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A History of Augustan Fable
This book explores the tradition of fable across a wide variety of written and illustrative media, from its origins in classical antiquity to the end...
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The Evolution of English Prose, 1700–1800
Between 1700 and 1800 English prose became more polite and less closely tied to speech. A large scale feminisation of literary and other values...
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English Literature and the Russian Aesthetic Renaissance
The turn of the nineteenth century, a time of exceptional creativity in Russia, was also a time of great receptivity to foreign cultural influences....
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Shakespeare Survey
Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948 Survey has published the best international scholarship in English...
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Authorship, Commerce, and Gender in Early Eighteenth-Century England
Speculative investment and the popular novel can be seen as analogous in the early eighteenth century in offering new forms of ‘paper credit’;...
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King Henry
An active approach to Shakespeare in the classroom. This edition of Henry IV Part 1 is part of the Cambridge School Shakespeare series. Like every...
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Stoicism, Politics and Literature in the Age of Milton
This book offers a fresh examination of key seventeenth-century writers in the context of their common interest in the republican, libertarian and...
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Antony and Cleopatra
Antony and Cleopatra has the strangest stage history of any of Shakespeare’s major tragedies. Richard Madelaine explains how the play’s...
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Romanticism and Colonialism
The relationships between literary discourse and colonial politics have been the subject of much critical investigation since the publication of...
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Antony and Cleopatra
Antony and Cleopatra has the strangest stage history of any of Shakespeare’s major tragedies. Richard Madelaine explains how the play’s...
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The Scottish Invention of English Literature
The Scottish Invention of English Literature explores the origins of the teaching of English literature in the academy. It demonstrates how the...
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Jonson, Shakespeare and Early Modern Virgil
In this wide-ranging and original study, Margaret Tudeau-Clayton examines how Virgil - the poet as well as his texts - was mediated in early modern...
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The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1650–1740
This volume offers an account of English literary culture in one of its most volatile and politically engaged moments. From the work of Milton and...
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Shakespeare’s Victorian Stage
This book explores the revivals of Shakespeare’s history plays during the Victorian period, as staged by the famous actor-manager Charles Kean....
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The Triumph of Augustan Poetics
The Triumph of Augustan Poetics offers an important re-evaluation of the transition from Baroque to Augustan in English literature. Starting with...
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Shakespeare’s Theory of Drama
Why did Shakespeare write drama? Did he have specific reasons for his choice of this art form? Did he have clearly defined aesthetic aims in what he...
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Giulio Romano
The Giulio Romano exhibition in Mantua in 1989 was the occasion for the publication, for the first time, of a full and thorough account of Giulio’s...
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Writing, Gender and State in Early Modern England
The period from the Reformation to the English Civil War saw an evolving understanding of social identity in England. This book uses four...
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Shakespeare on the German Stage
Shakespeare has been a central figure in German literature and theatre. This book tells the story of Shakespeare in the German-speaking theatre...
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Unity Temple
The first in-depth study of one of the seminal works of America’s most renowned twentieth-century architect is now available in paperback. In this...
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Discovering the Subject in Renaissance England
When Hamlet complains that Guildenstern "would pluck out the heart of [his] mystery," he imagines an encounter that recurs insistently in...
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The First Quarto of Hamlet
The first quarto of Hamlet is radically different from the second quarto and Folio versions of the play, and about half their length. But despite its...
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A History of Venetian Architecture
The history of Venetian architecture is no less remarkable than the history of that city itself, and Ennio Concina’s comprehensive survey draws on...
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Death and the Mother from Dickens to Freud
The cultural ideal of motherhood in Victorian Britain seems to be undermined by Victorian novels, which almost always represent mothers as...
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