As the long sixteenth century came to a close, new positive ideas of gusto/ taste opened a rich counter vision of food and taste where material practice, sensory perceptions and imagination contended with traditional social values, morality, and dietetic/medical discourse.
Infanticide in Tudor and Stuart England explores one of society's darkest crimes using archival sources and discussing its representation in the drama, pamphlets and broadside ballads of the early modern period.
As the long sixteenth century came to a close, new positive ideas of gusto/ taste opened a rich counter vision of food and taste where material practice, sensory perceptions and imagination contended with traditional social values, morality, and dietetic/medical discourse.
Maritime Musicians and Performers on Early Modern English Voyages aims to tell the full story of early English shipboard performers, who have been historically absent from conversations about English navigation, maritime culture, and economic expansion.
Dutch Golden Age poet Constantijn Huygens (1596-1687) was a remarkable figure: in addition to writing poetry, he composed music; was secretary to two Princes of Orange, Frederick Henry and William II; and became a friend to John Donne, Rembrandt, Descartes, and many other notable people of his time.
This collection of essays examines the vogue for games and game playing as expressed in art and literature in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe.
Accolades such as the best TV show of the twentieth century or the longest-running scripted series on American prime-time television have elevated The Simpsons to the pop culture pantheon, while also suggesting the very vintage character of the program.
This study explores how Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Andrew Marvell, and Milton among many others appropriated Spenser's long and shorter poems for creating comedy, parody, and satire.
Writing on the cusp of modern botany and during the heyday of English herbals and garden manuals, Shakespeare references at least 180 plants in his works and makes countless allusions to horticultural and botanical practices.
Early Modern Ecologies is the first collective volume to offer perspectives on the relationship between contemporary ecological thought and early modern French literature.
Dante's Gluttons: Food and Society from the Convivio to the Comedy explores how the medieval Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) uses food to express and condition the social, political, and cultural values of his time.
Prior to becoming Crown Prince of Japan in 1989, following the death of his grandfather Emperor Showa, Prince Naruhito studied at Merton College, Oxford, from June 1983 to October 1985.
The volume presents a wide-ranging investigation of the ways in which Petrarch's legacy informed the relationship between visual and literary portraits in sixteenth-century Italy.
The Fame of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz traces the meteoric trajectory of the Mexican Tenth Muse's renown and studies how her worldly celebrity was altered posthumously by elegists in her Fama y obras postumas [Fame and Posthumous Works] of 1700.
Lecture d'un classique du theatre de l'age classique, faisant connaitre la vision sociale et morale d'une societe d'autrefois: aspirations, ambitions, rivalites, intrigues personnelles et publiques autour d'un sujet qui demeure d'actualite: la fureur du jeu, ses seductions et ses desordres.
Der Humanist Thomas Morus treibt in seiner Utopia ein humorvolles Spiel, dem eine ernste Botschaft unterliegt, und legt so den Grundstein fur ein neues literarisches Genre.
La rencontre du public theatral polonais de la capitale et la de la province avec les chefs-d'oeuvre de Jean Giraudoux, Jean Anouilh, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Samuel Beckett et Eugene Ionesco mis en scene par les meilleurs metteurs en scene polonais reconnus: Edmund Wiercinski, Erwin Axer, Bohdan Korzeniewski, Tadeusz Byrski et les debutants : Jerzy Grotowski, Krystyna Skuszanka, Wojciech Krasowski, Adam Hanuszkiewicz, Zygmunt Hubner etait toujours le grand enjeu.
