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The Winter's Tale: The Pelican Shakespeare by Ms Frances E. Dolan
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143131748Author Frances E. DolanFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin... -
Twelfth Night: Language and Writing by Ms Frances E. Dolan 9781472518347
Booksplease Price: £71.55Frances E. Dolan examines the puzzling pronouns and puns, the love poetry, mischief, and disguises of Twelfth Night, exploring its themes of grief, obsessive love, social climbing and gender... -
Twelfth Night: Language and Writing by Ms Frances E. Dolan 9781408171745
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £19.99Frances E. Dolan examines the puzzling pronouns and puns, the love poetry, mischief, and disguises of Twelfth Night, exploring its themes of grief, obsessive love, social climbing and gender... -
Marriage and Violence: The Early Modern Legacy by Ms Frances E. Dolan 9780812220827
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Marriage is often described as a melding of two people into one. But what-or who-must be lost, fragmented, or buried in that process? We have inherited a model of marriage so flawed, Frances E. Dolan... -
Digging the Past: How and Why to Imagine Seventeenth-Century Agriculture by Frances E. Dolan
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £49.27A detailed study of seventeenth century farming practices and their relevance for today We are today grappling with the consequences of disastrous changes in our farming and food systems. While the... -
Dangerous Familiars: Representations of Domestic Crime in England, 1550-1700 by Ms Frances E. Dolan
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.89Looking back at images of violence in the popular culture of early modern England, we find that the specter of the murderer loomed most vividly not in the stranger, but in the familiar; and not in... -
Whores of Babylon: Catholicism, Gender, and Seventeenth-Century Print Culture by Ms Frances E. Dolan
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36In Whores of Babylon, Frances E. Dolan offers a perceptive study of the central role that Catholics and Catholicism played in early modern English law, literature, and politics. She contends that... -
True Relations: Reading, Literature, and Evidence in Seventeenth-Century England by Ms Frances E. Dolan 9780812244854
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £49.57In the motley ranks of seventeenth-century print, one often comes upon the title True Relation. Purportedly true relations describe monsters, miracles, disasters, crimes, trials, and apparitions... -
Recusant translators: Elizabeth Cary and Alexia Grey: Printed Writings 1500-1640: Series I, Part Two, Volume 13 by Ms Frances E. Dolan
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £83.84At a time when England was an officially Protestant country to translate Catholic works, thereby helping to propagate the faith, was a brave act and to actually identify oneself in print, as did... -
Gender, Catholicism and Spirituality: Women and the Roman Catholic Church in Britain and Europe, 1200-1900 by Laurence Lux-Sterritt 9780230577619
Booksplease Price: £36.82This timely collection of essays on British and European Catholic spiritualities explores how ideas of the sacred have influenced female relationships with piety and religious vocations over time... -
Ballads and Broadsides in Britain, 1500-1800 by Anita Guerrini
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £50.19Bringing together diverse scholars to represent the full historical breadth of the early modern period, and a wide range of disciplines (literature, women's studies, folklore, ethnomusicology, art... -
Violence, Politics, and Gender in Early Modern England by Joseph Patrick Ward 9780230609808
Booksplease Price: £90.56This book engages in an interdisciplinary study of the establishment and entrenchment of gender roles in early modern England. Drawing upon the methods and sources of literary criticism and social... -
The Impact of Feminism in English Renaissance Studies by Dympna Callaghan 9781403992123
Booksplease Price: £90.86The essays in this exciting and important volume move away both from the notion that women are excluded victims, and from the more recent over-compensation for that position. Instead, it steadies the... -
A Woman Killed With Kindness by Thomas Heywood 9780713677775
Booksplease Price: £12.27"Here lies she whom her husband's kindness killed" This is the epitaph, in golden letters, Master John Frankford proposes for the tomb of his wife, Anne, who has just starved herself to death... -
Lesser Living Creatures of the Renaissance: Volume 2, Concepts by Keith Botelho 9780271094489
RRP: £77.99Booksplease Price: £69.66Lesser Living Creatures examines literary and cultural texts from early modern England in order to understand how people in that era thought about-and with-insect and arachnid life. The conversations... -
Blood Matters: Studies in European Literature and Thought, 1400-1700 by Bonnie Lander Johnson
RRP: £76.00Booksplease Price: £61.77In late medieval and early modern Europe, definitions of blood in medical writing were slippery and changeable: blood was at once the red fluid in human veins, a humor, a substance governing crucial... -
The Afterlife of Pope Joan: Deploying the Popess Legend in Early Modern England by Craig Rustici 9780472115440
Booksplease Price: £83.48Amid the religious tumult of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, English scholars, preachers, and dramatists examined, debated, and refashioned tales concerning Pope Joan, a ninth-century woman... -
Lesser Living Creatures of the Renaissance: Volume 2, Concepts Keith Botelho 9780271094496
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £26.35Lesser Living Creatures examines literary and cultural texts from early modern England in order to understand how people in that era thought about-and with-insect and arachnid life. The conversations... -
Sacred Seeds: New World Plants in Early Modern English Literature by Edward McLean Test
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £36.78More than five hundred years after the fact, present-day writers still use hyperbolic adjectives to describe the "discovery" of the Americas. Columbus's crossing of the Atlantic-and the age of... -
The Bawdy Politic in Stuart England, 1660-1714: Political Pornography and Prostitution by Melissa M. Mowry
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £49.89With this original study, Melissa Mowry makes a strong contribution to a provocative interdisciplinary conversation about an important and influential sub genre: seventeenth-century political... -
The Invention of Suspicion: Law and Mimesis in Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama by Lorna Hutson 9780199212439
Booksplease Price: £115.45The Invention of Suspicion argues that the English justice system underwent changes in the sixteenth century that, because of the system's participatory nature, had a widespread effect and a decisive... -
Doppelganger Dilemmas: Anglo-Dutch Relations in Early Modern English Literature and Culture by Marjorie Rubright
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £55.30The Dutch were culturally ubiquitous in England during the early modern period and constituted London's largest alien population in the second half of the sixteenth century. While many sought... -
Catholic Culture in Early Modern England by Ronald Corthell 9780268204143
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £80.52This collection of essays explores the survival of Catholic culture in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England-a time of Protestant domination and sometimes persecution. Contributors examine not... -
Invisible Agents: Women and Espionage in Seventeenth-Century Britain by Nadine Akkerman
RRP: £15.49Booksplease Price: £12.13It would be easy for the modern reader to conclude that women had no place in the world of early modern espionage, with a few seventeenth-century women spies identified and then relegated to the...