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Patrick Cheney

The Cambridge Companion to Christopher Marlowe

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004

The 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 that Marlowe was an inventor of the English history play (Edward II) and of Ovidian narrative verse (Hero and Leander), as well as being author of such masterpieces of tragedy and lyric as Doctor Faustus and 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love'. Sixteen leading scholars provide accessible and authoritative chapters on Marlowe's life, texts, style, politics, religion, and classicism. The volume also considers his literary and patronage relationships and his representations of sexuality and gender and of geography and identity; his presence in modern film and theatre; and finally his influence on subsequent writers. The Companion includes a chronology of Marlowe's life, a note on reference works, and a reading list for each chapter.

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Laura Lunger Knoppers

The Cambridge Companion to Early Modern Women's Writing

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Featuring the most frequently taught female writers and texts of the early modern period, this 2009 Companion introduces the reader to the range, complexity, historical importance, and aesthetic merit of women's writing in Britain from 1500–1700. Presenting key textual, historical, and methodological information, the volume exemplifies new and diverse approaches to the study of women's writing. The book is clearly divided into three sections, covering: how women learnt to write and how their work was circulated or published; how and what women wrote in the places and spaces in which they lived, worked, and worshipped; and the different kinds of writing women produced, from poetry and fiction to letters, diaries, and political prose. This structure makes the volume readily adaptable to course usage. The Companion is enhanced by an introduction that lays out crucial framework and critical issues, and by chronologies that situate women's writings alongside political and cultural events.

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Arthur F. Kinney

The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1500–1600

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999

This is the first comprehensive account of English Renaissance literature in the context of the culture which shaped it: the courts of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, the tumult of Catholic and Protestant alliances during the Reformation, the age of printing and of New World discovery. In this century courtly literature under Henry VIII moves toward a new, more personal poetry of sentiment, narrative and romance. The development of English prose is seen in the writing of More, Foxe and Hooker and in the evolution of satire and popular culture. Drama moves from the churches to the commercial playhouses with the plays of Kyd, Marlowe and the early careers of Shakespeare and Jonson. The Companion tackles all these subjects in fourteen newly-commissioned essays, written by experts for student readers. A detailed chronology of major literary achievements concludes with a list of authors and their dates. (da sito CUP)

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A. R. Braunmuller, Michael Hattaway

The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Drama . 2nd Edition

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003

This second edition of the Companion offers students up-to-date factual and interpretative material about the principal theatres, playwrights and plays of the most important period of English drama, from 1580–1642. Three wide-ranging chapters on theatres, dramaturgy and the social, cultural and political conditions of the drama are followed by chapters describing and illustrating various theatrical genres: private and occasional drama, political plays, heroic plays, burlesque, comedy, tragedy, with a final essay on the drama produced during the reign of Charles I. All the essays have been revised and their references updated. An expanded biographical and bibliographical section details the work of the dramatists discussed in the book and the best sources for further study. A chronological table provides a full listing of new plays performed from 1497–1642, with a parallel list of major political and theatrical events.

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Robert Shaughnessy

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Popular Culture

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007

This Companion explores the remarkable variety of forms that Shakespeare's life and works have taken over the course of four centuries, ranging from the early modern theatrical marketplace to the age of mass media, and including stage and screen performance, music and the visual arts, the television serial and popular prose fiction. The book asks what happens when Shakespeare is popularized, and when the popular is Shakespeareanized; it queries the factors that determine the definitions of and boundaries between the legitimate and illegitimate, the canonical and the authorized and the subversive, the oppositional, the scandalous and the inane. Leading scholars discuss the ways in which the plays and poems of Shakespeare, as well as Shakespeare himself, have been interpreted and reinvented, adapted and parodied, transposed into other media, and act as a source of inspiration for writers, performers, artists and film-makers worldwide.

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Russell Jackson

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film. 2nd Edition

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007

Film adaptations of Shakespeare's plays are increasingly popular and now figure prominently in the study of his work and its reception. This Companion is a lively collection of critical and historical essays on the films adapted from, and inspired by, Shakespeare's plays. Chapters have been revised and updated from the first edition to include the most recent films and scholarship. An international team of leading scholars discuss Shakespearean films from a variety of perspectives: as works of art in their own right; as products of the international movie industry; and as the work of particular directors from Laurence Olivier and Orson Welles to Franco Zeffirelli and Kenneth Branagh. They also consider specific issues such as the portrayal of Shakespeare's women and the supernatural. The emphasis is on feature films for cinema, rather than television, with strong coverage of Hamlet, Richard III, Macbeth, King Lear and Romeo and Juliet.

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Claire McEachern

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy

2nd ed.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013

This revised and updated Companion acquaints the student reader with the forms, contexts, critical and theatrical lives of the ten plays considered to be Shakespeare's tragedies. Thirteen essays, written by leading scholars in Britain and North America, address the ways in which Shakespearean tragedy originated, developed and diversified, as well as how it has fared on stage, as text and in criticism. Topics covered include the literary precursors of Shakespeare's tragedies, cultural backgrounds, sub-genres and receptions of the plays. The book examines the four major tragedies and, in addition, Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus and Timon of Athens. Essays from the first edition have been fully revised to reflect the most up-to-date scholarship; the bibliography has been extensively updated; and four new chapters have been added, discussing Shakespearean form, Shakespeare and philosophy, Shakespeare's tragedies in performance, and Shakespeare and religion. Source: cambridge.org

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Michael Hattaway

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's History Plays

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002

Shakespeare's history plays have been performed more in recent years than ever before, in Britain, North America, and in Europe. This 2002 volume provides an accessible, wide-ranging and informed introduction to Shakespeare's history and Roman plays. It is attentive throughout to the plays as they have been performed over the centuries since they were written. The first part offers accounts of the genre of the history play, of Renaissance historiography, of pageants and masques, and of women's roles, as well as comparisons with history plays in Spain and the Netherlands. Chapters in the second part look at individual plays as well as other Shakespearean texts which are closely related to the histories. The Companion offers a full bibliography, genealogical tables, and a list of principal and recurrent characters. It is a comprehensive guide for students, researchers and theatre-goers alike.

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Patrick Cheney

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's Poetry

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007

This 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 scholars provide accessible and authoritative chapters on all relevant topics: from Shakespeare's seminal role in the development of English poetry, the wide-ranging practice of his poetic form, and his enigmatic place in print and manuscript culture, to his immersion in English Renaissance politics, religion, classicism, and gender dynamics. With individual chapters on Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Passionate Pilgrim, 'The Phoenix and the Turtle', the Sonnets, and A Lover's Complaint, the Companion also includes chapters on the presence of poetry in the dramatic works, on the relation between poetry and performance, and on the reception and influence of the poems. The volume includes a chronology of Shakespeare's life, a note on reference works, and a reading list for each chapter.

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N. H. Keeble

The Cambridge Companion to Writing of the English Revolution

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001

This collection of fifteen essays by leading scholars examines the extraordinary diversity and richness of the writing produced in response to, and as part of, the upheaval in the religious, political and cultural life of the nation which constituted the English Revolution. The turmoil of the civil wars fought out from 1639 to 1651, the shock of the execution of Charles I, and the uncertainty of the succeeding period of constitutional experiment were enacted and refigured in writing which both shaped and was shaped by the tumultuous times. The various strategies of this battle of the books are explored through essays on the course of events, intellectual trends and the publishing industry; in discussions of canonical figures such as Milton, Marvell, Bunyan and Clarendon; and in accounts of women's writing and of fictional and non-fictional prose. A full chronology, detailed guides to further reading and a glossary are included.

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by Michael Hattaway (Editor)

A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture

Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2002

This is a one volume, up-to-date collection of more than fifty wide-ranging essays which will inspire and guide students of the Renaissance and provide course leaders with a substantial and helpful frame of reference. Provides new perspectives on established texts. Orientates the new student, while providing advanced students with current and new directions. Pioneered by leading scholars. Occupies a unique niche in Renaissance studies. Illustrated with 12 single-page black and white prints.

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by Thomas N. Corns (Editor)

A Companion to Milton

Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2003

The diverse and controversial world of contemporary Milton studies is brought alive in this stimulating Companion. * Winner of the Milton Society of America's Irene Samuels Book Award in 2002. * Invites readers to explore and enjoy Milton's rich and fascinating work. * Comprises 29 fresh and powerful readings of Milton's texts and the contexts in which they were created, each written by a leading scholar. * Looks at literary production and cultural ideologies, issues of politics, gender and religion, individual Milton texts, other relevant contemporary texts and responses to Milton over time. * Devotes a whole chapter to each major poem, and four to Paradise Lost. * Conveys the excitement of recent developments in the field.

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by Arthur F. Kinney (Editor)

A Companion to Renaissance Drama

Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2004

This expansive, inter-disciplinary guide to Renaissance plays and the world they played to gives readers a colorful overview of England's great dramatic age. * Provides an expansive and inter-disciplinary approach to Renaissance plays and the world they played to. * Offers a colourful and comprehensive overview of the material conditions of England's most important dramatic period. * Gives readers facts and data along with up-to-date interpretation of the plays. * Looks at the drama in terms of its cultural agency, its collaborative nature, and its ideological complexity.

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by David Scott Kastan (Editor)

A Companion to Shakespeare

Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 1999

A Companion to Shakespeare is an indispensable book for students and teachers of Shakespeare, indeed for anyone with an interest in his plays. * Contains 28 newly commissioned essays written by the most distinguished historians and literary scholars * Situates Shakespeare in the historical and cultural conditions in which he wrote

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by Barbara Hodgdon (Editor), W. B. Worthen (Editor)

A Companion to Shakespeare and Performance

Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2005

A Companion to Shakespeare and Performance provides a state-of-the-art engagement with the rapidly developing field of Shakespeare performance studies. * Redraws the boundaries of Shakespeare performance studies. * Considers performance in a range of media, including in print, in the classroom, in the theatre, in film, on television and video, in multimedia and digital forms. * Introduces important terms and contemporary areas of enquiry in Shakespeare and performance. * Raises questions about the dynamic interplay between Shakespearean writing and the practices of contemporary performance and performance studies. * Written by an international group of major scholars, teachers, and professional theatre makers.

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H. Granville-Barker, G. B. Harrison

Companion to Shakespeare Studies

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,

The studies in this volume cover all aspects of Shakespearian scholarship. It begins with Shakespeare's biography, describes the theatres and companies of the time, and analyses Shakespeare's dramatic and poetic genius. There are also studies of his work in relation to the English spoken at the time, his use and knowledge of music, and his sources. Other essays cover the national and social background. A final group touches on the text of the plays, Shakespearian criticism and scholarship, and Shakespeare in the theatre.

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by Michael Schoenfeldt (Editor)

A Companion to Shakespeare's Sonnets

Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2006

This Companion represents the myriad ways of thinking about the remarkable achievement of Shakespeare’s sonnets. * An authoritative reference guide and extended introduction to Shakespeare’s sonnets. * Contains more than 20 newly-commissioned essays by both established and younger scholars. * Considers the form, sequence, content, literary context, editing and printing of the sonnets. * Shows how the sonnets provide a mirror in which cultures can read their own critical biases. * Informed by the latest theoretical, cultural and archival work.

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by Richard Dutton (Editor), Jean E. Howard (Editor)

A Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Volume I: The Tragedies

Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2005

This Companion to Shakespeare's tragedies contains original essays on every tragedy from Titus Andronicus to Coriolanus, as well as thirteen additional essays on such topics as Shakespeare's Roman tragedies, Shakespeare's tragedies on film, Shakespeare's tragedies of love, Hamlet in performance, and tragic emotion in Shakespeare.

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Introduction.
1. “A rarity most beloved”: Shakespeare and the Idea of Tragedy: David Scott Kastan (Columbia University).
2. The Tragedies Of Shakespeare's Contemporaries: Martin Coyle (Cardiff University).
3. Minds in Company: Shakespearean Tragic Emotions: Kathryn Rowe (Bryn Mawr).
4. The Divided Tragic Hero: Catherine Belsey (Cardiff University).
5. Disjointed Times and Half-Remembered Truths In Shakespearean Tragedy: Philippa Berry (University of Cambridge).
6. Reading Shakespeare's Tragedies of Love: Romeo and Juliet, Othello, and Antony and Cleopatra in Early Modern England: Sasha Roberts (University of Kent).
7.Hamlet Productions Starring Beale, Hawke, and Darling From the Perspectives of Performance History: Bernice W. Kliman (Nassau Community College).
8. Text and Tragedy: Graham Holderness (University of Hertfordshire).
9. Shakespearean Tragedy And Religious Identity: Richard C. McCoy (City University of New York).
10. Shakespeare's Roman Tragedies: Gordon Braden (University of Virginia).
11. Tragedy and Geography: Jerry Brotton (University of London).
12. Classic Film Versions of Shakespeare's Tragedies: A Mirror for the Times: Kenneth S. Rothwell (University of Vermont).
13. Contemporary Film Versions of the Tragedies: Mark Thornton Burnett (Queen’s University of Belfast).
14. Titus Andronicus: A Time for Race and Revenge: Ian Smith (Lafayette College).
15. “There is no world without Verona walls”: The City in Romeo and Juliet: Naomi Conn Liebler (Montclair State University).
16. “He that thou knowest thine”: Friendship and Service in Hamlet: Michael Neill (University of Auckland).
17. Julius Caesar: Rebecca W. Bushnell (University of Pennsylvania).
18. Othello and the Problem of Blackness: Kim F. Hall (Fordham University).
19. King Lear: Kiernan Ryan (University of London).
20. Macbeth, the Present, and the Past: Kate McLuskie (University of Southampton).
21. The Politics of Empathy in Antony and Cleopatra: Jyotsna G. Singh (Michigan State University).
22. Timon of Athens: The Dialectic of Usury, Nihilism, and Art: Hugh Grady (Arcadia University, Pennsylvania).
23. Coriolanus and the Politics of Theatrical Pleasure: Cynthia Marshall (Rhodes College, Memphis).
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by Richard Dutton (Editor), Jean E. Howard (Editor)

A Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Volume II: The Histories

Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2005

The four-volume Companion to Shakespeare's Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism. This volume looks at Shakespeare’s histories. * Contains original essays on every history play from Henry VI to Henry V. * Includes fourteen additional articles on such topics as censorship in Shakespeare's histories, the relation of Shakespeare's plays to other dramatic histories of the period, Shakespeare's histories on film, the homoerotics of Shakespeare's history plays, and nation formation in Shakespeare's histories. * Brings together new essays from a diverse, international group of scholars. * Complements David Scott Kastan's A Companion to Shakespeare (1999), which focused on Shakespeare as an author in his historical context. * Offers a provocative roadmap to Shakespeare studies.

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by Richard Dutton (Editor), Jean E. Howard (Editor)

A Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Volume III: The Comedies

Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2005

This Companion to Shakespeare's comedies contains original essays on every comedy from The Two Gentlemen of Verona to Twelfth Night. In addition, the volume features twelve essays on such topics as the humoral body in Shakespearean comedy, Shakespeare's comedies on film, Shakespeare's relation to other comic writers of his time, Shakespeare's cross-dressing comedies, and the geographies of Shakespearean comedy.

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by Richard Dutton (Editor), Jean E. Howard (Editor

A Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Volume IV, The Poems, Problem Comedies, Late Plays

Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2005

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by Richard Dutton (Editor), Jean E. Howard (Editor)

A Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Volume IV, The Poems, Problem Comedies, Late Plays

Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2003

The four-volume Companion to Shakespeare's Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism. This volume looks at Shakespeare’s poems, problem comedies and late plays. * Contains original essays on Troilus and Cressida, Measure for Measure, All's Well That Ends Well, Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, and The Sonnets, as well as Pericles, The Winter's Tale, Cymbeline, The Tempest, Henry VIII and The Two Noble Kinsmen. * Includes eleven essays on such topics as the reception history of the sonnets, collaboration in Shakespeare's middle and late plays, the generic classification of Shakespeare's late plays, The Tempest in performance, and the relation of Shakespeare's problem plays to the work of contemporary dramatists. * Brings together new essays from a diverse, international group of scholars. * Complements David Scott Kastan's A Companion to Shakespeare (1999), which focused on Shakespeare as an author in his historical context. * Offers a provocative roadmap to Shakespeare studies.

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by Kent Cartwright (Editor)

A Companion to Tudor Literature

Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010

A Companion to Tudor Literature presents a collection of thirty-one newly commissioned essays focusing on English literature and culture from the reign of Henry VII in 1485 to the death of Elizabeth I in 1603. * Presents students with a valuable historical and cultural context to the period * Discusses key texts and representative subjects, and explores issues including international influences, religious change, travel and New World discoveries, women’s writing, technological innovations, medievalism, print culture, and developments in music and in modes of seeing and reading

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by Dympna Callaghan (Editor)

A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare

Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2001

The question is not whether Shakespeare studies needs feminism, but whether feminism needs Shakespeare. This is the explicitly political approach taken by all-women team of contributors to A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare

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by Michael Hattaway (Editor)

A New Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture

Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010

In this revised and greatly expanded edition of the Companion, 80 scholars come together to offer an original and far-reaching assessment of English Renaissance literature and culture. * A new edition of the best-selling Companion to English Renaissance Literature, revised and updated, with 22 new essays and 19 new illustrations * Contributions from some 80 scholars including Judith H. Anderson, Patrick Collinson, Alison Findlay, Germaine Greer, Malcolm Jones, Arthur Kinney, James Knowles, Arthur Marotti, Robert Miola and Greg Walker * Unrivalled in scope and its exploration of unfamiliar literary and cultural territories the Companion offers new readings of both ‘literary’ and ‘non-literary’ texts * Features essays discussing material culture, sectarian writing, the history of the body, theatre both in and outside the playhouses, law, gardens, and ecology in early modern England * Orientates the beginning student, while providing advanced students and faculty with new directions for their research * All of the essays from the first edition, along with the recommendations for further reading, have been reworked or updated

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Andrew Hadfield

The Oxford Handbook of English Prose 1500-1640

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013

The Oxford Handbook of English Prose1500-1640 is the only current overview of early modern English prose writing. The aim of the volume is to make prose more visible as a subject and as a mode of writing. It covers a vast range of material vital for the understanding of the period: from jestbooks, newsbooks, and popular romance to the translation of the classics and the pioneering collections of scientific writing and travel writing; from diaries, tracts on witchcraft, and domestic conduct books to rhetorical treatises designed for a courtly audience; from little known works such as William Baldwin's Beware the Cat, probably the first novel in English, to The Bible, The Book of Common Prayer and Richard Hooker's eloquent statement of Anglican belief, The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity. The work not only deals with the range and variety of the substance and types of English prose, but also analyses the forms and styles of writing adopted in the early modern period, ranging from the Euphuistic nature of prose fiction inaugurated by John Lyly's mannered novel, to the aggressive polemic of the Marprelate controversy; from the scatological humour of comic writing to the careful modulations of the most significant sermons of the age; and from the pithy and concise English essays of Francis Bacon to the ornate and meandering style of John Florio's translation of Montaigne's famous collection. Each essay provides an overview as well as comment on key passages, and a select guide to further reading. (Da sito Oxford University Press)

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The Oxford Handbook of John Donne

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Contributing scholars comprise many of the best established scholars in the field as well as emerging new scholars Paired insights of literary scholars and historians to establish biographical and historical contexts Focus on tools for Donne studies (practical, theoretical, conceptual) Comprehensive treatment of every genre in which Donne wrote The Oxford Handbook of John Donne presents scholars with the history of Donne studies and provides tools to orient scholarship in this field in the twenty-first century and beyond. Though profoundly historical in its orientation, the Handbook is not a summary of existing knowledge but a resource that reveals patterns of literary and historical attention and the new directions that these patterns enable or obstruct. Part I - Research resources in Donne Studies and why they matter - emphasizes the heuristic and practical orientation of the Handbook, examining prevailing assumptions and reviewing the specialized scholarly tools available. This section provides a brief evaluation and description of the scholarly strengths, shortcomings, and significance of each resource, focusing on a balanced evaluation of the opportunities and the hazards each offers. Part II - Donne's genres - begins with an introduction that explores the significance and differentiation of the numerous genres in which Donne wrote, including discussion of the problems posed by his overlapping and bending of genres. Essays trace the conventions and histories of the genres concered and study the ways in which Donne's works confirm how and why his 'fresh invention' illustrates his responses to the literary and non-literary contexts of their composition. Part III - Biographical and historical contexts - creates perspective on what is known about Donne's life; shows how his life and writings epitomized and affected important controversial issues of his day; and brings to bear on Donne studies some of the most stimulating and creative ideas developed in recent decades by historians of early modern England. Part IV - Problems of literary interpretation that have been traditionally and generally important in Donne Studies - introduces students and researchers to major critical debates affecting the reception of Donne from the 17th through to the 21st centuries. Readership: Students and scholars of Donne and early modern literature.

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Laura Lunger Knoppers

The Oxford Handbook of Literature and the English Revolution

Oxford etc.: Oxford University Press, 2012

Includes thirty-seven new chapters written by leading international scholars on the issues, contexts, and texts of the English Revolution Displays an interdisciplinary approach drawing on literature, history, religion, print culture, the history of reading, and women's writing Chapters engage not only scholarly debates about the causes and effects of the English Revolution, but broader historical and theoretical conversations about propaganda and print history, political opinion and the public sphere, early readers, literary history, history of genres, and women's roles in society Provides a news lens on the literature of the civil war, situating canonical literary texts in their precise political, religious, and cultural contexts This Handbook offers a comprehensive introduction and thirty-seven new essays by an international team of literary critics and historians on the writings generated by the tumultuous events of mid-seventeenth-century England. Unprecedented events-civil war, regicide, the abolition of monarchy, proscription of episcopacy, constitutional experiment, and finally the return of monarchy-led to an unprecedented outpouring of texts, including new and transformed literary genres and techniques. The Handbook provides up-to-date scholarship on current issues as well as historical information, textual analysis, and bibliographical tools to help readers understand and appreciate the bold and indeed revolutionary character of writing in mid-seventeenth-century England. The volume is innovative in its attention to the literary and aesthetic aspects of a wide range of political and religious writing, as well as in its demonstration of how literary texts register the political pressures of their time. Opening with essential contextual chapters on religion, politics, society, and culture, the largely chronological subsequent chapters analyse particular voices, texts, and genres as they respond to revolutionary events. Attention is given to aesthetic qualities, as well as to bold political and religious ideas, in such writers as James Harrington, Marchamont Nedham, Thomas Hobbes, Gerrard Winstanley, John Lilburne, and Abiezer Coppe. At the same time, the revolutionary political context sheds new light on such well-known literary writers as John Milton, Andrew Marvell, Robert Herrick, Henry Vaughan, William Davenant, John Dryden, Lucy Hutchinson, Margaret Cavendish, and John Bunyan. Overall, the volume provides an indispensable guide to the innovative and exciting texts of the English Revolution and reevaluates its long-term cultural impact. ( da sito Oxford University Press)

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Nicholas McDowell, Nigel Smith

The Oxford Handbook of Milton

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009

Four hundred years after his birth, John Milton remains one of the greatest and most controversial figures in English literature. The Oxford Handbook of Milton is a comprehensive guide to the state of Milton studies in the early twenty-first century, bringing together an international team of thirty-five leading scholars in one volume. The rise of critical interest in Milton's political and religious ideas is the most striking aspect of Milton studies in recent times, a consequence in great part of the increasingly fluid relations between literary and historical study. The Oxford Handbook both embodies the interest in Milton's political and religious contexts in the last generation and seeks to inaugurate a new phase in Milton studies through closer integration of the poetry and prose. There are eight essays on various aspects of Paradise Lost, ranging from its classical background and poetic form to its heretical theology and representation of God. There are sections devoted both to the shorter poems, including 'Lycidas' and Comus, and the final poems, Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes. There are also three sections on Milton's prose: the early controversial works on church government, divorce, and toleration, including Areopagitica; the regicide and republican prose of 1649-1660, the period during which he served as the chief propagandist for the English Commonwealth and Cromwell's Protectorate, and the various writings on education, history, and theology. The opening essays explore what we know about Milton's biography and what it might tell us; the final essays offer interpretations of aspects of Milton's massive influence on later writers, including the Romantic poets. (Da sito Oxford University Press)

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Arthur F. Kinney

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare

Oxford etc.: Oxford University Press, 2011

An essential resource for the study of Shakespeare, The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare is edited by esteemed scholar Arthur Kinney and contains forty specially written essays. It provides fresh and imaginative readings of his plays and poems, reflects on the current state of Shakespeare Studies, and suggests the likely future directions it will take. The Handbook is divided into five sections: 'Texts' explores how Shakespeare wrote, who he collaborated with, the ways in which his works were transmitted, and the reactions of his early readers; 'Conditions' examines the economic, social, artistic, and linguistic forces at play on Shakespeare; 'Works' discusses the various stages of his career; 'Performances' is concerned with issues such as the reception of his plays, the theatre business, and film adaptations; and 'Current Speculations' includes essays on topics ranging from the role of philosophical thought and the influence of classical sources to the relevance of empire, technology, religion, and law. By covering the range of Shakespeare's work in his time and ours, this myriad-minded book deepens and enriches our understanding of the great poet and unparalleled playwright's accomplishments. ( da sito Oxford University Press)

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Jonathan Post

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare's Poetry

Oxford etc.: Oxford University Press, 2013

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare's Poetry contains thirty-eight original essays written by leading Shakespeareans around the world. Collectively, these essays seek to return readers to a revivified understanding of Shakespeare's verbal artistry in both the poems and the drama. The volume understands poetry to be not just a formal category designating a particular literary genre but to be inclusive of the dramatic verse as well, and of Shakespeare's influence as a poet on later generations of writers in English and beyond. Focusing on a broad set of interpretive concerns, the volume tackles general matters of Shakespeare's style, earlier and later; questions of influence from classical, continental, and native sources; the importance of words, line, and rhyme to meaning; the significance of songs and ballads in the drama; the place of gender in the verse, including the relationship of Shakespeare's poetry to the visual arts; the different values attached to speaking 'Shakespeare' in the theatre; and the adaptation of Shakespearean verse (as distinct from performance) into other periods and languages. The largest section, with ten essays, is devoted to the poems themselves: the Sonnets, plus 'A Lover's Complaint', the narrative poems, Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece, and 'The Phoenix and the Turtle'. If the volume as a whole urges a renewed involvement in the complex matter of Shakespeare's poetry, it does so, as the individual essays testify, by way of responding to critical trends and discoveries made during the last three decades. ( da sito Oxford University Press)

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Thomas Betteridge, Greg Walker

The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Drama

Oxford etc.: Oxford University Press, 2012

The Oxford Handbook to Tudor Drama is the authoritative secondary text on Tudor drama. It both integrates recent important research across different disciplines and periods and sets a new agenda for the future study of Tudor drama, questioning a number of the central assumptions of previous studies. Balancing the interests and concerns of scholars in theatre history, drama, and literary studies, its scope reflects the broad reach of Tudor drama as a subject, inviting readers to see the Tudor century as a whole, rather than made up of artificial and misleading divisions between 'medieval' and 'renaissance', religious and secular, pre- and post-Shakespeare. The contributors, both the established leaders in their fields and the brightest young scholars, attend to the contexts, intellectual, theatrical and historical within which drama was written, produced and staged in this period, and ask us to consider afresh this most vital and complex of periods in theatre history. The book is divided into four sections: Religious Drama; Interludes and Comedies, Entertainments, Masques, and Royal Entries; and Histories and political dramas. ( da sito Oxford University Press)

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Mike Pincombe, Cathy Shrank

The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Literature : 1485-1603

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009

This is the first major collection of essays to look at the literature of the entire Tudor period, from the reign of Henry VII to the death of Elizabeth I. It pays particular attention to the years before 1580. Those decades saw, amongst other things, the establishment of print culture and growth of a reading public; the various phases of the English Reformation and process of political centralization that enabled and accompanied them; the increasing emulation of Continental and classical literatures under the influence of humanism; the self-conscious emergence of English as a literary language and determined creation of a native literary canon; the beginnings of English empire and the consolidation of a sense of nationhood. However, study of Tudor literature prior to 1580 is not only of worth as a context, or foundation, for an Elizabethan 'golden age'. As this much-needed volume will show, it is also of artistic, intellectual, and cultural merit in its own right. Written by experts from Europe, North America, and the United Kingdom, the forty-five chapters in The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Literature recover some of the distinctive voices of sixteenth-century writing, its energy, variety, and inventiveness. As well as essays on well-known writers, such as Philip Sidney or Thomas Wyatt, the volume contains the first extensive treatment in print of some of the Tudor era's most original voices. (Da sito Oxford University Press)

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Imperiali Isabella, Lombardo Agostino

Storia del teatro inglese: dal Medioevo al Rinascimento

Roma: Carocci, 2001

In questo […] volume, che prende in considerazione il periodo che va all’incirca dal X al XVII secolo, dopo un percorso attraverso le forme e i luoghi del teatro dal Medioevo al Rinascimento tracciato da Isabella Imperiali - in cui vengono esposti i risultati di un grande lavoro di ricerca, di passione filologica e di sintesi - Agostino Lombardo passa ad esaminare gli aspetti più propriamente poetici del patrimonio teatrale medievale, in una sorta di complementare controcanto fra aspetti materiali ed estetici. (Da sito Carocci)

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Lombardo Agostino, Tarantino Elisabetta

Storia del teatro inglese: l'età di Shakespeare

Roma: Carocci, 2001

In questo […] volume vengono presi in considerazione non soltanto i principali autori e la loro produzione, ma anche i luoghi, le modalità e la ricezione del fenomeno teatrale, secondo una pluralità di punti di vista e di approcci quanto mai varia e feconda. Nella prima parte, Elisabetta Tarantino ci restituisce l’ambiente e le figure che fanno da sfondo alla grande stagione teatrale shakespeariana: Thomas Kyd, Christopher Marlowe, George Peele, John Lyly. Nelle seconda parte, invece, Agostino Lombardo concentra la propria attenzione sugli aspetti più squisitamente poetici e culturali e sulla fortuna italiana di Shakespeare: sintetica summa delle esperienze di una vita di studi e di traduzioni, sorta di dialogo a distanza fra l’anglista e l’opera del grande drammaturgo d’intenso fascino, oltrech di profonda erudizione. (Da sito Carocci)

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