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    Exploring the idea of luxury in relation to a series of neighboring but distinct concepts including avarice, excess, licentiousness, indulgence, vitality, abundance, and waste, this study combines intellectual and cultural historical methods to trace discontinuities in luxury’s conceptual development in seventeenth-century England. The central argument is that, as ’luxury’ was gradually Englished ... Leer más

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  • Ben Jonson and the Politics of Genre

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  • An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting (Old Edition)

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    Series series Oxford World's Classics
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  • The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare

    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
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    This is the first major collection of essays to look at the literature of the entire Tudor period, from the reign of Henry VII to death of Elizabeth I. It pays particularly attention to the years before 1580. Those decades saw, amongst other things, the establishment of print culture and growth of a reading public; the various phases of the English Reformation and process of political ... Leer más

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