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Galatea by John Lyly
RRP: €13.08€9.40Devised 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... -
Dr Faustus: the A- and B- Texts (1604, 1616): A Parallel-Text Edition by David Bevington
€17.97Dr. 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 Changeling: Thomas Middleton & William Rowley N. Bawcutt 9780719044816
RRP: €17.84€13.23Competitive 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... -
Feeling Pleasures: The Sense of Touch in Renaissance England by Joe Moshenska 9780198807193
€43.01The sense of touch had a deeply uncertain status in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It had long been seen as the most certain and reliable of the senses, and also as biologically necessary: each of the other senses could be relinquished, but to... -
The Revenger'S Tragedy: Thomas Middleton / Cyril Tourneur by R. A. Foakes
RRP: €13.08€11.59This 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... -
The Witch of Edmonton: By William Rowley, Thomas Dekker and John Ford by Peter Corbin
RRP: €13.08€9.40The 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... -
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet by Simon Palfrey
RRP: €10.70€7.68Apologies 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 -
Bussy D'Ambois: By George Chapman by N. S. Brooke 9780719056963
RRP: €23.79€21.21Revels 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: €17.84€13.03Controversy 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... -
Doctor Faustus, A- and B- Texts 1604: Christopher Marlowe Eric Rasmussen 9780719016431
RRP: €15.46€11.00This 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... -
The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature: Volume 1: 800-1558 by Rita Copeland 9780198859178
RRP: €57.11€56.01The 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... -
The Inner Sea: Maritime Literary Culture in Early Modern Portugal by Professor Josiah Blackmore
RRP: €33.32€27.69An 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,... -
The Knight of the Burning Pestle: Francis Beaumont by Sheldon Zitner
RRP: €17.84€13.23This 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's Money: How much did he make and what did this mean? by Robert Bearman 9780198822240
RRP: €24.38€24.26There is no doubting Shakespeare's literary genius, immortalised in his published work. However, statements along these lines are frequently followed by laments of how little is known about this life. This is true if we wish to know about Shakespeare's... -
The Spanish Tragedy (Revels Student Edition): Thomas Kyd Stephen Bevington 9780719043444
RRP: €13.08€9.40The "revenge" play became the most durable and commercially successful type of drama on the Elizabethan stage. This example by Thomas Kyd, who was one of the originators of the genre, brings to life the intrigues of the Spanish court, dramatically... -
The Tamer Tamed; or, the Woman's Prize by Celia R. Daileader 9780719053672
RRP: €13.08€9.40This 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... -
Thomas Browne: Selected Writings by Kevin Killeen 9780198797654
RRP: €24.98€24.62This 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... -
The Oxford Handbook of British Romanticism by David Duff
€57.02The 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... -
Shakespeare's Binding Language by John Kerrigan 9780198818359
€42.26This remarkable, innovative book explores the significance in Shakespeare's plays of oaths, vows, contracts, pledges, and the other utterances and acts by which characters commit themselves to the truth of things past, present, and to come. In early... -
Antonio'S Revenge: By John Marston by John Marston 9780719057038
RRP: €23.79€21.21Part 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... -
Staging and Re-cycling: Retrieving, Reflecting and Re-framing the Archive by John Keefe 9780367501754
RRP: €44.02€38.71In Staging and Re- cycling , John Keefe and Knut Ove Arntzen re-visit and reappraise a selection of their work to explore how the retrieval, re-approaching and re-framing of material can offer pathways for new work and new thinking. The book includes a... -
Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream by Professor Tom Bishop
RRP: €10.70€8.81Apologies 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 -
The First and Second Parts of King Edward Iv: Thomas Heywood by Richard Rowland 9780719080647
RRP: €23.79€21.21'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... -
A Game at Chess: Thomas Middleton by Thomas Middleton 9780719016349
RRP: €15.46€14.22For 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'... -
Endymion: John Lyly by David Bevington 9780719030918
RRP: €17.84€16.23Full 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... -
Shakespeare's Julius Caesar by Andrew James Hartley
RRP: €10.70€8.81Apologies 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 -
Thomas of Woodstock by Peter Corbin 9780719080678
RRP: €23.79€21.21This 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,... -
The Prophecies by Nostradamus
RRP: €21.41€15.83The 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... -
Modernism's Inhuman Worlds by Rasheed Tazudeen 9781501776496
RRP: €53.55€46.62Modernism's Inhuman Worlds explores the centrality of ecological precarity, species indeterminacy, planetary change, and the specter of extinction to modernist and contemporary metamodernist literatures. Modernist ecologies, Rasheed Tazudeen argues,... -
Writing Conscience and the Nation in Revolutionary England by Giuseppina Iacona Lobo 9781487501204
RRP: €69.02€59.70Examining works by well-known figures of the English Revolution, including John Milton, Oliver Cromwell, Margaret Fell Fox, Lucy Hutchinson, Thomas Hobbes, and King Charles I, Giuseppina Iacono Lobo presents the first comprehensive study of conscience... -
The autos sacramentales of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz: Natural Philosophy and Sacramental Theology by Alice Brooke 9780198816829
€114.73Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1651-1695) was the most significant literary figure of the colonial period in Spanish America.The autos sacramentales, or Eucharistic plays are some of her least studied, and most perplexing works. While one of them, El divino... -
Manuscript Matters: Reading John Donne's Poetry and Prose in Early Modern England by Lara M. Crowley 9780198821861
€96.69Manuscript Matters illuminates responses to some of John Donne's most elusive texts by his contemporary audiences. Since examples of seventeenth-century literary criticism prove somewhat rare and frequently ambiguous, this book emphasizes a critical... -
Biblical Readings and Literary Writings in Early Modern England, 1558-1625 by Victoria Brownlee 9780198812487
€106.31The Bible had a profound impact on early modern culture, and bible-reading shaped the period's drama, poetry, and life-writings, as well as sermons and biblical commentaries. This volume provides an account of the how the Bible was read and applied in... -
The Face of Mammon: The Matter of Money in English Renaissance Literature by David Landreth 9780190628222
RRP: €36.28€34.57Money 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
RRP: €45.22€39.59Adoption 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: €79.73€69.69The 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: €108.29€95.10Literature 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... -
Shakespeare and Terrorism by Islam Issa
RRP: €23.79€21.05Shakespeare 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... -
Shakespeare and the Comedy of Enchantment by Kent Cartwright 9780198868897
RRP: €103.53€93.90Shakespeare 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... -
The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy by Michael Neill 9780198820390
€48.90The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy presents fifty-four essays by a range of scholars from all parts of the world. Together these essays offer readers a fresh and comprehensive understanding of Shakespeare tragedies as both works of literature...