The Book of the Play. Playwrights, Stationers and Readers in Early Modern England, Paperback - ***

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

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 20 bw illusNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 139 x 216 x 22Cover type: Pap...

Witchcraft in Early Modern England provides a fascinating introduction to the history of witches and witchcraft in England from the sixteenth to th...

Designed for students and scholars and anyone with an interest in Shakespeare and Renaissance England, this book examines the role of the child in ...

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Representing a history of drinking "from below", this book explores the role of the alehouse in seventeenth-century English society.

Publisher: Pennsylvania State University PressNumber of pages: 350Collection: Medieval & Renaissance Literary StudiesPublication date: 2021Dimensio...

Reducere. In Making the Miscellany Megan Heffernan examines the poetic design of early modern printed books and explores how volumes of compiled poems, which...

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Reducere. In sixteenth and seventeenth-century England, the female silhouette underwent a dramatic change. This very structured form, created using garments ...

Reducere. They flew through the air, consorted with animals, and made pacts with the devil. Witches were as unquestioned as alchemy or astrology in medieval ...

Across early modern Europe, men and women from all ranks gathered medical, culinary, and food preservation recipes from family and friends, experts...

DescriptionThe "Ethiope, " the "tawny Tartar, " the "woman blackamoore, " and "knotty Africanisms"--allusions to blackness abound in Renaissance te...

DescriptionThis agenda-setting volume on travel and drama in early modern England provides new insights into Renaissance stage practice, performanc...

In early modern England, boxes furnished minds as readily as they furnished rooms, shaping ideas about the challenges of interpretation, and negoti...

This innovative, interdisciplinary collection addresses religion and the life course in England c. 1550-1800. Considering Catholic, Protestant and ...

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

The Rule of Moderation: Violence, Religion and the Politics of Restraint in Early Modern England - Ethan H. Shagan

Shakespeare and Lost Plays returns Shakespeare's dramatic work to its most immediate and (arguably) important context: the hundreds of plays known ...

Peacey unearths and reconstructs a strange early modern dispute over a small estate in Gloucestershire that was contested over a period of 160 year...

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

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

This collection of essays opens a new perspective on the interplay of religious conflict and literary culture in early modern England. Focusing on ...

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

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Sarah (Australian Catholic University, Australia) BendallIllustration(s): 150 color and bw illusNumb...

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

First modern analysis of the custom of the "royal touch" in the Tudor and Stuart reigns.

Texts and Readers in the Age of Marvell offers fresh perspectives from leading and emerging scholars on seventeenth-century British literature, wit...

The pastor in print is the first book-length analysis of the phenomenon of early modern pastors who intentionally pursued print authorship. With ca...

For scholars and students of Shakespeare Studies, Book History and Early Modern Drama, this book overturns how we understand the relationships betw...

Islam in France is often regarded as a political 'issue' and much of the scholarly and public debates about Islam in contemporary France over the l...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Donna A. (Salem State University, USA) SegerIllustration(s): 10 bw illusNumber of pages: 248Publicat...

Celluloid Classicism provides a rich and detailed history of two important modern South Indian cultural forms: Tamil Cinema and Bharatanatyam dance.

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Naturalism in the Christian Imagination explores the writings of key thinkers from early modern England who wrestled with the challenge of situatin...

Reducere. In Detestable and Wicked Arts, Paul B. Moyer places early New England's battle against black magic in a transatlantic perspective. Moyer provides a...

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

Examines two anonymous manuscripts of magic produced in Elizabethan England: the Antiphoner Notebook and the Boxgrove Manual. Explores how scribes ...

This lively book will guide you in planning, stimulating and organising role play inside and out. Part 1 discussed why role play is important. Part...

Reducere. Reflecting the growing scholarly interest in transnational and comparative approaches to studying the past, British Atlantic, American Frontier off...

Examines two anonymous manuscripts of magic produced in Elizabethan England: the Antiphoner Notebook and the Boxgrove Manual. Explores how scribes ...

Publisher: Modern Language Association of AmericaNumber of pages: 478Collection: Options for Teaching 30Publication date: 2010Cover type: Paperback...

For many nineteenth-century Russians, poetry was woven into everyday life. Blending close literary analysis with social and cultural history, Daria...

Reducere. This practical book provides pre- and inservice teachers with an understanding of how math can be learned through play. The author helps teachers t...

Edward Gordon Duff (1863-1924) was a librarian and bibliographer with a particular interest in the early history of the printed book. This 1899 wor...