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Crosscurrents eBook Series

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  • Writing and Fantasy

    Series series Crosscurrents
    Writing and Fantasy brings together essays which restore a sense of the fantastic as a political response to cultural opportunities and pressures. It moves on from two conventional fields of discussion: the psychoanalytic, where phantasies are produced by the emergence of the consciousness, and the social, where fantasies are the production of nineteenth-century individualism. Chapters run from ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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  • The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare

    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Written by a team of leading international scholars, this Companion is designed to illuminate Shakespeare's works through discussion of the key topics of Shakespeare studies. Twenty-one essays provide lively and authoritative approaches to recent scholarship and criticism for readers keen to expand their knowledge and appreciation of Shakespeare. The book contains stimulating chapters on ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Richard II

    New Critical Essays

    Edited by Jeremy Lopez ...
    Series series Shakespeare Criticism
    Arguably the first play in a Shakespearean tetralogy, Richard II is a unique and compelling political drama whose themes still resonate today. It is one of the few Shakespeare plays written entirely in verse and its format presents unique theatrical challenges. Politically engaged and controversial, it raises crucial debates about the relationship between early modern art, audience response and ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • 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

  • Medieval Shakespeare

    Pasts and Presents

    For many, Shakespeare represents the advent of modernity. It is easy to forget that he was in fact a writer deeply embedded in the Middle Ages, who inherited many of his shaping ideas and assumptions from the medieval past. This collection brings together essays by internationally renowned scholars of medieval and early modern literature, the history of the book and theatre history to present new ... Read more

    $38.59 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 Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1500–1600

    Edited by Arthur F. Kinney ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This is the first comprehensive account of English Renaissance literature in the context of the culture which shaped it: the courts of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, the tumult of Catholic and Protestant alliances during the Reformation, the age of printing and of New World discovery. In this century courtly literature under Henry VIII moves toward a new, more personal poetry of sentiment, narrative ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Romance

    by Barbara Fuchs ...
    Series series The New Critical Idiom
    Often derided as an inferior form of literature, 'romance' as a literary mode or genre defies satisfactory definition, dividing critics, scholars and readers alike. This useful guidebook traces the myriad transformations of 'romance' from medieval courtly love to Mills and Boon, and claims that its elusive and complex nature serves as a touchstone for larger questions of literary and cultural ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Timely Voices

    Romance Writing in English Literature

    Edited by Goran Stanivukovic ...
    From the fourteenth-century Sir Gawain and the Green Knight to In Parenthesis - an epic poem written in 1937 by painter and poet David Jones - English writers have looked to romance as a resource and a strategy to expand the imaginary reach of their writing.Rethinking the resilience, purpose, and place of romance in English literature, Timely Voices discusses moments that have altered how we read ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Plotting Early Modern London

    New Essays on Jacobean City Comedy

    by Dieter Mehl ...
    Series series Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
    With the publication of Brian Gibbons's Jacobean City Comedy thirty-five years ago, the urban satires by Ben Jonson, John Marston and Thomas Middleton attained their 'official status as a Renaissance subgenre' that was distinct, by its farcical humour and ironic tone, from 'citizen comedy' or 'London drama' more generally. This retrospective genre-building has proved immensely fruitful in the ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Constructing the Canon of Early Modern Drama

    by Jeremy Lopez ...
    For one hundred years the drama of Shakespeare's contemporaries has been consistently represented in anthologies, edited texts, and the critical tradition by a familiar group of about two dozen plays running from Kyd's Spanish Tragedy to Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore by way of Dekker, Jonson, Middleton and Webster. How was this canon created, and what ideological and institutional functions does ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The Anatomy of Tudor Literature

    Proceedings of the First International Conference of the Tudor Symposium (1998)

    by Mike Pincombe ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2001. Is there such a thing as "Tudor literature"? The question is the theme that binds the essays in this collection. Scholars from around the world address the question of whether there is a sense of continuity in the literature of the Tudor century. The volume begins by looking at early Tudor writers, such as Thomas More, and then moves on to look at ... Read more

    $33.99 USD