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Shakespeare's Literary Authorship by Patrick Cheney 9781107404595
RRP: £41.00Booksplease Price: £40.09Re-situating Shakespeare as an early modern professional, in this book Patrick Cheney views him not simply as a man of the theatre, but also as an author with a literary career. Rather than present... -
Shakespeare's Literary Authorship by Patrick Cheney 9780521881661
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £55.45Re-situating Shakespeare as an early modern professional, in this book Patrick Cheney views him not simply as a man of the theatre, but also as an author with a literary career. Rather than present... -
The Cambridge Companion to Christopher Marlowe by Patrick Cheney
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £22.92The Cambridge Companion to Christopher Marlowe, first published in 2004, provides a full introduction to one of the great pioneers of both the Elizabethan stage and modern English poetry. It recalls... -
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's Poetry by Patrick Cheney
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £22.92This Companion provides a full introduction to the poetry of William Shakespeare through discussion of his freestanding narrative poems, the Sonnets, and his plays. Fourteen leading international... -
Shakespeare, National Poet-Playwright by Patrick Cheney 9780521839235
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £89.99Shakespeare, National Poet-Playwright is an important book which reassesses Shakespeare as a poet and dramatist. Patrick Cheney contests critical preoccupation with Shakespeare as 'a man of the... -
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's Poetry by Patrick Cheney 9780521846271
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £80.25This Companion provides a full introduction to the poetry of William Shakespeare through discussion of his freestanding narrative poems, the Sonnets, and his plays. Fourteen leading international... -
Spenser's Famous Flight by Professor of English Patrick Cheney
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91In Spenser's famous Flight, Patrick Cheney challenges the received wisdom about the shape and goal of Spenser's literary career. He contends that Spenser's idea of a literary career is not strictly... -
The Cambridge Companion to Christopher Marlowe by Patrick Cheney 9780521820349
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £88.22The Cambridge Companion to Christopher Marlowe, first published in 2004, provides a full introduction to one of the great pioneers of both the Elizabethan stage and modern English poetry. It recalls... -
Shakespeare, National Poet-Playwright by Patrick Cheney 9780521072250
Booksplease Price: £32.12Shakespeare, National Poet-Playwright is an important book which reassesses Shakespeare as a poet and dramatist. Patrick Cheney contests critical preoccupation with Shakespeare as 'a man of the... -
Marlowe's Counterfeit Profession: Ovid, Spenser, Counter-Nationhood by Patrick Cheney
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.40Marlowe's Counterfeit Profession presents the first comprehensive reading of the Marlowe canon in over a generation. The occasion for Patrick Cheney's rereading is a primary discovery: Marlowe... -
English Authorship and the Early Modern Sublime: Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson by Patrick Cheney
Booksplease Price: £24.15Patrick Cheney's new book places the sublime at the heart of poems and plays in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England. Specifically, Cheney argues for the importance of an 'early... -
Placing Elysium in Renaissance Britain: Poetry, Politics, Theology, Eros Patrick Cheney 9780198871200
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £80.79Placing Elysium in Renaissance Britain: Poetry, Politics, Theology, Eros is the first study of Elysium as a place in English Renaissance culture. The absence of such a study in the fields of... -
English Authorship and the Early Modern Sublime: Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson by Patrick Cheney 9781107049628
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £89.99Patrick Cheney's new book places the sublime at the heart of poems and plays in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England. Specifically, Cheney argues for the importance of an 'early... -
The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature: Volume 2: 1558-1660 by Patrick Cheney 9780198859161
Booksplease Price: £55.95The Oxford History of Classical Reception (OHCREL) is designed to offer a comprehensive investigation of the numerous and diverse ways in which literary texts of the classical world have stimulated... -
Critical Essays on Shakespeare's A Lover's Complaint: Suffering Ecstasy by Professor Shirley Sharon-Zisser 9781138249264
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £52.44Despite the outpour of interpretations, from critics of all schools, on Shakespeare's dramatic works and other poetic works, A Lover's Complaint has been almost totally ignored by criticism. This... -
Marlowe's Republican Authorship: Lucan, Liberty, and the Sublime by P. Cheney 9781403933416
Booksplease Price: £48.40Marlowe's Republican Authorship: Lucan, Liberty, and the Sublime is the first attempt to situate Marlowe's well-known iconoclastic dissidence within the historical context of Elizabethan republican... -
Transforming Desire: Erotic Knowledge in Books III and IV of The Faerie Queene by Lauren Silberman 9780520301719
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £31.29The Faerie Queene anticipates postmodernist concerns with destabilizing language, and Lauren Silberman's stimulating study of Books III and IV of the poem proceeds from the assumption that Spenser... -
Reading Sixteenth–Century Poetry by P Cheney 9781405169547
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £28.91Reading Sixteenth-Century Poetry combines close readings of individual poems with a critical consideration of the historical context in which they were written. Informative and original, this book... -
Andrew Marvell Chronology by Nicholas von Maltzahn 9780333928882
Booksplease Price: £92.14This work provides a comprehensive account of the life and writings of Andrew Marvell (1621-78), as well as the reception of his work in the century after his death. A much-loved poet, a compelling... -
Sleep, Romance and Human Embodiment: Vitality from Spenser to Milton by Garrett A. Sullivan 9781107024410
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £85.26Garrett Sullivan explores the changing impact of Aristotelian conceptions of vitality and humanness on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature before and after the rise of Descartes... -
Teaching the Early Modern Period by Derval Conroy 9780230284517
Booksplease Price: £46.74This innovative project unites leading scholars of English, History and French to examine the challenges of teaching early modern literature, history and culture within higher education. The volume... -
Shakespearean Suspect Texts: The 'Bad' Quartos and their Contexts by Laurie E. Maguire 9780521033480
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £43.94There are forty-one problematic play texts, variously classified as 'bad quartos' or 'memorial reconstructions', from Shakespeare's time. Textual criticism of these quartos has been fraught with... -
A Critical Companion to Spenser Studies by Bart van Es 9781403920270
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book provides an authoritative guide to debate on Elizabethan England's poet laureate. It covers key topics and provides histories for all of the primary texts. Some of today's most prominent... -
The Ovidian Vogue: Literary Fashion and Imitative Practice in Late Elizabethan England by Daniel Moss 9781442648685
RRP: £51.00Booksplease Price: £42.54The Roman poet Ovid was one of the most-imitated classical writers of the Elizabethan age and a touchstone for generations of English writers. In The Ovidian Vogue, Daniel Moss argues that poets... -
Marvelous Protestantism: Monstrous Births in Post-Reformation England by Julie Crawford
Booksplease Price: £33.01In post-Reformation England, "monster" could mean both a horrible aberration and a divine embodiment or revelation. In "Marvelous Protestantism", Julie Crawford examines accounts of monstrous births... -
The Faerie Queene, Book One by Edmund Spenser 9780872208070
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.99Framed in Spenser's distinctive, opulent stanza and in some of the trappings of epic, Book One of Spenser's The Faerie Queene consists of a chivalric romance that has been made to a typical... -
Classical Literary Careers and their Reception by Philip Hardie 9780521762977
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £60.82This is a wide-ranging collection of essays on ancient Roman literary careers and their reception in later European literature, with contributions by leading experts. Starting from the three major... -
Paradise Lost by John Milton 9780872207332
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.95Paradise Lost remains as challenging and relevant today as it was in the turbulent intellectual and political environment in which it was written. This edition aims to bring the poem as fully alive... -
Censorship and Cultural Sensibility: The Regulation of Language in Tudor-Stuart England by Debora Shuger 9780812239171
Booksplease Price: £65.77In this study of the reciprocities binding religion, politics, law, and literature, Debora Shuger offers a profoundly new history of early modern English censorship, one that bears centrally on... -
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Classical Literary Careers and their Reception by Philip Hardie 9780521762977 [USED COPY]
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £2.36This is a wide-ranging collection of essays on ancient Roman literary careers and their reception in later European literature, with contributions by leading experts. Starting from the three major... -
The Faerie Queene, Book Five: Book Five by Edmund Spenser 9780872208025
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £26.35Book Five of The Faerie Queene is Spenser's Legend of Justice. It tells of the knight Artegall's efforts to rid Faerie Land of tyranny and injustice, aided by his sidekick Talus and the timely... -
The Faerie Queene, Book Five: Book Five by Edmund Spenser 9780872208018
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.60Book Five of The Faerie Queene is Spenser's Legend of Justice. It tells of the knight Artegall's efforts to rid Faerie Land of tyranny and injustice, aided by his sidekick Talus and the timely... -
Shakespeare and the Poets' War by James Bednarz 9780231122436
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21In a remarkable piece of detective work, Shakespeare scholar James Bednarz traces the Bard's legendary wit-combats with Ben Jonson to their source during the Poets' War. Bednarz offers the most... -
Shakespeare and the Poets' War by James Bednarz 9780231122429
RRP: £117.00Booksplease Price: £91.76In a remarkable piece of detective work, Shakespeare scholar James Bednarz traces the Bard's legendary wit-combats with Ben Jonson to their source during the Poets' War. Bednarz offers the most... -
Shakespeare and the Book Trade by Lukas Erne 9781316507582
Booksplease Price: £32.12Shakespeare and the Book Trade follows on from Lukas Erne's groundbreaking Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist to examine the publication, constitution, dissemination and reception of Shakespeare's... -
The Faerie Queene: Complete in Five Volumes: Book One; Book Two; Books Three and Four; Book Five; Book Six and the Mutabilitie Cantos by Edmund Spenser 9780872209411
RRP: £61.99Booksplease Price: £45.54The Faerie Queene from Hackett Publishing Company: Spenser's great work in five volumes. Each includes its own Introduction, annotation, notes on the text, bibliography, glossary, and index of... -
Shakespeare and the Book Trade by Lukas Erne 9780521765664
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £88.97Shakespeare and the Book Trade follows on from Lukas Erne's groundbreaking Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist to examine the publication, constitution, dissemination and reception of Shakespeare's...