Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600 Books

The Modern Language Review is the official quarterly journal of the Modern Humanities Research Association. Published in January, April, July, and October each year, MLR contains articles and book reviews on modern and medieval European (including...

This book asks new questions about how and why Shakespeare engages with source material, and about what should be counted as sources in Shakespeare studies. The essays demonstrate that source study remains an indispensable mode of inquiry for...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2016 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 2,3, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Friedrich Schiller gelang der langersehnte Durchbruch mit seinem bürgerlichen Trauerspiel...

De Victoris Vitensis Libro Qui Inscribitur est opus litterarum auctore Ferrere, F. anno MDCCCXCVIII editum. Liber hic exponit historiam Victoris Vitensis, episcopi Africae, qui in saeculo V vixit. Victor Vitensis fuit testis oculatus bellorum inter...

Die Quellen des Cornelius Nepos is an essay by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on the sources and historical accuracy of the Roman biographer Cornelius Nepos. The focus of this edition is the section of Nepos' work that deals with the Greek generals Miltiades...

This collection features the work of both established and up-and-coming scholars in the UK and US, with contributors including Peter Goodrich, Lorna Hutson, Erica Sheen and David Colclough studying the period of the English Renaissance from the 1520s to...

Eating and drinking—vital to all human beings—were of central importance to Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Culinary Shakespeare, the first collection devoted solely to the study of food and drink in Shakespeare’s plays, reframes...

Gómez Manrique (c.1412-c.1490) had a long and active life, engaging in military activity as a typical medieval knight before becoming a diplomat and statesman. He was deeply involved in the political turbulence of fifteenth-century Castile,...

W. C. Hazlitt says of Montaigne--"he was without being aware of it, the leader of a new school in letters and morals" and "the first modern man." He has been universally admired in his time and since. In his essays, Montaigne "has the courage to say...

A comprehensive study of the life and works of Fulke Greville, a 16th-century English poet, statesman, and dramatist. The author provides a detailed analysis of Greville's poetry and drama, examining their literary influences and historical context. The...

The Hidden Signatures of Francesco Colonna and Francis Bacon compares the works of the two authors, with a particular emphasis on the theory that Francis Bacon was the true author of the famous literary work, Venus and Adonis. The book takes a detailed...

This volume of 13 original interdisciplinary essays surveys the relationship of Victorian works and the urban experience that shaped them. Each essay addresses how the selection or rejection of an urban setting provide the context for a representative...

Awarded a 2014 Science Fiction and Technoculture Studies Prize Honourable Mention.This book explores the creation and use of artificially made humanoid servants and servant networks by fictional and non-fictional scientists of the early modern period...

This book maps out the shaping power of English Renaissance literature in creating and contesting national and colonial identities through the work of major authors including Shakespeare, Spenser, and Milton. Informed throughout by the burgeoning fields...

Forgiving the Gift challenges the tendency to reflexively understand gifts as exchanges, negotiations, and circulations. Lawrence reads plays by Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare as informed by an early modern belief in the possibility and even...

Throughout the centuries, the Italian peninsula has played an important role as a crossroads where different cultures met, transformed and continued their journeys. This volume retraces some of these crossings, in the fields of literature, architecture...

Investigates the life histories of Renaissance objects as they experience transformations, and demonstrates these objects’ dynamic potential to transform their environments and others as they journey through time and space.

The plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries continue to inspire fresh interpretations in every genre and medium. Reinventing the Renaissance: Shakespeare and his Contemporaries in Adaptation and Performance offers new perspectives on the ways in...

Examensarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Didaktik für das Fach Deutsch - Literatur, Werke, Note: 1,1, Studienseminar für Gymnasien in Kassel, Veranstaltung: Methoden und Medien, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Leider hat das Web 2.0 mit seiner Fülle an...

This book covers the development of literary criticism during the Renaissance period. It explores the works of writers such as Petrarch, Erasmus, and Sir Philip Sidney as well as their influence on later critics like T.S. Eliot and Harold Bloom.This work...

De Ratione Scribendi Libri Tres is a classic Renaissance text on the art of letter writing. It includes detailed instructions on how to compose letters for every occasion, from formal business correspondence to intimate personal letters. The book is an...

Following the trial and execution of Charles I in 1649, the seventeenth century witnessed an explosion of print culture in England, including an unprecedented boom in biographical writing. Andrea Walkden offers a case-study examination of this...

This study posits that the Greek romances of late antiquity significantly influenced the works of William Shakespeare and Sir Philip Sidney, particularly in shaping the portrayal of the chaste marriage plot. The research explores how the themes of Greek...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2017 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Literaturgeschichte, Epochen, Note: 1,7, Universität Leipzig, Veranstaltung: 05-GSD-SPS01 Schulpraktische Studien Grundschuldidaktik 1, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In dieser Hausarbeit soll...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2017 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 1,7, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Institut für deutsche Literatur), Veranstaltung: Editionspolitik - Zeitschriften der Aufklärung, Sprache: Deutsch,...

Facharbeit (Schule) aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 1,0, , Veranstaltung: Epochenumbruch 18./19. Jahrhundert - unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Entwicklung des Dramas, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die...

Masterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Literaturgeschichte, Epochen, Note: 1,0, Universität Trier, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Welche Gedankenmuster und Rolleneigenschaften verfolgen die Protagonisten von "Miss Sara Simpson" und...

This volume brings together five translations of Aesopian fables that range from the beginning to the end of the English Renaissance. At the centre of the volume is an edition of the entirety of Arthur Golding’s manuscript translation of emblematic...

Reading Drama in Tudor England is about the print invention of drama as a category of text designed for readerly consumption. Arguing that plays were made legible by the printed paratexts that accompanied them, it shows that by the middle of the...

Questo saggio di Giuseppe Fatini racconta la vita e le opere di Agnolo Firenzuola, figura emblematica della letteratura rinascimentale e interprete della cultura borghese dell'epoca. Grazie a un'attenta analisi delle sue scritture, Fatini ci guida alla...

Harper delves into the historical context behind Edmund Spenser's 'The Faerie Queene' by examining the various chronicle histories that inspired the epic poem. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in Renaissance literature or in understanding...

This collection of works by various authors offers a window into the literature and culture of early modern England. It includes plays, poems, and satires on a variety of subjects, ranging from courtly love to political intrigue.This work has been...

In this thought-provoking study, William Henry Hudson examines the relationship between the church and the theater in early modern England, arguing that their respective attitudes towards popular culture reflected deeper differences in their outlook and...

Un traité sur l'art des devises, un genre littéraire populaire au XVIe siècle qui consistait à composer de courts poèmes accompagnés d'une image et d'un commentaire. Ce livre est une source importante pour les étudiants et les chercheurs en histoire de...

This critical edition of John Lyly's seminal works Euphues and Euphues and His England provides valuable insights into the literary and cultural landscape of Elizabethan England. With meticulous attention to detail, Arber presents a text that is faithful...

A scholarly examination of the life and works of English Renaissance playwright and poet Samuel Daniel, with detailed analysis of his style, themes, and influence on later writers.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and...

The Leopold Shakespeare V2 is a book that contains the complete works of William Shakespeare in chronological order, as compiled by Professor Delius. This edition includes The Two Noble Kinsmen and Edward III, which are often excluded from other...

Emotive language is now best understood by combining the analytic techniques of classical rhetoric with current linguistic practices. With or without prompting, the "passions" of Renaissance culture can stir contrary feelings in today's readers, which...

In this thoroughly annotated edition, teacher and theatrical dramaturge Gideon Rappaport aims at nothing less than a radical restoration of the meaning of Hamlet...

“Guy has the rare talent of making this material accessible” -Neal Stephenson (from his Foreword to Swordfighting)“Guy Windsor's greatest gift to WMA/HEMA is his marvellous ability to translate period language into a meaningful...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2019 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 2.0, Universität Stuttgart (Neuere Deutsche Literatur), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese hier vorgelegte Hausarbeit hat das Ziel, die Märchensammlung der...

Honoré de Balzac (1799 - 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. His great work was a series of short stories and novels collectively entitled La Comédie Humaine, which gives a picture of swathes of French society in the years after the 1815 fall of...

Pietro Bembo was both witness and participant at the centre of the Italian Renaissance. A celebrated writer, an antiquarian, a man of exquisite taste, and a lover of women and beauty, he was to win both the laurels of a poet and the scarlet robes of a...

Honoré de Balzac (1799 - 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. His great work was a series of short stories and novels collectively entitled La Comédie Humaine, which gives a picture of swathes of French society in the years after the 1815 fall of...

Unravel the mysteries of Sir Francis Bacon's cryptic writings with The Keys for Deciphering the Greatest Work of Sir Francis Bacon. This groundbreaking book offers a step-by-step guide to decoding Bacon's intricate codes and ciphers, revealing hidden...

This book presents a groundbreaking theory about the works of Sir Francis Bacon, the famous philosopher and statesman of the Elizabethan era. The author argues that Bacon used a secret code, known as the biliteral cipher, to encode hidden messages within...