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  • Beyond Boundaries

    Rethinking Music Circulation in Early Modern England

    Edited by Linda Phyllis Austern, Candace Bailey, Amanda Eubanks Winkler ...
    Series series Music and the Early Modern Imagination
    English music studies often apply rigid classifications to musical materials, their uses, their consumers, and performers. The contributors to this volume argue that some performers and manuscripts from the early modern era defy conventional categorization as "amateur" or "professional," "native" or "foreign." These leading scholars explore the circulation of music and performers in early modern ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • O Let Us Howle Some Heavy Note

    Music for Witches, the Melancholic, and the Mad on the Seventeenth-Century English Stage

    by Amanda Eubanks Winkler ...
    A multidisciplinary study of the uses of music and the portrayal of characters with mental disorder in seventeenth-century English opera and theater.In the seventeenth century, harmonious sounds were thought to represent the well-ordered body of the obedient subject, and, by extension, the well-ordered state; conversely, discordant, unpleasant music represented both those who caused disorder ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Performing Restoration Shakespeare

    Performing Restoration Shakespeare embraces the performative and musical qualities of Restoration Shakespeare (1660–1714), drawing on the expertise of theatre historians, musicologists, literary critics, and - importantly - theatre and music practitioners. The volume advances methodological debates in theatre studies and musicology by advocating an alternative to performance practices aimed at ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Music, Dance, and Drama in Early Modern English Schools

    by Amanda Eubanks Winkler ...
    Music, Dance, and Drama in Early Modern English Schools is the first book to systematically analyze the role that the performing arts played in English schools after the Reformation. Although the material record is riddled with gaps, Amanda Eubanks Winkler sheds light on the subject through an innovative methodology that combines rigorous archival research with phenomenological and performance ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Literature and the Arts

    Interdisciplinary Essays in Memory of James Anderson Winn

    by Anna Battigelli, Steven N Zwicker, Amanda Eubanks Winkler, Paul Hammond, Andrew Walkling, David Hopkins, Paula R. Backscheider, Ellen T Harris, Peter Sabor, Melissa A Schoenberger0, Cedric D Reverand II1 ...
    The ten essays in Literature and the Arts explore the intermedial plenitude of eighteenth-century English culture, honoring the memory of James Anderson Winn, whose work demonstrated how seeing that interplay of the arts and literature was essential to a full understanding of Restoration and eighteenth-century English culture. Scenery, machinery, music, dance, and texts transformed one another, ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Queen Anne and the Arts

    by Barbara Benedict, Brian Corman, Julia Fawcett, Jayne Lewis, Estelle Murphy, Nicholas Seager, Philip Smallwood, Abigail Williams, Amanda Winkler, Kevin L. Cope, Juan Christian Pellicer0, James A. Winn1, Cedric D. Reverand II3 ...
    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850
    The cultural highlights of the reign of Queen Anne (1702-1714) have long been overlooked. However, recent scholarship, including the present volume, is demonstrating that Anne has been seriously underestimated, both as a person, and as a monarch, and that there was much cultural activity of note in what might be called an interim period, coming after the deaths of Dryden and Purcell but before the ... Read more

    $68.99 CAD

  • The Sea in the British Musical Imagination

    by Eric Saylor, Frances Wilkins, James Brooks Kuykendall, Jennifer Oates, Jenny Doctor, Justin Vickers, Louis Niebur, Christopher Scheer, Aidan Thomson0, Alyson McLamore1, Amanda Eubanks Winkler2, Byron Adams3, Charles Edward McGuire4 ...
    For centuries, the sea and those who sail upon it have inspired the imaginations of British musicians. Generations of British artists have viewed the ocean as a metaphor for the mutable human condition - by turns calm and reflective, tempestuous and destructive - and have been influenced as much by its physical presence as by its musical potential. But just as geographical perspectives and ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

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  • Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies

    How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature

    by Elizabeth Winkler ...
    An “extraordinarily brilliant” and “pleasurably naughty” (André Aciman) investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays became an act of blasphemy…and who the Bard might really be.The theory that Shakespeare may not have written the works that bear his name is the most horrible, unspeakable subject in the history of English ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Shakespeare's First Folio

    Four Centuries of an Iconic Book

    by Emma Smith ...
    This is a biography of a book: the first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays printed in 1623 and known as the First Folio. It begins with the story of its first purchaser in London in December 1623, and goes on to explore the ways people have interacted with this iconic book over the four hundred years of its history. Throughout the stress is on what we can learn from individual copies now ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Contemporary Dramatists

    Edited by Ton Hoenselaars ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    While Shakespeare's popularity has continued to grow, so has the attention paid to the work of his contemporaries. The contributors to this Companion introduce the distinctive drama of these playwrights, from the court comedies of John Lyly to the works of Richard Brome in the Caroline era. With chapters on a wide range of familiar and lesser-known dramatists, including Thomas Kyd, Christopher ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • Shakespeare, Music and Performance

    Edited by Bill Barclay, David Lindley ...
    Music has been an essential constituent of Shakespeare's plays from the sixteenth century to the present day, yet its significance has often been overlooked or underplayed in the history of Shakespearean performance. Providing a long chronological sweep, this collection of essays traces the different uses of music in the theatre and in film from the days of the first Globe and Blackfriars to ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD