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Shakespeare's Macbeth by Professor Graham Bradshaw
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776045Author Graham BradshawFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
Shakespeare's The Tempest by Professor Graham Bradshaw
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776052Author Graham BradshawFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
Making Darkness Light: The Lives and Times of John Milton Joe Moshenska 9781529364293
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.25'Making Darkness Light is an illumination' Adam Phillips'His sympathetic yet challenging account will undoubtedly win Milton new readers - and for that a chorus of Hallelujahs' SpectatorFor most of us John Milton has been consigned to the dusty pantheon... -
Shakespeare's Othello by Professor Graham Bradshaw
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776007Author Graham BradshawFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
Shakespeare's King Lear by Valentine Cunningham 9781907776236
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776236Author Valentine CunninghamFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
The Oxford English Literary History: Volume V: 1645-1714: The Later Seventeenth Century by Margaret J. M. Ezell 9780198183112
RRP: £71.00Booksplease Price: £62.99The Oxford English Literary History is the new century's definitive account of a rich and diverse literary heritage that stretches back for a millennium and more. Each of these thirteen groundbreaking volumes offers a leading scholar's considered... -
The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy by Michael Neill 9780198820390
RRP: £43.49Booksplease Price: £42.04The 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... -
Thomas Browne: Selected Writings by Kevin Killeen 9780198797654
Booksplease Price: £23.14This 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 Essays by Francis Bacon
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.54One of the major political figures of his time, Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) served in the court of Elizabeth I and ultimately became Lord Chancellor under James I in 1617. A scholar, wit, lawyer and statesman, he wrote widely on politics, philosophy... -
The Life of John Milton by A.N. Wilson 9780712668187
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.42A. N. Wilson's sympathetic, readable and brilliantly analytical narrative places John Milton, the greatest poet of the seventeenth century, in the context of his political and religious ideas.'The best short life of Milton currently available.' Times... -
John Milton's Paradise Lost by Caroline Moore
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776106Author Caroline MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
Three Jacobean Witchcraft Plays by Peter Corbin 9780719019531
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.63For Jacobean society, witchcraft was a potent and very real force, an area of sharp controversy in which King James I himself participated and a phenomenon that attracted many dramatists and writers. The three plays in this volume reflect the variety of... -
Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra by Adrian Poole
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776144Author Adrian PooleFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
Making Darkness Light: The Lives and Times of John Milton Joe Moshenska 9781529364286
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £16.85'Making Darkness Light is an illumination' Adam Phillips'His sympathetic yet challenging account will undoubtedly win Milton new readers - and for that a chorus of Hallelujahs' SpectatorFor most of us John Milton has been consigned to the dusty pantheon... -
Cervantine Blackness Nicholas R. Jones 9780271098784
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.95There is no shortage of Black characters in Miguel de Cervantes's works, yet there has been a profound silence about the Spanish author's compelling literary construction and cultural codification of Black Africans and sub-Saharan Africa. In Cervantine... -
Anna Trapnel's Report and Plea; or, A Narrative of Her Journey from London into Cornwall Anna Trapnel 9780866985581
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £27.78In 1654, Anna Trapnel - a Baptist, Fifth Monarchist, millenarian, and visionary from London - fell into a trance during which she prophesied passionately and at length against Oliver Cromwell and his government. The prophecies attracted widespread public... -
A Philosophy of Beauty: Shaftesbury on Nature, Virtue, and Art by Michael Gill
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.12An engaging account of how Shaftesbury revolutionized Western philosophyAt the turn of the eighteenth century, Anthony Ashley Cooper, the third Earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713), developed the first comprehensive philosophy of beauty to be written in... -
The Grammar Rules of Affection: Passion and Pedagogy in Sidney, Shakespeare, and Jonson by Ross Knecht 9781487508470
RRP: £33.00Booksplease Price: £25.78Renaissance writers habitually drew upon the idioms and images of the schoolroom in their depictions of emotional experience. Memorable instances of this tendency include the representation of love as a schoolroom exercise conducted under the... -
Liberty and Love: English Literature and Society, 1640–88 Peter Malekin 9781041097310
RRP: £89.99Booksplease Price: £78.88The latter half of the seventeenth century was a time of great social and political upheaval, reflected in the literature of the period in a way which is often bewildering to the modern reader. Choosing two themes which greatly occupied contemporary... -
The Curious Eye: Optics and Imaginative Literature in Seventeenth-Century England by Erin Webster 9780198850199
Booksplease Price: £95.18The Curious Eye explores early modern debates over two related questions: what are the limits of human vision, and to what extent can these limits be overcome by technological enhancement? In our everyday lives, we rely on optical technology to provide... -
The Equality of Flesh: Materialism and Human Commonality in Early Modern Culture by Brent Dawson 9781501775659
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £33.64The Equality of Flesh traces a new genealogy of equality before its formalization under liberalism. While modern ideas of equality are defined through an inner human nature, Brent Dawson argues that the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries conceptualized... -
Approaches to Teaching the Works of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega by Christian Fernandez 9781603295574
Booksplease Price: £85.36Offers techniques for teaching the works of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega in undergraduate classrooms, including considerations of mestizaje, transnational identity, interdisciplinarity, influence on modern historians and ethnographers, the Quechua language,... -
Paranoia and Modernity: Cervantes to Rousseau by John C. Farrell 9780801444104
RRP: £46.00Booksplease Price: £35.06"Don Quixote is the first great modern paranoid adventurer.... Grandiosity and persecution define the characters of Swift's Gulliver, Stendhal's Julien Sorel, Melville's Ahab, Dostoyevsky's Underground Man, Ibsen's Masterbuilder Solness, Strindberg's... -
Approaches to Teaching the Works of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega by Christian Fernandez
Booksplease Price: £37.37The author of Comentarios reales and La Florida del Inca, now recognized as key foundational works of Latin American literature and historiography, Inca Garcilaso de la Vega was born in 1539 in Cuzco, the son of a Spanish conquistador and an Incan... -
Locating Milton: Places and Perspectives by Thomas Festa
Booksplease Price: £112.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949979725Author Thomas FestaFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Clemson University Digital PressPublisher Clemson University Digital Press -
Poets, Players, and Preachers: Remembering the Gunpowder Plot in Seventeenth-Century England by Anne James
RRP: £64.00Booksplease Price: £48.63On the night of November 4th 1605, the English authorities uncovered an alleged plot by a group of discontented Catholics to blow up the Houses of Parliament with the lords, princes, queen and king in attendance. The failure of the plot is celebrated to... -
Averrunci or The Skowrers - Ponderous and new considerations upon the first six books of the Annals of Cornelius Tacitus concerning Tiberius Ca Edmund Bolton 9780866985635
Booksplease Price: £76.62Ponderous and new considerations upon the first six books of the Annals of Cornelius Tacitus concerning Tiberius Caesar (Genoa, Biblioteca Durazzo, MS. A IV 5) This edition makes available for the first time a recently discovered and provocative work by... -
The Oxford Handbook of British Romanticism by David Duff
Booksplease Price: £60.16The 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 and the Comedy of Enchantment by Kent Cartwright 9780198868897
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £84.15Shakespeare 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... -
Trials of Nature: The Infinite Law Court of Milton's Paradise Lost by Bjoern Quiring
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.07Focusing on John Milton's Paradise Lost , this book investigates the metaphorical identification of nature with a court of law - an old and persistent trope, haunted by ancient aporias, at the intersection of jurisprudence, philosophy and literature. In... -
Milton's Scriptural Theology: Confronting De Doctrina Christiana by John K. Hale
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £99.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641893404Author John K. HaleFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Arc Humanities PressPublisher Arc Humanities Press -
A True Account of My Life and Selected Meditations by Lady Anne Halkett
RRP: £56.00Booksplease Price: £54.68The autobiographical narrative of Anne, Lady Halkett. Born in the early 1620s, Anne, Lady Halkett (née Murray) grew up on the fringes of the English court during a period of increasing political tension. From 1644 to 1699, Halkett recorded her personal... -
Sound Effects: Hearing the Early Modern Stage by Laura Jayne Wright 9781526159182
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £61.71This 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... -
The Rhetoric of Conversion in English Puritan Writing from Perkins to Milton by David Parry 9781350165144
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £89.85This rhetorical study of the persuasive practice of English Puritan preachers and writers demonstrates how they appeal to both reason and imagination in order to persuade their hearers and readers towards conversion, assurance of salvation and godly... -
Milton's Moving Bodies by Marissa Greenberg 9780810147409
Booksplease Price: £56.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780810147409Author Marissa GreenbergFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Northwestern University PressPublisher Northwestern University PressWeight(grams)... -
Passing Judgment: The Politics and Poetics of Sovereignty in French Tragedy from Hardy to Racine by Helene E. Bilis 9781487500269
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Dryden: The Poetics of Translation by Judith Sloman 9781487585297
Booksplease Price: £27.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487585297Author Judith SlomanFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 395g -
The Rhetoric of Conversion in English Puritan Writing from Perkins to Milton by David Parry 9781350280625
Booksplease Price: £30.12This rhetorical study of the persuasive practice of English Puritan preachers and writers demonstrates how they appeal to both reason and imagination in order to persuade their hearers and readers towards conversion, assurance of salvation and godly... -
Global Milton and Visual Art by Angelica Duran 9781793617064
RRP: £107.00Booksplease Price: £83.25Global Milton and Visual Art showcases the aesthetic appropriation and reinterpretation of the works and legend of the early modern English poet and politician John Milton in diverse eras, regions, and media: book illustrations, cinema, digital... -
Quantitative Literary Analysis of the Works of Aphra Behn: Words of Passion by Laura L. Runge 9781839982002
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.27Aphra Behn (1640-1689), prolific and popular playwright, poet, novelist, translator, has a fascinating and extensive corpus of literature that plays a key role in literary history. Quantitative Literary Analysis of the Works of Aphra Behn: Words of...