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  • Etymology and the Invention of English in Early Modern Literature

    by Hannah Crawforth ...
    How did authors such as Jonson, Spenser, Donne and Milton think about the past lives of the words they used? Hannah Crawforth shows how early modern writers were acutely attuned to the religious and political implications of the etymology of English words. She argues that these lexically astute writers actively engaged with the lexicographers, Anglo-Saxonists and etymologists who were carrying out ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Shakespeare Survey 77

    Shakespeare's Poetry

    Edited by Hannah Crawforth, Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, Emma Smith ...
    Series series Shakespeare Survey
    Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948, Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism. Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of that year's textual and critical studies and of the year's major British ... Read more

    $94.29 USD

  • On Shakespeare's Sonnets

    A Poets' Celebration

    Edited by Dr. Hannah Crawforth, Elizabeth Scott-Baumann ...
    ***'***These contributors are some of the best, and best-known poets writing today ... The result is a slimly elegant book of new poetry, some of it very fine indeed ... It really is extraordinary that these sonnets, first published in 1609, can still be engendering such a range of new ideas and ways of expressing them.' - The IndependentOn Shakespeare's Sonnets: A Poets' Celebration brings ... Read more

    $19.69 USD

  • Scholarship, Sacrifice and Subjectivity

    The Renaissance Bible Today

    Edited by Hannah Crawforth, Russ Leo ...
    In 1994, Debora K. Shuger published her field-changing study, The Renaissance Bible: Scholarship, Sacrifice and Subjectivity. Shuger’s book offers a wide-reaching and intellectually ambitious exploration of the centrality of the inter-connected discourses of literature and theology in the period. Throughout, Shuger troubles prevailing assumptions about religion and its purview by expanding the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Shakespeare in London

    by Dr. Hannah Crawforth, Sarah Dustagheer, Jennifer Young ...
    Series series Arden Shakespeare
    Shakespeare in London offers a lively and engaging new reading of some of Shakespeare's major work, informed by close attention to the language of his drama. The focus of the book is on Shakespeare's London, how it influenced his drama and how he represents it on stage. Taking readers on an imaginative journey through the city, the book moves both chronologically, from beginning to end of ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • The Sonnets: The State of Play

    Edited by Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, Clare Whitehead, Dr. Hannah Crawforth ...
    Series series Arden Shakespeare The State of Play
    Shakespeare's Sonnets both generate and demonstrate many of today's most pressing debates about Shakespeare and poetry. They explore history and aesthetics, gender and society, time and memory, and continue to invite divergent responses from critics and poets. This freeze-frame volume showcases the range of current debate and ideas surrounding these still startling poems. Each chapter has been ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • Family Politics in Early Modern Literature

    Edited by Hannah Crawforth, Sarah Lewis ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book considers the ways that family relationships (parental, marital, sibling or other) mimic, and stand in for, political ones in the Early Modern period, and vice versa. Bringing together leading international scholars in literary-historical fields to produce scholarship informed by the perspective of contemporary politics, the volume examines the ways in which the family defines itself in ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • Shakespeare's Sonnets and Poems

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Jonathan F. S. Post ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Not for nothing is William Shakespeare considered possibly the most famous writer in history; his works have had a lasting effect on culture, vocabularies, and art. His plays contain some of our most well-known lines (how often have you heard the phrase 'To be or not to be'?), yet whilst his poems may often feel less familiar than his plays they have also seeped into our cultural history (who has ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Writing the Monarch in Jacobean England

    Jonson, Donne, Shakespeare and the Works of King James

    by Jane Rickard ...
    King James VI and I's extensive publications and the responses they met played a key role in the literary culture of Jacobean England. This book is the first sustained study of how James's subjects commented upon, appropriated and reworked these royal writings. Jane Rickard highlights the vitality of such responses across genres - including poetry, court masque, sermon, polemic and drama - and in ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy

    Edited by Michael Neill, David Schalkwyk ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy presents fifty-four essays by a range of scholars from all parts of the world. Together these essays offer readers a fresh and comprehensive understanding of Shakespeare tragedies as both works of literature and as performance texts written by a playwright who was himself an experienced actor. The opening section explores ways in which later generations ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Poems that Will Save Your Life

    by John Boyes ...
    Hope is the thing with feathersThat perches in the soul,And sings the tune without the words,And never stops at all.- Emily DickensonFrom time immemorial, poetry has provided its readers with a source of comfort and encouragement in times of need. In this superb anthology can be found the best of the English-speaking world's inspirational and reassuring verse, including such classics as Rudyard ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe

    by John Boswell ...
    Both highly praised and intensely controversial, this brilliant book produces dramatic evidence that at one time the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches not only sanctioned unions between partners of the same sex, but sanctified them--in ceremonies strikingly similar to heterosexual marriage ceremonies. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD