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  • 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

    $55.19 CAD

  • Problem Fathers in Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama

    by Tom MacFaul ...
    Fathers are central to the drama of Shakespeare's time: they are revered, even sacred, yet they are also flawed human beings who feature as obstacles in plays of all genres. In Problem Fathers in Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama, Tom MacFaul examines how fathers are paradoxical and almost anomalous characters on the English Renaissance stage. Starting as figures of confident authority in early ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • Shakespeare and the Natural World

    by Tom MacFaul ...
    Exploring the rich range of meanings that Shakespeare finds in the natural world, this book fuses ecocritical approaches to Renaissance literature with recent thinking about the significance of religion in Shakespeare's plays. MacFaul offers a clear introduction to some of the key problems in Renaissance natural philosophy and their relationship to Reformation theology, with individual chapters ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • Tottel's Miscellany

    Songs and Sonnets of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Sir Thomas Wyatt and Others

    by Amanda Holton ...
    Songs and Sonnets (1557), the first printed anthology of English poetry, was immensely influential in Tudor England, and inspired major Elizabethan writers including Shakespeare. Collected by pioneering publisher Richard Tottel, it brought poems of the aristocracy - verses of friendship, war, politics, death and above all of love - into wide common readership for the first time. The major poets of ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Best Navigation, Active TOC) (Pheonix Classics)

    by William Shakespeare ...
    This ebook collects the complete writings of William Shakespeare. It comes with 150 original illustrations which are the engravings John Boydell commissioned for his Boydell Shakespeare Gallery. ------------ Contents: COMEDIES: The Comedy of Errors The Taming of the Shrew The Two Gentlemen of Verona Love's Labor's Lost A Midsummer Night's Dream The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • William Shakespeare: The Complete Works

    by William Shakespeare ...
    The second Oxford edition of Shakespeare's Complete Works reconsiders every detail of their text and presentation in the light of modern scholarship. The nature and authority of the early documents are re-examined, and the canon and chronological order of composition freshly established. Spelling and punctuation are modernized, and there is a brief introduction to each work, as well as an ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD

  • Macbeth (Mobi Classics)

    by William Shakespeare ...
    Macbeth is among the best-known of William Shakespeare's plays, and is his shortest tragedy, believed to have been written between 1603 and 1606. It is frequently performed at both amateur and professional levels, and has been adapted for opera, film, books, stage and screen. Often regarded as archetypal, the play tells of the dangers of the lust for power and the betrayal of friends. For the plot ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Romeo and Juliet

    by William Shakespeare, Adrian Poole ...
    'Shakespeare invented the human as we continue to know it' Harold BloomSet in a city torn apart by feuds and gang warfare, Shakespeare's immortal drama tells the story of star-crossed lovers, rival dynasties and bloody revenge. Romeo and Juliet is a hymn to youth and the thrill of forbidden love, charged with sexual passion and violence, but also a warning of death: a dazzling combination of bawdy ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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  • The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Illustrated, Inline Footnotes)

    Oakshot Press

    by William Shakespeare, Oakshot Press ...
    Series series Oakshot Press Classics
    Each play Illustrated with Illustrations unique to this release, over 350 Illustrations in total.Biography and literary critique includes annotated inline footnotes.The Plays.The Comedies of William Shakespeare.All's Well That Ends Well. (Illustrated)As You Like It. (Illustrated)Comedy of Errors. (Illustrated)Cymbeline. (Illustrated)Love's Labour's Lost. (Illustrated)Mea... ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus

    by Christopher Marlowe, M. G. Scarsbrook ...
    Declared by Swinburne as having 'no parallel in all the range of tragedy', Doctor Faustus is considered Christopher Marlowe's greatest work. This edition of his play gathers together both published versions of The Tragical History Of Doctor Faustus, from the Quarto of 1604, and the Quarto of 1616, each with modernized spelling and full textual notes. Optimized for navigation as an eBook, with a ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD

  • Troilus And Cressida (Mobi Classics)

    by Geoffrey Chaucer ...
    Troilus and Criseyde (circa 1380-87) is Geoffrey Chaucer's poem in rhyme royal (rime royale) re-telling the tragic love story of Troilus, a Trojan prince, and Criseyde. Scholarly consensus is that Chaucer completed Troilus and Criseyde by the mid 1380's. Many Chaucer scholars regard this as his best work, even including the better known but incomplete Canterbury Tales.Troilus and Criseyde is an ... Read more

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