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Massacres In Early Modern Drama

by Georgina Lucas

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 This book analyses the dynamically ambivalent meanings constructed by the language and action of massacre on the early modern stage. Informed by theories drawn from massacre studies, the monograph challenges orthodoxies about senseless violence, illuminates archaic forms of massacres, and attests to their brutally diverse stage representations. -- .
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Thomas Nashe And Literary Performance

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 As an instigator of debate and a defender of tradition, a man of letters and a popular hack, a writer of erotica and a spokesman for bishops, an urbane metropolitan and a celebrant of local custom, the various textual performances of Thomas Nashe have elicited, and continue to provoke, a range of contradictory reactions. Nashe’s often incongruous authorial characteristics suggest that, as a ‘King of Pages’, he not only courted controversy but also deliberately cultivated a variety of public personae, acquiring a reputation more slippery than the herrings he celebrated in print. Collectively, the essays in this book illustrate how Nashe excelled at textual performance but his personae became a contested site as readers actively participated and engaged in the reception of Nashe’s public image and his works.
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Thomas Nashe And Literary Performance

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 Thomas Nashe is typically regarded as an urban author and a University wit, but his writings are inflected and shaped by regional travel, â€˜non-literaryâ€™, non-elite works, and oral culture. The essays in this collection address Nasheâ€™s use of the past, his engagement with the Elizabethan present, and his textual legacy. -- .
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Sound Effects - Hearing The Early Modern Stage

by Laura Jayne Wright

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 This book shows that the sounds of the early modern stage do not only signify but are also significant. Sounds are weighted with meaning, offering a complex system of allusions. Playwrights such as Jonson and Shakespeare developed increasingly experimental soundscapes, from the storms of King Lear (1605) and Pericles (1607) to the explosive laboratory of The Alchemist (1610). Yet, sound is dependent on the subjectivity of listeners; this book is conscious of the complex relationship between sound as made and sound as heard. Sound effects should not resound from scene to scene without examination, any more than a pun can be reshaped in dialogue without acknowledgement of its shifting connotations. This book listens to sound as a rhetorical device, able to penetrate the ears and persuade the mind, to influence and to affect.
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Dirty Books - Erotic Fiction And The Avant-Garde In Mid-Century Paris And New York

by Barry Reay e Nina Attwood

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 The fascinating story of fearless and innovative publishers and authors who wrote their own sexual revolution before the sexual revolution. -- .
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Three Sixteenth-Century Dietaries

by Joan Fitzpatrick

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 Three sixteenth century dietaries makes a significant contribution to our understanding of early modern culture. It provides the first modern edition of three of the most important dietaries of the time - with the texts offering advice on the best ways to maintain well-being. -- .
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John Fletcher'S Rome - Questioning The Classics

by Domenico Lovascio

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 Examines Fletcherâ€™s Roman plays and identifies disorientation as the unifying principle of his portrayal of imperial Rome. The book sheds new light on his intellectual life by arguing that his dramatization of Rome exudes a sense of scepticism over the authority of Roman models resulting from his irreverent approach to the classics. -- .
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Five Elizabethan Progress Entertainments

by Leah Scragg

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 A fully annotated, modern-spelling edition of entertainments performed for the monarch during her summer progress, the collection affords an insight into a neglected area of Elizabethan cultural activity. -- .
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John Fletcher'S Rome - Questioning The Classics

by Domenico Lovascio

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 Examines Fletcherâ€™s Roman plays and identifies disorientation as the unifying principle of his portrayal of imperial Rome. The book sheds new light on his intellectual life by arguing that his dramatization of Rome exudes a sense of scepticism over the authority of Roman models resulting from his irreverent approach to the classics. -- .
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Five Elizabethan Progress Entertainments

by Leah Scragg

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 A fully annotated, modern-spelling edition of entertainments performed for the monarch during her summer progress, the collection affords an insight into a neglected area of Elizabethan cultural activity. -- .
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Doing Kyd - Essays On The Spanish Tragedy

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 Doing Kyd reads Thomas Kydâ€™s The Spanish Tragedy, the box-office and print success of its time, as the play that established the revenge genre in England and served as a â€˜pattern and precedentâ€™ for the golden generation of early modern playwrights. -- .
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John Lyly And Early Modern Authorship

by Andy Kesson

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 During Shakespeare's lifetime, John Lyly was repeatedly described as the central figure in contemporary English literature. This book takes that claim seriously, asking how and why Lyly was considered the most important writer of his time. -- .
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Three Sixteenth-Century Dietaries

by Joan Fitzpatrick

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 Three sixteenth century dietaries makes a significant contribution to our understanding of early modern culture. It provides the first modern edition of three of the most important dietaries of the time - with the texts offering advice on the best ways to maintain well-being. -- .
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Three Romances Of Eastern Conquest

by Ladan Niayesh

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 This volume brings together three late sixteenth-century popular stage romances of travel and conquest in the Muslim East. The plays are introduced, contextualised and edited for the first time in a modern-spelling edition. -- .
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John Lyly And Early Modern Authorship

by Andy Kesson

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 During Shakespeare's lifetime, John Lyly was repeatedly described as the central figure in contemporary English literature. This book takes that claim seriously, asking how and why Lyly was considered the most important writer of his time. -- .
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Playhouse Wills - 1558â€“1642

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 Now available in paperback, this edition constitutes an archive of source materials in the field of Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre. It is a collection of over one hundred wills left by those who participate in the life of the theatre â€" from actors and dramatists to carpenters and costumiers. -- .
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Pap With An Hatchet By John Lyly - An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition

by Leah Scragg

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 With reproduction of original title page: Pappe with an hatchet: alias, A figge for my god sonne, or, Cracke me this nut, or, A countrie cuffe, that is, a sound boxe of the eare, for the idiot Martin to hold his peace, seeing the patch will take no warning / written by one that dares call a dog, a dog, and made to prevent Martins dog daies.
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Three Renaissance Usury Plays - The Three Ladies Of London, Englishmen For My Money, The Hog Hath Lost His Pearl

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 This book provides for the first time modern-spelling, fully annotated editions of three important Elizabethan and Jacobean 'usury plays' - The Three Ladies of London, Englishmen for My Money, and The Hog Hath Lost His Pearl. The edition includes an extensive scholarly introduction to the attitudes toward money-lending in early modern England, and
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John Lyly And Early Modern Authorship

by Andy Kesson

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 During Shakespeare's lifetime, John Lyly was repeatedly described as the central figure in contemporary English literature. This book takes that claim seriously, asking how and why Lyly was considered the most important writer of his time. -- .
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Three Renaissance Travel Plays - "The Travels Of The Three English Brothers" By John Day, William Rowley And George Wilkins, "The Sea Voyage" By John Fletcher And Philip Massinger, "T

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 This volume brings together three little-known plays that convey England's early 17th-century fascination with travel and exploration. The texts are modernized with extensive commentaries and an introduction setting them in historical and cultural context.
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The Stukeley Plays - 'The Battle Of Alcazar' By George Peele And 'The Famous History Of The Life And Death Of Captain Thomas Stukeley

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 The first modern-spelling, annotated edition of the two plays in which Thomas Stukeley, the notorious courtier, pirate, adventurer and soldier is a major character -- .
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Marlowe And The Popular Tradition - Innovation In The English Drama Before 1595

by Dr Ruth R. Lunney

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 Lunney explores Marlowe's engagement with the traditions of the popular stage in the 1580s and early 1590s and offers a new approach to his major plays in terms of staging and audience response, as well as providing a new account of English drama in these important but largely neglected years. -- .
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Richard Brome - Place And Politics On The Caroline Stage

by Matthew Steggle

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 Offers a groudbreaking and authoritative account of the life and works of Richard Brome, the leading comic playwright of 1630s London - reconstructs the chronology of his career from manservant to successful professional dramatist and beyond, and discusses all his comedies, including the two best-known plays, 'A Jovial Crew' and 'The Antipodes'. -- .
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The Stukeley Plays - 'The Battle Of Alcazar' By George Peele And 'The Famous History Of The Life And Death Of Captain Thomas Stukeley

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 The first modern-spelling, annotated edition of the two plays in which Thomas Stukeley, the notorious courtier, pirate, adventurer and soldier is a major character -- .
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