Comprising dozens of primary source documents, this book explores Early Modern historical issues reflected in four of Shakespeare's tragedies most commonly taught in secondary schools and universities around the world: Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, and Macbeth.
Primary source documents relating to Romeo and Juliet deal with subjects such as dueling, breast-feeding, and the Black Plague. Background discussion of Julius Caesar addresses the influence of Roman culture on Renaissance England; the nature of monarchy; and warfare in Renaissance England, including the defeat of the Spanish Armada. The backdrop for Hamlet includes the nature of spirits; heaven, hell, and purgatory; the history of revenge tragedy beginning with ancient Greece; and debates over the theater in Shakespeare's time. Macbeth brings the reader into the reign of King James and examines ongoing debates over the dangers of witchcraft; the crime of the century, the Gunpowder Plot of 1605; and the "Macbeth curse" that has plagued productions of the Scottish Play since its premiere.
Автор: MacCaffrey Isabel Gamble Название: Spenser`s Allegory: The Anatomy of Imagination ISBN: 0691617139 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691617138 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 10296.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Isabel MacCaffrey contends that, in allegory, the mind makes a model of itself, and she shows that The Faerie Queene, mirroring as it does the mind`s structure, is both a treatise on and an example of the central role that imagination plays in human life. Viewing the poem as a model of Spenser`s universe, the author investigates the poet`s theory
Автор: Solomonescu Название: John Thelwall and the Materialist Imagination ISBN: 1137426136 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137426130 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 9781.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: John Thelwall and the Materialist Imagination reassesses Thelwall`s eclectic body of work from the perspective of his heterodox materialist arguments about the imagination, political reform, and the principle of life itself, and his contributions to Romantic-era science.
Автор: Healy Название: Shakespeare, Alchemy and the Creative Imagination ISBN: 1107637740 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107637740 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 6653.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Demonstrating how the lost lexicon of fashionable late Renaissance alchemy imbued Shakespeare`s bawdy sonnets and A Lover`s Complaint with spiritual and political meanings, this book transforms our understanding of Shakespeare`s art. Healy provides a crucial new framework for interpreting the playwright`s religious beliefs and his 1609 poems.
Описание: Medical, popular, and literary understanding about the imagination converged when Thomas Willis asserted that he had discovered the area of the brain that facilitated imagining. Taking this 'discovery' as paradigmatic, Novel Notions examines the reverberations of the medical investigation of the imagination in early British novels by Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, and Ann Radcliffe. It argues that one of the novel's central features was a mapping of the terrain of human cognition, imagination, and creation, as a continuation of early modern medicine's account of perceptual experience. All the novels discussed reveal a simultaneous anxiety and excitement about medicine's understanding of the relationship between the imagination and perceptual experience through narrators who reflect on the nature of authoring.
Автор: Goslee Название: Shelley`s Visual Imagination ISBN: 1107698618 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107698611 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5069.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This first full-length study of Shelley`s remarkable notebooks shows how important illustrations, sketches and drafts were to the creative process of his published poems. Nancy Goslee explores the notebooks, the visual and textual imagination they reveal, and the wider implications for an understanding of the creative process of Romantic poets.
Автор: Dobranski Название: Milton`s Visual Imagination ISBN: 1107094399 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107094390 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 14256.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Critics have traditionally thought of John Milton as an author who wrote for the ear more than the eye. In Milton`s Visual Imagination, Stephen B. Dobranski proposes that, on the contrary, Milton enriches his biblical source text with acute and sometimes astonishing visual details.
"The paradox of the lie that might as well be true," writes Paul Strohm, "must interest anyone who seeks to understand texts in history or the historical influence of texts." In these seven essays, all recent and most published here for the first time, the author examines historical and literary texts from fourteenth-century England. He not only demonstrates the fictionality of narrative and documentary sources, but also argues that these fictions are themselves fully historical. Together the essays institute a dialogue between texts and events that restores historical documents and literary works to their larger environments. Strohm begins by inspecting legal records that accuse Hochon of Liverpool in 1384 of threatening to shoot an arrow at a political adversary urinating against a wall, and shows how the text embodies and interconnects language, social space, and historical interpretation itself. Throughout his analyses, which cover such topics as Chaucer's verses on the accession of Henry IV, Froissart's account of Queen Philippa interceding for the burghers of Calais, and Thomas Usk's accusations against John Northampton, Strohm alerts us to the distortions of textuality itself while challenging our notions of "invented" and "true."
Originally published in 1992.
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Автор: Tumbleson Название: Catholicism in the English Protestant Imagination ISBN: 0521100895 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521100892 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5069.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This study examines the role of anti-Catholic rhetoric in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England. It discusses writers from Middleton, Milton and Marvell to Swift, Defoe and Fielding, as well as numerous pamphleteers, crossing traditional boundaries between poetry and prose, literature and polemic, the Reformation and the Augustan age.
Автор: Ruehl Martin A. Название: Italian Renaissance in the German Historical Imagination, 18 ISBN: 1108468152 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108468152 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5069.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Explores German engagement with the Italian Renaissance in the decades from German unification to the Weimar republic.
Описание: This volume brings together extracts of the major political writings of Mary Wollstonecraft in the order in which they appeared in the revolutionary 1790s. It traces her passionate and indignant response to the excitement of the early days of the French Revolution and then her uneasiness at its later bloody phase. It reveals her developing understanding of women's involvement in the political and social life of the nation and her growing awareness of the relationship between politics and economics and between political institutions and the individual. In personal terms, the works show her struggling with a belief in the perfectibility of human nature through rational education, a doctrine that became weaker under the onslaught of her own miserable experience and the revolutionary massacres. Janet Todd's introduction illuminates the progress of Wollstonecraft's thought, showing that a reading of all three works allows her to emerge as a more substantial political writer than a study of The Rights of Woman alone can reveal. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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