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Shakespeare's Macbeth by Professor Graham Bradshaw
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.26Apologies 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
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Making Darkness Light: The Lives and Times of John Milton Joe Moshenska 9781529364293
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $19.99'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: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.46Apologies 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
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The Oxford English Literary History: Volume V: 1645-1714: The Later Seventeenth Century by Margaret J. M. Ezell 9780198183112
RRP: $138.45Booksplease Price: $122.83The 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: $84.81Booksplease Price: $81.98The 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: $45.12This 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: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.60One 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... -
John Milton's Paradise Lost by Caroline Moore
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.26Apologies 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: $31.18Booksplease Price: $23.28For 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... -
Making Darkness Light: The Lives and Times of John Milton Joe Moshenska 9781529364286
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $32.86'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: $33.13Booksplease Price: $30.19There 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: $54.60Booksplease Price: $54.17In 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: $68.25Booksplease Price: $54.83An 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... -
Liberty and Love: English Literature and Society, 1640–88 Peter Malekin 9781041097310
Booksplease Price: $181.64Choosing two themes which greatly occupied contemporary writers—the state as an enlarged family, and the family as the state in miniature—Peter Malekin in his book Liberty and Love (originally published in 1981) brings both critical insight and research... -
The Equality of Flesh: Materialism and Human Commonality in Early Modern Culture by Brent Dawson 9781501775659
RRP: $85.80Booksplease Price: $65.60The 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: $142.06Offers 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: $89.70Booksplease Price: $68.37"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: $59.26The 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: $218.99Apologies 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: $124.80Booksplease Price: $94.83On 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: $149.41Ponderous 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... -
Shakespeare and the Comedy of Enchantment by Kent Cartwright 9780198868897
RRP: $179.40Booksplease Price: $164.09Shakespeare 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: $81.88Booksplease Price: $72.29Focusing 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: $202.80Booksplease Price: $193.09Apologies 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: $109.20Booksplease Price: $106.63The 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: $165.75Booksplease Price: $145.47This 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: $175.50Booksplease Price: $175.21This 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: $94.87Apologies 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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The Curious Eye: Optics and Imaginative Literature in Seventeenth-Century England by Erin Webster 9780198850199
Booksplease Price: $183.94The 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... -
Dryden: The Poetics of Translation by Judith Sloman 9781487585297
RRP: $50.68Booksplease Price: $39.94Apologies 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: $58.73This 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: $208.65Booksplease Price: $162.34Global 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: $156.00Booksplease Price: $150.68Aphra 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... -
Gluttony and Gratitude: Milton's Philosophy of Eating by Emily E. Stelzer 9780271081007
RRP: $140.38Booksplease Price: $125.33Despite the persistence and popularity of addressing the theme of eating in Paradise Lost, the tradition of Adam and Eve's sin as one of gluttony-and the evidence for Milton's adaptation of this tradition-has been either unnoticed or suppressed. Emily... -
Milton and the Parables of Jesus: Self-Representation and the Bible in John Milton's Writings by David V. Urban 9780271080994
RRP: $157.93Booksplease Price: $140.38In Milton and the Parables of Jesus, David V. Urban examines Milton's self-referential use of figures from the New Testament parables in his works of poetry and prose. Urban's informative introduction explores the history of parable interpretation and... -
Scholarly Milton by Thomas Festa 9781942954811
RRP: $223.28Booksplease Price: $31.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942954811Author Thomas FestaFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Clemson University Digital PressPublisher Clemson University Digital Press -
g: Imposing Oaths in Milton, Marvell, and Butler by Alex Garganigo 9781487500986
RRP: $122.85Booksplease Price: $93.42In seventeenth-century Britain every debate about loyalty oaths invoked the biblical Samson. Samson's Cords argues that these loyalty tests became an unprecedentedly pervasive feature of life in Restoration England and that writers of satire and epic had...