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  • The Merry Wives of Windsor

    New Critical Essays

    Edited by Evelyn Gajowski, Phyllis Rackin ...
    Series series Shakespeare Criticism
    The Merry Wives of Windsor has recently experienced a resurgence of critical interest. At times considered one of Shakespeare’s weaker plays, it is often dismissed or marginalized; however, developments in feminist, ecocritical and new historicist criticism have opened up new perspectives and this collection of 18 essays by top Shakespeare scholars sheds fresh light on the play. The detailed ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Shakespeare without Boundaries

    Essays in Honor of Dieter Mehl

    by Christa Jansohn, Stanley Wells, Ann Jennalie Cook, Paul Edmondson, Phyllis Rackin, Grace Ioppolo, R. A. Foakes, Brian Gibbons0, Alan Brissenden1, Peter Holland2, Ann Thompson3, John O. Thompson4, Bruce R. Smith5, Alexander Shurbanov6, Catherine Belsey7, Martin Orkin8, Piero Boitani9, David Bevington0, Hugh Macrae Richmond1, Chee-Seng Lim2, Werner Habicht3, Marta Gibinska4, Jesús Tronch5, Catherine M.S. Alexander6, Adrian Poole7, Georgianna Ziegler8, Velma Bourgeois Richmond9 ...
    Shakespeare without Boundaries: Essays in Honor of Dieter Mehl offers a wide-ranging collection of essays written by an international team of distinguished scholars who attempt to define, to challenge, and to erode boundaries that currently inhibit understanding of Shakespeare, and to exemplify how approaches that defy traditional bounds of study and criticism may enhance understanding and ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Engendering a Nation

    A Feminist Account of Shakespeare's English Histories

    by Jean E. Howard, Phyllis Rackin ...
    Series series Feminist Readings of Shakespeare
    Engendering a Nation adopts a sophisticated feminist analysis to examine the place of gender in contesting representations of nationhood in early modern England. Plays featured include:* King John* Henry VI, Part I* Henry VI, Part II* Henry, Part III* Richard III* Richard II* Henry V.It will be a must for students and scholars interested in the cultural and soci... ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • 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

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  • Drop the Ball

    Achieving More by Doing Less

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    Tiffany Dufu's Drop the Ball is a bold and inspiring memoir and manifesto from a renowned voice in the women's leadership movement that shows women how to cultivate the single skill they really need in order to thrive: the ability to let go.Once the poster girl for doing it all, after she had her first child, Tiffany Dufu struggled to accomplish everything she thought she needed to in order to ... Read more

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  • Shakespeare's Insults

    Educating Your Wit

    by Wayne F. Hill, Cynthia J. Ottchen ...
    The sharpest stings ever to snap from the tip of an English-speaking tongue are here at hand, ready to be directed at the knaves, villains, and coxcombs of the reader's choice. Culled from 38 plays, here are the best 5,000 examples of Shakespeare's glorious invective, arranged by play, in order of appearance, with helpful act and line numbers for easy reference, along with an index of topical ... Read more

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  • The Book of the City of Ladies

    by Christine Pizan, Rosalind Brown-Grant ...
    Translated by Rosalind Brown-Grant ...
    Christine de Pizan (c.1364-1430) was France's first professional woman of letters. Her pioneering Book of the City of Ladies begins when, feeling frustrated and miserable after reading a male writer's tirade against women, Christine has a dreamlike vision where three virtues - Reason, Rectitude and Justice - appear to correct this view. They instruct her to build an allegorical city in which ... Read more

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  • Disowning Knowledge

    In Seven Plays of Shakespeare

    by Stanley Cavell ...
    Reissued with a new essay on Macbeth this famous collection of essays on Shakespeare's tragedies considers these plays as responses to the crisis of knowledge and the emergence of modern skepticism provoked by the new science of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. ... Read more

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  • Free Women, Free Men

    Sex, Gender, Feminism

    by Camille Paglia ...
    From the fiery intellectual provocateur— and one of our most fearless advocates of gender equality—a brilliant, urgent essay collection that both celebrates modern feminism and challenges us to build an alliance of strong women and strong men.Ever since the release of her seminal first book, Sexual Personae, Camille Paglia has remained one of feminism’s most outspoken, independent, and searingly ... Read more

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  • Feminism and Pop Culture

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    by Andi Zeisler ...
    Series series Seal Studies
    Whether or not we like to admit it, pop culture is a lens through which we alternately view and shape the world around us. When it comes to feminism, pop culture aids us in translating feminist philosophies, issues, and concepts into everyday language, making them relevant and relatable. In Feminism and Pop Culture, author and cofounder of Bitch magazine Andi Zeisler traces the impact of feminism ... Read more

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  • The Book of the City of Ladies (Revised Edition)

    by Christine de Pizan ...
    Translated by Earl Jeffrey Richards ...
    "Astonishing, original....an early chapter in women's revisionary history [that] offers true eloquence resurrected from the silence of the past."—The New York Times Book ReviewIn dialogues with three celestial ladies, Reason, Rectitude, and Justice, Christine de Pizan (1365-ca. 1429) builds an allegorical fortified city for women using examples of the important contributions women have made to ... Read more

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