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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “dr kirk melnikoff”
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  • Edward II: A Critical Reader

    by Dr Kirk Melnikoff ...
    Series series Arden Early Modern Drama Guides
    Edward II: A Critical Reader gives students, teachers and scholars alike an overview of the play's reception both in the theatre and among artists and critics, from the end of the 16th century to the beginning of the 21st. The volume also offers a series of new perspectives on the play by leading experts in the field of early modern history and culture. Bolstered with a timeline tracking Marlowe's ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare

    Edited by Margreta de Grazia, Stanley Wells ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This book offers a comprehensive, readable and authoritative introduction to the study of Shakespeare, by means of nineteen newly commissioned essays. An international team of prominent scholars provide a broadly cultural approach to the chief literary, performative and historical aspects of Shakespeare's work. They bring the latest scholarship to bear on traditional subjects of Shakespeare study, ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Shakespeare's Festive Comedy

    A Study of Dramatic Form and Its Relation to Social Custom

    by C. L. Barber ...
    "A book ahead of its time. . . . revolutionized the ways that Shakespeareans thought of comedy in relation to its social setting—especially festive comedy." —James Shapiro, Columbia UniversityIn this classic work, acclaimed Shakespeare critic C. L. Barber argues that Elizabethan seasonal festivals such as May Day and Twelfth Night are the key to understanding Shakespeare's comedies. Brilliantly ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Crispin Ier

    La Vie et l'œuvre de Raymond Poisson comédien-poète du XVIIe siècle

    Edited by A. Ross Curtis ...
    Series series University of Toronto Romance Series
    Raymond Poisson, a contemporary of Molière, was the leading comic actor with the troupe of the Hôtel de Bourgogne and later at the Comédie Française during the first five years of its existence. He popularized one of the French stage's best-loved stock characters, the impudent servant Crispin, while finding time to supply his troupe with short comedies in which he himself starred. This study is ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Medicine Matters in Five Comedies of Shakespeare

    From the Renaissance Context to a Reading of the Plays

    by Luisa Camaiora, Andrea A. Conti ...
    Series Book 16 - Natur, Wissenschaft und die Kuenste / Nature, Science and the Arts / Nature, Science et les Arts
    The book examines the presence of medicine matters in Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors, Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Taming of the Shrew, and The Merry Wives of Windsor, and documents how the theme of medicine can acquire particular importance for the interpretation of the plays: namely, it matters. Andrea A. Conti provides information on certain aspects of the medical ... Read more

    $110.99 CAD

  • The Elizabethan Country House Entertainment

    Print, Performance and Gender

    by Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich ...
    This is the first full-length critical study of country house entertainment, a genre central to late Elizabethan politics. It shows how the short plays staged for the Queen at country estates like Kenilworth Castle and Elvetham shaped literary trends and intervened in political debates, including whether women made good politicians and what roles the church and local culture should play in ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • English Revenge Drama

    Money, Resistance, Equality

    by Linda Woodbridge ...
    Vengeance permeates English Renaissance drama - for example, it crops up in all but two of Shakespeare's plays. This book explores why a supposedly forgiving Christian culture should have relished such bloodthirsty, vengeful plays. A clue lies in the plays' passion for fairness, a preoccupation suggesting widespread resentment of systemic unfairness - legal, economic, political and social. ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Shakespeare and Abraham

    by Ken Jackson ...
    In Shakespeare and Abraham, Ken Jackson illuminates William Shakespeare’s dramatic fascination with the story of Abraham’s near sacrifice of his son Isaac in Genesis 22. Themes of child killing fill Shakespeare’s early plays: Genesis 22 informed Clifford’s attack on young Rutland in 3 Henry 6, Hubert’s providentially thwarted murder of Arthur in King John, and Aaron the Moor’s surprising decision ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shakespeare and Early Modern Political Thought

    Edited by David Armitage, Conal Condren, Andrew Fitzmaurice ...
    This is the first collaborative volume to place Shakespeare's works within the landscape of early modern political thought. Until recently, literary scholars have not generally treated Shakespeare as a participant in the political thought of his time, unlike his contemporaries Ben Jonson, Edmund Spenser and Philip Sidney. At the same time, historians of political thought have rarely turned their ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • Poetry and Paternity in Renaissance England

    Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne and Jonson

    by Tom MacFaul ...
    Becoming a father was the main way that an individual in the English Renaissance could be treated as a full member of the community. Yet patriarchal identity was by no means as secure as is often assumed: when poets invoke the idea of paternity in love poetry and other forms, they are therefore invoking all the anxieties that a culture with contradictory notions of sexuality imposed. This study ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • Tragedy and Trauma in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe

    by Mathew R. Martin ...
    Series series Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
    Contending that criticism of Marlowe’s plays has been limited by humanist conceptions of tragedy, this book engages with trauma theory, especially psychoanalytic trauma theory, to offer a fresh critical perspective within which to make sense of the tension in Marlowe’s plays between the tragic and the traumatic. The author argues that tragedies are trauma narratives, narratives of wounding; ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Shakespeare Survey: Volume 67, Shakespeare's Collaborative Work

    Edited by Peter Holland ...
    Series Book 67 - Shakespeare Survey
    Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and productions. Since 1948, the Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism. Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of that year's textual and critical studies and of the year's major ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD