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	Lancelot Andrewes : Selected Sermons and Lectures Lancelot Andrewes, Peter McCullough 0198187742 February 2, 2006 Hardcover ·
Book Description This is the first annotated critical edition of works of Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626), a writer recognized by literary critics, historians, and theologians as one of the most important figures in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. Peter McCullough, a leading expert on religious writing in the early modern period, presents fourteen complete sermons and lectures preached by Andrewes across the whole range of his adult career, from Cambridge in the 1580s to the court of James I and VI in the 1620s. Through a radical reassessment of Andrewes's life, influence, and surviving texts, the editor presents Andrewes as his contemporaries saw, heard, and read him, and as scholars are increasingly recognizing him: one of the most subtle, yet radical critics of mainstream Elizabethan Protestantism, and a literary artist of...


	Utopia (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) Thomas More 1593083696 November 2005 Hardcover ·



	Subjects on the World's Stage David G. Allen 0874135443 June 1995 Hardcover ·



	The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Drama (Cambridge Companions to Literature) A. R. Braunmuller (Editor), Michael Hattaway (Editor) 0521527996 September 25, 2003 Paperback ·
Review "An intelligent compilation of current knowledge and hypotheses in the field of Renaissance drama, it is a valuable corrective to existing handbooks...The ten essays cover a lot of ground with a minimum of duplication...Most readers will discover some fresh insights into the work of major dramatists." Michael Shapiro, Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England "In its newly revised form, this work solidifies its status as the best single-volume introduction to the non-Shakespearean English drama of the later Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Caroline periods." Sixteenth Century Journal, Arnold W. Preussner, Truman State University Book Description This new edition of the Companion provides updated information about the principal theaters, playwrights and plays of the most important period...


	Utopia (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) Thomas More 1593082444 May 2005 Paperback ·



	Images Of Matter YVONNE BRUCE 0874138949 June 2005 Hardcover ·



	Utopia Thomas More 0140449108 May 2003 Paperback ·
Book Description Revised introduction; new chronology and further reading Translated with an Introduction by Paul Turner.


	The Oxford Anthology of English Literature : Volume II: The Literature of Renaissance England (Anthology of English Literature Series) John Hollander, Frank Kermode 0195016378 April 5, 1973 Hardcover ·
Book Description This volume includes works by Spenser (excerpts from all books of The Faerie Queene), Shakespeare (including The Tempest), Marlowe (Dr. Faustus, Hero and Leander), Donne, and Milton (Comus, Samson Agonistes, and long excerpts from Paradise Lost).


	Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare Stephen J. Greenblatt 0226306593 October 2005 Paperback ·
Book Description Renaissance Self-Fashioning is a study of sixteenth-century life and literature that spawned a new era of scholarly inquiry. Stephen Greenblatt examines the structure of selfhood as evidenced in major literary figures of the English Renaissance—More, Tyndale, Wyatt, Spenser, Marlowe, and Shakespeare—and finds that in the early modern period new questions surrounding the nature of identity heavily influenced the literature of the era. Now a classic text in literary studies, Renaissance Self-Fashioning continues to be of interest to students of the Renaissance, English literature, and the new historicist tradition, and this new edition includes a preface by the author on the book's creation and influence. "No one who has read [Greenblatt's] accounts of More, Tyndale, Wyatt, and others can fail...


	Francis Bacon : The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics) Francis Bacon, Brian Vickers 0192840819 October 24, 2002 Paperback ·
Book Description This authoritative edition brings together an extensive collection of Bacon's writing--the major prose in full, together with sixteen other pieces not otherwise available--that reveals the essence of his work and thinking. Francis Bacon held some of the highest public offices in the land and in his spare time studied natural philosophy and a wide variety of other subjects. His systematic classification of all branches of knowledge became the basis for all later constructions, and his Essays are unsurpassed in their observations on society and human behavior. This extensive anthology includes the major English literary works on which his reputation rests: the Advancement of Learning, the Essays (1625, as well as the earliest version of 1597), and the posthumously published Utopian fable the New...


	The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer 0140424385 January 2003 Paperback ·
Book Description With their astonishing diversity of tone and subject matter, The Canterbury Tales have become one of the touchstones of medieval literature. Translated here into modern English, these tales of a motley crowd of pilgrims drawn from all walks of life-from knight to nun, miller to monk-reveal a picture of English life in the fourteenth century that is as robust as it is representative. Translated by Nevill Coghill About the Author Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1342-1400) had a career in royal service as a member of the court and a diplomat. His literary work, notable for its range of genres, helped establish the English literary tradition. Nevill Coghill (1899-1980) held many appointments at Oxford University. His translation of Chaucer's Troilus and...


	Psalm Culture and Early Modern English Literature Hannibal Hamlin 0521832705 February 5, 2004 Hardcover ·
Review '... highly engaging ... will be warmly received by anyone interested in the reception and cultural impact of the Bible.' Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 'Hamlin's book is a valuable first step in the scholarly study of the relationship between psalms and canonical literary culture, and its thoroughness as well as its attention to the formal publication qualities of early modern devotional language are exemplary ...'. Reformation Review "Translations have often proved resistant to close reading, which is why Hamlin's achievment in Part Two of the book is particularly impressive... Hamlin is attempting something more literary than any previous commentator, and he succeeds beautifully in showing that translations can be very original indeed." The Times Literary...


	Early Modern English Drama : A Critical Companion Garrett A. Sullivan, et al 0195153863 September 29, 2005 Paperback ·
Book Description Early Modern English Drama: A Critical Companion presents twenty-seven analytical essays on individual plays from the early modern period. Each essay is written by a leading scholar and examines a play in terms of a cultural or literary topic, from London to the law, servants to sovereigns, and geography to religion. Incorporating current perspectives in critical studies, the essays address issues of race, class, gender, sexuality, and colonialism, as well as key aspects of intellectual and social history, including humanism, science, the law, and theology. Featuring the authors and plays most often taught in college courses, Early Modern English Drama: A Critical Companion is an ideal supplement to both primary texts and anthologies of Renaissance drama. It offers extensive coverage of works by Ben...


	Shadowplay: The Hidden Beliefs and Coded Politics of William Shakespeare Clare Asquith 1586483161 May 2005 Hardcover ·
From Publishers Weekly The wife of a British diplomat who was posted to Moscow during the Cold War, Asquith first started to suspect that Shakespeare's plays possessed an unexamined political and religious subtext while watching a seemingly innocuous performance in a Soviet theater and realizing that it was embedded with secret meanings and double entendres. In a tome both literary and dense, though thankfully not prohibitively so, Asquith shines an extraordinary light on the symbolism and possible intentions of Shakespeare's work. The Catholic playwright, Asquith contends, wrote to outsmart the "Queen's men," who caught up to him only after he had written dozens of plays reflecting the mournful frustration of Catholics oppressed by Elizabethan Protestantism. Asquith uses Shakesepeare's plays as prisms through which to observe the...


	The Rhetoric of Courtship in Elizabethan Language and Literature Catherine Bates 0521414806 June 18, 1992 Hardcover ·
Book Description In the sixteenth century the modern meaning of courtship - 'wooing someone' - developed from an older sense - 'being at court'. The Rhetoric of Courtship takes this semantic shift as the starting point for an incisive account of the practice and meanings of courtship at the court of Elizabeth I, where 'being at court' pre-eminently came to mean the same as 'wooing' the Queen. Exploring the wider context of social anthropology, philology, cultural and literary history, Catherine Bates presents courtship as a judicious, sensitive and rhetorically conscious understanding of public and private relations. Gascoigne, Lyly, Sidney, Leicester, Essex, and Spenser are shown to reflect in the fictional courtships of their poetry and prose the vulnerabilities of court life that were created by the system of patronage. The Rhetoric...


	The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer Geoffrey Chaucer 0553210823 February 1982 Mass Market Paperback ·
Book Review On a spring day in April--sometime in the waning years of the 14th century--29 travelers set out for Canterbury on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Saint Thomas Beckett. Among them is a knight, a monk, a prioress, a plowman, a miller, a merchant, a clerk, and an oft-widowed wife from Bath. Travel is arduous and wearing; to maintain their spirits, this band of pilgrims entertains each other with a series of tall tales that span the spectrum of literary genres. Five hundred years later, people are still reading Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. If you haven't yet made the acquaintance of the Franklin, the Pardoner, or the Squire because you never learned Middle English, take heart: this edition of the Tales has been translated into modern idiom. From the heroic romance of "The Knight's Tale" to the low...


	Utopia (Yale Nota Bene Series) Thomas More 0300084293 February 2001 Paperback ·
Ted Stolze, Cal State Hayward "This [Hackett Publishing Company] edition of Utopia seems to me just right! The edition's introduction is brisk and intelligent and at the same time nicely calculated to reach an average student who, most likely, does not know any history or geography. The addition of the "Sileni of Alcibiades" is a stroke of genius. I shall be using your edition in preference to the . . . edition in my courses. The price is fair as well."(George Huppert, University of Illinois at Chicago) "An excellent and highly readable translation [Hackett Publishing Company] coupled with helpful but not overwhelming notes. The inclusion of "The Sileni of Alcibiades" should prove valuable to the average student. The introduction covers a great deal of ground in only 34 pages and should prepare students well in survey courses. ...


	Gender and Literacy on Stage in Early Modern England (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture) Eve Rachele Sanders, et al 0521582342 January 21, 1999 Hardcover ·
Review 'A masterpiece of clear exposition, elegant presentation, and beautiful writing. It is one of the few books I've read where the reader knows what is going on from the very first sentence, and is not disappointed afterwards. It takes all the best from current approaches to literary scholarship without any of its usual obfuscation. It is wonderfully erudite as well.' Philip Gavitt, Professor of History, Saint Louis University 'A sophisticated analysis of how girls and boys learned gender roles as they learned to read and write and how gender differences were supported or critiqued in the English public theater and in writings by women and men. The book is first-rate literary history and first-rate social and cultural history that confronts the connections between gender theory and historical practice. This is fine...


	Utopia Thomas More 1420922491 January 2005 Paperback ·



	The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe : Volume IV: The Jew of Malta (Oxford English Texts) Christopher Marlowe, Roma Gill 0198127707 December 28, 1995 Hardcover ·
Book Description This is the latest volume in the acclaimed Oxford English Texts edition of Marlowe--the first complete edition of the works that provides both an original spelling text and detailed commentary. Roma Gill here presents an authoritative text of this great play derived from the 1633 Quarto. The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature (in full The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Jew of Malta) Five-act tragedy in blank verse by Christopher Marlowe, produced about 1590 and published in 1633. In order to raise tribute demanded by the Turks, Ferneze, the Christian governor of Malta, seizes half the property of all Jews living on Malta. When Barabas, a wealthy Jewish merchant, protests, his entire estate is confiscated. Seeking revenge on his enemies, Barabas plots their...


	Writing the Nation in Reformation England, 1530-1580 Cathy Shrank 0199268886 September 30, 2004 Hardcover ·
Book Description Writing the Nation in Reformation England is a major re-evaluation of English writing between 1530 and 1580. Studying authors such as Andrew Borde, John Leland, William Thomas, Thomas Smith, and Thomas Wilson, Cathy Shrank highlights the significance of these decades to the formation of English nationhood and examines the impact of the break with Rome on the development of a national language, literary style, and canon. As well as demonstrating the close relationship between literary culture and English identities, it reinvests Tudor writers with a sense of agency. As authors, counselors, and thinkers they were active citizens participating within, and helping to shape, a national community. In the process, their works were also used to project an image of themselves as authors, playing--and fitted to...


	The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer 0486431622 January 2004 Paperback ·
Book Description A group of pilgrims bound for Canterbury Cathedral agree to pass the weary miles by taking turns at storytelling—thus begins English literature’s greatest collection of chivalric romances, bawdy tales, fables, legends, and other stories. The 14th-century pilgrims represent a range of philosophies, professions, and temperaments, and their vivid, realistic characterizations assured the Tales an instant and enduring success. Each pilgrim’s story can be read separately and appreciated in its own right; all appear here in a lucid translation into modern English verse by J. U. Nicholson.