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  • Holinshed's Nation

    Ideals, Memory, and Practical Policy in the Chronicles

    by Igor Djordjevic ...
    Raphael Holinshed's account of English history from 1377-1485 in the Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland is most well-known as the source of Shakespeare's English history plays. Although the Chronicles are widely read and studied, published scholarly opinion, with a few exceptions, has been limited to the discipline of history. This book explores the historiographic materials of the ... Read more

    $84.99 CAD

  • King John (Mis)Remembered

    by Igor Djordjevic ...
    King John’s evil reputation has outlasted and proved more enduring than that of Richard III, whose notoriety seemed ensured thanks to Shakespeare’s portrayal of him. The paradox is even greater when we realize that this portrait of John endures despite Shakespeare’s portrait of him in the play King John, where he hardly comes off as a villain at all. Here Igor Djordjevic argues that the story of ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Remembering, Replaying, and Rereading Henry VIII

    The Courtier’s Henry

    by Igor Djordjevic ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
    This book begins by asking about the memorial issues involved in the replaying of an old history play, Shakespeare and Fletcher’s Henry VIII, at the Globe on 29 July 1628, but it is not primarily concerned with the memory of a single individual, George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham who paid for the production, nor even of a single day, when he seemed to try to evoke the memories of a small ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

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  • The Castle of Otranto

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    by Horace Walpole ...
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    'Look, my lord! See heaven itself declares against your impious intentions!' The Castle of Otranto (1764) is the first supernatural English novel and one of the most influential works of Gothic fiction. It inaugurated a literary genre that will be forever associated with the effects that Walpole pioneered. Professing to be a translation of a mysterious Italian tale from the darkest Middle Ages, ... Read more

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  • Ben Jonson

    A Life

    by Ian Donaldson ...
    Ben Jonson was the greatest of Shakespeare's contemporaries. In the century following his death he was seen by many as the finest of all English writers, living or dead. His fame rested not only on the numerous plays he had written for the theatre, but on his achievements over three decades as principal masque-writer to the early Stuart court, where he had worked in creative, and often stormy, ... Read more

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  • Shakespeare, Sex, and Love

    by Stanley Wells ...
    How does Shakespeare's treatment of human sexuality relate to the sexual conventions and language of his times? Pre-eminent Shakespearean critic Stanley Wells draws on historical and anecdotal sources to present an illuminating account of sexual behaviour in Shakespeare's time, particularly in Stratford-upon-Avon and London. He demonstrates what we know or can deduce of the sex lives of ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Andrew Marvell

    Edited by Derek Hirst, Steven N. Zwicker ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Andrew Marvell is one of the greatest English lyric poets of the seventeenth century and one of its leading polemicists. This Companion brings a set of fresh questions and perspectives to bear on the varied career and diverse writings of a remarkable writer and elusive man. Drawing on important new editions of Marvell's poetry and of his prose, scholars of both history and literature examine ... Read more

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  • Shakespeare and the Middle Ages

    Edited by Curtis Perry, John Watkins ...
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  • Foxe's Book of Martyrs

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    by John Foxe ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man: we shall this day light such a candle by God's grace in England, as, I trust, shall never be put out.' Hugh Latimer's famous words of consolation to Nicholas Ridley as they are both about to be burnt alive for heresy come from John Foxe's magisterial Acts and Monuments, popularly known as the Book of Martyrs. This vast collection of ... Read more

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  • Hamlet: A Critical Reader

    Edited by Ann Thompson, Professor Neil Taylor ...
    Series series Arden Early Modern Drama Guides
    Hamlet remains the most-studied of all Shakespeare's great tragedies. This collection of newly-commissioned essays gives readers an overview of past critical views of the play as well as new writing about the play from today's leading scholars. The range of perspectives offered makes the book an invaluable companion to anyone studying the play at an advanced level. The final chapter on learning ... Read more

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  • This Distracted Globe

    Worldmaking in Early Modern Literature

    by Karen Newman, Jonathan Goldberg ...
    Worldmaking takes many forms in early modern literature and thus challenges any single interpretive approach. The essays in this collection investigate the material stuff of the world in Spenser, Cary, and Marlowe; the sociable bonds of authorship, sexuality, and sovereignty in Shakespeare and others; and the universal status of spirit, gender, and empire in the worlds of Vaughan, Donne, and the ... Read more

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