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The First Quarto of King Richard III
Shakespeare’s Richard III presents difficult textual problems. There are 2,000 verbal differences between the text of the first quarto (1597) and... Les mer
King Lear
An active approach to Shakespeare in the classroom. This edition of King Lear is part of the Cambridge School Shakespeare series. Like every other... Les mer
Shakespeare and Dickens
Shakespeare and Dickens traces Dickens’ own interest in Shakespeare from childhood, not only through his own reading and performance but also... Les mer
Shakespeare’s Tragic Cosmos
This study focuses on Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, the four main tragedies and Antony and Cleopatra. Tom McAlindon argues that there were two... Les mer
Shakespearean Suspect Texts
There are forty-one problematic play texts, variously classified as bad quartos or memorial reconstructions, from Shakespeare’s time. Textual... Les mer
Shakespeare and the Theatre of Wonder
Playwrights throughout history have used the emotion of wonder to explore the relation between feeling and knowing in the theatre. In Shakespeare and... Les mer
The Culture of the Market
Scholars have only recently begun to appreciate the extent to which the norms and practices that foster market societies have been shifting. Not only... Les mer
Shakespeare and the Mannerist Tradition
This book offers an original approach to Shakespeare’s so-called problem plays by contending that they can be viewed as experiments in the... Les mer
Building a Democratic Political Order
David Plotke analyses the dramatic changes in American politics that occurred during the 1930s and 1940s - including the break-up of national... Les mer
Shakespeare Survey
Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948 Survey has published the best international scholarship in English... Les mer
Women and Literature in Britain, 1500–1700
This is the first comprehensive introduction to the works and social contexts of women writers in early modern Britain, a period when it was... Les mer
Natural Law in English Renaissance Literature
Natural law, whether grounded in human reason or divine edict, encourages men to follow virtue and shun vice. The concept dominated Renaissance... Les mer
Print Politics
Print Politics is the first literary study of the culture of the popular radical movement for parliamentary reform in the early decades of the... Les mer
The Gothic Body
Readers familiar with Dracula and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde may not know that dozens of equally remarkable Gothic texts were written... Les mer
Fairy Tales, Sexuality, and Gender in France, 1690–1715
Between 1690 and 1715, well over one hundred literary fairy tales appeared in France, two-thirds of them written by women. This book explores why... Les mer
Romantic Identities
One of the defining features of Romantic writing, critics have long agreed, is its characterization of the self in terms of psychological depth. Many... Les mer
Literary Patronage in England, 1650–1800
This is the first comprehensive study of the system of literary patronage in early modern England and it demonstrates that far from declining by 1750... Les mer
Ideas of Slavery from Aristotle to Augustine
This study, unique of its kind, asks how slavery was viewed by the leading spokesmen of Greece and Rome. There was no movement for abolition in these... Les mer
Myths of Modern Individualism
In this volume, Ian Watt examines the myths of Faust, Don Quixote, Don Juan and Robinson Crusoe, as the distinctive products of modern society. He... Les mer
Aristotelian Explorations
This book challenges several widespread views concerning Aristotle’s methods and practices of scientific and philosophical research. Taking central... Les mer
Reading the West
The American West of myth and legend has always exerted a strong hold on the popular imagination, and the essays in Reading the West examine some of... Les mer
Aristotle
This new collection of Aristotle’s political writings provides the student with all the necessary materials for a full understanding of his work as... Les mer
Harriet Jacobs and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Harriet Jacobs, today perhaps the single-most read and studied black American woman of the nineteenth century, has not until recently enjoyed... Les mer
Plato on Poetry
Much has been written in recent years on Plato as a critic of literature, but no commentaries have appeared in English on the Ion, or the opening... Les mer