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This book presents the first comprehensive study of over 120
printed news reports of murders and infanticides committed by early
modern women. It offers an interdisciplinary analysis of female
homicide in post-Reformation news formats ranging from ballads to
newspapers. Individual cases are illuminated in relation to
changing legal, religious, and political contexts, as well as the
dynamic growth of commercial crime-news and readership.
Of all the new developments in literary theory, feminism has proved
to be the most widely influential, leading to an expansion of the
traditional English canon in all periods of study. This book aims
to make the work of Renaissance women writers in English better
known to general and academic readers so as to strengthen the case
for their future inclusion in the Renaissance literary canon. This
lively book surveys women writers in the sixteenth century and
early seventeenth centuries. Its selection is vast, historically
representative, and original, taking examples from twenty
different, relatively unknown authors in all genres of writing,
including poetry, fiction, religious works, letters and journals,
translation, and books on childcare. It establishes new contexts
for the debate about women as writers within the period and
suggests potential intertextual connections with works by
well-known male authors of the same time. Individual authors and
works are given concise introductions, with both modern and
historical critical analysis, setting them in a theoretical and
historicised context. All texts are made readily accessible through
modern spelling and punctuation, on-the-page annotation and
headnotes. The substantial, up-to-date bibliography provides a
source for further study and research.
This book presents the first comprehensive study of over 120
printed news reports of murders and infanticides committed by early
modern women. It offers an interdisciplinary analysis of female
homicide in post-Reformation news formats ranging from ballads to
newspapers. Individual cases are illuminated in relation to
changing legal, religious, and political contexts, as well as the
dynamic growth of commercial crime-news and readership.
Of all the new developments in literary theory, feminism has proved
to be the most widely influential, leading to an expansion of the
traditional English canon in all periods of study. This book aims
to make the work of Renaissance women writers in English better
known to general and academic readers so as to strengthen the case
for their future inclusion in the Renaissance literary canon.
This lively book surveys women writers in the sixteenth century and
early seventeenth centuries. Its selection is vast, historically
representative, and original, taking examples from twenty
different, relatively unknown authors in all genres of writing,
including poetry, fiction, religious works, letters and journals,
translation, and books on childcare. It establishes new contexts
for the debate about women as writers within the period and
suggests potential intertextual connections with works by
well-known male authors of the same time.
Individual authors and works are given concise introductions, with
both modern and historical critical analysis, setting them in a
theoretical and historicised context. All texts are made readily
accessible through modern spelling and punctuation, on-the-page
annotation and headnotes. The substantial, up-to-date bibliography
provides a source for further study and research.
As voyeuristic and prurient as today's tabloid newspapers, early
modern crime pamphlets and broadside ballads about women murderers
tell of furtive love affairs and domestic poisonings, of battered
wives who kill their abusive husbands, and of troubled mothers who
murder their children. On first acquaintance, many pamphlets leave
an impression of shallow sensationalism yoked to idealised
repentance, and for that reason modern critics and historians have
often discounted their importance as culturally significant
artifacts. This volume presents a selection of over forty texts and
is intended to encourage a reconsideration of these views. In his
Introductory Note to the volume, Randall Martin discusses the
narrative content and social commentary of these ballads, pamphlets
and trial reports, and the contribution that they make to the
discursive construction of the early modern female murderer through
their representational strategies and evolving legal and gender
contexts.
Life Doesn't Begin at Forty PLUS Two Bonus Stories: Sunday Meals
& Snake Neckties and A Parody: Family Reunions I spend a good
part of my time looking for things and I highly suspect that it's
not all my fault. The conclusion I have come to is that a woman
unbeknownst to me sneaks into my house while I'm sleeping and hides
everything I hold dear. When I asked a few of my friends if they
had seen her, each of them said they hadn't. But from all the
complaints we've heard, we think she's bi-coastal. And whatever you
do, don't let her scare you into putting things where you can find
them easily. It's a ruse and once you fall into that trap, you will
never see half of your stuff again ... Miss Emmy
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The Comedy of Errors (Paperback)
William Shakespeare; Contributions by Paul Edmondson; Introduction by Randall Martin; Revised by Randall Martin
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'After God, Shakespeare has created most' Alexandre Dumas Two sets
of identical twins, separated at sea as babies, find themselves in
the same city for the first time as adults. Soon, their friends
mistake the twins for one another and bewilderment abounds. Joyful,
mystical and brilliantly farcical, Shakespeare's shortest play is
an early romantic comedy of confusion and ultimate reunion. Used
and Recommended by the National Theatre General Editor Stanley
Wells Edited by Stanley Wells Introduction by Randall Martin
The Oxford Shakespeare General Editor Stanley Wells The Oxford
Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in
editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern
readers. - a new, modern-spelling text, based on the 1623 First
Folio - detailed introduction considers composition, sources,
historical events, performances and changing critical attitudes to
the play - on-page commentary and notes explain meaning, staging,
identify historical figures and events, and much else - appendices
include extracts from the chronicle sources and new research on the
use of boy actors in Elizabethan performance - illustrated with
production photographs and related art - full index to introduction
and commentary - durable sewn binding for lasting use 'not simply a
better text but a new conception of Shakespeare. This is a major
achievement of twentieth-century scholarship.' Times Literary
Supplement ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's
Classics has made available the widest range of literature from
around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's
commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a
wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions
by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text,
up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Shakespeare and Ecology is the first book to explore the topical
contexts that shaped the environmental knowledge and politics of
Shakespeare and his audiences. Early modern England experienced
unprecedented environmental challenges including climate change,
population growth, resource shortfalls, and habitat destruction
which anticipate today's globally magnified crises. Shakespeare
wove these events into the poetic textures and embodied action of
his drama, contributing to the formation of a public ecological
consciousness, while opening creative pathways for re-imagining
future human relationships with the natural world and non-human
life. This book begins with an overview of ecological modernity
across Shakespeare's work before focusing on three major
environmental controversies in particular plays: deforestation in
The Merry Wives of Windsor and The Tempest; profit-driven
agriculture in As You Like It; and gunpowder warfare and remedial
cultivation in Henry IV Parts One and Two, Henry V, and Macbeth. A
fourth chapter examines the interdependency of local and global
eco-relations in Cymbeline, and the final chapter explores
Darwinian micro-ecologies in Hamlet and Antony and Cleopatra. An
epilogue suggests that Shakespeare's greatest potential for
mobilizing modern ecological ideas and practices lies in
contemporary performance. Shakespeare and Ecology illuminates the
historical antecedents of modern ecological knowledge and activism,
and explores Shakespeare's capacity for generating imaginative and
performative responses to today's environmental challenges.
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