Renaissance

Renaissance Minds and Their Fictions: Cusanus, Sidney, Shakespeare, by Ronald Levao, explores how three pivotal figures of the Renaissance-Nicholas of Cusa, Sir Philip Sidney, and William Shakespeare-grappled with the power and limits of human invention...

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Renaissance Minds and Their Fictions: Cusanus, Sidney, Shakespeare, by Ronald Levao, explores how three pivotal figures of the Renaissance-Nicholas of Cusa, Sir Philip Sidney, and William Shakespeare-grappled with the power and limits of human invention...

A sweeping revision that speaks to how English literature is taught today. From the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Eleventh Edition, showcases exciting new authors, works, and textual clusters that...

The Darker Vision of the Renaissance explores political, literary, social, religious, medical, and artistic events between 1300 and 1670 that led beyond the bounds of reason into the nonrational, irrational, and suprarational phenomena of the European...

The Protestant Reformation placed intense scrutiny on religious belief in early modern England. But how did this belief work? What resources did it draw on? How did such a faith differ from other kinds of assent? In this interdisciplinary study, Joseph...

It is January 1719 and Daniel Defoe, almost sixty, sits at a table, writing. He is troubled with gout and debt, but for now is preoccupied with a younger man on a barren shore - Robinson Crusoe, for which he will principally be remembered.Several miles...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820704470Author Gregory MachacekFormat HardbackPage Count 203Imprint Duquesne University PressPublisher Duquesne University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820704487Author Sean LawrenceFormat HardbackPage Count 267Imprint Duquesne University PressPublisher Duquesne University PressWeight(grams) 612g

Bringing together eight original essays from leading and emerging Miltonists, this volume explores a second wave of critical thought about Milton's monist materialism, the view that all existence arises from a single substance or reality. Contributors...

The domestic play flourished on the English popular stage during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Its roots were predominantly native, rather than classical, and its mainspring was the staging of domestic conflict amongst English...

Historians of early modern Europe have long stressed how new practices of diplomacy that emerged during the period transformed European politics. Fictions of Embassy is the first book to examine the cultural implications of the rise of modern diplomacy...

How the drama of Shakespeare's time demonstrates the tensions within civilityIs civility merely a matter of reinforcing status and excluding others? Or is it a lubricant in a polarised world, enabling us to overcome tribal loyalties and cooperate for the...

How the drama of Shakespeare's time demonstrates the tensions within civilityIs civility merely a matter of reinforcing status and excluding others? Or is it a lubricant in a polarised world, enabling us to overcome tribal loyalties and cooperate for the...

The opening of the first commercial theatre in London in 1579 initiated a pattern of development that radically reshaped representation. The competition among theatres required the constant production of new works, creating an interplay between the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782812435935Author James ShirleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 395Imprint Classiques GarnierPublisher Classiques GarnierWeight(grams) 567g

Lyric Poetry by Women of the Italian Renaissance is the first modern anthology of verse by Italian women of this period to give a full representation of the richness and diversity of their output. Although familiar authors such as Vittoria Colonna,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782406066224Author Yona DureauFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Classiques GarnierPublisher Classiques GarnierWeight(grams) 576g

Thomas Middleton and the Plural Politics of Jacobean Drama represents the first sustained study of Middleton's dramatic works as responses to James I's governance. Through examining Middleton's poiesis in relation to the political theology of Jacobean...

This collection of original essays on Middleton and Rowley's unsettling revenge tragedy The Changeling represents key new directions in criticism and research. The 13 chapters fall into six groups focusing on questions of space, theology, collaboration,...

Understanding the soul's essence is an elusive pursuit, rendering any attempt to write about it akin to grasping at a mirage. As a sublime subject, the soul has captivated human thought for centuries. How do we approach it? How can we define its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487577292Author Millar MaclureFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 367g

Traditional Petrarchan and Neoplatonic paradigms of love started to show clear signs of inadequacy and exhaustion in the sixteenth century. How did the Spanish Golden Age recast worn out discourses of love and make them compelling again? This volume...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781883419Author Cecilia MuratoriFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint LegendaPublisher LegendaWeight(grams) 445g

One of the earliest domestic tragedies, Arden of Faversham is a powerful Elizabethan drama based on the real-life murder of Thomas Arden. This Critical Reader presents the first collection of essays specifically focused upon Arden of Faversham. It...

This volume offers an accessible and thought-provoking guide to this major Renaissance tragedy, surveying its key themes and evolving critical responses over the course of nearly four centuries. Providing a uniquely detailed and up-to-date account of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487576967Author Nancy LindheimFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 331g

Human Insufficiency argues that early modern writers depict the human political subject as physically vulnerable in order to naturalize slavery. Representations of Man as a weak creature—“poor” and “bare” in King Lear’s words—strategically portrayed...

Managing Readers explores the fascinating interchange between text and margin, authorship and readership in early modern England. Printed marginalia did more than any other material feature of book production in the period between 1540 and 1700 to shape...

This book presents the most recent scholarship on the sixteenth-century convert Johannes Pfefferkorn and his context. Pfefferkorn is the most (in)famous of the converts from Judaism who wrote descriptions of Jewish ceremonial life and shaped both...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949979138Author Will StocktonFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Clemson University PressPublisher Clemson University PressWeight(grams) 621g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839541636Author Marco FainiFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint LegendaPublisher LegendaWeight(grams) 581g

Textiles have long provided metaphors for storytelling: a compelling novel "weaves a tapestry" and we enjoy hearing someone "spin" a tale. To what extent, however, should we take these metaphors seriously? Arras Hanging: The Textile...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781886069Author Liza BlakeFormat HardbackPage Count 594Imprint Modern Humanities Research AssociationPublisher Modern Humanities Research...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907322259Author Liza BlakeFormat PaperbackPage Count 594Imprint Modern Humanities Research AssociationPublisher Modern Humanities Research...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781774761823Author BoethiusFormat HardbackPage Count 132Imprint Engage BooksPublisher Engage BooksWeight(grams) 367gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 11mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399544528Author Marjorie RubrightFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

This book makes newly visible the sustained engagement of the English and the Dutch throughout a critical century in their cultural and national development. It reads a broad selection of early modern literary texts, some never before treated in...

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 1996 The Decameron is a narrative account of a situation in which narration takes place-a collection of one hundred stories set within a larger story. As a group of young men and women...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907322167Author Joyce BoroFormat HardbackPage Count 290Imprint Modern Humanities Research AssociationPublisher Modern Humanities Research...