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  • Diversity, Inclusion, and Representation in Contemporary Dramaturgy

    Case Studies from the Field

    Edited by Philippa Kelly ...
    Series series Focus on Dramaturgy
    Diversity, Inclusion, and Representation in Contemporary Dramaturgy offers fresh perspectives on how dramaturgs can support a production beyond rigid disciplinary expectations about what information and ideas are useful and how they should be shared.The sixteen contributors to this volume offer personal windows into dramaturgy practice, encouraging theater practitioners, students, and general ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Early Modern English Lives

    Autobiography and Self-Representation 1500–1660

    by Ronald Bedford, Lloyd Davis, Philippa Kelly ...
    How did early modern English people write about themselves, and how do we listen to their voices four centuries later? The authors of Early Modern English Lives: Autobiography and Self-Representation 1500-1660 argue that identity is depicted through complex, subtle, and often contradictory social interactions and literary forms. Diaries, letters, daily spiritual reckonings, household journals, ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The King and I

    by Dr Philippa Kelly ...
    Series series Shakespeare Now!
    A unique exploration of Shakespeare's King Lear, with its themes of banishment, alienation and hope*,* via a personal memoir that embraces the history of Australia. ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Word and Self Estranged in English Texts, 1550�1660

    by L.E. Semler ...
    The essays in Word and Self Estranged in English Texts, 1550-1660, consider diverse historical contexts for writing about 'strangeness'. They draw on current practices of reading to present contrasts and analogies within and between various social understandings. In so doing they reveal an interplay of thematic and stylistic modes that tells us a great deal about how, and why, certain aspects of ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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  • Self and Soul

    A Defense of Ideals

    by Mark Edmundson ...
    An ARTery Best Book of the YearAn Art of Manliness Best Book of the YearIn a culture that has become progressively more skeptical and materialistic, the desires of the individual self stand supreme, Mark Edmundson says. We spare little thought for the great ideals that once gave life meaning and worth. Self and Soul is an impassioned effort to defend the values of the Soul.“An impassioned critique ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

    How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

    by Stephen Greenblatt ...
    "So engrossing, clearheaded, and lucid that its arrival is not just welcome but cause for celebration." —Dan Cryer, NewsdayStephen Greenblatt, the charismatic Harvard professor who "knows more about Shakespeare than Ben Jonson or the Dark Lady did" (John Leonard, Harper's), has written a biography that enables us to see, hear, and feel how an acutely sensitive and talented boy, surrounded by the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Les Liaisons dangereuses

    by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos ...
    Translated by Douglas Parmée ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    The complex moral ambiguities of seduction and revenge make Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782) one of the most scandalous and controversial novels in European literature. The subject of major film and stage adaptations, the novel's prime movers, the Vicomte de Valmont and the Marquise de Merteuil, form an unholy alliance and turn seduction into a game - a game which they must win. This new ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • On Poets and Others

    Translated by Michael Schmidt ...
    by Octavio Paz ...
    The Nobel Prizewinning poet and man of letters Octavio Paz was also a brilliant reader of other writers, and this book selects his best critical essays from over three decades. In the sixteen pieces collected here, Paz discusses a wide range of poets and writers, both American and international, from Robert Frost and Walt Whitman to William Carlos Williams; from Fyodor Dostoevsky to Luis Buñuel to ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Age of Shakespeare

    by Frank Kermode ...
    Series Book 15 - Modern Library Chronicles
    In The Age of Shakespeare, Frank Kermode uses the history and culture of the Elizabethan era to enlighten us about William Shakespeare and his poetry and plays. Opening with the big picture of the religious and dynastic events that defined England in the age of the Tudors, Kermode takes the reader on a tour of Shakespeare’s England, vividly portraying London’s society, its early capitalism, its ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Persophilia

    Persian Culture on the Global Scene

    by Hamid Dabashi ...
    From the Biblical period and Classical Antiquity to the rise of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, aspects of Persian culture have been integral to European history. A diverse constellation of European artists, poets, and thinkers have looked to Persia for inspiration, finding there a rich cultural counterpoint and frame of reference. Interest in all things Persian was no passing fancy but an ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Shakespeare, Sex, and Love

    by Stanley Wells ...
    How does Shakespeare's treatment of human sexuality relate to the sexual conventions and language of his times? Pre-eminent Shakespearean critic Stanley Wells draws on historical and anecdotal sources to present an illuminating account of sexual behaviour in Shakespeare's time, particularly in Stratford-upon-Avon and London. He demonstrates what we know or can deduce of the sex lives of ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • The Posthumous Voice in Women's Writing from Mary Shelley to Sylvia Plath

    by Claire Raymond ...
    This provocative book posits a new theory of women's writing characterized by what Claire Raymond calls 'the posthumous voice.'This suggestive term evokes the way that women's writing both forefronts and hides the author's implied body within and behind the written work. Tracing the use of the disembodied posthumous voice in fiction and poetry by Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, Emily Dickinson, and ... Read more

    $64.99 USD