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  • Staging the Superstitions of Early Modern Europe

    de Andrew D. McCarthy ...
    Engaging with fiction and history-and reading both genres as texts permeated with early modern anxieties, desires, and apprehensions-this collection scrutinizes the historical intersection of early modern European superstitions and English stage literature. Contributors analyze the cultural mechanisms that shape, preserve, and transmit beliefs. They investigate where superstitions come from and ... Leer más

    $77.99 USD

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  • The Country Wife and Other Plays

    de William Wycherley ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Wycherley's four comedies are admired for their satirical wit, farcical humour, vivid characterization, and social criticism.Love in a Wood, a lively comedy of intrigue, established him as a brilliant new dramatist.The Gentleman Dancing-Master, in contrast, disappointed contemporary audiences, but the central relationship between Hippolyta and Gerrard features an original and sympathetic study of ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • The Lusiads

    de Luis Vaz de Camoes, Landeg White ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    First published in 1572, The Lusiads is one of the greatest epic poems of the Renaissance, immortalizing Portugal's voyages of discovery with an unrivalled freshness of observation. At the centre of The Lusiads is Vasco da Gama's pioneer voyage via southern Africa to India in 1497-98. The first European artist to cross the equator, Camoes's narrative reflects the novelty and fascination of that ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Actors and Acting in Shakespeare's Time

    The Art of Stage Playing

    de John H. Astington ...
    John Astington brings the acting style of the Shakespearean period to life, describing and analysing the art of the player in the English professional theatre between Richard Tarlton and Thomas Betterton. The book pays close attention to the cultural context of stage playing, the critical language used about it, and the kinds of training and professional practice employed in the theatre at various ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of English Prose 1500-1640

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

  • Volition's Face

    Personification and the Will in Renaissance Literature

    de Andrew Escobedo ...
    Series series ReFormations: Medieval and Early Modern
    Modern readers and writers find it natural to contrast the agency of realistic fictional characters to the constrained range of action typical of literary personifications. Yet no commentator before the eighteenth century suggests that prosopopoeia signals a form of reduced agency. Andrew Escobedo argues that premodern writers, including Spenser, Marlowe, and Milton, understood personification as ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • York Notes Companions: The Long 18th Century

    de Penny Pritchard ...

    $10.99 USD

  • Staging Blackness and Performing Whiteness in Eighteenth-Century German Drama

    de Wendy Sutherland ...
    Focusing on eighteenth-century cultural productions, Wendy Sutherland examines how representations of race in philosophy, anthropology, aesthetics, drama, and court painting influenced the construction of a white bourgeois German self. Sutherland positions her work within the framework of the transatlantic slave trade, showing that slavery, colonialism, and the triangular trade between Europe, ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Unperfect Histories

    The Mirror for Magistrates, 1559-1610

    de Harriet Archer ...
    Series series Oxford English Monographs
    The Mirror for Magistrates, the collection of de casibus complaint poems in the voices of medieval rulers and rebels compiled by William Baldwin in the 1550s, was central to the development of imaginative literature in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Additions by John Higgins, Thomas Blenerhasset, and Richard Niccols between 1574 and 1610 extended the Mirror's scope, shifted its ... Leer más

    $92.99 USD

  • Distance, Theatre, and the Public Voice, 1750–1850

    de M. Nuss ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    As theatres expanded in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the distance between actor and audience became a telling metaphor for the distance emerging between writers and readers. Nuss explores the ways in which theatre helped authors imagine connecting with a new mass audience. ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Monuments and Literary Posterity in Early Modern Drama

    de Brian Chalk ...
    In spite of the ephemeral nature of performed drama, playwrights such as Marlowe, Jonson, Webster, Fletcher, and Shakespeare were deeply interested in the endurance of their theatrical work and in their own literary immortality. This book re-evaluates the relationship between these early modern dramatists and literary posterity by considering their work within the context of post-Reformation ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • An Elegant and Learned Discourse of the Light of Nature

    de Nathaniel Culverwell ...
    Series series Heritage
    Composed in a period of religious and political upheaval, Culverwell's Discourse of the Light of Nature is an imaginative statement of the teachings of Christian humanism concerning the nature and limits of human reason and the related concepts of natural and divine law. The lengthy introduction to this new critical edition throws light on the evolution of English rationalism in the seventeenth ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD