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  • Making Pagans

    Theatrical Practice and Comparative Religion in Early Modern England

    by John Kuhn ...
    Series series Published in cooperation with the Folger Shakespeare Library
    How early modern theatrical practice helped construct the category of “pagan” as a tool of European self-definition and colonial ambitionIn Making Pagans, John Kuhn argues that drama played a powerful role in the articulation of religious difference in the seventeenth century. Tracing connections between the history of stagecraft and ethnological disciplines such as ethnography, antiquarianism, ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Making Pagans

    Theatrical Practice and Comparative Religion in Early Modern England

    by John Kuhn ...
    Series series Published in cooperation with the Folger Shakespeare Library
    How early modern theatrical practice helped construct the category of “pagan” as a tool of European self-definition and colonial ambitionIn Making Pagans, John Kuhn argues that drama played a powerful role in the articulation of religious difference in the seventeenth century. Tracing connections between the history of stagecraft and ethnological disciplines such as ethnography, antiquarianism, ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Fear and Learning in America

    Bad Data, Good Teachers, and the Attack on Public Education

    by John Kuhn ...
    Series series Teaching for Social Justice Series
    In this moving account*,* “America’s Superintendent” John Kuhn lays bare the scare tactics at the root of the modern school “reform” movement. Kuhn conveys a deeply held passion for the mission and promise of public education through his own experience as a school administrator in Texas. When his “Alamo Letter” first appeared in the Washington Post, it galvanized the educational community in a ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

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    The Girl From the Marsh Croft (Unabridged)

    by Selma Lagerlöf ...
    Narrated by John Kuhn, Richard Pacitto, Roy Sparks ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 3 min

    In the tranquil Swedish countryside, a young woman named Helga emerges from the depths of the Marsh Croft, a mysterious and isolated dwelling. With her enigmatic past and captivating presence, she sets tongues wagging in the nearby village. As Helga's story unfolds, secrets unravel, revealing a web of love, loss, and the indomitable spirit of a woman who defies societal norms. Join Helga on her ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • Renaissance Self-Fashioning

    From More to Shakespeare

    by Stephen Greenblatt ...
    "Greenblatt's classic placed the world of Renaissance scholarship in a deep and vigorous dialogue with literary modernity . . . a remarkable work." —Homi BhabhaPulitzer Prize–Winning AuthorRenaissance Self-Fashioning is a study of sixteenth-century life and literature that spawned a new era of scholarly inquiry. Stephen Greenblatt examines the structure of selfhood as evidenced in major literary ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Classical Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

    by William Allan ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    From popular histories through to reworkings of classical subject matter by contemporary poets, dramatists, and novelists, the classical world and the masterpieces of its literature continue to fascinate readers and audiences in a huge variety of media. In this Very Short Introduction, William Allan explores what the 'classics' are and why they continue to shape our Western concepts of literature. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Geoffrey Chaucer (Authors in Context)

    by Peter Brown ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Chaucer lived through a period of extraordinary upheaval: a protracted war with France, devastating plague, the peasants' revolt, religious controversy, and the overthrow of the king. Compact and comprehensive, this book offers a wide-ranging account of the medieval society from which works such as The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde sprang, and shows how these and other works manifest ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Tragedies of William Shakespeare

    by Kathleen Kuiper ...
    Series series Shakespeare: His Work and World
    Shakespeare’s gift for writing tragedies was powerful indeed. His ability to create epic tragic characters—think Hamlet, Lear, and the star-crossed Romeo and Juliet—and scenarios is virtually unrivalled. Readers examine the Bard’s major tragedies and their significance, and touch upon the state of theatre and dramatic performance in Shakespeare’s England for good measure. ... Read more

    $31.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Memory Arts in Renaissance England

    A Critical Anthology

    Edited by William E. Engel, Rory Loughnane, Grant Williams ...
    This is the first critical anthology of writings about memory in Renaissance England. Drawing together excerpts from more than seventy writers, poets, physicians, philosophers and preachers, and with over twenty illustrations, the anthology offers the reader a guided exploration of the arts of memory. The introduction outlines the context for the tradition of the memory arts from classical times ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy

    Edited by Claire McEachern ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This revised and updated Companion acquaints the student reader with the forms, contexts, critical and theatrical lives of the ten plays considered to be Shakespeare's tragedies. Thirteen essays, written by leading scholars in Britain and North America, address the ways in which Shakespearean tragedy originated, developed and diversified, as well as how it has fared on stage, as text and in ... Read more

    $28.69 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

    $42.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Last Trojan Hero

    A Cultural History of Virgil's Aeneid

    by Philip Hardie ...
    “I sing of arms and of a man: his fate had made him fugitive: he was the first to journey from the coasts of Troy as far as Italy and the Lavinian shores.” The resonant opening lines of Virgil's Aeneid rank among the most famous and consistently recited verses to have been passed down to later ages by antiquity. And after the Odyssey and the Iliad, Virgil's masterpiece is arguably the greatest ... Read more

    $28.99 USD