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The Twice-Chang'd Friar is one of four early seventeenth-century
plays preserved in a manuscript miscellany in the library of the
Newdigate family of Arbury Hall, Nuneaton (Arbury Hall MS A414).
The play, which appears to have been written by family member and
drama lover John Newdigate III, is thought to be unique to this
manuscript. This edition makes the play available in print for the
first time. The Twice Chang'd Friar is an Italianate city comedy
based on a tale from Boccaccio's Decameron. It tells the story of
Albert, a friar who seduces Lisetta, a beautiful Venetian
merchant's wife by persuading her that he is the incarnation of
Cupid. Albert's plot is eventually uncovered by Lisetta's brothers,
whom he escapes by disguising himself in a bear's skin. The play is
a fascinating example of an amateur manuscript drama, of interest
to all scholars and students of early modern drama. -- .
Shakespeare is a cultural phenomenon and arguably the most renowned
playwright in history. In this edited collection, Shellard and
Keenan bring together a collection of essays from international
scholars that examine the direct and indirect economic and cultural
impact of Shakespeare in the marketplace in the UK and beyond. From
the marketing of Shakespeare's plays on and off stage, to the wider
impact of Shakespeare in fields such as education, and the
commercial use of Shakespeare as a brand in the advertising and
tourist industries, this volume makes an important contribution to
our understanding of the Shakespeare industry 400 years after his
death. With a foreword from the celebrated cultural economist Bruno
Frey and nine essays exploring the cultural and economic impact of
Shakespeare in his own day and the present, Shakespeare's Cultural
Capital forms a unique offering to the study of cultural economics
and Shakespeare.
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Daphne Walters moves to Los Angeles and finds that the only ones
who can help her find love and live life to the fullest are the
ghosts of her new home! In Los Angeles, finding an apartment is
killer-unless you live with the dead. Daphne Walters moves to Los
Angeles for her boyfriend Ronnie, ready to live her happily ever
after. But when happily ever after turns into happily for a month,
she's stuck in a strange city with no friends, family, or prospects
for fun. Desperate to escape the lingering ghost of Ronnie's
presence everywhere, Daphne sets out to explore the city-and ends
up encountering ghosts of a more literal kind! Rycroft Manor is
abandoned, beautiful, and haunted. Will the dead be able to help
Daphne find the life she's been missing in the big city? From GLAAD
Award-nominated Sina Grace (Iceman) and illustrator Siobhan Keenan
(Jem and the Holograms) comes a story about learning how to make
friends, find love, and live life to the fullest with a little help
from some friends whose lives didn't end at death. Collects Ghosted
In L.A #1-4.
Of all the tales to be found in Boccaccio’s Decameron, the tragic
story of King Tancred’s efforts to frustrate the love of his
daughter Gismond for Guiscardo, was probably the best known and
most popular in Renaissance England. This Collections volume brings
together the earliest texts of the first and last pre-1642 plays to
deal with the lovers’ story: the Inner Temple tragedy, Gismond of
Salern (1568), and a much-revised play probably by amateur
Warwickshire dramatist John Newdigate (1620s). It presents the
first modern transcription of the Hargrave MS of Gismond of Salern
and the first ever printed edition of Newdigate’s untitled play,
here named Glausamond and Fidelia. Together, the plays offer fresh
proof of the important influence of Boccaccio, and Italian
literature on English Renaissance drama. They are also fascinating
examples of the period’s amateur drama, of interest to all
scholars and students of early modern English theatre. -- .
The critically-acclaimed series concludes as Daphne Walters must
confront her former roommate Michelle, discover the mystery of just
who's behind that basement door and decide her entire future - this
should be totally easy, right? CRAZY, SUPERNATURAL, LOVE. Daphne
Walters' life is complicated enough, living at Rycroft Manor with
her ghostly friends and trying to figure out why everyone in LA is
always 30 minutes late for everything important. So it's TOTALLY
the perfect time for Daphne to lose one of her friends, for the
mystery of the ghost behind the basement door to be revealed and
for Daphne to decide her entire future, RIGHT? And did we forget to
mention that Daphne's former roommate Michelle just unveiled a
scheme to exorcise the friendly ghosts from Rycroft? Yeah, there's
that too. GLAAD Award-nominated Sina Grace (Iceman) and illustrator
Siobhan Keenan (Jem and the Holograms) conclude the acclaimed
series that proves true love and friendship never dies! Collects
Ghosted in L.A. #9-12
Shakespeare is a cultural phenomenon and arguably the most renowned
playwright in history. In this edited collection, Shellard and
Keenan bring together a collection of essays from international
scholars that examine the direct and indirect economic and cultural
impact of Shakespeare in the marketplace in the UK and beyond. From
the marketing of Shakespeare's plays on and off stage, to the wider
impact of Shakespeare in fields such as education, and the
commercial use of Shakespeare as a brand in the advertising and
tourist industries, this volume makes an important contribution to
our understanding of the Shakespeare industry 400 years after his
death. With a foreword from the celebrated cultural economist Bruno
Frey and nine essays exploring the cultural and economic impact of
Shakespeare in his own day and the present, Shakespeare's Cultural
Capital forms a unique offering to the study of cultural economics
and Shakespeare.
Collections XVII is the latest volume in the Malone Society's
pioneering series of editions of miscellaneous documents relating
to English theatre and drama before 1642. It is likely to be of
special interest not only to early theatre historians but to those
working on Tudor and Stuart court and civic culture, manuscript
writing, household drama and early modern women's writing, as it
publishes new material in each of these fields. The book includes
items such as Revels Office accounts, a playscript fragment,
entertainments, poems and civic shows. Many of these documents are
previously unpublished, and have been freshly edited and
transcribed; each has an introduction giving details of its date,
authorship and historical importance. The volume will be essential
reading for postgraduates and university teachers in early modern
drama, theatre history and women's writing. -- .
"Acting Companies and their Plays in Shakespeare's London "explores
the intimate and dynamic relationship between acting companies and
playwrights in this seminal era in English theatre history.Siobhan
Keenan's analysis includes chapters on the traditions and workings
of contemporary acting companies, playwriting practices, stages and
staging, audiences and patrons, each illustrated with detailed case
studies of individual acting companies and their plays, including
troupes such as Lady Elizabeth's players, 'Beeston's Boys' and the
King's Men and works by Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, Brome and
Heywood. We are accustomed to focusing on individual playwrights:
"Acting Companies and their Plays in Shakespeare's London" makes
the case that we also need to think about the companies for which
dramatists wrote and with whose members they collaborated, if we
wish to better understand the dramas of the English Renaissance
stage.
"Acting Companies and their Plays in Shakespeare's London "explores
the intimate and dynamic relationship between acting companies and
playwrights in this seminal era in English theatre history.Siobhan
Keenan's analysis includes chapters on the traditions and workings
of contemporary acting companies, playwriting practices, stages and
staging, audiences and patrons, each illustrated with detailed case
studies of individual acting companies and their plays, including
troupes such as Lady Elizabeth's players, 'Beeston's Boys' and the
King's Men and works by Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, Brome and
Heywood. We are accustomed to focusing on individual playwrights:
"Acting Companies and their Plays in Shakespeare's London" makes
the case that we also need to think about the companies for which
dramatists wrote and with whose members they collaborated, if we
wish to better understand the dramas of the English Renaissance
stage.
This concise introduction to the literature of an exciting and
influential period opens with an overview of the historical and
cultural context in which English Renaissance literature was
produced, and a discussion of its contemporary and subsequent
critical reception. The following chapters survey the major
Renaissance genres of drama, poetry and prose. Each chapter
provides illustrative case studies of canonical and non-canonical
key texts by authors such as William Shakespeare, Christopher
Marlowe, Ben Jonson, Edmund Spenser, John Milton, Sir Philip
Sidney, John Donne, Aemilia Lanyer, Sir Francis Bacon, Thomas
Nashe, and Lady Mary Wroth. A guide to further reading accompanies
each chapter, complemented by a section of student resources at the
end of the book. The final chapter summarises significant
developments in English Renaissance literary culture, and discusses
the future direction of Renaissance literary scholarship. Key
Features *Detailed readings of Spenser's The Faerie Queene,
Milton's 'Lycidas', Sidney's Astrophil and Stella, Shakespeare's
Sonnets, Venus and Adonis and Hamlet, Marlowe's Tamburlaine,
Jonson's The Alchemist, Lanyer's 'The Description of Cookham',
Bacon's Essays, Donne's sermons, Nashe's The Unfortunate Traveller
and Wroth's The Countess of Montgomery's Urania *A broad overview
of Renaissance literature and the context in which it was produced
*An accessible introduction to Renaissance literary criticism,
including past and present debates about the Renaissance 'canon' *A
variety of study aids, including end-of-chapter summaries of key
points, a glossary of literary and historical terms, a chronology,
advice on essay writing, sample essay questions and plans, and a
guide to further reading and electronic research resources.
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