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  • Misanthropoetics

    Social Flight and Literary Form in Early Modern England

    by Robert Darcy ...
    Series series Early Modern Cultural Studies
    Misanthropoetics explores efforts by Renaissance writers to represent social flight and withdrawal as a fictional escape from the incongruous demands of culture. Through the invented term of its title, this book investigates the literary misanthrope in a number of key examples from Shakespeare, Jonson, Spenser, and the satirical milieu of Marston to exemplify the seemingly unresolvable paradoxes ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Renaissance Shakespeare/Shakespeare Renaissances

    Proceedings of the Ninth World Shakespeare Congress

    by Stanley Wells, Joel Rodgers, Randall Martin, Robert Darcy, Atsuhiko Hirota, Darryl Chalk, Supriya Chaudhuri, Kimberly R. West, Sukanta Chaudhuri, Margaret Shewring, Richard Fotheringham, Ros King, James J. Marino, Brian Walsh, Eleanor Collins, M. A. Katritzky, Martin Hilský, Ann Jennalie Cook, Vlasta Gallerová, Karel Kríž, Robert Sturua, Jean-Christophe Mayer, Galz Engler, Madalina Nicolaescu, Kaori Kobayashi, Patrick Lonergan, Zeno Ackermann, Tina Krontiris, Emily Oliver, Shaul Bassi, Barry Freeman, Carla della Gatta, Cristiane Busato Smith, Sharon O'Dair, Emma Depledge, Anna Cetera, Courtney Lehmann, Poonam Trivedi, Bi-Qi Beatrice Lei, Graham Holderness, Jill L. Levenson, Hersh Zeifman ...
    Selected contributions to the Ninth World Shakespeare Congress, which took place in July 2011 in Prague, represent the contemporary state of Shakespeare studies in thirty-eight countries worldwide. Apart from readings of Shakespeare’s plays and poems, more than forty chapters map Renaissance contexts of his art in politics, theater, law, or material culture and discuss numerous cases of the impact ... Read more

    $48.29 USD

  • A Reflection of Me

    by Darcy Roberts ...
    A Reflection of MeBy: Darcy RobertsI was like a lost puppyThat couldn’t find my way home.I rose from my ashes and smiledEven laughed.You kept me down butI got up again.A Reflection of Me is a powerful expression of love, anger, sadness, loss, and hope. Enjoy these poignant words by Darcy Roberts. Perhaps you also will find a reflection of her in yourself.About the AuthorDarcy Roberts lives in ... Read more

    $5.00 USD

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  • Learning to Curse

    Essays in Early Modern Culture

    by Stephen Greenblatt ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    Stephen Greenblatt argued in these celebrated essays that the art of the Renaissance could only be understood in the context of the society from which it sprang. His approach - 'New Historicism' - drew from history, anthropology, Marxist theory, post-structuralism, and psychoanalysis and in the process, blew apart the academic boundaries insul ... Read more

    $26.99 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

  • The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare's Poetry

    Edited by Jonathan Post ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare's Poetry contains thirty-eight original essays written by leading Shakespeareans around the world. Collectively, these essays seek to return readers to a revivified understanding of Shakespeare's verbal artistry in both the poems and the drama. The volume understands poetry to be not just a formal category designating a particular literary genre but to be ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Echoes of Desire

    English Petrarchism and Its Counterdiscourses

    by Heather Dubrow ...
    Echoes of Desire variously invokes and interrogates a number of historicist and feminist premises about Tudor and Stuart literature by examining the connections between the anti-Petrarchan tradition and mainstream Petrarchan poetry. It also addresses some of the broader implications of contemporary critical methodologies. Heather Dubrow offers an alternative to the two predominant models used in ... Read more

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  • The Expense of Spirit

    Love and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama

    by Mary Beth Rose ...
    A public and highly popular literary form, English Renaissance drama affords a uniquely valuable index of the process of cultural transformation. The Expense of Spirit integrates feminist and historicist critical approaches to explore the dynamics of cultural conflict and change during a crucial period in the formation of modern sexual values. Comparing Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatic ... Read more

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  • Reading Shakespeare Historically

    by Lisa Jardine ...
    Reading Shakespeare Historically is a passionate, provocative book by one of the most renowned and popular Renaissance scholars writing today. Charting ten years of critical development, these challenging, witty essays shed new light on Renaissance studies. It also raises intriguing questions about how the culture and history of the past illuminates the key social and political issues of today. ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • A Midsummer Night's Dream

    Critical Essays

    Edited by Dorothea Kehler ...
    Series series Shakespeare Criticism
    This volume traces the modern critical and performance history of this play, one of Shakespeare's most-loved and most-performed comedies. The essay focus on such modern concerns as feminism, deconstruction, textual theory, and queer theory. ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Shakespearean Genealogies of Power

    A Whispering of Nothing in Hamlet, Richard II, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, and The Winter’s Tale

    by Anselm Haverkamp ...
    Series series Discourses of Law
    Shakespearean Genealogies of Power proposes a new view on Shakespeare’s involvement with the legal sphere: as a visible space between the spheres of politics and law and well able to negotiate legal and political, even constitutional concerns, Shakespeare’s theatre opened up a new perspective on normativity. His plays reflect, even create, "history" in a new sense on the premises of the older ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Reformation of Emotions in the Age of Shakespeare

    by Steven Mullaney ...
    The crises of faith that fractured Reformation Europe also caused crises of individual and collective identity. Structures of feeling as well as structures of belief were transformed; there was a reformation of social emotions as well as a Reformation of faith.As Steven Mullaney shows in The Reformation of Emotions in the Age of Shakespeare, Elizabethan popular drama played a significant role in ... Read more

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