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  • Women Players in England, 1500–1660

    Beyond the All-Male Stage

    de Peter Parolin ...
    Series series Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
    Offering evidence of women's extensive contributions to the theatrical landscape, this volume sharply challenges the assumption that the stage was 'all male' in early modern England. The editors and contributors argue that the pervasiveness of female performance affected cultural production, even on the professional London stages that used men and boys for women's parts. English spectators saw ... Leer más

    $72.99 USD

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  • The Wife of Bath

    A Biography

    de Marion Turner ...
    From the award-winning biographer of Chaucer, the story of his most popular and scandalous character, from the Middle Ages to #MeTooEver since her triumphant debut in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath, arguably the first ordinary and recognisably real woman in English literature, has obsessed readers—from Shakespeare to James Joyce, Voltaire to Pasolini, Dryden to Zadie Smith. Few ... Leer más

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare

    Edición de Arthur F Kinney ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Situated within the Oxford Handbooks to Literature series, the group of Oxford Handbooks to Shakespeare are designed to record past and present investigations and renewed and revised judgments by both familiar and younger Shakespearean specialists. Each of these volumes is edited by one or more internationally distinguished Shakespeareans; together, they comprehensively survey the entire field. An ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Contemporary Dramatists

    Edición de Ton Hoenselaars ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    While Shakespeare's popularity has continued to grow, so has the attention paid to the work of his contemporaries. The contributors to this Companion introduce the distinctive drama of these playwrights, from the court comedies of John Lyly to the works of Richard Brome in the Caroline era. With chapters on a wide range of familiar and lesser-known dramatists, including Thomas Kyd, Christopher ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Literary Names

    Personal Names in English Literature

    Why do authors use pseudonyms and pen-names, or ingeniously hide names in their work with acrostics and anagrams? How has the range of permissible given names changed and how is this reflected in literature? Why do some characters remain mysteriously nameless? In this rich and learned book, Alastair Fowler explores the use of names in literature of all periods - primarily English but also Latin, ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Aphra Behn

    Edición de Derek Hughes, Janet Todd ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Traditionally known as the first professional woman writer in English, Aphra Behn has now emerged as one of the major figures of the Restoration. She provided more plays for the stage than any other author and greatly influenced the development of the novel with her ground-breaking fiction, especially Love-Letters between a Nobleman and his Sister and Oroonoko, the first English novel set in ... Leer más

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  • Performing Girls and Women

    Medieval to Early Modern and Beyond

    Edición de Deanne Williams ...
    Series series Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World
    This book charts the broad cultural impact of the medieval and early modern female performer: how she engages with her historical origins in classical drama, works within contemporary cultural and professional networks, and sets the terms for female performance in subsequent historical periods. Moving beyond the archival evidence that establishes that medieval and early modern women and girls ... Leer más

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  • The Evolution of the Grand Tour

    Anglo-Italian Cultural Relations since the Renaissance

    de Edward Chaney ...
    The Grand Tour has become a subject of major interest to scholars and general readers interested in exploring the historic connections between nations and their intellectual and artistic production. Although traditionally associated with the eighteenth century, when wealthy Englishmen would complete their education on the continent, the Grand Tour is here investigated in a wider context, from the ... Leer más

    $91.99 USD

  • The Reader in the Book

    A Study of Spaces and Traces

    de Stephen Orgel ...
    Series series Oxford Textual Perspectives
    The Reader in the Book is concerned with a particular aspect of the history of the book, an archeology and sociology of the use of margins and other blank spaces. One of the most commonplace aspects of old books is the fact that people wrote in them, something that, until very recently, has infuriated modern collectors and librarians. But these inscriptions constitute a significant dimension of ... Leer más

    $22.79 USD

  • Women's Authorship and the Early Gothic

    Legacies and Innovations

    Edición de Kathleen Hudson ...
    Series series Gothic Literary Studies
    This edited collection examines Gothic works written by women authors in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, with a specific focus on the novels and chapbooks produced by less widely commercially and critically popular writers. Bringing these authors to the forefront of contemporary critical examinations of the Gothic, chapters in this collection examine how these works impacted ... Leer más

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  • Challenging Women's Agency and Activism in Early Modernity

    Edición de Merry Wiesner-Hanks ...
    Series series Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World
    Examining women’s agency in the past has taken on new urgency in the current moment of resurgent patriarchy, Women’s Marches, and the global #MeToo movement. The essays in this collection consider women’s agency in the Renaissance and early modern period, an era that also saw both increasing patriarchal constraints and new forms of women’s actions and activism. They address a capacious set of ... Leer más

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  • Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds

    National and Transnational Identities in the Elizabethan Age

    In Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds, Carole Levin and John Watkins focus on the relationship between the London-based professional theater preeminently associated with William Shakespeare and an unprecedented European experience of geographic, social, and intellectual mobility. Shakespeare's plays bear the marks of exile and exploration, rural depopulation, urban expansion, and shifting mercantile and ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD