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  • The Unrepentant Renaissance

    From Petrarch to Shakespeare to Milton

    by Richard Strier ...
    Who during the Renaissance could have dissented from the values of reason and restraint, patience and humility, rejection of the worldly and the physical? These widely articulated values were part of the inherited Christian tradition and were reinforced by key elements in the Renaissance, especially the revival of Stoicism and Platonism. This book is devoted to those who did dissent from them. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shakespearean Issues

    Agency, Skepticism, and Other Puzzles

    by Richard Strier ...
    A collection of thought-provoking essays that treat the political, social, and philosophical themes of Shakespeare’s playsIn Shakespearean Issues, Richard Strier has written a set of linked essays bound by a learned view of how to think about Shakespeare’s plays and also how to write literary criticism on them. The essays vary in their foci—from dealing with passages and key lines to dealing with ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Shakespearean Issues

    Agency, Skepticism, and Other Puzzles

    by Richard Strier ...
    A collection of thought-provoking essays that treat the political, social, and philosophical themes of Shakespeare’s playsIn Shakespearean Issues, Richard Strier has written a set of linked essays bound by a learned view of how to think about Shakespeare’s plays and also how to write literary criticism on them. The essays vary in their foci—from dealing with passages and key lines to dealing with ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Shakespeare and the Law

    A Conversation Among Disciplines and Professions

    Edited by Bradin Cormack, Martha C. Nussbaum, Richard Strier ...
    William Shakespeare is inextricably linked with the law. Legal documents make up most of the records we have of his life, and trials, lawsuits, and legal terms permeate his plays. Gathering an extraordinary team of literary and legal scholars, philosophers, and even sitting judges, Shakespeare and the Law demonstrates that Shakespeare's thinking about legal concepts and legal practice points to a ... Read more

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  • Tree of Origin

    What Primate Behavior Can Tell Us about Human Social Evolution

    by Richard Byrne, Robin Dunbar, W. C. McGrew, Anne Pusey, Charles Snowdon, Craig Stanford, Karen B. Strier, Richard W. Wrangham ...
    How did we become the linguistic, cultured, and hugely successful apes that we are? Our closest relatives--the other mentally complex and socially skilled primates--offer tantalizing clues. In Tree of Origin nine of the world's top primate experts read these clues and compose the most extensive picture to date of what the behavior of monkeys and apes can tell us about our own evolution as a ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Milton

    Edited by Dennis Danielson ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    An accessible, helpful guide for any student of Milton, whether undergraduate or graduate, introducing readers to the scope of Milton's work, the richness of its historical relations, and the range of current approaches to it. This second edition contains several new and revised essays, reflecting increasing emphasis on Milton's politics, the social conditions of his authorship and the climate in ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy

    Edited by Claire McEachern ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This revised and updated Companion acquaints the student reader with the forms, contexts, critical and theatrical lives of the ten plays considered to be Shakespeare's tragedies. Thirteen essays, written by leading scholars in Britain and North America, address the ways in which Shakespearean tragedy originated, developed and diversified, as well as how it has fared on stage, as text and in ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Shakespeare's Originality

    by John Kerrigan ...
    Series series Oxford Wells Shakespeare Lectures
    How original was Shakespeare and how was Shakespeare original? This lucid, innovative book sets about answering these questions by putting them in historical context and investigating how the dramatist worked with his sources: plays, poems, chronicles and prose romances. Shakespeare's Originality unlocks its topic with rewarding precision and flair, showing through a series of case studies that ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Shakespeare’s Tragic Art

    by Rhodri Lewis ...
    A new account of Shakespearean tragedy as a response to life in an uncertain worldIn Shakespeare’s Tragic Art, Rhodri Lewis offers a powerfully original reassessment of tragedy as Shakespeare wrote it—of what drew him toward tragic drama, what makes his tragedies distinctive, and why they matter.After reconstructing tragic theory and practice as Shakespeare and his contemporaries knew them, Lewis ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of English Prose 1500-1640

    Edited by Andrew Hadfield ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of English Prose 1500-1640 is the only current overview of early modern English prose writing. The aim of the volume is to make prose more visible as a subject and as a mode of writing. It covers a vast range of material vital for the understanding of the period: from jestbooks, newsbooks, and popular romance to the translation of the classics and the pioneering collections of ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Early Modern Prose Fiction

    The Cultural Politics of Reading

    Edited by Naomi Conn Liebler ...
    Emphasizing the significance of early modern prose fiction as a hybrid genre that absorbed cultural, ideological and historical strands of the age, this fascinating study brings together an outstanding cast of critics including: Sheila T. Cavanaugh, Stephen Guy-Bray, Mary Ellen Lamb, Joan Pong Linton, Steve Mentz, Constance C. Relihan, Goran V. Stanivukovic with an afterword from Arthur Kinney ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Shakespeare's Sonnets

    Critical Essays

    Edited by James Schiffer ...
    Series series Shakespeare Criticism
    Shakespeare's Sonnets: Critical Essays is the essential Sonnets anthology for our time. This important collection focuses exclusively on contemporary criticism of the Sonnets, reprinting three highly influential essays from the past decade and including sixteen original analyses by leading scholars in the field. The contributors' diverse approaches range from the new historicism to the new ... Read more

    $69.99 USD