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  • Imagining Antiquity in Shakespeare’s England

    Edited by Heather James, Andrew Wallace ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The essays in this edited collection extend our understanding of the challenges and opportunities that the classical world afforded Shakespeare and his contemporaries. At the same time, they encourage modern scholarship to reevaluate the significance of antiquity in early modern England. Studies of classical heritage often focus on imitation and the transmission of specific classical texts in ... Read more

    $192.19 CAD

  • Unholy Hunger

    A Novel

    by Heather James ...
    Evelyn Barrett wants to die. As long as her daughter's murderer dies with her, she is ready to go. Why did this man--this stranger--destroy her family? Why has he not been brought to justice? Why is she forced to live a life of anger and grief? Amid a million questions she cannot answer, Evelyn knows one thing for sure: this murderer must be punished for his crime.Before it all, she was a ... Read more

    $20.44 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ovid and the Liberty of Speech in Shakespeare's England

    by Heather James ...
    The range of poetic invention that occurred in Renaissance English literature was vast, from the lyric eroticism of the late sixteenth century to the rise of libertinism in the late seventeenth century. Heather James argues that Ovid, as the poet-philosopher of literary innovation and free speech, was the galvanizing force behind this extraordinary level of poetic creativity. Moving beyond mere ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer

    Edited by Piero Boitani, Jill Mann ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer is an extensively revised version of the first edition, which has become a classic in the field. This new volume responds to the success of the first edition and to recent debates in Chaucer Studies. Important material has been updated, and new contributions have been commissioned to take into account recent trends in literary theory as well as in studies of ... Read more

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  • 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

    $31.99 CAD

  • Edmund Spenser in Context

    Edited by Andrew Escobedo ...
    Series series Literature in Context
    Edmund Spenser's poetry remains an indispensable touchstone of English literary history. Yet for modern readers his deliberate use of archaic language and his allegorical mode of writing can become barriers to understanding his poetry. This volume of thirty-seven essays, written by distinguished scholars, offers a rich introduction to the literary, political and religious contexts that shaped ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Archaic Style in English Literature, 1590–1674

    by Lucy Munro ...
    Ranging from the works of Shakespeare, Spenser, Jonson and Milton to those of Robert Southwell and Anna Trapnel, this groundbreaking study explores the conscious use of archaic style by the poets and dramatists between 1590 and 1674. It focuses on the wide-ranging, complex and self-conscious uses of archaic linguistic and poetic style, analysing the uses to which writers put literary style in ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Arden Guide to Renaissance Drama

    An Introduction with Primary Sources

    by Dr. Brinda Charry ...
    The Arden Guide to Renaissance Drama is a single critical and contextual resource forstudents embarking on an in-depth exploration of early modern drama, providing both critical insight and accessible contextual information. This companion equips students with the information needed to situate the plays in their socio-political, intellectual and literary contexts. Divided into two parts, it ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The Impotency Poem from Ancient Latin to Restoration English Literature

    by Hannah Lavery ...
    The first book length study of the motif of impotency in poetry from early antiquity through to the late Restoration, this book explores the impotency poem as a recognisable form of poetry in the longer tradition of erotic elegy. Hannah Lavery’s central claim is that the impotency motif is adopted by poets in recognition of its potential to signify satirically through its use as symbol and ... Read more

    $82.44 CAD

  • Shakespeare's Webs

    Networks of Meaning in Renaissance Drama

    by Arthur F. Kinney ...
    In this book, renowned Renaissance drama critic Arthur F. Kinney argues that Shakespeare's method of composing plays through networks of meanings can be seen as a harbinger of today's information technology. Drawing upon hypertext and cognitive theory--areas that have for some time promised to take on more importance in the sphere of Shakespeare Studies--as well as the central metaphor of the ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

  • Friendship and Queer Theory in the Renaissance

    Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern England

    by John S. Garrison ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
    In this volume, the author offers a substantial reconsideration of same-sex relations in the early modern period, and argues that early modern writers – rather than simply celebrating a classical friendship model based in dyadic exclusivity and a rejection of self-interest – sought to innovate on classical models for idealized friendship. This book redirects scholarly conversations regarding ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • The Routledge Research Companion to Shakespeare and Classical Literature

    Edited by Sean Keilen, Nick Moschovakis ...
    In this wide-ranging and ambitiously conceived Research Companion, contributors explore Shakespeare’s relationship to the classic in two broad senses. The essays analyze Shakespeare’s specific debts to classical works and weigh his classicism’s likeness and unlikeness to that of others in his time; they also evaluate the effects of that classical influence to assess the extent to which it is ... Read more

    $96.99 CAD