Filter By
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
Galatea by John Lyly
RRP: £10.99£7.90Devised as an entertainment for a Tudor monarch, Galatea might be seen, paradoxically, as a parable for our time. Inhabiting a world engaged in a process of change, the characters find themselves locked in a series of transgressive situations that speak... -
The Changeling: Thomas Middleton & William Rowley by N. W. Bawcutt
RRP: £14.99£11.12Competitive price and format. Compacted and up-to-date version of the earlier Revels Plays edition by the same editor, taking account of more recent critical works. A key Renaissance text.About the AuthorN.W. Bawcutt, formerly Reader in English... -
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet by Simon Palfrey
RRP: £8.99£6.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776083Author Simon PalfreyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
Shakespeare and the Comedy of Enchantment by Kent Cartwright 9780198868897
RRP: £87.00£78.91Shakespeare and the Comedy of Enchantment argues that enchantment constitutes a key emotional and intellectual dimension of Shakespeare's comedies. It thus makes a new claim about the rejuvenating value of comedy for individuals and society... -
Bussy D'Ambois: By George Chapman by N. S. Brooke 9780719056963
RRP: £19.99£17.82Revels stuff. . . .|This Edition of George Chapman's tragedy differs from all other modern editions in being primarily based on the Quarto of 1607 in preference to the much revised Quarto of 1641. N. S. Brooke believes that the earlier text gives a more... -
Sidney's 'The Defence of Poesy' and Selected Renaissance Literary Criticism by Gavin Alexander
RRP: £14.99£10.95Controversy raged through England during the 1570-80s as Puritans denounced all manner of games & pastimes as a danger to public morals. Writers quickly turrned their attention to their own art and the first & most influential response came with Philip... -
The Revenger'S Tragedy: Thomas Middleton / Cyril Tourneur by R. A. Foakes
RRP: £10.99£7.90This play depicts a morally corrupt world where the desire for justice is contaminated by the obsession for revenge. The characters take pleasure in watching adultery, incest and murder. The play's chief moral spokesman, Vindice, is at the same time... -
Dr Faustus: the A- and B- Texts (1604, 1616): A Parallel-Text Edition by David Bevington
RRP: £10.99£7.90Dr. Faustus is one of the jewels of early modern English drama, and is still widely performed today. Interestingly, the play has come down to the contemporary audience in two distinct versions that have become known as the 'A' and the 'B' texts. David... -
The Witch of Edmonton: By William Rowley, Thomas Dekker and John Ford by Peter Corbin
RRP: £10.99£7.90The Witch of Edmonton has received considerable attention recently both from scholars and critics interested in witchcraft practices and also from the directors in the theatre. The play, based on a sensational witchcraft trial of 1621, presents Mother... -
The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature: Volume 1: 800-1558 by Rita Copeland 9780198859178
RRP: £47.99£47.07The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature (OHCREL) is designed to offer a comprehensive investigation of the numerous and diverse ways in which literary texts of the classical world have stimulated responses and refashioning by... -
Shakespeare's Julius Caesar by Andrew James Hartley
RRP: £8.99£7.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911187394Author Andrew James HartleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Connell GuidesPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
The Tamer Tamed; or, the Woman's Prize by Celia R. Daileader 9780719053672
RRP: £10.99£7.90This is the first edition for students and general readers of this pro-woman reply to Shakespeare's 'The Taming of the Shrew' by a playwright (John Fletcher) who was more admired than Shakespeare in the seventeenth century.Co-edited by a feminist critic... -
Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream by Professor Tom Bishop
RRP: £8.99£7.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776182Author Tom BishopFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
Thomas Browne: Selected Writings by Kevin Killeen 9780198797654
RRP: £20.99£20.69This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students and readers an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682). Accompanied by full scholarly apparatus, the edition demonstrates the breadth of the... -
Doctor Faustus, A- and B- Texts 1604: Christopher Marlowe by David Bevington
RRP: £12.99£9.24This volume in the "Revel Plays" series, offers reading editions, with modern spelling, of the 1604 and 1616 editions of Marlowe's play, arguing that the two cannot be conflated into one. Included are sources and commentary, literary criticism, style and... -
Antonio'S Revenge: By John Marston by John Marston 9780719057038
RRP: £19.99£17.82Part of the major re-launch of MUP's most prestigious series.. The text is supported by variant readings, detailed notes, and a statistical breakdown of word use.. A number of these plays are being performed at the Globe Theatre and in rep as well as... -
The Prophecies by Nostradamus
RRP: £17.99£12.95The predictions of the sixteenth-century French astrologer Nostradamus have long proved captivating. He has been credited with anticipating the Great Fire of London, the rise of Adolf Hitler, and the September 11 terrorist attacks. Today, as the world... -
Thomas of Woodstock by Peter Corbin 9780719080678
RRP: £19.99£17.82This anonymous manuscript play has long been the subject of scholarly dispute regarding its relationship with Shakespeare's Richard II. This edition, which thoroughly re-examines the text, situates the play within its historical and political context,... -
Endymion: John Lyly by David Bevington 9780719030918
RRP: £14.99£13.64Full and comprehensive commentary. Solid and scholarly introduction. A welcome edition to this renouned series .About the AuthorDavid Bevington is Phyllis Fay Horton Professor in the Humanities at the University of ChicagoBook InformationISBN... -
The First and Second Parts of King Edward Iv: Thomas Heywood by Richard Rowland 9780719080647
RRP: £19.99£17.82'Edward IV' (1599) was printed no less than six times up to 1626, and was one of the best loved plays of the early modern period, but this edition is the first since the 1870s. The play premiered at a moment when the representation of medieval history in... -
The Inner Sea: Maritime Literary Culture in Early Modern Portugal by Professor Josiah Blackmore
RRP: £28.00£23.27An expansive consideration of how nautical themes influenced literature in early modern Portugal. In this book, Josiah Blackmore considers how the sea and seafaring shaped literary creativity in early modern Portugal during the most active,... -
A Game at Chess: Thomas Middleton by Thomas Middleton 9780719016349
RRP: £12.99£11.95For many years Middleton's "A Game at Chess" was more notorious than read, considered rather a phenomenon of theatrical history than a pre-eminent piece of dramatic writing. "A Game at Chess" was a nine days' wonder, an exceptional play of King James'... -
The Knight of the Burning Pestle: Francis Beaumont by Sheldon Zitner
RRP: £14.99£11.12This play is a celebration of London life and theatre in which Francis Beaumont's comic genius is given free rein. A grocer, his wife and their two apprentices attending the theatre in holiday mood interrupt and finally replace a fatuous love comedy with... -
Shakespeare and Terrorism by Islam Issa
RRP: £19.99£17.69Shakespeare and Terrorism delves into how extremists have responded to Shakespeare - whether they've attacked him or been inspired by him - and investigates what the playwright and his works can tell us about the nature, psychology, and consequences of... -
Mother Juana de la Cruz, 1481-1534: Visionary Sermons by Jessica a Boon
£40.33Juana de la Cruz (1481-1534) is a unique figure in the history of the Catholic Church, thanks to her public visionary experiences during which she lost consciousness, while a deep voice, identifying itself as Christ, issued from her, narrating the feasts... -
The Face of Mammon: The Matter of Money in English Renaissance Literature by David Landreth 9780190628222
RRP: £30.49£29.05Money talked in sixteenth-century England, as money still does today. But what the sixteenth century's gold and silver had to say for itself is strikingly different from the modern discourse of money. As David Landreth demonstrates in The Face of Mammon,... -
Cures for Chance: Adoptive Relations in Shakespeare and Middleton by Erin Ellerbeck 9781487508784
£41.03Adoption allows families to modify, either overtly or covertly, what is considered to be the natural order. Cures for Chance explores how early modern English theatre questioned the inevitability of the biological family and proposed new models of... -
The Face of Mammon: The Matter of Money in English Renaissance Literature by David Landreth 9780199773299
RRP: £67.00£58.56The Face of Mammon studies the gold and silver coins of sixteenth-century England as they are articulated in literary writing. Landreth argues that the coinage of the sixteenth century is a very different object from the money that we know-- not only... -
Literature and Party Politics at the Accession of Queen Anne by Joseph Hone 9780198814078
RRP: £91.00£79.92Literature and Party Politics at the Accession of Queen Anne is the first detailed study of the final Stuart succession crisis. It demonstrates for the first time the centrality of debates about royal succession to the literature and political culture of... -
The Oxford Handbook of British Romanticism by David Duff
£47.92The Oxford Handbook of British Romanticism offers a comprehensive guide to the literature and thought of the Romantic period, and an overview of the latest research on this topic. Written by a team of international experts, the Handbook analyses all... -
Common: The Development of Literary Culture in Sixteenth-Century England by Neil Rhodes
RRP: £29.49£27.15This volume explores the development of literary culture in sixteenth-century England as a whole and seeks to explain the relationship between the Reformation and the literary renaissance of the Elizabethan period. Its central theme is the 'common' in... -
The Oxford Handbook of John Bunyan by Michael Davies
£47.92The Oxford Handbook of John Bunyan is the most extensive volume of original essays ever published on the seventeenth-century nonconformist preacher and writer, John Bunyan. Its thirty-eight chapters examine Bunyan's life and works, their religious and... -
Typographies of Performance in Early Modern England by Claire M. L. Bourne
RRP: £91.00£86.96Typographies of Performance in Early Modern England is the first book-length study of early modern English playbook typography. It tells a new history of drama from the period by considering the page designs of plays by Shakespeare and others printed... -
Clement Marot`s Epistles by Clement Marot 9780866986427
RRP: £64.00£61.27The first complete, versified English-language translation of the epistles of Renaissance poet Clement Marot. Clement Marot (1496-1544), a royal poet in Renaissance France who ushered in new verse forms and renewed existing ones, stands as one of the... -
English Mythography in its European Context, 1500-1650 by Anna-Maria Hartmann 9780198807704
£118.50Greco-Roman mythology and its reception are at the heart of the European Renaissance, and mythographies-texts that collected and explained ancient myths-were considered indispensable companions to any reader of literature. Despite the importance of this... -
Henry Constable: The Complete Poems by Maria Jesus Perez-Jauregui 9780888442321
RRP: £100.00£95.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780888442321Author Maria Jesus Perez-JaureguiFormat HardbackPage Count 484Imprint Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval StudiesPublisher Pontifical Institute of... -
England's Asian Renaissance by Su Fang Ng 9781644532416
RRP: £134.00£114.93.Book InformationISBN 9781644532416Author Su Fang NgFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint University of Delaware PressPublisher Associated University PressesWeight(grams) 152g -
The Renaissance and the Postmodern: A Study in Comparative Critical Values by Thomas L. Martin 9780367870102
RRP: £39.99£35.06The Renaissance and the Postmodern reconsiders postmodern readings of Renaissance texts by engaging in a dialectics the authors call comparative critical values. Rather than concede the contemporary hierarchy of theory over literature, the book takes the... -
Textual Spaces: French Renaissance Writings on the Italian Voyage by Richard E. Keatley 9780271081298
RRP: £92.95£79.85In Textual Spaces, Richard E. Keatley examines how French travelers experienced, consumed, and represented Italian space during the early modern period. This study digs beneath the facade of leisurely travel literature to unearth a complex web of... -
Renaissance Papers 2018 by Jim Pearce 9781640140592
RRP: £65.00£61.81Renaissance Papers collects the best scholarly essays submitted each year to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference. The 2018 volume features essays presented at the conference at Queens University of Charlotte, North Carolina, as well as essays...