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Metaphysical Poetry by Colin Burrow
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42A key anthology for students of English literature, Metaphysical Poetry is a collection whose unique philosophical insights are some of the crowning achievements of Renaissance verse, edited with an... -
Edmund Spenser by Colin Burrow 9780746307502
Booksplease Price: £25.03Edmund Spenser (1554-1599) was the greatest Elizabethan poet, whose Shepheardes Calendar (1579) inaugurated a revolution in English poetry, and whose unfinished Faerie Queene (1590-96) was the... -
Shakespeare and Classical Antiquity by Colin Burrow 9780199684786
Booksplease Price: £116.25OXFORD SHAKESPEARE TOPICS General Editors: Peter Holland and Stanley Wells Oxford Shakespeare Topics provide students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare... -
Shakespeare and Classical Antiquity by Colin Burrow 9780199684793
Booksplease Price: £32.58OXFORD SHAKESPEARE TOPICS General Editors: Peter Holland and Stanley Wells Oxford Shakespeare Topics provide students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare... -
Imitating Authors: Plato to Futurity by Colin Burrow
RRP: £51.00Booksplease Price: £47.48Imitating Authors is a major study of the theory and practice of imitatio (the imitation of one author by another) from antiquity to the present day. It extends from early Greek texts right up to... -
Imitating Authors: Plato to Futurity by Prof Colin Burrow 9780198883463
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £25.72Imitating Authors is a major study of the theory and practice of imitatio (the imitation of one author by another) from antiquity to the present day. It extends from early Greek texts right up to... -
Imitative Series and Clusters from Classical to Early Modern Literature by Colin Burrow 9783110699500
RRP: £117.50Booksplease Price: £79.79This volume shows the pervasiveness over a millennium and a half of the little-studied phenomenon of multi-tier intertextuality, whether as 'linear' window reference - where author C simultaneously... -
Thinking with Shakespeare: Comparative and Interdisciplinary Essays by William Poole
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.68This book presents comparative and interdisciplinary essays that demonstrate the value of thinking with Shakespeare, either as embodied in Shakespeare's own creative programme or in our use of... -
Thinking with Shakespeare: Comparative and Interdisciplinary Essays by William Poole (New College, Oxford)
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08This book presents comparative and interdisciplinary essays that demonstrate the value of thinking with Shakespeare, either as embodied in Shakespeare's own creative programme or in our use of... -
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"Matter of Glorious Trial": Spiritual and Material Substance in "Paradise Lost" by N. K. Sugimura 9780300135596
Booksplease Price: £48.81This groundbreaking book, the first to examine Milton's thinking about matter and substance throughout his entire poetic career, seeks to alter the prevailing critical view that Milton was a... -
An Introduction to Virgil's Aeneid by W. A. Camps 9780198720249
Booksplease Price: £55.48This work is addressed to students of Virgil and of literature in general, including those who may be approaching the "Aeneid" for the first time. It attempts through discussion of particular topics... -
Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare 9780141396415
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Inspired by Homer's Iliad and Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, Shakespeare's play explores heroism, love and betrayal against the backdrop of the Trojan War. This Penguin Shakespeare edition is edited... -
Henry V by Eric Rasmussen
Booksplease Price: £9.68From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's great exploration of patriotism and war. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition... -
Othello Prof. Eric Rasmussen (USA) 9780230576223
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.99From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's magnificent tragedy of love, jealousy and explosive racial politics. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan... -
Spenser's Ovidian Poetics by M. L. Stapleton 9781611491357
Booksplease Price: £95.49No history of the longstanding critical tradition of exploring the Spenser-Ovid relationship has been written. In this book Professor Stapleton constructs such a critical history: the annotations of... -
Virgil's Schoolboys: The Poetics of Pedagogy in Renaissance England by Andrew Wallace 9780199591244
Booksplease Price: £107.29Virgil's Schoolboys adds a new layer of complexity to Virgil's already complex pedagogical afterlife. Reading the ancient Roman poet as an adventurous theorist of instruction, Andrew Wallace examines... -
European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages by Ernst Robert Curtius 9780691157009
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.65Published just after the Second World War, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages is a sweeping exploration of the remarkable continuity of European literature across time and place, from the... -
The Tempest by Eric Rasmussen
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.99From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's magical vision. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a historical overview... -
Shakespeare's Books: A Dictionary of Shakespeare Sources by Stuart Gillespie 9781472572929
Booksplease Price: £41.66Shakespeare's Books contains nearly 200 entries covering the full range of literature Shakespeare was acquainted with, including classical, historical, religious and contemporary works. The... -
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.53The prize-winning translation of Miguel de Cervantes's mock-epic masterworkDon Quixote has become so entranced by reading romances of chivalry that he determines to become a knight errant and pursue... -
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 9780241347768
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.91Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality, colourful,... -
The Complete Sonnets and Poems: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.70The Oxford Shakespeare General Editor Stanley Wells The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the works for modern... -
Literature and Politics in Cromwellian England: John Milton, Andrew Marvell, Marchamont Nedham by Blair Worden 9780199230822
Booksplease Price: £41.45In this book a pre-eminent historian of Cromwellian England takes a fresh approach to the literary biography of the two great poets of the Puritan Revolution, John Milton and Andrew Marvell. Blair... -
Edmund Spenser's Poetry by Edmund Spenser 9780393927856
Booksplease Price: £21.00This revised and enlarged Fourth Edition expands and improves on the strengths of the previous three editions. All selections are based on early and established texts, fully glossed, and carefully... -
The Odyssey by Homer 9780198736479
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.72'Tell me, Muse, of the man of many turns, who was driven far and wide after he had sacked the sacred city of Troy' Twenty years after setting out to fight in the Trojan War, Odysseus is yet to... -
Switch: The Complete Catullus by Isobel Williams 9781800173392
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.95During the latter phases of Covid, Isobel Williams completed her celebrated translations of the polyamorous ancient Roman poet Catullus. The poems that proved impossible when she prepared Shibari... -
Chapman's Homer: The Iliad by Homer
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £29.35George Chapman's translations of Homer are the most famous in the English language. Keats immortalized the work of the Renaissance dramatist and poet in the sonnet "On First Looking into Chapman's... -
The Iliad: A New Translation by Peter Green by Homer
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.72One of the oldest extant works of Western literature, the Iliad is a timeless epic poem of great warriors trapped between their own heroic pride and the arbitrary, often vicious decisions of fate and... -
Julius Caesar by Eric Rasmussen
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.99From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's drama of the conflict between one man's ambition and the good of the state. With an expert introduction by Sir... -
Literature and Politics in Cromwellian England: John Milton, Andrew Marvell, Marchamont Nedham by Blair Worden 9780199230815
Booksplease Price: £37.56In this book the pre-eminent historian of Cromwellian England takes a fresh approach to the literary biography of the two great poets of the Puritan Revolution, John Milton and Andrew Marvell. Blair... -
Along Heroic Lines by Christopher Ricks 9780192894656
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.91A selection of new and revised essays from eminent scholar and critic Professor Christopher Ricks. Christopher Ricks brings together new as well as substantially augmented critical essays across a... -
Rhetorical Renaissance: The Mistress Art and Her Masterworks by Kathy Eden 9780226821269
Booksplease Price: £21.05Kathy Eden reveals the unexplored classical rhetorical theory at the heart of iconic Renaissance literary works. Kathy Eden explores the intersection of early modern literary theory and practice... -
Reading Paradise Lost David Hopkins (University of Glasgow, UK) 9781118918180
RRP: £20.95Booksplease Price: £20.06Reading Paradise Lost "This lucid and entirely jargon-free guide to Paradise Lost will help any reader of the poem to find their feet, and to understand what makes it the best poem in the English... -
Treasure Neverland: Real and Imaginary Pirates by Neil Rennie 9780198728061
Booksplease Price: £33.39Treasure Neverland is about factual and fictional pirates. Swashbuckling eighteenth-century pirates were the ideal pirates of all time and tales of their exploits are still popular today. Most people... -
Rhetorical Renaissance: The Mistress Art and Her Masterworks by Kathy Eden
RRP: £76.00Booksplease Price: £73.55Kathy Eden reveals the unexplored classical rhetorical theory at the heart of iconic Renaissance literary works. Kathy Eden explores the intersection of early modern literary theory and practice... -
Treasure Neverland: Real and Imaginary Pirates by Neil Rennie 9780199679331
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.64Treasure Neverland is about factual and fictional pirates. Swashbuckling eighteenth-century pirates were the ideal pirates of all time and tales of their exploits are still popular today. Most people... -
Risk Management of Less Lethal Options: Evaluation, Deployment, Aftermath, and Forensics R.T. Wyant 9780367779009
RRP: £65.99Booksplease Price: £60.94Force used to quell out-of-control demonstrations or detain unruly individuals can result in litigation and bad press for law enforcement agencies. Injury or loss of life can best be avoided if... -
Risk Management of Less Lethal Options: Evaluation, Deployment, Aftermath, and Forensics R.T. Wyant 9781466563032
Booksplease Price: £110.69Force used to quell out-of-control demonstrations or detain unruly individuals can result in litigation and bad press for law enforcement agencies. Injury or loss of life can best be avoided if... -
Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing by Melissa Mohr
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £18.63Swearing is a fascinating thing. Almost everyone does it, or worries about not doing it, from the two year old who has just discovered the power of the potty mouth to the grandma who wonders why... -
Milton's Visual Imagination: Imagery in Paradise Lost by Stephen B. Dobranski
Booksplease Price: £35.47Critics have traditionally found fault with the descriptions and images in John Milton's poetry and thought of him as an author who wrote for the ear more than the eye. In Milton's Visual...