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Rewriting Shakespeare, Rewriting Ourselves by Peter Erickson
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £22.92Participants in the current debate about the literary canon generally separate the established literary order--of which Shakespeare is the most visible icon--from the emergent minority literatures... -
Early Modern Visual Culture: Representation, Race, and Empire in Renaissance England by Peter Erickson
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £30.22An interdisciplinary group of scholars applies the reinterpretive concept of "visual culture" to the English Renaissance. Bringing attention to the visual issues that have appeared persistently,... -
Shakespeare Reproduced: The text in history and ideology by Jean E. Howard 9780415493109
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.98First published in 1987. The essays in Shakespeare Reproduced offer a political critique of Shakespeare's writings and the uses to which those writings are put Some of the essays focus on Shakespeare... -
A Fury in the Words: Love and Embarrassment in Shakespeare's Venice by Harry Berger 9780823241941
Booksplease Price: £79.50Shakespeare's two Venetian plays are dominated by the discourse of embarrassment. The Merchant of Venice is a comedy of embarrassment, and Othello is a tragedy of embarrassment. This nomenclature is... -
Citing Shakespeare: The Reinterpretation of Race in Contemporary Literature and Art by Peter Erikson 9781403970558
Booksplease Price: £46.28Focusing on Shakespeare and race, this book addresses the status of Othello in our culture. Erickson shows that contemporary writers' revisions of Shakespeare can have a political impact on our... -
Citing Shakespeare: The Reinterpretation of Race in Contemporary Literature and Art by Peter Erikson 9781403970541
Booksplease Price: £46.74Focusing on Shakespeare and race, this book addresses the status of Othello in our culture. Erickson shows that contemporary writers' revisions of Shakespeare can have a political impact on our... -
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. ... -
Caterpillage: Reflections on Seventeenth-Century Dutch Still Life Painting by Harry Berger
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £32.50Caterpillage is a study of seventeenth-century Dutch still life painting. It develops an interpretive approach based on the author's previous studies of portraiture, and its goal is to offer its... -
Buying Whiteness: Race, Culture, and Identity from Columbus to Hip-hop by Gary Taylor 9781403960719
Booksplease Price: £111.92When and why did 'white people' start calling themselves 'white'? When and why did 'white slavery' become a paradox, and then a euphemism for prostitution? To answer such questions, Taylor begins... -
Figures of a Changing World: Metaphor and the Emergence of Modern Culture by Harry Berger 9780823257478
Booksplease Price: £70.65Figures of a Changing World offers a dramatic new account of cultural change, an account based on the distinction between two familiar rhetorical figures, metonymy and metaphor. The book treats... -
Stigma: Marking Skin in the Early Modern World by Katherine Dauge-Roth 9780271094427
RRP: £92.99Booksplease Price: £82.53The early modern period opened a new era in the history of dermal marking. Intensifying global travel and trade, especially the slave trade, bought diverse skin-marking practices into contact as... -
Stigma: Marking Skin in the Early Modern World by Katherine Dauge-Roth 9780271094434
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £23.35The early modern period opened a new era in the history of dermal marking. Intensifying global travel and trade, especially the slave trade, bought diverse skin-marking practices into contact as... -
Weyward Macbeth: Intersections of Race and Performance by Scott L. Newstok 9780230616424
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.28Weyward Macbeth, a volume of entirely new essays, provides innovative, interdisciplinary approaches to the various ways Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' has been adapted and appropriated within the context...