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  • Ashgate Critical Essays on Women Writers in England, 1550-1700

    Volume 3: Anne Lock, Isabella Whitney and Aemilia Lanyer

    Edición de Micheline White ...
    Series series Ashgate Critical Essays on Women Writers in England, 1550-1700
    Anne Lock, Isabella Whitney and Aemilia Lanyer have emerged as important literary figures in the past ten years and scholars have increasingly realized that their bold and often unorthodox works challenge previously-held conceptions about women's engagement with early modern secular and religious literary culture. This volume collects some of the most influential and innovative essays that ... Leer más

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  • Women’s Bookscapes in Early Modern Britain

    Reading, Ownership, Circulation

    Women in 16th- and 17th-century Britain read, annotated, circulated, inventoried, cherished, criticized, prescribed, and proscribed books in various historically distinctive ways. Yet, unlike that of their male counterparts, the study of women’s reading practices and book ownership has been an elusive and largely overlooked field.In thirteen probing essays, Women’s Bookscapes**in Early Modern ... Leer más

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  • English Women, Religion, and Textual Production, 1500-1625

    Edición de Micheline White ...
    Series series Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
    Contributing to the growing interest in early modern women and religion, this essay collection advances scholarship by introducing readers to recently recovered or little-studied texts and by offering new paradigms for the analysis of women's religious literary activities. Contributors underscore the fact that women had complex, multi-dimensional relationships to the religio-political order, ... Leer más

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    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
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  • The Cambridge Companion to Paradise Lost

    Edición de Louis Schwartz ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Fifteen short, accessible essays exploring the most important topics and themes in John Milton's masterpiece, Paradise Lost. The essays invite readers to begin their own independent exploration of the poem by equipping them with useful background knowledge, introducing them to key passages, and acquainting them with the current state of critical debates. Chapters are arranged to mirror the way the ... Leer más

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  • Shakespeare and the Grammar of Forgiveness

    Shakespeare lived at a time when England was undergoing the revolution in ritual theory and practice we know as the English Reformation. With it came an unprecedented transformation in the language of religious life. Whereas priests had once acted as mediators between God and men through sacramental rites, Reformed theology declared the priesthood of all believers. What ensued was not the tidy ... Leer más

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  • Reading Shakespeare Historically

    de Lisa Jardine ...
    Reading Shakespeare Historically is a passionate, provocative book by one of the most renowned and popular Renaissance scholars writing today. Charting ten years of critical development, these challenging, witty essays shed new light on Renaissance studies. It also raises intriguing questions about how the culture and history of the past illuminates the key social and political issues of today. ... Leer más

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  • The Poetics of Conversion in Early Modern English Literature

    Verse and Change from Donne to Dryden

    de Molly Murray ...
    Christians in post-Reformation England inhabited a culture of conversion. Required to choose among rival forms of worship, many would cross - and often recross - the boundary between Protestantism and Catholicism. This 2009 study considers the poetry written by such converts, from the reign of Elizabeth I to that of James II, concentrating on four figures: John Donne, William Alabaster, Richard ... Leer más

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  • Writing the Monarch in Jacobean England

    Jonson, Donne, Shakespeare and the Works of King James

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    King James VI and I's extensive publications and the responses they met played a key role in the literary culture of Jacobean England. This book is the first sustained study of how James's subjects commented upon, appropriated and reworked these royal writings. Jane Rickard highlights the vitality of such responses across genres - including poetry, court masque, sermon, polemic and drama - and in ... Leer más

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  • Reading Memory in Early Modern Literature

    'He who remembers or recollects, thinks' declared Francis Bacon, drawing attention to the absolute centrality of the question of memory in early modern Britain's cultural life. The vigorous debate surrounding the faculty had dated back to Plato at least. However, responding to the powerful influences of an ever-expanding print culture, humanist scholarship, the veneration for the cultural ... Leer más

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    For many, Shakespeare represents the advent of modernity. It is easy to forget that he was in fact a writer deeply embedded in the Middle Ages, who inherited many of his shaping ideas and assumptions from the medieval past. This collection brings together essays by internationally renowned scholars of medieval and early modern literature, the history of the book and theatre history to present new ... Leer más

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy

    Edición de Claire McEachern ...
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    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 ... Leer más

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