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  • Unperfect Histories

    The Mirror for Magistrates, 1559-1610

    by Harriet Archer ...
    Series series Oxford English Monographs
    The Mirror for Magistrates, the collection of de casibus complaint poems in the voices of medieval rulers and rebels compiled by William Baldwin in the 1550s, was central to the development of imaginative literature in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Additions by John Higgins, Thomas Blenerhasset, and Richard Niccols between 1574 and 1610 extended the Mirror's scope, shifted its ... Read more

    $92.99 USD

  • A Mirror for Magistrates in Context

    Literature, History and Politics in Early Modern England

    Edited by Harriet Archer, Andrew Hadfield ...
    This is the first essay collection on A Mirror for Magistrates, the most popular work of English literature in the age of Shakespeare. The Mirror is here analysed by major scholars, who discuss its meaning and significance, and assess the extent of its influence as a series of tragic stories showing powerful princes and governors brought low by fate and enemy action. Scholars debate the ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

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  • William Shakespeare: The Complete Collection (Golden Deer Classics)

    by William Shakespeare, Golden Deer Classics ...
    This ebook collects the complete writings of William Shakespeare. It comes with 150 original illustrations which are the engravings John Boydell commissioned for his Boydell Shakespeare Gallery. ------------ Contents: COMEDIES: The Comedy of Errors The Taming of the Shrew The Two Gentlemen of Verona Love's Labor's Lost A Midsummer Night's Dream The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor ... Read more

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  • Essays of Montaigne

    {Complete & Illustrated}

    by Michel Montaigne ...
    The present publication is intended to supply a recognised deficiency in our literature—a library edition of the Essays of Montaigne. This great French writer deserves to be regarded as a classic, not only in the land of his birth, but in all countries and in all literatures. His Essays, which are at once the most celebrated and the most permanent of his productions, form a magazine out of which ... Read more

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  • Christopher Marlowe : Poet & Spy

    Poet & Spy

    by Park Honan ...
    Christopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy is the most thorough and detailed life of Marlowe since John Bakeless's in 1942. It has new material on Marlowe in relation to Canterbury, also on his home life, schooling, and six and a half years at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and includes fresh data on his reading, teachers, and early achievements, including a new letter with a new date for the famous ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • The Lusiads

    by Luis Vaz de Camoes, Landeg White ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    First published in 1572, The Lusiads is one of the greatest epic poems of the Renaissance, immortalizing Portugal's voyages of discovery with an unrivalled freshness of observation. At the centre of The Lusiads is Vasco da Gama's pioneer voyage via southern Africa to India in 1497-98. The first European artist to cross the equator, Camoes's narrative reflects the novelty and fascination of that ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Shakespeare and the Countess

    by Chris Laoutaris ...
    In November 1596, a countess signed a document that would nearly destroy the career of William Shakespeare. Who was this woman who played such an instrumental, yet little known, role in Shakespeare's life? Never far from controversy when she was alive—she sparked numerous riots and indulged in acts of bribery, breaking-and-entering, and kidnapping—Lady Elizabeth Russell has been edited out of ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel

    Edited by Peter Bondanella, Andrea Ciccarelli ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel provides a broad ranging introduction to the major trends in the development of the Italian novel from its early modern origin to the contemporary era. Contributions cover a wide range of topics including the theory of the novel in Italy, the historical novel, realism, modernism, postmodernism, neorealism, and film and the novel. The contributors are ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Florence, Italy: Birthplace of the Renaissance | Children's Renaissance History

    by Baby Professor ...
    The renaissance period is long gone but its influence can still be felt up until the present times. Reading the contents of this book, your child will understand more about the period and why Florence, Italy seems to be the hub of the most powerful people during this era. Be prepared for some mind-blowing questions only your child can think of. Get a copy today! ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Books and Readers in Early Modern England

    Material Studies

    by Stephen Orgel ...
    Series series Material Texts
    Books and Readers in Early Modern England examines readers, reading, and publication practices from the Renaissance to the Restoration. The essays draw on an array of documentary evidence—from library catalogs, prefaces, title pages and dedications, marginalia, commonplace books, and letters to ink, paper, and bindings—to explore individual reading habits and experiences in a period of religious ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Mirror of Simple Souls

    by Margaret Porette, Edmund Colledge, O.S.A., J. C. Marler, Judith Grant ...
    Series series Notre Dame Texts in Medieval Culture
    When Dr. Romana Guarnieri, in a letter to Osservatore Romano (16 June 1946), announced her discovery that Margaret Porette (d. 1 June 1310) was the author of The Mirror of Simple Souls, certainly a major French document of pre-Reformation spirituality, a sensation was created in the academic world. Although The Mirror is one of the few heretical documents to have survived the Middle Ages in its ... Read more

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  • Love's Redeeming Work

    The Anglican Quest for Holiness

    Edited by Geoffrey Rowell, Kenneth Stevenson, Rowan Williams ...
    There is a rich vein of writing within Anglican tradition that has helped to form the theology and spirituality of the contemporary church. For many readers, much of this material remains unfamiliar and is often difficult to access. Love's Redeeming Work draws together the works of major writers from the sixteenth century to the present day who have contributed to this development. Each selected ... Read more

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