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Modernist Writers and the Marketplace is a new research-level
collection devoted to an exciting area in the history of the book.
Focusing on Henry James, W.B. Yeats, Joseph Conrad, D.H. Lawrence,
Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis
and the culture of the little magazine of the period, eleven
contributors from six countries demonstrate new developments in the
sociology of texts, the practice of literary biography, and textual
criticism.
Modernist Writers and the Marketplace is a new research-level
collection devoted to an exciting area in the history of the book.
Focusing on Henry James, W.B. Yeats, Joseph Conrad, D.H. Lawrence,
Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis
and the culture of the little magazine of the period, eleven
contributors from six countries demonstrate new developments in the
sociology of texts, the practice of literary biography, and textual
criticism.
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Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England
S.P. Cerasano; Edited by (associates) Edward Gieskes, Heather Anne Hirschfeld; Contributions by David M. Bergeron, S.P. Cerasano, …
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R3,594
Discovery Miles 35 940
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Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England is an annual volume
committed to the publication of essays and reviews related to
English drama and theatre history to 1642. An internationally
recognized board of scholars oversees the publication of MaRDiE.
Readers who wish to deepen their understanding of early drama will
find that the journal publishes wide-ranging discussions not only
of plays and early performance history, but of topics relating to
cultural history, as well as manuscript studies and the history of
printing.
Throughout his writings, Milton, deeply engaged in political and
theological controversy, sought to clear a space for human freedom
in a world ruled by an omniscient and omnipotent deity. Paradise
Lost and Samson Agonistes, as well as other works by Milton in
verse and prose, explore the problematical aspects of a universe
ruled by an Old Testament God of wrath, demanding obedience, who
allows his creatures the freedom to be 'authors' of their own fate.
Milton and the Burden of Freedom examines the contradictions
inherent in Milton's religious, political, and ethical beliefs as
expressed in his poems, prose writings, and the treatise De
Doctrina Christiana. Milton, whose writings are rooted in the
Reformed tradition while challenging Calvinist orthodoxy, is both
radical and conservative. In this book, Warren Chernaik traces the
evolution of Milton's attitude towards freedom, servitude and
virtue during a century of political upheaval and disappointed
hopes.
Throughout his writings, Milton, deeply engaged in political and
theological controversy, sought to clear a space for human freedom
in a world ruled by an omniscient and omnipotent deity. Paradise
Lost and Samson Agonistes, as well as other works by Milton in
verse and prose, explore the problematical aspects of a universe
ruled by an Old Testament God of wrath, demanding obedience, who
allows his creatures the freedom to be 'authors' of their own fate.
Milton and the Burden of Freedom examines the contradictions
inherent in Milton's religious, political, and ethical beliefs as
expressed in his poems, prose writings, and the treatise De
Doctrina Christiana. Milton, whose writings are rooted in the
Reformed tradition while challenging Calvinist orthodoxy, is both
radical and conservative. In this book, Warren Chernaik traces the
evolution of Milton's attitude towards freedom, servitude and
virtue during a century of political upheaval and disappointed
hopes.
When Cleopatra expresses a desire to die 'after the high Roman
fashion', acting in accordance with 'what's brave, what's noble',
Shakespeare is suggesting that there are certain values that are
characteristically Roman. The use of the terms 'Rome' and 'Roman'
in Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra or Jonson's Sejanus often
carry the implication that most people fail to live up to this
ideal of conduct, that very few Romans are worthy of the name. In
this book Chernaik demonstrates how, in these plays, Roman values
are held up to critical scrutiny. The plays of Shakespeare, Jonson,
Massinger and Chapman often present a much darker image of Rome, as
exemplifying barbarism rather than civility. Through a comparative
analysis of the Roman plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries,
and including detailed discussion of the classical historians Livy,
Tacitus and Plutarch, this study examines the uses of Roman history
- 'the myth of Rome' - in Shakespeare's age.
When Cleopatra expresses a desire to die 'after the high Roman
fashion', acting in accordance with 'what's brave, what's noble',
Shakespeare is suggesting that there are certain values that are
characteristically Roman. The use of the terms 'Rome' and 'Roman'
in Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra or Jonson's Sejanus often
carry the implication that most people fail to live up to this
ideal of conduct, that very few Romans are worthy of the name. In
this book Chernaik demonstrates how, in these plays, Roman values
are held up to critical scrutiny. The plays of Shakespeare, Jonson,
Massinger and Chapman often present a much darker image of Rome, as
exemplifying barbarism rather than civility. Through a comparative
analysis of the Roman plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries,
and including detailed discussion of the classical historians Livy,
Tacitus and Plutarch, this study examines the uses of Roman history
- 'the myth of Rome' - in Shakespeare's age.
The pursuit of sexual freedom and its political, philosophical and
practical implications are the themes of this wide-ranging study of
restoration literature, which confronts ideological issues of
sexual politics equally relevant to modern debate. The author
examines the writers of the later seventeenth century in their
historical context, and focuses particularly on what happens when
women desire sexual freedom as well as men. In a study of the
writings, notorious for their sexual candour, of the Earl of
Rochester, God-haunted atheist and licensed rebel of the
Restoration court, and Aphra Behn, the most prominent and most
controversial woman writer of the period, the author explores some
of the tensions inherent in the ideology of individual liberty as
applied to the conduct of sexual relations inside and outside
marriage. The works by Rochester, Aphra Behn and their
contemporaries gain much of their power from the ambivalence with
which they treat the competing claims of freedom and authority,
rebelliousness and security, the assertion of power and the need to
love.
Shakespeare's history plays, as fresh today as when they were
written, are based upon the assumption that time is not simply a
destroyer but a preserver, and that 'examples past' might enable us
to understand the present and anticipate the future. This lively
2007 study examines the continuing tradition of Shakespeare's
history plays in stage and film productions as well as giving an
account of the critical debate on these plays. Following two
introductory chapters giving essential background on the genre, the
English history plays are discussed in turn, bringing out the
distinctive characteristics of each play: the three early Henry VI
plays; the perennial stage favourite Richard III; King John;
Richard II; Henry IV 1 and 2, famous for the character of Falstaff;
Henry V, which is treated very differently in the film versions by
Olivier and Branagh; and Henry VIII. An invaluable introduction to
these fascinating and complex plays.
The pursuit of sexual freedom and its political, philosophical and
practical implications are the themes of this wide-ranging study of
restoration literature, which confronts ideological issues of
sexual politics equally relevant to modern debate. The author
examines the writers of the later seventeenth century in their
historical context, and focuses particularly on what happens when
women desire sexual freedom as well as men. In a study of the
writings, notorious for their sexual candour, of the Earl of
Rochester, God-haunted atheist and licensed rebel of the
Restoration court, and Aphra Behn, the most prominent and most
controversial woman writer of the period, the author explores some
of the tensions inherent in the ideology of individual liberty as
applied to the conduct of sexual relations inside and outside
marriage. The works by Rochester, Aphra Behn and their
contemporaries gain much of their power from the ambivalence with
which they treat the competing claims of freedom and authority,
rebelliousness and security, the assertion of power and the need to
love.
Shakespeare's history plays, as fresh today as when they were
written, are based upon the assumption that time is not simply a
destroyer but a preserver, and that 'examples past' might enable us
to understand the present and anticipate the future. This lively
2007 study examines the continuing tradition of Shakespeare's
history plays in stage and film productions as well as giving an
account of the critical debate on these plays. Following two
introductory chapters giving essential background on the genre, the
English history plays are discussed in turn, bringing out the
distinctive characteristics of each play: the three early Henry VI
plays; the perennial stage favourite Richard III; King John;
Richard II; Henry IV 1 and 2, famous for the character of Falstaff;
Henry V, which is treated very differently in the film versions by
Olivier and Branagh; and Henry VIII. An invaluable introduction to
these fascinating and complex plays.
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