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  • The Materials of Early Theatre: Sources, Images, and Performance

    Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies

    by Meg Twycross ...
    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    Collected Studies CS 1068The essays selected for this volume are chosen to reflect the important and intersecting ways in which over the last forty years Meg Twycross has shifted paradigms for people reading early English religious drama. The focus of Meg Twycross’s research has been on performance in its many aspects, and this volume chooses four of the most important strands of her work - the ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Masks and Masking in Medieval and Early Tudor England

    by Meg Twycross, Sarah Carpenter ...
    Series series Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
    Drawing on broad research, this study explores the different social and theatrical masking activities in England during the Middle Ages and the early 16th century. The authors present a coherent explanation of the many functions of masking, emphasizing the important links among festive practice, specialized ceremonial, and drama. They elucidate the intellectual, moral and social contexts for ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD

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  • The House of the Seven Gables

    by Nathaniel Hawthorne ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
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  • Catherine Greenbury and Mary Percy

    Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series 1, Part Four, Volume 2

    by Jos Blom ...
    Series Book 4 - The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works & Printed Writings, 1500-1640: Series I
    This volume includes two early seventeenth-century translations of Roman Catholic books by English recusant nuns - Catherine Greenbury (a Franciscan) and Mary Percy (a Benedictine). To practise their faith on the continent both these women fled Elizabethan England where Roman Catholic practice had been outlawed under pain of severe penalty (even death). Catherine Greenbury was born at York into a ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

  • Records of Girlhood

    Volume Two: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Women’s Childhoods

    by Valerie Sanders ...
    Series series The Nineteenth Century Series
    In this sequel to her 2000 anthology, Valerie Sanders again brings together an influential group of women whose autobiographical accounts of their childhoods show them making sense of the children they were and the women they have become. The fourteen women included juxtapose recollections of the bizarre with the quotidian and accounts of external events with the development of a complex inner ... Read more

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  • William Shakespeare: The Complete Works

    by William Shakespeare ...
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  • The Three Theban Plays

    Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus

    by Sophocles, Bernard Knox ...
    Translated by Robert Fagles ...
    The heroic Greek dramas that have moved theatergoers and readers since the fifth century B.C.Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, the three plays that tell the story of the fated Theban royal family—Antigone, Oedipus the King and *Oedipus at Colonus—*are among the most enduring and timeless dramas ever written. Robert Fagles's authoritative and acclaimed translation conveys all of Sophocles's ... Read more

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    American Exceptionalism and the Imperatives of the Spectacle in Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

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    by Euripides ...
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  • The Unfortunate Traveller and Other Works

    by Thomas Nashe ...
    Written in the late sixteenth century, at the pinnacle of the English Renaissance, the rich and ingenious works of Thomas Nashe uniquely reveal the ambivant nature of the Elizabethan era. Mingling the devout and the bawdy, scholarship and slang, they express throughout an irrepressible, inexhaustible wit and an astonishing command of language. This collection of Nashe's finest works includes The ... Read more

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  • Law, Sensibility and the Sublime in Eighteenth-Century Women's Fiction

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    by Sue Chaplin ...
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