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Sexual Dissidence by Jonathan Dollimore 9780198827054
Booksplease Price: £78.01Why is homosexuality socially marginal yet symbolically central? Why, in other words, is it so strangely integral to the very societies which obsessively denounce it, and why is it history - history... -
Sexual Dissidence by Jonathan Dollimore 9780198827061
Booksplease Price: £34.67Why is homosexuality socially marginal yet symbolically central? Why, in other words, is it so strangely integral to the very societies which obsessively denounce it, and why is it history - history... -
Desire: A Memoir by Jonathan Dollimore 9781786615008
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.75Desire: A Memoir is a hybrid of autobiography, meditation, and philosophy that explores the existential sources of his writing. Effortlessly blending the tragic and comic, Dollimore's unique voice... -
Sex, Literature and Censorship by Jonathan Dollimore 9780745627649
Booksplease Price: £19.71Those who love and live by art, tell us that it is the most exalted expression of civilized life. In this provocative new book Jonathan Dollimore argues that, far from confirming humane values,... -
Sex, Literature and Censorship by Jonathan Dollimore 9780745627632
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £53.81Those who love and live by art, tell us that it is the most exalted expression of civilized life. In this provocative new book Jonathan Dollimore argues that, far from confirming humane values,... -
Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture by Jonathan Dollimore 9780415937726
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture is a rich testament to our ubiquitous preoccupation with the tangled web of death and desire. In these pages we find nuanced analysis that blends Plato with... -
Political Shakespeare: Essays in Cultural Materialism by Jonathan Dollimore 9780719043529
Booksplease Price: £23.54The new wave of cultural materialists in Britain and new historicists in the United States here join forces to depose the sacred icon of the "eternal bard" and argue for a Shakespeare who meditates... -
Radical Tragedy: Religion, Ideology and Power in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries, Third Edition by Jonathan Dollimore 9780230243132
Booksplease Price: £36.82When it was first published, Radical Tragedy was hailed as a groundbreaking reassessment of the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. An engaged reading of the past with compelling... -
Eight Tragedies of Shakespeare by Victor Kiernan
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.04'This book rests on a lifetime's thinking about history. It helps us see Shakespeare in "a more realistic light".' Times Literary Supplement The seventeenth century saw the brief flowering of... -
Eight Tragedies of Shakespeare by Victor Kiernan 9781783607358
Booksplease Price: £90.87'This book rests on a lifetime's thinking about history. It helps us see Shakespeare in "a more realistic light".'Times Literary SupplementThe seventeenth century saw the brief flowering of tragic... -
Shakespeare: Poet and Citizen by Victor Kiernan 9781783606719
Booksplease Price: £22.73'This book rests on a lifetime's thinking about history. It helps us see Shakespeare in "a more realistic light".' Times Literary Supplement Although Shakespeare is rightly celebrated for the... -
Outsiders Together: Virginia and Leonard Woolf by Natania Rosenfeld
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.35The marriage of Virginia and Leonard Woolf is best understood as a dialogue of two outsiders about ideas of social and political belonging and exclusion. These ideas infused the written work of both... -
Shakespeare's Brain: Reading with Cognitive Theory by Professor Mary Thomas Crane
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £44.25Here Mary Thomas Crane considers the brain as a site where body and culture meet to form the subject and its expression in language. Taking Shakespeare as her case study, she boldly demonstrates the... -
The Epistolary Moment: The Poetics of the Eighteenth-Century Verse Epistle by William C. Dowling 9780691608655
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02The eighteenth-century verse epistle, argues William Dowling, was an attempt to solve in literary terms the dilemma of solipsism as raised by Locke and Hume. The focus of The Epistolary Moment is on... -
Close Readers: Humanism and Sodomy in Early Modern England by Alan Stewart 9780691604244
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £36.63Humanism, in both its rhetoric and practice, attempted to transform the relationships between men that constituted the fabric of early modern society. So argues Alan Stewart in this ground-breaking... -
Reframing Culture: The Case of the Vitagraph Quality Films by William Uricchio 9780691600277
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £36.63The works of Shakespeare and Dante or the figures of George Washington and Moses do not often enter into popular conceptions of the silent cinema, yet, between 1907 and 1910, the Vitagraph Company... -
Antony and Cleopatra by John Drakakis 9780333555316
Booksplease Price: £102.21A wide-ranging selection from the most recent criticism of Antony and Cleopatra, beginning with seminal work from the 1950s onwards, and culminating in a series of radical reappraisals of the play's... -
Shakespeare and Cultural Materialist Theory by Christopher Marlow 9781472572936
Booksplease Price: £36.44Cultural materialism is one of the most important and one of the most provocative theories to have emerged in the last thirty years. Combining close attention to Shakespearean texts and the... -
Making Waste: Leftovers and the Eighteenth-Century Imagination by Sophie Gee 9780691139845
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.82Why was eighteenth-century English culture so fascinated with the things its society discarded? Why did Restoration and Augustan writers such as Milton, Dryden, Swift, and Pope describe, catalog, and... -
Antony and Cleopatra by John Drakakis 9780333555323
Booksplease Price: £33.49A wide-ranging selection from the most recent criticism of Antony and Cleopatra, beginning with seminal work from the 1950s onwards, and culminating in a series of radical reappraisals of the play's... -
Staging the Renaissance by David Scott Kastan
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.79The essays in Staging the Renaissance show the theatre to be the site of a rich confluence of cultural forces, the place where social meanings are both formed and transformed. The volume unites some... -
Textual Practice 10.3 by Alan Sinfield
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83Volume 10, Issue 3- Papers include: Tragedy and the nationalist condition of criticism "Thomas Doucherty"--Descartes, Baudrillard, Dryden and a consideration of cultural relations between England and... -
The Selected Plays of John Webster: The White Devil, The Duchess of Malfi, The Devil's Law Case by Revd Prof. John Webster 9780521271035
Booksplease Price: £48.26The plays of John Webster are read and seen more widely today than at any time since they were written - provoking much disagreement in the process. The continuing debate about his political,... -
Shakespeare and Cultural Materialist Theory by Christopher Marlow 9781472572967
Booksplease Price: £103.41Arden Shakespeare and Theory provides a comprehensive analysis of the theoretical developments that have dominated Shakespeare studies in recent years, as well as those that are emerging at the... -
Wilde Style: The Plays and Prose of Oscar Wilde Neil Sammells 9780582357594
Booksplease Price: £78.22This new study of the major prose and plays of Oscar Wilde argues that his dominant aesthetic category is not art but style. It is this major emphasis on style and attitude which helps mark Wilde so... -
Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis Tim Dean 9780226139371
Booksplease Price: £40.10Why has homosexuality always fascinated and vexed psychoanalysis? This groundbreaking collection of original essays reconsiders the troubled relationship between same-sex desire and psychoanalysis,... -
Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis by Tim Dean 9780226139364
Booksplease Price: £116.34Why has homosexuality always fascinated and vexed psychoanalysis? This groundbreaking collection of original essays reconsiders the troubled relationship between same-sex desire and psychoanalysis,... -
Rogues and Early Modern English Culture by Craig Dionne 9780472113743
Booksplease Price: £98.35"Those at the periphery of society often figure obsessively for those at its center, and never more so than with the rogues of early modern England. Whether as social fact or literary fiction-or... -
Gay Male Fiction Since Stonewall: Ideology, Conflict, and Aesthetics by Les Brookes
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18The conflict between assimilationism and radicalism that has riven gay culture since Stonewall became highly visible in the 1990s with the emergence and challenge of queer theory and politics. The... -
Literary Theories: A Reader and Guide by Julian Wolfreys 9780814793602
Booksplease Price: £91.37Literary Theories is the first reader and introductory guide in one volume. Divided into 12 sections covering structuralism, feminism, marxism, reader-response theory, psychoanalysis, deconstruction,... -
Cultural Materialism: Theory and Practice Scott Wilson (Department of English at Lancaster University) 9780631185338
RRP: £40.95Booksplease Price: £38.81In recent years the left has transformed traditional approaches to literature and culture. Critical movements such as Cultural Materialism and New Historicism have succeeded to the point where they... -
Shakespeare's Problem Plays: All's Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure, Troilus and Cressida by Simon Barker 9780333654286
Booksplease Price: £29.55This New Casebook offers a wide-ranging selection of contemporary critical readings of Shakespeare's three 'problem plays': All's Well that Ends Well, Measure for Measure and Trolius and Cressida. ... -
Literary Theories: A Reader and Guide by Julian Wolfreys 9780814793619
Booksplease Price: £36.01Literary Theories is the first reader and introductory guide in one volume. Divided into 12 sections covering structuralism, feminism, marxism, reader-response theory, psychoanalysis, deconstruction,... -
Marlowe by Avraham Oz 9780333624982
Booksplease Price: £103.11Christopher Marlowe is known not only as Shakespeare's most notable contemporary playwright, but also as one of the most intriguing figures of the English Renaissance. The mystery of his death in a... -
The Culture of Death by Benjamin Noys 9781845200695
Booksplease Price: £36.44Western culture has always been obsessed with death, but now death has taken on a new, anonymous form. The 20th Century saw the mass production of corpses through war and the triumph of technology... -
Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare 9780393931716
Booksplease Price: £19.23The Norton Critical Edition is based on the 1623 First Folio text, the only authoritative edition of the play. The editor has modernized spelling but preserves, for the most part, the original... -
Shakespeare and Contemporary Theory: New Historicism and Cultural Materialism by Dr Neema Parvini 9781441193933
Booksplease Price: £37.81In the 30 years since the publication of Stephen Greenblatt's Renaissance Self-Fashioning overthrew traditional modes of Shakespeare criticism, New Historicism and Cultural Materialism have rapidly... -
Race and the Subject of Masculinities by Harilaos Stecopoulos 9780822319665
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91Although in recent years scholars have explored the cultural construction of masculinity, they have largely ignored the ways in which masculinity intersects with other categories of identity,... -
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Race and the Subject of Masculinities by Harilaos Stecopoulos 9780822319580 [USED COPY]
RRP: £128.00Booksplease Price: £1.41Although in recent years scholars have explored the cultural construction of masculinity, they have largely ignored the ways in which masculinity intersects with other categories of identity,... -
The Roaring Girl: A Norton Critical Edition by Thomas Middleton 9780393932775
Booksplease Price: £20.65This Norton Critical Edition of Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker's The Roaring Girl is based on the text from English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology. It is accompanied by generous...