Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800

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These are Shakespeare's greatest writings on power in all its forms - in love, in war, in politics and in the family.

A vital resource for scholars, students and actors, this book contains glosses and quotes for over 14,000 words that could be misunderstood by or are unknown to a modern audience.

This compilation, in the tradition of the Victorian miscellany, gathers together essential facts and fascinating insights into the plays and poems, the man behind them (insofar as this is known), and the context in which he worked.

A unique collection of Shakespeare's soliloquies, each introduced by concise and informative editorial notes.

How did plague turn Shakespeare from a jobbing hack into a courtly poet?

When this volume of Shakespeare's poems first appeared in 1609, he had already written most of the great plays that made him famous.

The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft is the acclaimed bestselling biography by Claire TomalinWinner of the Whitbread First Book PrizeWitty, courageous and unconventional, Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the most controversial figures of her day.

'Enjoyable, lively such a pleasure to read renders the drama of Shakespeare s contemporaries more than fringe entertainment Independent Shakespeare is one of the greatest of all English figures, considered a genius for all time.

In 1612 Shakespeare gave evidence at the Court of Requests in Westminster it is the only occasion his spoken words are recorded.

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Regarded by many as the greatest of the Metaphysical poets, John Donne (1572-1631) was also among the most intriguing figures of the Elizabethan age.

Scent is both an essential and seemingly impossible-to-recover aspect of material culture.

How vocabularies once associated with outsiders became objects of fascination in eighteenth-century BritainWhile eighteenth-century efforts to standardize the English language have long been studied-from Samuel Johnson's Dictionary to grammar and elocution books of the period-less well-known are the era's popular collections of odd slang, criminal argots, provincial dialects, and nautical jargon.

Examines spaces of inner life in eighteenth-century England to shed new light on interiority in literature and visual and material culture.

Evelina, the first novel by Frances Burney, published in 1778, enjoys lasting popularity among the reading public.

How the study of Shakespeare's legacy, specifically in film and television, can radically challenge what we consider to be authentically Shakespearean In the field of adaptation studies today, the idea of reading an adapted text as "e;faithful"e; or "e;unfaithful"e; to its original source strikes many scholars as too simplistic, too conservative, and too moralizing.

Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year has taken on a new relevance with the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic.

This book is an inquiry into whether what Blake called his 'visions' can be attributed to recognizable perceptual phenomena.

No other American novelist has written so fully about language-grammar, diction, the place of colloquialism and dialect in literary English, the relation between speech and writing-as William Dean Howells.