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Fat Religion - Protestant Christianity And The Construction Of The Fat Body

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 Fat Religion: Protestant Christianity and the Construction of the Fat Body explores how Protestant Christianity contributes to the moralization of fat bodies and the proliferation of practices to conform fat bodies to thin ideals.
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The Papacy And Communication In The Central Middle Ages

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 This volume explores papal communication and its reception in the period c.1100-1300; it presents a range of interdisciplinary approaches and original insights into the construction of papal authority and local perceptions of papal power in the central Middle Ages.
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Onstage And Offstage Worlds In Shakespeare'S Plays

by Anthony Brennan

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 First published in 1989, this book focuses on the handling of the relationship between the onstage world and the offstage world, between the world that Shakespeare shows us and the one he tells us about. It examines Shakespeare from a director's viewpoint and explains why dramatists must explore the proportions and weighting of interactions.
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Shakespeareâ€™S Sugared Sonnets

by Katharine M. Wilson

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 During research into the musical element in English poetry, Dr Wilson read the work of the Elizabethan sonneteers chronologically and had a suspicion that Shakespeareâ€™s sonnets were parodies. Later after more thorough investigation, first published in 1974, this is the result: her early impressions were justified beyond all expectation.
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Public And Private Man In Shakespeare

by J. M. Gregson

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 Shakespeare absorbed more deeply the problem of the tensions between the public and private face of man than other Elizabethan dramatists. Originally published in 1983, this book examines the ways in which this psychological insight is developed and modified as a source of dramatic power throughout Shakespeareâ€™s career.
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Human Conflict In Shakespeare

by S. C. Boorman

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 Conflict is at the heart of much of Shakespeareâ€™s drama. First published in 1987, Boorman makes this â€˜warfare of our natureâ€™ the central theme of his approach to Shakespeare. He points to the moral context within which he wrote, in part comprising earlier notions of human nature, in part the new tentative perceptions of his own age.
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Returning To Shakespeare

by Brian Vickers

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 Returning to Shakespeare addresses two broad areas of Shakespeare criticism: the unity of form and meaning, and the history of the playsâ€™ reception. Originally published in 1989, the collection represents the best of Brian Vickersâ€™ work from the previous fifteen years, in a revised and expanded form.
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What'S In Shakespeare'S Names

by Murray J. Levith

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 Originally published in 1978, beginning with what has been written previously, the author illustrates how Shakespeare used names â€" not only those he invented in the later comedies, but those names bequeathed to him by history, myth, classical literature, or the Bible.
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"Fanned And Winnowed Opinions" - Shakespearean Essays Presented To Harold Jenkins

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 First published in 1987, this title celebrates the scholarship of Professor Harold Jenkins, one of this centuryâ€™s foremost editors and critics of Shakespeare. All of the essays address Shakespearean topics, and many of the sixteen focus on the years between 1595 and 1605, the period on which much of Professor Jenkinâ€™s work centers.
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The Moral Universe Of Shakespeare'S Problem Plays

by Vivian Thomas

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 What is it that makes Shakespeareâ€™s problem plays problematic? First published in 1987, the key to this new synthesis of the plays is the idea of fracture and dissolution in the universe. The author traces the dominant themes that both distinguish and unite them, and provides insights into the sources, background, texture and morality.
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Reflections From Shakespeare - A Series Of Lectures

by Lena Ashwell

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 First published in 1926, this title was edited from a series of lectures the author gave to raise money for her theatre group the Lena Ashwell Players. Through her work as a producer the author gained a deeper knowledge of a number of Shakespeareâ€™s plays and in order to support her work gave a number of lectures on "Women in Shakespeare".
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The Politics Of Tragicomedy - Shakespeare And After

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 First published in 1992, this title provides nine readings of tragicomedy from Shakespeareâ€™s late plays to the Interregnum. This exciting collection is characterized by its rejection of absolutist strategies for reading tragicomedy, and it challenges traditional assumptions about the relationship between politics and genre in the period.
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Shakespeare And Tragedy

by John Bayley

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 In his book, originally published in 1981, John Bayley discusses the Roman plays, Troilus and Cressida and Timon of Athens as well as the four major tragedies. He shows how Shakespeareâ€™s most successful tragic effects hinge on an opposition between the discourses of character and form, role and context.
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Shakespeare'S Other Language

by Ruth Nevo

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 Shakespeareâ€™s last plays, the tragicomic Romances, are notoriously strange plays, riddled with fabulous events and incredible coincidences, magic and dream. First published in 1987, this book offers a reading of the plays which invokes the findings and methods of post-psychoanalytic semiotics.
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Shakespeareâ€™S Roman Worlds

by Vivian Thomas

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 First published in 1989, the distinguishing feature of this book is that it tries to convey a clear idea of the relationship between the characters and events in Shakespeareâ€™s plays and the narrative sources on which the 4 Roman plays are based, while also undertaking a critical analysis through the perspective of Shakespeareâ€™s Roman worlds.
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A Specimen Of A Commentary On Shakspeare - Being The Text Of The First (1794) Edition Revised By The Author And Never Previously Published

by Walter Whiter

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 In an age in which the study of Shakespeareâ€™s characters was of prime interest and importance, Whiter developed a form of textual criticism closely linked to a study of the workings of the human mind: and his book, published in 1794 offers a psychological survey of the creative imagination. This revised edition was first published in 1967.
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Cyber Crime Investigator'S Field Guide

by Bruce (Security Refuge Llc, Melbourne, Florida, Usa) Middleton

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 This third edition provides the investigative framework that needs to be followed, along with information about how cyberspace works and the tools that reveal the who, where, what, when, why and how in the investigation of cybercrime.
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Routledge Library Editions: Study Of Shakespeare - 14 Volume Set

by Various

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 This 14-volume set contains titles originally published between 1926 and 1992. An eclectic mix, this collection examines Shakespeare's work from a number of different perspectives, looking at history, language, performance and more it includes references to many of his plays as well as his sonnets.
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Shakespeare And Tragedy

by John Bayley

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 In his book, originally published in 1981, John Bayley discusses the Roman plays, Troilus and Cressida and Timon of Athens as well as the four major tragedies. He shows how Shakespeareâ€™s most successful tragic effects hinge on an opposition between the discourses of character and form, role and context.
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Specimen Of A Commentary On Shakspeare - Being The Text Of The First (1794) Edition Revised By The Author And Never Previously Published

by Walter Whiter

46,36€ + 10% CARD

 In an age in which the study of Shakespeareâ€™s characters was of prime interest and importance, Whiter developed a form of textual criticism closely linked to a study of the workings of the human mind: and his book, published in 1794 offers a psychological survey of the creative imagination. This revised edition was first published in 1967.
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Shakespeare'S Other Language

by Ruth Nevo

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 Shakespeareâ€™s last plays, the tragicomic Romances, are notoriously strange plays, riddled with fabulous events and incredible coincidences, magic and dream. First published in 1987, this book offers a reading of the plays which invokes the findings and methods of post-psychoanalytic semiotics.
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Shakespeare'S Roman Worlds

by Vivian Thomas

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 <p>The ‘infinite variety’ of Shakespeare’s Roman plays is reflected in the diversity of critical commentary to which they have given rise. Originally published in 1989, the distinguishing feature of this study is that it endeavours to convey a clear idea of the relationship between the characters and events in Shakespeare’s plays and the main narrative sources on which the four Roman plays are based, while simultaneously undertaking a critical analysis of the plays through the perspective of Shakespeare’s Roman worlds, particularly the creation and operation of the value system. Hence these plays are perceived as political plays, histories and tragedies.</p>
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Shakespeare'S Sugared Sonnets

by Katharine M. Wilson

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 During research into the musical element in English poetry, Dr Wilson read the work of the Elizabethan sonneteers chronologically and had a suspicion that Shakespeareâ€™s sonnets were parodies. Later after more thorough investigation, first published in 1974, this is the result: her early impressions were justified beyond all expectation.
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Returning To Shakespeare

by Brian Vickers

42,39€ + 10% CARD

 Returning to Shakespeare addresses two broad areas of Shakespeare criticism: the unity of form and meaning, and the history of the playsâ€™ reception. Originally published in 1989, the collection represents the best of Brian Vickersâ€™ work from the previous fifteen years, in a revised and expanded form.
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