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  • Showing Like a Queen

    Female Authority and Literary Experiment in Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton

    by Katherine Eggert ...
    Series series Published in cooperation with Folger Shakespeare Library
    For most Renaissance English thinkers, queenship was a catastrophe, a political accident that threatened to emasculate an entire nation. But some English poets and playwrights proved more inventive in their responses to female authority.In Showing Like a Queen, Katherine Eggert argues that Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton turned the political problem of queenship to their advantage by using it as ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Showing Like a Queen

    Female Authority and Literary Experiment in Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton

    by Katherine Eggert ...
    Series series Published in cooperation with Folger Shakespeare Library
    For most Renaissance English thinkers, queenship was a catastrophe, a political accident that threatened to emasculate an entire nation. But some English poets and playwrights proved more inventive in their responses to female authority.In Showing Like a Queen, Katherine Eggert argues that Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton turned the political problem of queenship to their advantage by using it as ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Disknowledge

    Literature, Alchemy, and the End of Humanism in Renaissance England

    by Katherine Eggert ...
    Series series Published in cooperation with the Folger Shakespeare Library
    "Disknowledge": knowing something isn't true, but believing it anyway. In Disknowledge: Literature, Alchemy, and the End of Humanism in Renaissance England, Katherine Eggert explores the crumbling state of learning in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Even as the shortcomings of Renaissance humanism became plain to see, many intellectuals of the age had little choice but to treat their ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Disknowledge

    Literature, Alchemy, and the End of Humanism in Renaissance England

    by Katherine Eggert ...
    Series series Published in cooperation with the Folger Shakespeare Library
    "Disknowledge": knowing something isn't true, but believing it anyway. In Disknowledge: Literature, Alchemy, and the End of Humanism in Renaissance England, Katherine Eggert explores the crumbling state of learning in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Even as the shortcomings of Renaissance humanism became plain to see, many intellectuals of the age had little choice but to treat their ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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    Edited by Andrew Hadfield ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of English Prose 1500-1640 is the only current overview of early modern English prose writing. The aim of the volume is to make prose more visible as a subject and as a mode of writing. It covers a vast range of material vital for the understanding of the period: from jestbooks, newsbooks, and popular romance to the translation of the classics and the pioneering collections of ... Read more

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  • The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare

    Edited by Margreta De Grazia, Stanley Wells ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Written by a team of leading international scholars, this Companion is designed to illuminate Shakespeare's works through discussion of the key topics of Shakespeare studies. Twenty-one essays provide lively and authoritative approaches to recent scholarship and criticism for readers keen to expand their knowledge and appreciation of Shakespeare. The book contains stimulating chapters on ... Read more

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  • Renaissance Self-Fashioning

    From More to Shakespeare

    by Stephen Greenblatt ...
    "Greenblatt's classic placed the world of Renaissance scholarship in a deep and vigorous dialogue with literary modernity . . . a remarkable work." —Homi BhabhaPulitzer Prize–Winning AuthorRenaissance Self-Fashioning is a study of sixteenth-century life and literature that spawned a new era of scholarly inquiry. Stephen Greenblatt examines the structure of selfhood as evidenced in major literary ... Read more

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  • A Short History of English Renaissance Drama

    by Helen Hackett ...
    Series series Short Histories
    Shakespeare is a towering presence in English and indeed global culture. Yet considered alongside his contemporaries he was not an isolated phenomenon, but the product of a period of astonishing creative fertility. This was an age when new media - popular drama and print - were seized upon avidly and inventively by a generation of exceptionally talented writers. In her sparkling new book, Helen ... Read more

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  • A Very Brief History of Eternity

    by Carlos Eire ...
    From the author of Waiting for Snow in Havana, a brilliant cultural history of the idea of eternityWhat is eternity? Is it anything other than a purely abstract concept, totally unrelated to our lives? A mere hope? A frightfully uncertain horizon? Or is it a certainty, shared by priest and scientist alike, and an essential element in all human relations?In A Very Brief History of Eternity, Carlos ... Read more

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  • 30 Great Myths about Shakespeare

    by Laurie Maguire, Emma Smith ...
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    $23.00 USD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Literature 1100–1500

    Edited by Larry Scanlon ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The medieval period was one of extraordinary literary achievement sustained over centuries of great change, anchored by the Norman invasion and its aftermath, the re-emergence of English as the nation's leading literary language in the fourteenth century and the advent of print in the fifteenth. This Companion spans four full centuries to survey this most formative and turbulent era in the history ... Read more

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  • Cymbeline

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    by William Shakespeare ...
    Series series The Arden Shakespeare Third Series
    In Cymbeline, Ancient Britain's female heir to the throne is slandered by a decadent Italian while the Romans invade Britain to retain it as part of their empire. Shakespeare's late romance is full of unpredictable conjunctions that are explored in the comprehensive introduction to this new, fully-illustrated Arden edition. Valerie Wayne takes a transformative look at the play's critical and ... Read more

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