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  • Genesis of the Shakespearean Works
    Peter D Matthews
    This book is the result of fourteen years research scrutinizing thousands of historical documents. Dr Matthews reveals never before seen facts regarding the earliest quartos and the first folio – even new research into the leather cover of the Bodleian first folio and how that particular copy came into the possession of the Turbutt family.Dr Matthews has forensically dated the ...
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    77,90 €

  • Náufragas: esposas, viudas y prostitutas en la escena victoriana
    Victoria Puchal Terol
    El sentido figurativo de ‘náufraga’ en el teatro popular inglés del siglo XIX, así como los personajes femeninos en los que se repite esa sensación de separación social y de alteridad, constituyen un reflejo de las expectativas de la sociedad decimonónica hacia las mujeres. En el sentido figurativo de naufragio, en el texto se habla de mujeres aisladas, rechazadas o excluidas p...
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    12,50 €

  • A life of William Shakespeare
    Sidney Lee
    'A Life of William Shakespeare' by Sidney Lee is a comprehensive biography of the legendary playwright and poet William Shakespeare. Published in 1898, this book delves into the life and times of Shakespeare, exploring his upbringing, education, family life, career, and enduring legacy. Sidney Lee, a renowned literary critic and biographer, meticulously researched Shakespeare’s...
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    16,10 €

  • Engaging with Troy
    Shakespeare’s time and ours each engage intensely with Troy. What both periods share is a view that the matter of Troy, with its tensions and contradictions, is relevant to their own contemporary world issues. Departing from more usual synchronic or diachronic approaches, this volume seeks to provide insights into how and why Troy matters by analysing a selection of Trojan afte...
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    127,28 €

  • Theatre Censorship in Contemporary Europe
    What are the contexts (political, social, legal, cultural) of theatre censorship in twenty-first-century Europe? Given the abolition of state-sanctioned and institutional forms of stage censorship in the late twentieth century, the prevalence of authoritarian and populist politics, and the escalation of so-called ’culture wars’, in what ways and to what extent does stage censor...
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    50,61 €

  • Shakespeare in the Theatre
    Christie Carson
    This analysis of the Stratford Festival examines the full history of one of the largest and oldest dedicated centres for the performance of Shakespeare in North America. In English-speaking Canada, the Festival has become the unofficial national theatre, drawing both praise and criticism. Dividing its history into three distinct periods, the volume begins with the foundation of...
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    50,99 €

  • The Texts of Shakespeare
    Stephen Orgel
    How did plays from the popular theatre, written by an author better known as a poet, become the greatest literary monument in English? Renowned Shakespearean Stephen Orgel reveals how the transformation of Shakespeare’s scripts was a triumph of both editorial intervention and marketing.By no means the most admired playwright of his time, Shakespeare’s most popular work during h...
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    115,37 €

  • Shakespeare’s Violence and the Early Modern Spectator
    Rebecca Yearling
    Shakespeare’s plays feature events of extreme violence. Investigating the ways in which the original early modern audiences might have reacted to their scenes of violence, this volume reveals too the complex web of factors that shape our present-day responses to violence and suffering.Drawing on a mixed methodology, Rebecca Yearling combines close textual analysis with insights...
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    141,22 €

  • Antony and Cleopatra
    Carol Chillington Rutter
    This book writes a performance history of Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare’s most ambiguous play, from 1606 to the present. It observes the choices that actors, directors, designers, musicians and adapters have made each time they have brought the play’s thoughts on power, race, masculinity, regime change, exoticism, love, dotage and delinquency into alignment with a new pres...
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    43,86 €

  • The Merchant of Venice
    Boika Sokolova / Kirilka Stavreva
    Boika Sokolova and Kirilka Stavreva’s second edition of the stage history of The Merchant of Venice interweaves into the chronology of James Bulman’s first edition richly contextualised chapters on Max Reinhardt, Peter Zadek, and the first production of the play in Mandatory Palestine, directed by Leopold Jessner. While the focus of the book is on post-1990s productions across ...
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    43,71 €

  • David, Donne, and Thirsty Deer
    Anne Lake Prescott
    For nearly half a century Anne Lake Prescott has been a force and an inspiration in Renaissance studies. A force, because of her unique blend of learning and wit and an inspiration through her tireless encouragement of younger scholars and students. Her passion has always been the invisible bridge across the Channel: the complex of relations, literary and political, between Bri...
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    43,83 €

  • Thierry and Theodoret
    Domenico Lovascio
    Enthusiastically praised by Charles Lamb and A. C. Swinburne but unjustly neglected since the early twentieth century, Thierry and Theodoret dramatizes events from medieval French history. With its disenchanted depiction of royalty, its eerie instability in terms of genre, and its black comic overtones, Thierry and Theodoret strikes as a distinctive specimen of tragic drama in ...
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    54,15 €

  • Music in English Children’s Drama of the Later Renaissance
    Linda Phyllis Austern
    Originally published in 1992, Music in English Children’s Drama of the Later Renaissance is the first book-length study to examine the Elizabethan and Jacobean children’s drama, not only from a musicological perspective, but also drawing on the histories of literature, culture, and the theater. ...
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    56,32 €

  • Classicizing Shakespeare
    Michèle Willems
    This book explores the nature and wide-ranging impact of the work of Jean-François Ducis (1733-1816), the first adaptor of Hamlet and of five other Shakespeare tragedies for the French theatre.Jean-François Ducis is anything but prominent in the histories of Shakespeare adaptation, yet he was pivotal in introducing French and European audiences to Shakespeare’s plays on the sta...
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    147,77 €

  • Women Staging and Restaging the Nineteenth Century
    Women Staging and Restaging the Nineteenth Century is the first book to explore overlooked histories of women who filled the theatrical stages of the nineteenth century, dialoguing with contemporary adaptations, reworkings and retellings of these histories in Great Britain and beyond. ...
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    267,83 €

  • Shakespeare the Reviser
    Marina Tarlinskaya
    Shakespeare as a reviser of others’ work is an area of growing scholarly interest. Marina Tarlinskaya draws a formal distinction between editing, revision, and rewriting. The poem A Lover’s Complaint serves as an example of revision. Based on linguistic-statistical analysis, Tarlinskaya suggests that Shakespeare needed a poem to round off his 1609 sonnet sequence and, having ne...
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    171,91 €

  • Jungian Shakespeare
    Joel Crichton
    Jungian Shakespeare is an original work of Jungian literary criticism, examining the psychological expression within three plays from different times in Shakespeare’s career through a Jungian framework. ...
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    63,65 €

  • Jungian Shakespeare
    Joel Crichton
    Jungian Shakespeare is an original work of Jungian literary criticism, examining the psychological expression within three plays from different times in Shakespeare’s career through a Jungian framework. ...
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    267,89 €

  • The Battle Over Shakespeare’s Identity
    Geir Uthaug
    How can anyone doubt that the world’s greatest playwright wrote the plays attributed to him? William Shakespeare’s name is found on the title pages, in appraisals and on his monumental tomb. Nonetheless, doubt has been cast on the Bard’s authorship. Running the risk of branding as enthusiasts and worse, these skeptics tirelessly promote their cause. The battle over Shakespea...
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    73,52 €

  • A Promise n’ A Shield
    Mike Roulette
    In a world scarred by conflict, where innocence is too often lost to the fires of war, one man’s impossible oath becomes the fragile bridge between despair and hope.Major Moris, a battle worn officer of the French Foreign Legion, has spent a lifetime navigating the dust choked frontiers of Africa. He has witnessed humanity at its darkest, and yet, again and again, he chooses to...
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    36,10 €

  • Shakespeare in Pakistan
    Zakia Resshid Ehsen
    Shakespeare in Pakistan provides an extensive examination of the appropriation of Shakespearean plays in Pakistan, focusing on how it addresses creative, indigenous, cultural, and religious identity expressions. ...
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    268,16 €

  • Sexual Violence and Literary Art
    Peter Robinson
    Sexual Violence and Literary Art addresses the complicity of representation in what is represented, and its creative transformations, by re-examining classic poetic, dramatic and fictional texts by men in light of women’s philosophical, theoretical and critical responses to them. ...
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    158,20 €

  • Der Dialog als Duell
    Selina Seibel
    Die vorliegende Studie untersucht erstmals die Transposition des Duells in den dramatischen Dialog bei Pierre Corneille. Sie verfolgt zwei Ziele: Zum einen werden die kulturhistorischen Voraussetzungen und mentalitätsgeschichtlichen Entwicklungen in den Blick genommen, die in der Gesellschaft des siècle classique zur Rhetorisierung des Duells führen und auf Corneilles Theaterpr...
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    102,98 €

  • Games and Theatre in Shakespeare’s England
    Games and Theatre in Shakespeare’s England brings together theories of play and game with theatre and performance to produce new understandings of the history and design of early modern English drama. ...
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    82,32 €

  • Late Shakespeare and the English Baroque
    Gary Waller
    Late Shakespeare and the English Baroque focuses mainly on Shakespeare’s late (or later) works, those written from around 1607. It sets both poetry and plays within the emerging culture of the baroque, the term defined not merely by stylistic features but by the underlying ideological ’structure of feeling’ of baroque culture in early modern England. ...
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    82,84 €

  • Water and Cognition in Early Modern English Literature
    Water and cognition seem unrelated things, the one a physical environment and the other an intellectual process. The essays in this book show how bringing these two modes together revitalizes our understanding of both. ...
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    82,41 €

  • Women and Geography on the Early Modern English Stage
    Katja Pilhuj
    Women and Geography on the Early Modern English Stage explores the ways in which mapmakers, playwrights, and audiences in early modern England could, following their queen’s example, use the ideas of geography, or ’world-writing’, to reshape the symbolic import of the female body and territory to create new identities. ...
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    82,59 €

  • The Mystical Art of Shakespeare Volume III
    Kenneth K. C. Chan
    Shakespeare’s plays are poetical masterpieces that not only mesmerize us with their lyrical beauty but also convey sage messages critically important to humanity. This means that Shakespeare is a greater literary genius than previously thought, and his plays more profound than previously imagined.The Mystical Art of Shakespeare Volume III explains how Shakespeare meticulously c...
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    13,68 €

  • Renaissance Papers 2024
    Renaissance Papers collects the best scholarly essays submitted each year to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference. The 2024 volume features essays from the conference held at The Citadel, as well as essays submitted directly to the journal. The opening essay focuses on an idiosyncratic strategy used for fundraising by the English Crown: Queen Elizabeth’s 'poetry' lottery. Fi...
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    85,81 €

  • Bad Poetry? New Perspectives on the Value of Sixteenth-Century Literature
    An examination of the messy, often contradictory processes of poetic production and reception. The volume offers an invitation to read widely, question deeply and think critically. In the wake of C. S. Lewis’s still-contested taxonomy of ’drab’ and ’golden’ poetic ages, this volume rethinks the critical and aesthetic stakes of bad poetry in early modern England-not to dismiss ...
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    84,90 €


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