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Shakespeare's Borrowed Feathers: How Early Modern Playwrights Shaped the World's Greatest Writer Darren Freebury-Jones 9781526177346
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.83A fascinating exploration of the early modern authors who helped to shape Shakespeare's beloved plays. Shakespeare's plays have influenced generations of writers, but who were the early modern... -
Shakespeare's Borrowed Feathers: How Early Modern Playwrights Shaped the World's Greatest Writer Darren Freebury-Jones 9781526177322
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €23.25A fascinating book exploring the early modern authors who helped to shape Shakespeare's beloved plays.Shakespeare's plays have influenced generations of writers, but who were the early modern... -
The Framing Text in Early Modern English Drama: 'Whining' Prologues and 'Armed' Epilogues Brian W. Schneider 9781032921907
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €47.23Though individual prologues and epilogues have been treated in depth, very little scholarship has been published on early modern framing texts as a whole. The Framing Text in Early Modern English... -
Indict the Author of Affection: Affectation and Catachresis in Hamlet by Bradley W. Buchanan
RRP: €108.29Booksplease Price: €83.90Many scholars have touched tangentially on the topic of affectation in Hamlet, but none have yet offered an adequate rhetorical analysis of Shakespeare's treatment of the concept. Making the claim... -
Conceiving Desire: Metaphor, Cognition and Eros in Lyly and Shakespeare by Gillian Knoll
RRP: €124.95Booksplease Price: €113.06Explores the role of the mind in creating erotic experience on the early modern stageAdvances a new critical methodology that credits the role of cognition in the experience of erotic desire, and... -
Male-to-Female Crossdressing in Early Modern English Literature: Gender, Performance, and Queer Relations Simone Chess 9780367210472
RRP: €59.49Booksplease Price: €55.32This volume examines and theorizes the oft-ignored phenomenon of male-to-female (MTF) crossdressing in early modern drama, prose, and poetry, inviting MTF crossdressing episodes to take a fuller... -
The Descent of Euphues: Three Elizabethan Romance Stories by James Winny 9781107480353
Booksplease Price: €37.18Originally published in 1957, this book presents the text of three Elizabethan prose romances in the euphuistic style: Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit by John Lyly, Pandosto: The Triumph of Time by... -
How the Classics Made Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €20.65From one of our most eminent and accessible literary critics, a groundbreaking account of how the Greek and Roman classics forged Shakespeare's imaginationBen Jonson famously accused Shakespeare of... -
How the Classics Made Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate 9780691210148
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €16.65From one of our most eminent and accessible literary critics, a groundbreaking account of how the Greek and Roman classics forged Shakespeare's imaginationBen Jonson famously accused Shakespeare of... -
Conceiving Desire in Lyly and Shakespeare: Metaphor, Cognition and Eros by Gillian Knoll
RRP: €33.31Booksplease Price: €30.13To 'conceive' desire is to acknowledge the generative potential of the erotic imagination, its capacity to impart form and make meaning out of the most elusive experiences. Drawing from cognitive... -
Queens Matter in Early Modern Studies by Anna Riehl Bertolet 9783319640471
Booksplease Price: €133.78The essays in this book traverse two centuries of queens and their afterlives-historical, mythological, and literary. They speak of the significant and subtle ways that queens leave their mark on the... -
An Anthology of Elizabethan Prose Fiction by Dr Paul Salzman
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €11.09These five works - George Gascoigne's The Adventures of Master F. J; John Lyly's Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit; Robert Greene's Pandosto. The Triumph of Time; Thomas Nashe's The Unfortunate Traveller... -
Making and Unmaking in Early Modern English Drama: Spectators, Aesthetics and Incompletion Chloe Porter 9780719084973
RRP: €101.15Booksplease Price: €73.32Why are early modern English dramatists preoccupied with unfinished processes of 'making' and 'unmaking'? And what did the terms 'finished' or 'incomplete' mean for dramatists and their audiences in... -
Prophecy and Sibylline Imagery in the Renaissance: Shakespeare's Sibyls Jessica L. Malay 9781138868878
RRP: €63.06Booksplease Price: €59.37This book restores the rich tradition of the Sibyls to the position of prominence they once held in the culture and society of the English Renaissance. The sibyls - figures from classical antiquity -... -
The Reformation of Romance: The Eucharist, Disguise, and Foreign Fashion in Early Modern Prose Fiction by Christina Wald 9783110343342
RRP: €157.08Booksplease Price: €106.12This study takes a fresh look at the abundant scenarios of disguise in early modern prose fiction and suggests reading them in the light of the contemporary religio-political developments. More... -
The Oxford Handbook of English Prose 1500-1640 by Andrew Hadfield 9780198778349
Booksplease Price: €53.40The Oxford Handbook of English Prose 1500-1640 is the only current overview of early modern English prose writing. The aim of the volume is to make prose more visible as a subject and as a mode of... -
Fictions of Authorship in Late Elizabethan Narratives: Euphues in Arcadia by Katharine Wilson 9780199252534
Booksplease Price: €73.95The sensational narratives of John Lyly, Robert Greene, and Thomas Lodge established prose fiction as an independent genre in the late sixteenth century. The texts they created are a paradoxical... -
In Windsor Forest by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Booksplease Price: €18.15This cantata was adapted by the composer from music from his opera Sir John in Love. Comprising five choral songs, it features texts by Shakespeare (from 'Much Ado About Nothing') and his near... -
Marriage Relationships in Tudor Political Drama by Michael A. Winkelman 9781138356498
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €47.23Originally published in 2005. While several recent studies have investigated the political dimensions of sixteenth-century English drama, until now there has not been a monograph that tells the story... -
Shakespeare's Alternative Tales by Leah Scragg
Booksplease Price: €40.65A knowledge of the history and evolution of the tales on which Shakespeare drew in the composition of his plays is essential for the understanding of his work. In re-telling a particular story, a... -
Elizabethan Fictions: Espionage, Counter-espionage, and the Duplicity of Fiction in Early Elizabethan Prose Narratives by R.W. Maslen 9780198119913
Booksplease Price: €94.61In Elizabethan Fictions, Robert Maslen argues that English writers of prose fiction from the 1550s to the 15570s produced some of the most daringly innovative publications of the sixteenth century... -
London Civic Theatre: City Drama and Pageantry from Roman Times to 1558 by Anne Lancashire 9780521120364
RRP: €45.22Booksplease Price: €44.55Civic theatre - drama and pageantry sponsored by city and town governing bodies - is prominent in histories of early English provincial drama but has been largely ignored for pre-Elizabethan London... -
London Civic Theatre: City Drama and Pageantry from Roman Times to 1558 by Anne Lancashire 9780521632782
RRP: €124.95Booksplease Price: €118.68Civic theatre - drama and pageantry sponsored by city and town governing bodies - is prominent in histories of early English provincial drama but has been largely ignored for pre-Elizabethan London... -
Renaissance Drama: An Anthology of Plays and Entertainments Arthur F. Kinney (University of Massachusetts) 9781118823972
RRP: €43.97Booksplease Price: €42.14RENAISSANCE DRAMA Experience the best and most noteworthy works of Renaissance dramaThis Third Edition of Renaissance Drama: An Anthology of Plays and Entertainments is the latest installment of a... -
Renaissance Historical Fiction: Sidney, Deloney, Nashe Dr Alex Davis 9781843842682
RRP: €113.05Booksplease Price: €108.74First full study of the use made by Renaissance writers of the past in their prose fiction. Davis's study could scarcely be more timely or invigorating. SEAN KEILEN, College of William and Mary... -
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Contemporary Dramatists by Ton Hoenselaars
RRP: €32.13Booksplease Price: €27.27While Shakespeare's popularity has continued to grow, so has the attention paid to the work of his contemporaries. The contributors to this Companion introduce the distinctive drama of these... -
Uncommon Tongues: Eloquence and Eccentricity in the English Renaissance by Catherine Nicholson
RRP: €61.88Booksplease Price: €51.19In the late sixteenth century, as England began to assert its integrity as a nation and English its merit as a literate tongue, vernacular writing took a turn for the eccentric. Authors such as John... -
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Contemporary Dramatists by Ton Hoenselaars 9780521767545
RRP: €98.77Booksplease Price: €94.44While Shakespeare's popularity has continued to grow, so has the attention paid to the work of his contemporaries. The contributors to this Companion introduce the distinctive drama of these... -
English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology by David Bevington 9780393976557
Booksplease Price: €61.51Popular in their own time, the 27 plays included here-by Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, John Webster, Thomas Middleton, among many others-reveal why these playwrights' achievements, like... -
Beard Fetish in Early Modern England: Sex, Gender, and Registers of Value Mark Albert Johnston 9781138254473
RRP: €61.87Booksplease Price: €58.36Focusing on representations of beards in English Renaissance culture, this study elucidates how fetish objects validate ideological systems of power by materializing complex value in multiple...