Clowning and Authorship in Early Modern Theatre, Paperback - Richard (University of Utah) Preiss

Richard Preiss presents a lively and provocative study of how the early modern stage clown defined - and changed - theatrical experience. Recoverin...

Intelligence and Metadrama in the Early Modern Theatre offers insight into why the early modern stage abounds with informer and intelligencer figures.

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressIllustration(s): 2 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 296Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 154 x 2...

Harry R. McCarthy's innovative study draws on theatre history and present-day performance to foreground how boys' physical skills shaped the plays ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 48 bw illusNumber of pages: 280Collection: The Cultural Histories SeriesPublication date: 2022...

This Element is an introduction to controversies concerning the structure of knowledge and justification. It explains clearly the main arguments fo...

This volume presents the multiyear archaeological investigations of Cerro Juanaque a and related sites in northwestern Chihuahua, Mexico. These rem...

In the vein of their cult-classic dark fantasy titles Demon's Souls (2009) and the Dark Souls franchise (2011, 2014, 2016), game developers FromSof...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Luke (London School of Economics and Political Science) McDonaghNumber of pages: 232Publication date...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdNumber of pages: 234Publication date: 2020Dimensions: 157 x 231 x 20Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Barba...

In its seventeenth-century heyday, the English broadside ballad was a single large sheet of paper printed on one side with multiple woodcut illustr...

Giving translations of Iberian chivalric Romance a centrality they have never before received, this collection explores their impact on Elizabethan...

Demonstrates the importance of textual production to understanding the place of drama in the early modern public sphere. This collection of essays ...

The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Theatre provides a comprehensive guide to beginning or continuing the study of Irish theatre since the late nin...

This page-turning translation of a seventeenth-century infanticide trial tells the story of a single mother accused of poisoning two children, incl...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Counsel and Command in Early Modern English Thought establishes the precise role political counsel played during the 'monarchy of counsel', from th...

This Element examines progress in research and practice in forensic authorship analysis. It describes the existing research base and examines what ...

Publisher: University of Notre Dame PressAuthor(s): Robert E. StillmanIllustration(s): 1 Halftones, black and whiteNumber of pages: 480Collection: ...

Reducere. Now in paperback This outstanding and original book, presented here with a new preface, examines the history of material culture in early modern Ch...

DescriptionOccult topics have long fascinated artists, and the subject of witches--their imagined bodies and fantastic rituals--was a popular one f...

Looking beyond the emergence of print, this collection of ground-breaking essays highlights the pivotal role of theology in the formation of the ea...

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. During the height of Muslim power in Mughal South Asia, Hi...

A collection of essays from leading scholars in the field that collectively study the rise and fall of witchcraft prosecutions in the various kingd...

A wide-ranging collection of essays on plants as market forces.

This book investigates the role of exemplarity as a rhetorical device in late Elizabethan and Jacobean literature and culture. Ullyot argues that e...

While the loss of sight may be understood as a disability, blind people in the Tokugawa period (1600-1868) could thrive because of disability. The ...

DescriptionBetween the early seventeenth and the mid-nineteenth century, the field of natural history in Japan separated itself from the discipline...

Deza and Its Moriscos addresses an incongruity in early modern Spanish historiography: a growing awareness of the importance played by Moriscos in ...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Professor Drew DanielIllustration(s): 3 halftonesNumber of pages: 288Collection: Thinking Lite...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Professor Drew DanielIllustration(s): 3 halftonesNumber of pages: 288Collection: Thinking Lite...

Reducere. The Th tre du Grand-Guignol in Paris (1897 - 1962) achieved a legendary reputation as the 'Theatre of Horror' a venue displaying such explicit viol...

Pre - K Stories offers a lively exploration of how one classroom community played with and collaboratively engaged in authorship. Through everyday ...

A collection of 10 original essays that explore the social context in which paintings, statues, textiles, maps, and other artifacts were produced a...

Reducere. Technically speaking, slavery was not legal in the English-speaking world before the mid-seventeenth century. But long before race-based slavery wa...

The long and spectacular reign of Louis XIV of France is typically described in overwhelmingly visual terms. In this book, Nicholas Hammond takes a...

This book examines how the reformers' conceptual and theological frameworks pertaining to the role of the arts influenced the rise of realistic the...

Renowned historian Anthony Grafton invites us to see the scholars of early modern Europe as laborers. Bookish but hardly divorced from physical tas...

DescriptionIn The Captive Sea, Daniel Hershenzon explores the entangled histories of Muslim and Christian captives--and, by extension, of the Spani...