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  | | Mimesis and Empire(Updated) The New World, Islam, and European Identities (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture) by Barbara Fuchs, Anne Barton, Marjorie B. Garber, Professor Jonathan Goldberg, Nancy Vickers, Kate Mcluskie Paperback, 228 Pages, Published 2004 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-54350-7, ISBN: 0-521-54350-9 "As powerful, pointed imitation, cultural mimesis can effect inclusion in a polity, threaten state legitimacy, or undo the originality upon which such legitimacy is based. In Mimesis and Empire , first published in 2001, Barbara Fuchs explores the intricate dynamics of imitation and contradistinction among early modern European powers in literary and historiographical texts from sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Spain, Italy, Engl ..." |
 | | Mimesis and Empire(Updated) The New World, Islam, and European Identities (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture) by Barbara Fuchs, Anne Barton, Stephen Orgel, Marjorie B. Garber, Professor Jonathan Goldberg, Nancy Vickers, Kate Mcluskie Hardcover, 228 Pages, Published 2001 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-80102-7, ISBN: 0-521-80102-8 "As powerful, pointed imitation, cultural mimesis can effect inclusion in a polity, threaten state legitimacy, or undo the originality upon which such legitimacy is based. In Mimesis and Empire , first published in 2001, Barbara Fuchs explores the intricate dynamics of imitation and contradistinction among early modern European powers in literary and historiographical texts from sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Spain, Italy, Engl ..." |
 | | Records of Shelley, Byron, and the Author(Updated) (New York Review Books Classics) by Edward John Trelawny, Anne Barton, Anne Bartone Paperback, 308 Pages, Published 2000 by Nyrb Classics ISBN-13: 978-0-940322-36-3, ISBN: 0-940322-36-6 "In 1822, after having been discharged from the British navy, deserted by his wife, and as good as disowned by his father, the thirty-two year old Edward John Trelawny set off for Italy to make the acquaintance of his hero, Lord Byron. "I have met today the personification of my Corsair," Byron wrote in a letter. "He sleeps with the poem under his pillow, and all his past adventures and present manners aim at this personification." But t ..." |
 | | Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture(Updated) The Marketplace of Print: Pamphlets and the Public Sphere in Early Modern England Series Number 17 (Paperback) by Alexandra Halasz, Anne Barton, Marjorie B. Garber, Professor Jonathan Goldberg, Nancy Vickers, Kate Mcluskie Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2008 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-03470-8, ISBN: 0-521-03470-1 "Early modern pamphlets serve as an important vehicle for examining the print culture of the time, and especially the developing entanglement between technology and capitalism. Combining close readings of pamphlets by Robert Greene, Thomas Nashe, Thomas Deloney and others with a discussion of the history and deployment of print technology, The Marketplace of Print is both a work of historical recovery and a reflection on the ongoing rela ..." |
 | | Author's Pen and Actor's Voice(Updated) Playing and Writing in Shakespeare's Theatre (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture) by Professor Robert Weimann, Helen Higbee, William West, Dr William West Dr, Anne Barton, Marjorie B. Garber, Nancy Vickers, Kate Mcluskie, Professor Jonathan Goldberg Hardcover, 316 Pages, Published 2000 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-78130-5, ISBN: 0-521-78130-2 "Robert Weimann redefines the relationship between writing and performance, or "playing," in Shakespeare's theater. Through close reading and careful analysis Weimann offers a reconsideration and redefinition of Elizabethan performance and production practices. The study reviews the most recent methodologies of textual scholarship, the new history of the Elizabethan theater, performance theory, and film and video interpretation, and offe ..." |
 | | The Rhetoric of the Body from Ovid to Shakespeare(Updated) (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture) by Lynn Enterline, Anne Barton, Marjorie B. Garber, Professor Jonathan Goldberg, Nancy Vickers, Kate Mcluskie Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2006 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-03465-4, ISBN: 0-521-03465-5 "This persuasive book analyses the complex, often violent connections between body and voice in Ovid's Metamorphoses and narrative, lyric and dramatic works by Petrarch, Marston and Shakespeare. Lynn Enterline describes the foundational yet often disruptive force that Ovidian rhetoric exerts on early modern poetry, particularly on representations of the self, the body and erotic life. Paying close attention to the trope of the female voi ..." |
 | | Shakespeare & the Theatre of Wonder(Updated) (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture) by T. G. Bishop, Anne Barton, Marjorie B. Garber, Professor Jonathan Goldberg, Nancy Vickers, Kate Mcluskie Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2006 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-03492-0, ISBN: 0-521-03492-2 "The experience of powerful emotion has always been central to dramatic presentation and audience response. In this study, T. G. Bishop examines ways in which wonder has been used by playwrights as an integral part of theatre in classical and medieval drama; and he goes on to explore wonder in Shakespeare's work through extended readings of The Comedy of Errors, Pericles and The Winter's Tale. By focusing on how characters feel, and how ..." |
 | | Eroticism on the Renaissance Stage(Updated) Transcendence, Desire, and the Limits of the Visible (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture) by Celia R. Daileader, Stephen Orgel, Anne Barton Paperback, 212 Pages, Published 2006 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-03467-8, ISBN: 0-521-03467-1 "In this 1998 book, Celia Daileader explores the paradoxes of eroticism on the stage in early modern England, where women and their bodies (represented by boy actors) were materially absent and yet symbolically central. Her starting point is the theoretical and theatrical problem of sexual acts that take place offstage, which is a paradigm for the limits of the visible in Renaissance theatre. The space that lies offstage becomes an imagi ..." |
 | | The Performance of Nobility in Early Modern European Literature(Updated) (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture) by David M. Posner, Anne Barton, Marjorie B. Garber, Professor Jonathan Goldberg, Nancy Vickers, Kate Mcluskie Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2006 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-03487-6, ISBN: 0-521-03487-6 "This valuable study illuminates the idea of nobility as display, as public performance, in Renaissance and seventeenth-century literature and society. Through detailed readings of major authors, including Castiglione, Montaigne, Bacon and Corneille, David Posner examines the tensions between literary or imaginative representations of "nobility," and the increasingly problematic historical position of the nobility themselves. Situated at ..." |
 | | Staging Domesticity(Updated) Household Work and English Identity in Early Modern Drama (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture) by Wendy Wall, Anne Barton, Marjorie B. Garber, Professor Jonathan Goldberg, Nancy Vickers, Kate Mcluskie Paperback, 308 Pages, Published 2006 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-03003-8, ISBN: 0-521-03003-X "Wendy Wall argues that representations of housework in the early modern period helped to forge conceptions of national identity. With a detailed account of household practices, this study interprets plays on the London stage in reference to the first printed cookbooks in England. Working from original historical sources, Wall reveals that domesticity was represented as "familiar" as well as "exotic". She analyzes a wide range of plays i ..." |
 | | Shakespeare and the Geography of Difference(Updated) (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture) by John Gillies, Anne Barton, Marjorie B. Garber, Professor Jonathan Goldberg, Nancy Vickers, Kate Mcluskie Paperback, 308 Pages, Published 1994 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-45853-5, ISBN: 0-521-45853-6 "In this engaging book, John Gillies explores Shakespeare's geographic imagination, and discovers an intimate relationship between Renaissance geography and theatre, arising from their shared dependence on the opposing impulses of taboo-laden closure and hubristic expansiveness. Dr Gillies shows that Shakespeare's images of the exotic, the 'barbarous, outlandish or strange', are grounded in concrete historical fact: to be marginalised wa ..." |
 | | Memoirs of My Nervous Illness(Updated) (New York Review Books Classics) by Daniel Paul Schreber, Ida Macalpine, Richard A. Hunter, Rosemary Dinnage, Anne Barton Paperback, 488 Pages, Published 2000 by Nyrb Classics ISBN-13: 978-0-940322-20-2, ISBN: 0-940322-20-X "Daniel Paul Schreber began Memoirs of my Nervous Illness in February 1900 while confined in an asylum, as part of an appeal for release. Schreber, second son (the first committed suicide) of an abusive father, was at the peak of a brilliant career in Leipzig when he was appointed Presiding Judge of the Saxon High Court of Appeals. Alas, the stress of his new job proved too much for him, and before long he was hearing voices and feeling ..." |
 | | Shakespeare's Troy(Updated) Drama, Politics, and the Translation of Empire (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture) by Heather James, Anne Barton, Marjorie B. Garber, Jonathan Goldberg, Nancy Vickers, Kate Mcluskie Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 1997 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-59223-9, ISBN: 0-521-59223-2 "Heather James argues that Shakespeare's use of Virgil, Ovid and other classical sources demonstrates the appropriation of classical authority in the interests of developing a national myth. She goes on to distinguish Shakespeare's deployment of the myth--notably in Troilus and Cressida, Antony and Cleopatra, Cymbeline, and The Tempest--from "official" Tudor and Stuart ideology, and to show how Shakespeare participates in the larger cult ..." |
 | | Anxious Masculinity in Early Modern England(Updated) (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture) by Mark Breitenberg, Anne Barton, Marjorie B. Garber, Professor Jonathan Goldberg, Nancy Vickers, Kate Mcluskie Paperback, 236 Pages, Published 1996 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-48588-3, ISBN: 0-521-48588-6 "To recent studies of Renaissance subjectivity, Anxious Masculinity in Early Modern England contributes the argument that masculinity is unavoidably anxious and volatile in cultures that distribute power and authority according to patriarchal prerogatives. Drawing from current arguments in feminism, cultural studies, historicism, psychoanalysis and gay studies, Mark Breitenberg explores the dialectic of desire and anxiety in masculine su ..." |
 | | Shakespeare and the Idea of the Play(Updated) by Anne Barton, Anne Righter Hardcover, 223 Pages, Published 1977 by Praeger ISBN-13: 978-0-8371-9446-2, ISBN: 0-8371-9446-6 "Chapter headings are: Mysteries and Moralities: The Audience as Actor; The Period of Transition: Classical Comedy and the Hybrid Plays; The World and the Stage; The Play Image in the Early Work of Shakespeare; The Player King; The Power of Illusion; The Cheapening of the Stage: and From Resemblance to Identity: The Final Plays." |
 | | Essays, Mainly Shakespearean(Updated) by Anne Barton Paperback, 408 Pages, Published 2007 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-03279-7, ISBN: 0-521-03279-2 "Anne Barton's essays on Shakespeare and his contemporaries are characterized by their combination of intelligence, humanity and elegance. In this linked but wide-ranging collection, addressing such topics as Shakespeare's trust--and mistrust--of language, "hidden kings" in the Tudor and Stuart history play, and comedy and the city, Barton looks at both major and neglected plays of the period and the ongoing dialogue between them." |
 | | Hamlet(Updated) by William Shakespeare, Anne Barton, T. J. .. Spencer Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 1987 by Penguin Books ISBN-13: 978-0-14-070734-2, ISBN: 0-14-070734-4 "Undoubtedly the most famous of all of Shakespeare's plays, Hamlet remains one of the most enduring but also enigmatic pieces of western literature. The story of Hamlet, the young Prince of Denmark, his tortured relationship with his mother, and his quest to avenge his father's murder at the hand of his brother Claudius has fascinated writers and audiences ever since it was written around 1600. For many years interest focused on both Ha ..." |