Your complete introduction to ShakespeareWilliam Shakespeare has been hailed as one of the greatest thinkers of all time, one of the world's finest artists, poets and dramatists.
The Oxford Handbook of the Georgian Theatre 1737-1832 provides an essential guide to theatre in Britain between the passing of the Stage Licensing Act in 1737 and the Reform Act of 1832 -- a period of drama long neglected but now receiving significant scholarly attention.
This volume covers a broad range of everyday private and public, touristic, commercial and fictional encounters between Britons and continental Europeans, in a variety of situations and places: moments that led to a meaningful exchange of opinions, practices, or concepts such as friendship or politeness.
Shakespeare and Spenser: Attractive opposites is a much-needed volume that brings together ten original papers by experts on the relations between Spenser and Shakespeare.
Faithful Labourers surveys and evaluates existing criticism of John Milton's epic Paradise Lost, tracing the major debates as they have unfolded over the past three centuries.
This book takes a closer look at the diversity of fiction writing from Diderot to Markson and by so doing call into question the notion of a singular "e;theory of fiction,"e; especially in relation to the novel.
In eighteenth-century Britain the worlds of literature and medicine were closely intertwined, and a diverse group of people participated in the circulation of medical knowledge.
This book provides compelling new readings of William Blake's poetry and art, including the first sustained account of his visionary paintings of Pitt and Nelson.
This book demonstrates how the Russian thought and literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries influenced Jewish thought and Hebrew literature.
Se estudian 148 inventarios de bibliotecas particulares del siglo XVII, cuyos propietarios pertenecían a distintas clases sociales y áreas geográficas.
A fascinating collection of questions and answersabout courtship, marriage, love, and sexfrom a seventeenth-century periodical The Athenian Mercurya one-page, two-sided periodical published in 1690s Londonincluded the world's first personal advice column.
Diese interdisziplinäre Untersuchung erschließt den Inhalt nur in historischen Publikationen erhaltener und bisher kaum erforschter Texte für den Witwenstand: Witwenspiegel, Gebetbücher, Traktate und Predigten.
This book explores how human interaction in the frontier zones of the early modern Mediterranean was represented during the period, across genres and languages.
While British drama of the long eighteenth century remains largely unexamined as registering ecological fears, its visual spectacle and settings allow the audience to grasp threats to environments across the globe.
Die hier versammelten Beiträge zielen auf einen grundsätzliche Klärung der Mentalitäts- und Identitätsgeschichte der deutschen literarischen Intelligenz ab und sind damit nicht nur von literaturgeschichtlichem, sondern auch von sozialwissenschaftlichen Interesse.
Contextualizing the topos of the neglected child within a variety of discourses, this book challenges the assumption that the early nineteenth century witnessed a clear transition from a Puritan to a liberating approach to children and demonstrates that oppressive assumptions survive in major texts considered part of the Romantic cult of childhood.
Although the later eighteenth century has long been regarded as parliamentary oratory's golden age, its speaking history remains to a large extent unexplored.
