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  | | The Mysterious and the Foreign in Early Modern England by Dr. Helen Ostovich, Graham Roebuck, Mary V. Silcox Hardcover, 318 Pages, Published 2008 by University Of Delaware Press ISBN-13: 978-1-61149-300-9, ISBN: 1-61149-300-5 "This collection of original essays explores the great quests and questions into the unknown that occupied and troubled the early modern world. The topics addressed are in many cases hitherto untouched by modern scholarship. Writings examined include canonical texts of early modern literature and other less familiar works engaged in the transcultural exchanges of their times. Themes range from mathematics to confessional exile, to the po ..." |
 | | Other Voices, Other Views Expanding the Canon in English Renaissance Studies by Dr. Helen Ostovich, Graham Roebuck, Mary Vera Silcox, Mary V. Silcox Hardcover, 324 Pages, Published 1999 by University Of Delaware Press ISBN-13: 978-0-87413-680-7, ISBN: 0-87413-680-6 "This collection presents early modern writers who were either virtually unknown, or whose works were overshadowed by those of their great contemporaries Shakespeare, Jonson, Spenser, and Donne. It is a series of historically specific readings of social relationships, understood from the point of view of marginalized or neglected sources. The intention of this volume is to amplify the canon with complementary materials whose differences ..." |
 | | The Troublesome Reign of John, King of England(1st Edition) By George Peele (Revels Plays MUP) by Charles R. Forker, David Bevington, Richard Dutton, Alison Findlay, Dr. Helen Ostovich, George Peele Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2016 by Manchester University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-78499-345-0, ISBN: 1-78499-345-X "Forker's critical edition fills the need for a fully annotated, historically contextualised and modernised text of the most important Elizabethan chronicle play apart from Shakespeare and Marlowe's Edward II. Now attributed definitely to George Peele, this drama helped to establish a major theatrical genre, raising contemporary political and religious issues through the dramatisation of medieval history in a compelling and popular fash ..." |
 | | The Alchemist(1st Edition) A Critical Reader (Arden Early Modern Drama Guides) by Erin Julian, Helen Ostovich, Andrew Hiscock, Lisa Hopkins, Dr. Helen Ostovich, Bloomsbury Academic Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2013 by Bloomsbury Academic ISBN-13: 978-1-78093-829-5, ISBN: 1-78093-829-2 "Ouellette, Anthony J., 'The Alchemist and the Emerging Adult Private Playhouse', Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900 45.2 (2005), 375–99. Partridge, Edward B., The Broken Compass: A Study of the Major Comedies of Ben Jonson (New York: Columbia University Press; London: Chatto & Windus, 1958). Phillips, Patrick, '“You Need Not Fear the House”: The Absence of Plague in The Alchemist', Ben Jonson Journal 13 (2006), 43–62. Potter, ..." |
 | | Reading Early Modern Women(1st Edition) An Anthology of Texts in Manuscript and Print, 1550-1700 by Helen Ostovich, Elizabeth Sauer, Melissa Smith Hardcover, 544 Pages, Published 2003 by Routledge Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-415-96645-0, ISBN: 0-415-96645-0 |
 | | Thomas of Woodstock(1st Edition) (Revels Plays MUP) by Peter Corbin, Douglas Sedge, David Bevington, Richard Dutton, Alison Findlay, Dr. Helen Ostovich Paperback, 232 Pages, Published 2009 by Manchester University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7190-8067-8, ISBN: 0-7190-8067-3 "This anonymous manuscript play has long been the subject of scholarly dispute regarding its relationship with Shakespeare's Richard II. This edition, which thoroughly re-examines the text, situates the play within its historical and political context, relating it to the genre of chronicle drama to which it belongs. The manuscript is of particular interest in that it appears to have been used in the playhouse over a considerable period o ..." |
 | | The Magnetic Lady(1st Edition) By Ben Jonson (Revels Plays MUP) by Peter Happe, Ben Jonson, David Bevington, Richard Dutton, Alison Findlay, Dr. Helen Ostovich Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2009 by Manchester University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7190-8040-1, ISBN: 0-7190-8040-1 "This is the new paperback edition of the first fully annotated volume of Ben Jonson's 'The Magnetic Lady' written in 1632. It contains textual and explanatory notes and the text is modernised for student use. The introduction places the play in the context of Jonson's later dramatic and poetic works and discusses the political context of the Caroline court. A performance history of the play and fresh material relating to its seventeenth ..." |
 | | Antonio and Mellida(1st Edition) John Marston (Revels Plays MUP) by W. Reavley Gair, John Marston, Wally Gair, David Bevington, Richard Dutton, Alison Findlay, Dr. Helen Ostovich, Manchester University Press, Antonio And Mellida Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2005 by Manchester University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7190-7197-3, ISBN: 0-7190-7197-6 "Antonio and Mellida was the first play by John Marston performed by the newly revived Paul's Company in 1599. Marston sought to display a variety of talents, comic, tragic, satiric and historical, advertising his own dramatic skills and the prowess of the choristers of Paul's. The play is based on incidents in the reigns of Sforza, Francesco, Galeazzo and Lodovico, who were Dukes of Milan in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centur ..." |
 | | Magical Transformations on the Early Modern English Stage(Updated) (Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama) by Lisa Hopkins, Helen Ostovich, Professor Lisa Hopkins, Dr Helen Ostovich Hardcover, 278 Pages, Published 2014 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-4724-3286-5, ISBN: 1-4724-3286-X "Magical Transformations on the Early Modern Stage furthers the debate about the cultural work performed by representations of magic on the early modern English stage. It considers the ways in which performances of magic reflect and feed into a sense of national identity, both in the form of magic contests and in its recurrent linkage to national defence; the extent to which magic can trope other concerns, and what these might be; and ho ..." |
 | | Philaster(1st Edition) Or, Love Lies A-Bleeding by Beaumont and Fletcher by Andrew Gurr, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, David Bevington, Richard Dutton, Alison Findlay, Dr. Helen Ostovich Paperback, 232 Pages, Published 2003 by Manchester University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7190-6485-2, ISBN: 0-7190-6485-6 "Or, Love Lies A-Bleeding by Beaumont and Fletcher Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher Andrew Gurr. be sure he did that) are hardly consistent enough for us to make a reliable identification of his share in others. He was enough of a chameleon to make the spelling and verse tests of even the latest and most careful disintegrator of the canon misleading, to the extent of attributing The Faithful Shepherdess, one of the few plays certainl ..." |
 | | The Staple of News(Updated) by Ben Jonson (The Revels Plays) by Anthony Parr, Ben Jonson, Tony Parr, David Bevington, Richard Dutton, Alison Findlay, Dr. Helen Ostovich Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2000 by Manchester University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7190-5906-3, ISBN: 0-7190-5906-2 "Excellent Revels text now back in print at the new GBP9.99 price. Leading edition of this play by Ben Jonson - no other edition of this calibre at the moment. Professor Anthony Parr has a proven track record with the Three Jacobean Travel Plays (now in paperback at GBP14.99). The complete canon of Ben Jonson is being brought back into print in the Revels. The play itself is one of Jonson's best and has a prescient storyline about journ ..." |
 | | Tamburlaine the Great(Updated) Christopher Marlowe (Revels Plays MUP) by Christopher Marlowe, J. S. Cunningham, David M. Bevington, Eithne Henson, Richard Dutton, Alison Findlay, Dr. Helen Ostovich, J. R. Mulryne Professor, Henson Cunningham, Joseph Sandy Cunningham Paperback, 338 Pages, Published 1999 by Manchester University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7190-3096-3, ISBN: 0-7190-3096-X "General. Editors'. Preface. Clifford Leech conceived of the Revels Plays as a series in the mid- 19505 modelling the project on the New Arden Shakespeare. The aim, as he wrote in 1958, was 'to apply to Shakespeare's predecessors, contemporaries and successors the methods that are now used in Shakespeare editing'. The plays chosen were to include well known works from the early Tudor period to about 1700, as well as others less fami ..." |
 | | The Maid's Tragedy(Updated) (The Revels Plays) by Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, T. W. Craik, David Bevington, Richard Dutton, Alison Findlay, Dr. Helen Ostovich, Thomas Wallace Craik Paperback, 212 Pages, Published 1999 by Manchester University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7190-3098-7, ISBN: 0-7190-3098-6 "Generally acknowledged to be the most powerful of Beaumont and Fletcher’s plays and frequently performed by the best actors of the seventeenth and early eighteenth century, The Maid’s Tragedy (1610-11) disappeared from the stage (except in a much-altered and very successful Victorian adaptation) until recent years, when major companies have rediscovered its appeal. In this fully annotated edition, the editor has given careful attention ..." |
 | | A Trick to Catch the Old One(1st Edition) By Thomas Middleton (Revels Plays MUP) by Paul A. Mulholland, Alison Findlay, Dr. Helen Ostovich, David Bevington, Richard Dutton Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2017 by Manchester University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-5261-1693-2, ISBN: 1-5261-1693-6 "This is the first single volume edition of A Trick to Catch the Old One for many decades. This edition presents a thoroughly reconsidered text based on collation of all known copies of the 1608 quarto (including material unnoticed by earlier editors). Textual analysis draws on detailed internal investigation and the printer's wider practice to propose that relatively improvisational procedures and a paper quota governed A Trick's printi ..." |
 | | An Humorous Day's Mirth(1st Edition) by George Chapman (The Revels Plays) by Charles Edelman, Alison Findlay, Dr. Helen Ostovich, Manchester University Press Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 2017 by Manchester University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-5261-1692-5, ISBN: 1-5261-1692-8 "George Chapman is known today as a translator of Homer and as the author of dark tragedies such as Bussy D'Ambois. An Humorous Day's Mirth, written in 1597, was one of the most popular plays of the Elizabethan era. Not only was Chapman's play the Rose Theatre's greatest box-office success ofthat year, but it also presented an entirely new type of comedy, one that has profoundly influenced comic writing up to the present day. This play i ..." |
 | | Tamburlaine the Great(1st Edition) Christopher Marlowe (Revels Student Editions MUP) by Christopher Marlowe, Eithne Henson, J. S. Cunningham, David Bevington, Richard Dutton, Alison Findlay, Dr. Helen Ostovich, Manchester University Press, Joseph Sandy Cunningham Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 1998 by Manchester University Press Student Edition ISBN-13: 978-0-7190-5436-5, ISBN: 0-7190-5436-2 "Tamburlaine the Great achieved, and sustained, great success on the Elizabethan stage. And it speaks provocatively to our own time, when it has been the subject of numerous major productions. Timur Khan--to give Tamburlaine his original name--was long perceived in the West as a ruthless conqueror, whose career was marked by vindictive massacres, the sacking of enemy cities and the assertion of egotistic will. In this light, his career c ..." |
 | | Shakespeare and the Cultures of Performance(1st Edition) (Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama) by Patricia Badir, Paul Edward Yachnin, Paul Yachnin, Dr. Helen Ostovich Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2016 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-7546-5585-5, ISBN: 0-7546-5585-7 "Theatrical performance, suggest the contributors to this volume, can be an unpredictable, individual experience as well as a communal, institutional or cultural event. The essays collected here use the tools of theatre history in their investigation into the phenomenology of the performance experience, yet they are also careful to consider the social, ideological and institutional contingencies that determine the production and receptio ..." |
 | | Sovereigns and Subjects in Early Modern Neo-Senecan Drama(Updated) Republicanism, Stoicism and Authority (Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama) by Dr. Daniel Cadman, Dr. Helen Ostovich Hardcover, 232 Pages, Published 2016 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-4724-3520-0, ISBN: 1-4724-3520-6 "Sovereigns and Subjects in Early Modern Neo-Senecan Drama examines the development of neo-Senecan drama, also known as ’closet drama’, during the years 1590-1613. It is the first book-length study since 1924 to consider these plays - the dramatic works of Mary Sidney, Samuel Daniel, Samuel Brandon, Fulke Greville, Sir William Alexander, and Elizabeth Cary, along with the Roman tragedies of Ben Jonson and Thomas Kyd - as a coherent group ..." |
 | | Martyrs and Players in Early Modern England(1st Edition) Tragedy, Religion and Violence on Stage (Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama) by Professor David K. Anderson, Dr. Helen Ostovich Hardcover, 252 Pages, Published 2016 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-4724-2828-8, ISBN: 1-4724-2828-5 "Focusing on Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, John Webster and John Milton, Martyrs and Players in Early Modern England argues that the English tragedians reflected an unease within the culture to acts of religious violence. David Anderson explores a link between the unstable emotional response of society to religious executions in the Tudor-Stuart period, and the revival of tragic drama as a major cultural form for the first ti ..." |
 | | Digital Humanities and the Lost Drama of Early Modern England(Updated) Ten Case Studies (Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama) by Dr Matthew Steggle, Dr. Helen Ostovich Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2015 by Ashgate Pub Co ISBN-13: 978-1-4094-4414-5, ISBN: 1-4094-4414-7 "This book establishes new information about the likely content of ten lost plays from the period 1580-1642. These plays’ authors include Nashe, Heywood, and Dekker; and the plays themselves connect in direct ways to some of the most canonical dramas of English literature, including Hamlet, King Lear, The Changeling, and The Duchess of Malfi. The lost plays in question are: Terminus & Non Terminus (1586-8); Richard the Confessor (15 ..." |
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