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  • Romeo and Juliet: A Critical Reader

    Edited by Dr Julia Reinhard Lupton ...
    Series series Arden Early Modern Drama Guides
    Uniquely, this guide analyses the play's critical and performance history and recent criticism, as well as including five essays offering radically new paths for contemporary interpretation.The subject matter of these essays is rich and diverse, ranging across the play's philosophical identification of sexual love with self-realization, the hermeneutic implications of an editor's textual choices, ... Read more

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  • Citizen-Saints

    Shakespeare and Political Theology

    Turning to the potent idea of political theology to recover the strange mix of political and religious thinking during the Renaissance, this bracing study reveals in the works of Shakespeare and his sources the figure of the citizen-saint, who represents at once divine messenger and civil servant, both norm and exception. Embodied by such diverse personages as Antigone, Paul, Barabbas, Shylock, ... Read more

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  • Shakespeare and Hospitality

    Ethics, Politics, and Exchange

    Edited by David Goldstein, Julia Lupton ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Shakespeare
    This volume focuses on hospitality as a theoretically and historically crucial phenomenon in Shakespeare's work with ramifications for contemporary thought and practice. Drawing a multifaceted picture of Shakespeare's scenes of hospitality—with their numerous scenes of greeting, feeding, entertaining, and sheltering—the collection demonstrates how hospitality provides a compelling frame for the ... Read more

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  • Shakespeare and Virtue

    A Handbook

    This volume maps Shakespearean virtue in all its plasticity and variety, providing thirty-eight succinct, wide-ranging essays that reveal a breadth and diversity exceeding any given morality or code of behaviour. Clearly explaining key concepts in the history of ethics and in classical, theological, and global virtue traditions, the collection reveals their presence in the works of Shakespeare in ... Read more

    $114.99 USD

  • Thinking with Shakespeare

    Essays on Politics and Life

    What is a person? What company do people keep with animals, plants, and things? Such questions—bearing fundamentally on the shared meaning of politics and life—animate Shakespearean drama, yet their urgency has often been obscured. Julia Reinhard Lupton gently dislodges Shakespeare's plays from their historical confines to pursue their universal implications. From Petruchio's animals and Kate's ... Read more

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  • Entertaining the Idea

    Shakespeare, Performance, and Philosophy

    Series series UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series
    To entertain an idea is to take it in, pay attention to it, give it breathing room, dwell with it for a time. The practice of entertaining ideas suggests rumination and meditation, inviting us to think of philosophy as a form of hospitality and a kind of mental theatre. In this collection, organized around key words shared by philosophy and performance, the editors suggest that Shakespeare’s plays ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Shakespeare Dwelling

    Designs for the Theater of Life

    Great halls and hovels, dove-houses and sheepcotes, mountain cells and seaside shelters—these are some of the spaces in which Shakespearean characters gather to dwell, and to test their connections with one another and their worlds. Julia Reinhard Lupton enters Shakespeare’s dwelling places in search of insights into the most fundamental human problems.Focusing on five works (Romeo and Juliet, ... Read more

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  • Design Your Life

    The Pleasures and Perils of Everyday Things

    An illustrated series of irreverent and realistic snapshots about everyday objects, how we interact with them and how we use them to communicate.By leading design thinker Ellen Lupton and her twin sister Julia Lupton, Design Your Life shows how design is about much more than what's bought at high-end stores or the modern look at IKEA. Design is critical thinking: a way to look at the world and ... Read more

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  • Shakespeare Studies

    Volume 51

    Series series Shakespeare Studies
    Shakespeare Studies is an annual peer-reviewed volume featuring the work of performance scholars, literary critics and cultural historians. The journal focuses primarily on Shakespeare and his contemporaries, but embraces theoretical and historical studies of socio-political, intellectual and artistic contexts that extend well beyond the early modern English theatrical milieu. In addition to ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Organic Supplements

    Bodies and Things of the Natural World, 1580–1790

    From the hair of a famous dead poet to botanical ornaments and meat pies, the subjects of this book are dynamic, organic artifacts. A cross-disciplinary collection of essays, Organic Supplements examines the interlaced relationships between natural things and human beings in early modern and eighteenth-century Europe. The material qualities of things as living organisms—and things that originate ... Read more

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  • Political Theology & Early Modernity

    Political theology is a distinctly modern problem, one that takes shape in some of the most important theoretical writings of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. But its origins stem from the early modern period, in medieval iconographies of sacred kinship and the critique of traditional sovereignty mounted by Hobbes and Spinoza. In this book, Graham Hammill and Julia Reinhard Lupton ... Read more

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  • Romeo and Juliet, Adaptation and the Arts

    'Cut Him Out in Little Stars'

    Series series Shakespeare and Adaptation
    Romeo and Juliet is the most produced, translated and re-mixed of all of Shakespeare's plays. This volume takes up the iconographic, linguistic and performance layers already at work within it and tracks the play's dispersal into neighbouring art forms – including ballet, opera, television and architecture – and geographical locations, including Italy, Ireland, France, India and Korea.Chapters ... Read more

    $33.99 USD