Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600 Books

This collection explores the consequences of accentism-an under-researched issue that intersects with racism and classism-in the Shakespeare industry across languages and cultures, past and present. It adopts a transmedia and transhistorical approach to...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

The School of Venus or The Lady's Miscellany is a book written by John Durant Breval and published in 1739. It is a collection of original poems and novels that revolve around the themes of love and gallantry. The book is aimed at a female audience and...

""Sir Philip Sidney, Sonnets and Miscellaneous Verse"" is a collection of works by the famous Elizabethan poet and courtier, Sir Philip Sidney. The book includes a selection of Sidney's sonnets, which are considered some of the finest examples of the...

Examining literary discourses on female friendship and intimacy in seventeenth-century France, this study takes as its premise the view that, unlike men, women have been denied for centuries the possibility of same sex friendship. The author explores...

This volume is the first attempt to establish a body of work representing English thinking about the practice of translation in the early modern period. The texts assembled cover the long sixteenth century from the age of Caxton to the reign of James 1...

This book explores modalities and cultural interventions of translation in the early modern period, focusing on the shared parameters of these two translation cultures. Translation emerges as a powerful tool for thinking about community and citizenship,...

This book explores the work of Cervantes in relation to the ideas about the mind that circulated in early modern Europe and were propelled by thinkers such as Juan Luis Vives, Juan Huarte de San Juan, Oliva Sabuco, Andrés Laguna, Andrés Velásquez,...

The essays collected here join in, and contribute to, the current reflection on Dante's vitality today in a critical, multidisciplinary vein. Their intervention comes at a particularly sensitive juncture in the history of Dante's global reception and...

Fools and clowns were widely popular characters employed in early modern drama, prose texts and poems mainly as laughter makers, or also as ludicrous metaphorical embodiments of human failures. Literature and Intellectual Disability in Early Modern...

Originally published in 1972 and based on extensive research and use of source materials including manuscripts, this book examines Puritan spiritual autobiographies written before 1725 and sets them in the context of the literary tradition out of which...

Biblioth�����que de la Ville de Metz: Catalogue des Manuscrits (1856) est un livre �����crit par M. Clercx. Ce livre est une collection de catalogues de manuscrits disponibles ������ la biblioth�����que de la ville de Metz. Il contient des informations...

""Beitr�����ge zur christlichen Kunstgeschichte und Liturgik V1 (1841)"" ist ein Buch von Johann Christian Wilhelm Augusti. In diesem Werk werden Beitr�����ge zur Geschichte der christlichen Kunst und Liturgie pr�����sentiert. Der Autor untersucht die...

This four-volume set contains the complete non-dramatic works of Thomas Dekker, including his poetry, prose, and satirical writing. Discover the wit and insight of one of the most important writers of the Elizabethan era.This work has been selected by...

The Persian Empire in English Renaissance Writing, 1549-1622 studies the conception of Persia in the literary, political and pedagogic writings of Renaissance England and Britain. It argues that writers of all kinds debated the means and merits of...

Akademische Arbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Literaturwissenschaft - Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Note: 1,3, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In dieser Arbeit soll betrachtet werden, wie Friedrich von Spee in...

This book studies the Early Modern Spanish broadsheet, the tabloid newspaper of its day which functioned to educate, entertain, and indoctrinate its readers, much like today's "fake news." Parker Aronson incorporates a socio-historical approach in which...

This book is the first comprehensive examination of commercial drama as a reading genre in early modern England. Taking as its focus pre-Restoration printed drama's most common format, the single-play quarto playbook, it interrogates what the form and...

Elizabeth Wells Gallup presents a fascinating analysis of the bi-lateral cipher of Sir Francis Bacon, exploring its relevance to Bacon's works and their meaning. This book offers a unique perspective on the life and works of one of the most celebrated...

This is the first volume to explore the reception of the Pythagorean doctrine of cosmic harmony within a variety of contexts, ranging chronologically from Plato to 18th-century England. This original collection of essays engages with contemporary debates...

Long before the economist Amartya Sen proposed that more than 100 million women were missing-lost to disease or neglect, kidnapping or forced marriage, denied the economic and political security of wages or membership in a larger social order-Shakespeare...

This book makes a significant contribution to recent scholarship on the ways in which women responded to the regulation of their behavior by focusing on representations of women speakers and their audiences in moments Smith identifies as "scenes of...

The author analyzes how Ovidian-inspired mythologies and bibliographical aetiologies informed the sixteenth-century creation, reproduction, and representation of books, and provides alternative models for thinking about the dynamics of reception,...

The eight essays within this volume offer the first sustained analysis of the ways that consumers read and understood Songes and Sonettes (1557), a radically new and highly influential form of poetic collection compiled by printer Richard Tottel. ...

The first of its kind to situate the early modern debate on sovereignty within a 'popular culture' dramatic context, this project examines the changing ideological conceptions of sovereignty and their on-stage representations in public theaters from 1580...

Examining the appropriations and revisions of Indian identity first carried out by Anglo-American engravers and later by early Anglo-American women writers, Cathy Rex shows the ways in which iconic images of Native figures inform not only an emerging...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 1,0, Universität Hamburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Arbeit widmet sich dem Roman „Anton Reiser" von Karl Philipp Moritz. Für diese Untersuchung soll eine...

Neben einem wesentlichen Geltungsargument der imitatio veterum, der Ausrichtung an klassischen Vorbildern, sind ab dem italienischen Trecento auktoriale Selbstinszenierungen zu beobachten, mit denen Dichter prospektiv Geltung für sich beanspruchen. An...

Etchings In Verse is a collection of poems written by Philip Acton and published in 1873. The book features a total of 50 poems, each of which is accompanied by a corresponding etching. The poems cover a wide range of themes, including love, nature, and...

Mon Sillon (1869) est un roman de Zenaide Fleuriot. L'histoire se d�����roule en Bretagne au XIXe si�����cle et suit la vie de deux fr�����res, Yves et Guillaume, qui sont tr�����s diff�����rents l'un de l'autre. Yves, l'a�����n�����, est un fermier...

Le Moniteur Secret V1-2 (1814) de Jean Baptiste Couchery est un livre qui se compose de deux volumes. Il s'agit d'une collection de documents et de correspondances secr�����tes qui ont �����t����� �����chang�����s entre les diff�����rents gouvernements...

Le Livre De La Genese Dans La Poesie Latine Au V Siecle (1899) de Gamber, Stanislas est un livre qui explore la po�����sie latine du Ve si�����cle et son rapport avec le Livre de la Gen�����se. L'auteur examine les �����uvres de po�����tes latins tels...

Le Jouvencel est un roman historique �����crit par Jean de Bueil en 1889. L'histoire se d�����roule au XVe si�����cle et suit la vie de Jean de Bueil, un jeune noble qui devient chevalier et sert le roi Charles VII. Le livre d�����crit la vie de la...

Le Directoire V1, Partie 1 (1895) est un livre �����crit par Ludovic Sciot. Il s'agit d'un ouvrage historique qui explore la p�����riode du Directoire en France, qui s'�����tend de 1795 ������ 1799. Cette p�����riode est caract�����ris�����e par une...

The Shakespearean World takes a global view of Shakespeare and his works, especially their afterlives. Constantly changing, the Shakespeare central to this volume has acquired an array of meanings over the past four centuries. "Shakespeare" signifies the...

Histoire de Saint-Euverte (1898) de Barbier, Paul est un livre qui raconte l'histoire de Saint-Euverte, une petite ville situ�����e en France. Le livre couvre l'histoire de la ville depuis sa fondation jusqu'������ l'�����poque contemporaine. Il...

Uncover the hidden meanings behind the cryptic rhymes of philosopher Francis Bacon. This book examines Bacon's use of language and symbolism, revealing the deeper truths he sought to convey. A fascinating read for anyone interested in the history of...

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 1994Bartels focuses on Marlowe's preoccupation with "strangers" and "strange" lands, and his use--and subversion--of Elizabethan stereotypes. Setting Marlovian drama in the context of...

Pornographic Sensibilities stages a conversation between two fields-Medieval/Early Modern Hispanic Studies and Porn Studies-that traditionally have had little to say to each other. The collection offers innovative new approaches to the study of gendered...

Bringing together eight original essays from leading and emerging Miltonists, this volume explores a second wave of critical thought about Milton’s monist materialism, the view that all existence arises from a single substance or reality...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Literaturgeschichte, Epochen, Note: 1.3, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Wie haben sich die Bedeutungen der Macht und der Herrschaft zwischen dem Barock und...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2019 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 1,0, Universität Koblenz-Landau (Institut für Germanistik), Veranstaltung: Themen und Motive der deutschen Literatur, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Hausarbeit...

A Jacobean tragicomedy that is generally ascribed to John Fletcher.