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Offering fuller understandings of both dramatic representations and
the complexities of religious culture, this collection reveals the
ways in which religion and performance were inextricably linked in
early modern England. Its readings extend beyond the interpretation
of straightforward religious allusions and suggest new avenues for
theorizing the dynamic relationship between religious
representations and dramatic ones. By addressing the particular
ways in which commercial drama adapted the sensory aspects of
religious experience to its own symbolic systems, the volume enacts
a methodological shift towards a more nuanced semiotics of
theatrical performance. Covering plays by a wide range of
dramatists, including Shakespeare, individual essays explore the
material conditions of performance, the intricate resonances
between dramatic performance and religious ceremonies, and the
multiple valences of religious references in early modern plays.
Additionally, Religion and Drama in Early Modern England reveals
the theater's broad interpretation of post-Reformation Christian
practice, as well as its engagement with the religions of Islam,
Judaism and paganism.
The Materiality of Religion in Early Modern English Drama is the
first book to present a detailed examination of early modern
theatrical properties informed by the complexity of
post-Reformation religious practice. Although English Protestant
reformers set out to destroy all vestiges of Catholic idolatry,
public theater companies frequently used stage properties to draw
attention to the remnants of traditional religion as well as the
persistent materiality of post-Reformation worship. The Materiality
of Religion in Early Modern English Drama explores the relationship
between popular culture and theatrical performance by considering
the social history and dramatic function of these properties,
addressing their role as objects of devotion, idolatry, and
remembrance on the professional stage. Rather than being aligned
with identifiably Catholic or Protestant values, the author reveals
how religious stage properties functioned as fulcrums around which
more subtle debates about the status of Christian worship played
out. Given the relative lack of existing documentation on stage
properties, The Materiality of Religion in Early Modern English
Drama employs a wide range of source materials-including
inventories published in the Records of Early English Drama (REED)
volumes-to account for the material presence of these objects on
the public stage. By combining historical research on popular
religion with detailed readings of the scripts themselves, the book
fills a gap in our knowledge about the physical qualities of the
stage properties used in early modern productions. Tracing the
theater's appropriation of highly charged religious properties, The
Materiality of Religion in Early Modern English Drama provides a
new framework for understanding the canonization of early modern
plays, especially those of Shakespeare.
This completely new edition reveals a county of contrasts. The
semi-rural suburbia of outer-Outer London, with its important early
Modern Movement houses, is counterbalanced by magnificent mansions
and parks, like idyllic Stowe and the Rothschilds' extravaganza at
Waddesdon. The Saxon Church at Wing, the exquisite
seventeenth-century Winslow Hall, and Slough's twentieth-century
factories all contribute to Buckinghamshire's rich inheritance. In
this new edition, the unspoilt centres of small towns, like
Amersham and Buckingham, are revisited and Milton Keynes, Britain's
last and most ambitious New Town, is explained and explored. The
rich diversity of rural buildings, built of stone, brick, timber,
and even earth, is investigated with scholarship and
discrimination. This accessible and comprehensive guide is prefaced
by an illuminating introduction and has many excellent
illustrations, plans and maps.
Offering fuller understandings of both dramatic representations and
the complexities of religious culture, this collection reveals the
ways in which religion and performance were inextricably linked in
early modern England. Its readings extend beyond the interpretation
of straightforward religious allusions and suggest new avenues for
theorizing the dynamic relationship between religious
representations and dramatic ones. By addressing the particular
ways in which commercial drama adapted the sensory aspects of
religious experience to its own symbolic systems, the volume enacts
a methodological shift towards a more nuanced semiotics of
theatrical performance. Covering plays by a wide range of
dramatists, including Shakespeare, individual essays explore the
material conditions of performance, the intricate resonances
between dramatic performance and religious ceremonies, and the
multiple valences of religious references in early modern plays.
Additionally, Religion and Drama in Early Modern England reveals
the theater's broad interpretation of post-Reformation Christian
practice, as well as its engagement with the religions of Islam,
Judaism and paganism.
The Materiality of Religion in Early Modern English Drama is the
first book to present a detailed examination of early modern
theatrical properties informed by the complexity of
post-Reformation religious practice. Although English Protestant
reformers set out to destroy all vestiges of Catholic idolatry,
public theater companies frequently used stage properties to draw
attention to the remnants of traditional religion as well as the
persistent materiality of post-Reformation worship. The Materiality
of Religion in Early Modern English Drama explores the relationship
between popular culture and theatrical performance by considering
the social history and dramatic function of these properties,
addressing their role as objects of devotion, idolatry, and
remembrance on the professional stage. Rather than being aligned
with identifiably Catholic or Protestant values, the author reveals
how religious stage properties functioned as fulcrums around which
more subtle debates about the status of Christian worship played
out. Given the relative lack of existing documentation on stage
properties, The Materiality of Religion in Early Modern English
Drama employs a wide range of source materials-including
inventories published in the Records of Early English Drama (REED)
volumes-to account for the material presence of these objects on
the public stage. By combining historical research on popular
religion with detailed readings of the scripts themselves, the book
fills a gap in our knowledge about the physical qualities of the
stage properties used in early modern productions. Tracing the
theater's appropriation of highly charged religious properties, The
Materiality of Religion in Early Modern English Drama provides a
new framework for understanding the canonization of early modern
plays, especially those of Shakespeare.
On college and university campuses across the United States,
scholar-teachers and their students find themselves in conditions
of both real threat and tremendous possibility. Building on the
recent surge of interest in equitable pedagogy within the field of
Shakespeare and Renaissance literary studies, Situating Shakespeare
Pedagogy in U.S. Higher Education makes a case for anchoring our
teaching in these institutional power dynamics that have
historically contributed to systemic injustice and continue to
affect our work on a daily basis. Each of the contributors to this
collection speaks directly to the intersection between their own
identities, the lived experiences of their students, and the
particular qualities of the institutions where they
teach--including student demographics, curricular requirements,
geographical location, and comparative levels of administrative
support for implementing social justice approaches. From this
perspective, they provide hope and practical guidance for
scholar-educators who want to meet our students where they are.
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County Durham (Hardcover)
Martin Roberts, Nikolaus Pevsner, Elizabeth Williamson
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R1,837
R1,677
Discovery Miles 16 770
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A comprehensive guide to County Durham, one of Northern England's
most fascinating and architecturally diverse counties This volume
surveys one of northern England's most varied and rewarding
counties. County Durham, flanked by the rivers Tyne and Tees,
boasts Durham Cathedral, England's most impressive Norman church,
located unforgettably alongside Durham Castle on the cliff tops
above the River Wear. Exceptionally rich in Anglo-Saxon churches
and sculpture, County Durham features the legacy of the brilliant
culture of the age of Bede. Many of Durham's extraordinary castles
remain inhabited, with palatial interiors from the Georgian and
Victorian periods. In addition to fine gentry houses and
stone-built market towns, the county also reveals the legacy of
historic industries, including early railway buildings, collieries
and lead mines. During the 20th century, a new generation of
innovative buildings for culture and education at Gateshead and
Sunderland emerged. Specially commissioned photography and maps
complement an exceptional guide to this architecturally rich
northern English county.
Compiled by the American Herbal Pharmacopoeia(R), this volume
addresses the lack of authoritative microscopic descriptions of
those medicinal plant species currently in trade. It includes an
atlas providing detailed text and graphic descriptions of more than
140 medicinal plant species and their adulterants.
Designed to meet the needs of the herbal products industry,
regulatory agencies, and academic researchers, the book covers
plant anatomy at a level appropriate for the pharmacognostic
analysis of plant tissues, provides extensive coverage of the
history and importance of botanical microscopy, and gives
instruction on how to set up a microscopy lab and prepare, view,
and archive whole and powdered plant parts for microscopic
analysis.
The atlas portion is repeated on an included CD-that also holds
extra full color art. The botanicals covered represent 90 percent
of the dollar value of botanical sales in the United States The
focus is on those species that are in high use, and those that are
commonly adulterated or potentially. It also covers a number of
popular Asian botanicals, providing the first English language
description for many of these.
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Nottinghamshire (Hardcover)
Clare Hartwell, Nikolaus Pevsner, Elizabeth Williamson
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R1,831
R1,671
Discovery Miles 16 710
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A richly illustrated exploration of the architecture of one of
England's hidden gems-Nottinghamshire This volume offers an
enlightening introduction to the memorable and surprising buildings
of one of England's least-known counties. Located in the center of
England, Nottinghamshire boasts a rich history, including its
storied connection to the legendary Robin Hood. Nottinghamshire
features the exquisite medieval churches of Newark, Worksop Priory,
and Southwell Minster. Country houses offer a fascinating range of
architectural styles: Wollaton Hall shows Elizabethan architecture
at its most fantastic, and Bunny Hall demonstrates the English
Baroque at its most bizarre. Newstead Abbey, home of the poet Lord
Byron, incorporates the haunting monastic ruins from a former
Augustinian abbey. The city of Nottingham teems with Victorian and
Edwardian commercial buildings, and is enlivened by a local
tradition of first-rate Modernist architecture. With new color
photography, maps, and illustrations, this volume is the ideal
guide to one of England's most fascinating counties.
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Glasgow (Hardcover, New Ed)
Elizabeth Williamson, Anne Riches, Malcom Higgs
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R1,791
Discovery Miles 17 910
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Glasgow has a wide array of architectural treasures: the greatest
medieval cathedral in Scotland; fragments of a seventeenth- and
eighteenth-century 'merchant city'; the well-preserved heart of a
planned new town, Blythswood; a city centre dense with Victorian
and Edwardian commercial buildings; stately nineteenth-century
terraces lining the Great Western Road and picturesquely crowning
Woodlands Hill; opulent villas in suburbs like Pollokshields and
Kelvinside; and streets of tenements from the workaday to the
grand. The twentieth century has encircled the city with a broad
belt of public housing, and this too has a fascinating history that
encompasses garden suburbs, early experiments in high-rise,
comprehensive redevelopments and new interpretations of the
tenement tradition. Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Alexander 'Greek'
Thomson are, of course, internationally known, but the exceptional
talents of Glasgow's many other architects, such as Charles Wilson,
James Salmon Jr. and Jack Coia, have helped to shape the city's
distinctive character.
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Derbyshire (Hardcover)
Clare Hartwell, Nikolaus Pevsner, Elizabeth Williamson
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R1,825
R1,664
Discovery Miles 16 640
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This is the essential guide to the architecture of Pevsner's
"county of contrasts," home to an amazingly diverse assortment of
landmarks. Among Derbyshire's many distinguished country houses are
Haddon Hall and Hardwick Hall. 17th-century highlights include the
adventurous architecture of Bolsover Castle and the Baroque
splendors of Chatsworth, while the dazzling Neoclassical interiors
of Kedleston Hall are the summit of the county's many Georgian
achievements. Numerous spa towns, pioneering industrial
settlements, and parish churches from Anglo-Saxon to modern are
also included. The settings range from the Trent valley to the
sublime landscape of the Peak District, making Derbyshire one of
England's most visually arresting counties.
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Sussex: West (Hardcover)
Elizabeth Williamson, Tim Hudson, Jeremy Musson, Ian Nairn
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R1,831
R1,671
Discovery Miles 16 710
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This volume covers some of the finest landscape and architecture in
southern England, much of it set within the South Downs National
Park. The county's small towns and villages feature a pleasing mix
of stone, timber, and brick houses of every period. Among numerous
atmospheric country houses are the Tudor ruins of Cowdray, the
Elizabethan mansion at Parham, and the French-inspired Petworth in
its great park, famously captured in Turner's paintings. On the
grandest scale is the mighty Arundel Castle, seat of the Duke of
Norfolk, while Chichester, the only city in West Sussex, boasts one
of the country's most important 12th-century cathedrals. Among many
major ecclesiastical and educational establishments built in the
19th century, none is more impressive than Lancing College set high
above the coast. New research accompanies 130 specially
commissioned color photographs in this authoritative and expert
guide.
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