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  • Privacy in the Age of Shakespeare

    by Ronald Huebert ...
    For at least a generation, scholars have asserted that privacy barely existed in the early modern era. The divide between the public and private was vague, they say, and the concept, if it was acknowledged, was rarely valued. In Privacy in the Age of Shakespeare, Ronald Huebert challenges these assumptions by marshalling evidence that it was in Shakespeare’s time that the idea of privacy went from ... Read more

    $62.39 CAD

  • Early Modern Spectatorship

    Interpreting English Culture, 1500-1780

    Edited by Ronald Huebert, David McNeil ...
    What did it mean to be a spectator during the lifetime of Shakespeare or of Aphra Behn? In Early Modern Spectatorship contributors use the idea of spectatorship to reinterpret canonical early modern texts and bring visibility to relatively unknown works. While many early modern spectacles were designed to influence those who watched, the very presence of spectators and their behaviour could alter ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • Early Modern Spectatorship

    Interpreting English Culture, 1500-1780

    Edited by Ronald Huebert, David McNeil ...
    What did it mean to be a spectator during the lifetime of Shakespeare or of Aphra Behn? In Early Modern Spectatorship contributors use the idea of spectatorship to reinterpret canonical early modern texts and bring visibility to relatively unknown works. While many early modern spectacles were designed to influence those who watched, the very presence of spectators and their behaviour could alter ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

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  • A Brief History of the English Civil Wars

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  • The Clouds

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    Socrates' "Thinkery" is at the center of Clouds, which spoofs untraditional techniques for educating young men. ... Read more

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  • The Life of General George Monck

    For King & Cromwell

    by Peter Reese ...
    General George Monck is famous for the key role he played in the restoration of the monarchy in 1660. His actions changed the course of British history, but his statesmanship in the dangerous time between the death of Cromwell and the bloodless return of Charles II distracts attention from his extraordinary career as a soldier and general, admiral, governor and administrator. During the confused, ... Read more

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  • Befriending the Commedia dell'Arte of Flaminio Scala

    The Comic Scenarios

    by Natalie Crohn Schmitt ...
    The most important theatrical movement in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Europe, the commedia dell’arte has inspired playwrights, artists, and musicians including Molière, Dario Fo, Picasso, and Stravinsky. Because of its stock characters, improvised dialogue, and extravagant theatricalism, the commedia dell’arte is often assumed to be a superficial comic style. With Befriending the ... Read more

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  • The Rise of the Diva on the Sixteenth-Century Commedia dell'Arte Stage

    by Rosalind Kerr ...
    The Rise of the Diva on the Sixteenth-Century Commedia dell’Arte Stage examines the emergence of the professional actress from the 1560s onwards in Italy. Tracing the historical progress of actresses from their earliest appearances as sideshow attractions to revered divas, Rosalind Kerr explores the ways in which actresses commodified their sexual and cultural appeal.Newly translated archival ... Read more

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  • Metropolitan Tragedy

    Genre, Justice, and the City in Early Modern England

    by Marissa Greenberg ...
    Breaking new ground in the study of tragedy, early modern theatre, and literary London, Metropolitan Tragedy demonstrates that early modern tragedy emerged from the juncture of radical changes in London’s urban fabric and the city’s judicial procedures. Marissa Greenberg argues that plays by Shakespeare, Milton, Massinger, and others rework classical conventions to represent the city as a locus of ... Read more

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  • Taking Exception to the Law

    Materializing Injustice in Early Modern English Literature

    Edited by Donald Beecher, Travis DeCook, Andrew Wallace, Grant Williams ...
    Taking Exception to the Law explores how a range of early modern English writings responded to injustices perpetrated by legal procedures, discourses, and institutions. From canonical poems and plays to crime pamphlets and educational treatises, the essays engage with the relevance and wide appeal of legal questions in order to understand how literature operated in the early modern period.Justice ... Read more

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