John Dee

William H Sherman

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• This book challenges the conventional image of John Dee (1527-1609) as an isolated, eccentric philosopher. Instead, William H. Sherman presents Dee in... Lees meer

Historical Milton

Thomas Fulton

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• John Milton's Commonplace Book is the only known political notebook of a radical polemicist writing during the English civil war, and the most extensi... Lees meer

Conceived Presences

Raphael Falco

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• Explores the manner in which English Renaissance poets invented a poetic genealogy. Falco applies the notion of ""conceived presences"" to the poets o... Lees meer

Word Against Word

James Siemon

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• Word against Word offers a new approach to Shakespearean drama, and in particular to Shakespeare's Richard II, through an extended engagement with the... Lees meer

Love's Quarrels

Evan Gurney

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• Early modern English writers often complained that "charity had grown cold," lamenting the dissolution of society's communal bonds. But far from dimin... Lees meer

Forms of Association

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• In today's connected and interactive world, it is hard to imagine a time when cultural and intellectual interests did not lead people to associate wit... Lees meer

Fêting the Queen

John M Adrian

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• In a 1572 visit to Warwick, Queen Elizabeth looked out the window of her lodgings and saw local people dancing in the courtyard, a seemingly spontaneo... Lees meer

The Portable Queen

Mary Hill Cole

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• Every spring and summer of her forty-four years as queen, Elizabeth I (1533-1603) insisted that her court go "on progress," a series of royal visits t... Lees meer

The Book of the Play

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• The Book of the Play is a collection of essays that examines early modern drama in the context of book history. Focusing on the publication, marketing... Lees meer

Love's Quarrels

Evan Gurney

• Hardcover | Engels | Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture
• Early modern English writers often complained that "charity had grown cold," lamenting the dissolution of society's communal bonds. But far from dimin... Lees meer

Divulging Utopia

David Weil Baker

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• A study in intellectual history and the history of the book, this work examines the humanist movement in 16th-century England and traces the reception... Lees meer

The Politics of Courtly Dancing in Early Modern England

Skiles Howard

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• This book argues that in early modern England, dance was not merely a pleasant pastime, but an intricate network of bodily negotiations of power, sex,... Lees meer

Spenser's Life and the Subject of Biography

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• On the 400th anniversary of The Faerie Queene, this book challenges the received tradition of Spenser's biography. The first life of Edmund Spenser (c... Lees meer