peter Holland ...
    For many, Shakespeare represents the advent of modernity. It is easy to forget that he was in fact a writer deeply embedded in the Middle Ages, who inherited many of his shaping ideas and assumptions from the medieval past. This collection brings together essays by internationally renowned scholars of medieval and early modern literature, the history of the book and theatre history to present new ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Renaissance Paratexts

    Edited by Helen Smith, Louise Wilson ...
    In his 1987 work Paratexts, the theorist Gérard Genette established physical form as crucial to the production of meaning. Here, experts in early modern book history, materiality and rhetorical culture present a series of compelling explorations of the architecture of early modern books. The essays challenge and extend Genette's taxonomy, exploring the paratext as both a material and a conceptual ... Read more

    $38.59 USD