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  • Brief Confessional Writings: Grey, Stubbes, Livingstone, Clarksone

    Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series I, Part Two, Volume 2

    by Mary Ellen Lamb ...
    Series Book 2 - The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works & Printed Writings, 1500-1640: Series I
    The works by the four protestant women authors collected in this volume participate in the ars moriandi (art of dying) tradition which became increasingly powerful over the 16th and 17th centuries. The moment of death was thought to reveal the ’true’ state of the individual’s soul. This volume provides four varying forms of heroic subjectivity offered by middle class and aristocratic women by the ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

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    Story of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, The

    by William Shakespeare, Mary Ellen Lamb, Charles Lamb ...
    Narrated by Ghizela Rowe ...

    Abridged

    12 min

    Taming Of The Shrew is one of Shakespeare’s early comedies that has not provided much mirth for many women who find the portrayal of its leading lady being tamed, belittling and offensive. However, it is nonetheless a popular play set in Verona where Petruchio marries Katherina who is subdued into being an obedient wife. This narrative version was written by Mary & Charles Lamb ... Read more

    $1.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Ashgate Research Companion to The Sidneys, 1500–1700

    Volume 2: Literature

    by Mary Ellen Lamb ...
    Presented in two volumes, The Ashgate Research Companion to The Sidneys, 1500-1700 assesses the current state of scholarship on members of the Sidney family and their impact, as historical and/or literary figures, in the period 1500-1700. Volume 2: Literature, begins with an exploration of the Sidneys' books and manuscripts and how they circulated, followed by an overview of the contributions of ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Oral Traditions and Gender in Early Modern Literary Texts

    by Mary Ellen Lamb, Karen Bamford ...
    Proposing a fresh approach to scholarship on the topic, this volume explores the cultural meanings, especially the gendered meanings, of material associated with oral traditions. The collection is divided into three sections. Part One investigates the evocations of the 'old nurse' as storyteller so prominent in early modern fictions. The essays in Part Two investigate women's fashioning of oral ... Read more

    $46.71 CAD

  • The Popular Culture of Shakespeare, Spenser and Jonson

    by Mary Ellen Lamb ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
    Breaking new ground by considering productions of popular culture from above, rather than from below, this book draws on theorists of cultural studies, such as Pierre Bourdieu, Roger Chartier and John Fiske to synthesize work from disparate fields and present new readings of well-known literary works.Using the literature of Shakespeare, Spenser and Jonson, Mary Ellen Lamb investigates the social ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • Staging Early Modern Romance

    Prose Fiction, Dramatic Romance, and Shakespeare

    Edited by Mary Ellen Lamb, Valerie Wayne ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
    This collection recovers the continuities between three forms of romance that have often been separated from one another in critical discourse: early modern prose fiction, the dramatic romances staged in England during the 1570s and 1580s, and Shakespeare’s late plays. Although Pericles, Cymbeline, Winter’s Tale, and The Tempest have long been characterized as "romances," their connections with ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • The Ashgate Research Companion to The Sidneys, 1500-1700

    Volume 1: Lives

    by Michael G. Brennan, Mary Ellen Lamb ...
    Few families have contributed as much to English history and literature-indeed, to the arts generally-as the Sidney family. This two-volume Ashgate Research Companion assesses the current state of scholarship on family members and their impact, as historical and literary figures, in the period 1500-1700. Volume 1: Lives, begins with an overview of the Sidneys and politics, providing some links to ... Read more

    $67.32 CAD

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    Story Of Shakespeare's Cymbeline, The

    by William Shakespeare, Mary Ellen Lamb, Charles Lamb ...
    Narrated by Ghizela Rowe ...

    Unabridged

    28 min

    Cymbeline is listed as one of Shakespeare’s tragedies although some think it to be one of his romances as it explores the familiar themes of jealousy, adultery, innocence and vengeance. Cymbeline is the King of Britain who twenty years prior to the play’s setting wrongly banishes one of his Lords, Belarius, who in turn kidnaps the King’s sons to prevent him having heirs to his throne. The King ... Read more

    $1.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Story of Shakespeare's The Tempest, The

    by William Shakespeare, Mary Ellen Lamb, Charles Lamb ...
    Narrated by Ghizela Rowe ...

    Abridged

    11 min

    The Tempest has the ingredients of a cracking good story – magic, power and love, that kick up a storm. The magician Prospero and his daughter Miranda are banished by his jealous brother Antonio with the help of Alonso, the king of Naples. Prospero conjures up a tempest than ensures justice is done. ... Read more

    $1.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Story of Shakespeare's The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The

    by William Shakespeare, Mary Ellen Lamb, Charles Lamb ...
    Narrated by Ghizela Rowe ...

    Unabridged

    28 min

    Two Gentlemen of Verona is believed to be one of Shakespeare's early comedies and as a result provides us with the first examples of a number of themes and devices that are further explored in many of his plays. These include loyalty, friendship and the nature of love. Also women dressing up as men is introduced by one of the central characters, Julia, dressing up as the page, Sebastian, to serve ... Read more

    $1.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Story of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, The

    by William Shakespeare, Mary Ellen Lamb, Charles Lamb ...
    Narrated by Ghizela Rowe ...

    Abridged

    12 min

    A Winter's Tale is set in Sicilia where the King, Leontes, is enjoying a visit by his friend the King of Bohemia. When he wants to leave, he tries to persuade him unsuccessfully to stay. Leontes then decides to ask his wife to try and get him to stay longer which she does. He is then consumed by jealousy imaging that the reason she persuaded him so easily was because they were having an affair. ... Read more

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    Henry VI, Part 1

    by William Shakespeare, Pierre Arthur Laure, Tom Wheelwright ...
    Narrated by a full cast, Amanda Root, Norman Rodway, David Tennant, Kelly Hunter ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - The Arkangel Shakespeare Collection

    Unabridged

    2 hours 39 min

    The all-conquering King Henry V is dead and the throne is occupied by his infant son, Henry VI. The good Duke Humphrey of Gloucester has been appointed protector, but a struggle for power soon develops between the young king’s Lancastrian relatives and the powerful house of York under Richard Plantagenet. Meanwhile the French, led by Joan of Arc, the maid of Orleans, threaten to win back the ... Read more

    $20.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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