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  • Shakespeare’s Queer Analytics

    Distant Reading and Collaborative Intimacy in 'Love’s Martyr'

    by Don Rodrigues, Professor Jonathan Hope, Michael Witmore, Lynne Magnusson ...
    Series series Arden Shakespeare Studies in Language and Digital Methodologies
    What led Shakespeare to write his most cryptic poem, 'The Phoenix and Turtle'? Could the Phoenix represent Queen Elizabeth, on the verge of death as Shakespeare wrote? Is the Earl of Essex, recently executed for treason, the Turtledove lover of the Phoenix? Questions such as these dominate scholarship of both Shakespeare's poem and the book in which it first appeared: Robert Chester's enigmatic ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Culture of Accidents

    Unexpected Knowledges in Early Modern England

    by Michael Witmore ...
    Collapsing buildings, unexpected meetings in the marketplace, monstrous births, encounters with pirates at sea—these and other unforeseen “accidents” at the turn of the seventeenth century in England acquired unprecedented significance in the early modern philosophical and cultural imagination. Drawing on intellectual history, cultural criticism, and rhetorical theory, this book chronicles the ... Read more

    $76.49 USD

  • Childhood and Children's Books in Early Modern Europe, 1550-1800

    by Andrea Immel, Michael Witmore ...
    Series series Children's Literature and Culture
    This volume of 14 original essays by historians and literary scholars explores childhood and children's books in Early Modern Europe, 1550-1800. The collection aims to reposition childhood as a compelling presence in early modern imagination--a ready emblem of innocence, mischief, and playfulness. The essays offer a wide-ranging basis for reconceptualizing the development of a separate literature ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Shakespearean Character

    Language in Performance

    by Jelena Marelj, Professor Jonathan Hope, Lynne Magnusson, Michael Witmore ...
    Series series Arden Shakespeare Studies in Language and Digital Methodologies
    Why do we continue to experience many of Shakespeare's dramatic characters as real people with personal histories, individual personalities, and psychological depth? What is it that makes Falstaff seem to jump off the page, and what gives Hamlet his complexity? Shakespearean Character: Language in Performance examines how the extraordinary lifelikeness of some of Shakespeare's most enigmatic and ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Shakespeare and Early Modern Religion

    Edited by David Loewenstein, Michael Witmore ...
    Written by an international team of literary scholars and historians, this collaborative volume illuminates the diversity of early modern religious beliefs and practices in Shakespeare's England, and considers how religious culture is imaginatively reanimated in Shakespeare's plays. Fourteen new essays explore the creative ways Shakespeare engaged with the multifaceted dimensions of Protestantism, ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

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  • Mary Wroth and Shakespeare

    Edited by Paul Salzman, Marion Wynne-Davies ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Shakespeare
    Over the last twenty five years, scholarship on Early Modern women writers has produced editions and criticisms, both on various groups and individual authors. The work on Mary Wroth has been particularly impressive at integrating her poetry, prose and drama into the canon. This in turn has led to comparative studies that link Wroth to a number of male and female writers, including of course, ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Tempest

    by William Shakespeare ...
    Series series The New Cambridge Shakespeare
    The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. For this second edition of The Tempest, David Lindley has thoroughly revised the ... Read more

    $11.89 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Shakespeare's Sonnets

    by William Shakespeare ...
    Series series Folger Shakespeare Library
    A bestselling, beautifully designed edition of William Shakespeare’s sonnets, complete with valuable tools for educators.The authoritative edition of Shakespeare’s Sonnets from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers, includes:-Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on the facing page of each sonnet-A brief introduction to ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare

    by Emma Smith ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    This lively and innovative introduction to Shakespeare promotes active engagement with the plays, rather than recycling factual information. Covering a range of texts, it is divided into seven subject-based chapters: Character; Performance; Texts; Language; Structure; Sources and History, and it does not assume any prior knowledge. Instead, it develops ways of thinking and provides the reader with ... Read more

    $23.79 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

  • The Winter's Tale

    by William Shakespeare ...
    Series series The New Cambridge Shakespeare
    The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems and an extensive introduction. The Winter's Tale is one of Shakespeare's most varied, theatrically self-conscious, and emotionally wide-ranging plays. Much of the play's copiousness inheres in ... Read more

    $11.89 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Shakespeare and the Arts of Language

    by Russ McDonald ...
    Series series Oxford Shakespeare Topics
    Oxford Shakespeare Topics provide students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship. Each book is written by an authority in its field, and combines accessible style with original discussion of its subject. Notes and a critical guide to further reading equip the interested reader with the means to broaden research. For the modern reader or ... Read more

    $28.99 USD