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  • Oscar Wilde and Classical Antiquity

    Edited by Kathleen Riley, Alastair J. L. Blanshard, Iarla Manny ...
    Few authors of the Victorian period were as immersed in classical learning as Oscar Wilde. Although famous now and during his lifetime as a wit, aesthete, and master epigrammist, Wilde distinguished himself early on as a talented classical scholar, studying at Trinity College Dublin and Oxford and winning academic prizes and distinctions at both institutions. His undergraduate notebooks as well as ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

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  • Christopher Marlowe : Poet & Spy

    Poet & Spy

    by Park Honan ...
    Christopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy is the most thorough and detailed life of Marlowe since John Bakeless's in 1942. It has new material on Marlowe in relation to Canterbury, also on his home life, schooling, and six and a half years at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and includes fresh data on his reading, teachers, and early achievements, including a new letter with a new date for the famous ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Euripides' Medea

    A New Translation

    by Diane J. Rayor ...
    Euripides' Medea comes alive in this new translation that will be useful for both academic study and stage production. Diane J. Rayor's accurate yet accessible translation reflects the play's inherent theatricality and vibrant poetry. The book includes an analytical introduction and comprehensive notes, and an essay on directing Medea by stage director Karen Libman. The play begins after Medea, a ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • The Strangeness of Tragedy

    by Paul Hammond ...
    This book reads tragedy as a genre in which the protagonist is estranged from the world around him, and, displaced in time, space, and language, comes to inhabit a milieu which is no longer shared by other characters. This alienation from others also entails a decomposition of the integrity of the individual, which is often seen in tragedy's uncertainty about the protagonists' autonomy: do they ... Read more

    $60.29 USD

  • When Honour's at the Stake (Routledge Revivals)

    by Norman Council ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Renaissance ideas of honour had a profound influence on the English people who formed Shakespeare’s audiences. In When Honour’s at the Stake, first published in 1973, Norman Council describes the increasing importance of these ideas to the themes and structure of a number of Shakespeare’s major plays.The validity of the most widely approved code of honour was being challenged on a variety of ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Literature

    1485-1603

    Edited by Mike Pincombe, Cathy Shrank ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    This is the first major collection of essays to look at the literature of the entire Tudor period, from the reign of Henry VII to death of Elizabeth I. It pays particularly attention to the years before 1580. Those decades saw, amongst other things, the establishment of print culture and growth of a reading public; the various phases of the English Reformation and process of political ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Cleopatra

    I Am Fire and Air

    by Harold Bloom ...
    Series series Shakespeare's Personalities
    From Harold Bloom, one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time, comes an intimate, wise, deeply compelling portrait of Cleopatra—one of the Bard’s most riveting and memorable female characters—in “a masterfully perceptive reading of this seductive play’s endless wonders” (*Kirkus Reviews*).**Cleopatra is one of the most famous women in history—and thanks to Shakespeare, one of the most ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Andrew Marvell

    Edited by Derek Hirst, Steven N. Zwicker ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Andrew Marvell is one of the greatest English lyric poets of the seventeenth century and one of its leading polemicists. This Companion brings a set of fresh questions and perspectives to bear on the varied career and diverse writings of a remarkable writer and elusive man. Drawing on important new editions of Marvell's poetry and of his prose, scholars of both history and literature examine ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Shakespeare and the Middle Ages

    Edited by Curtis Perry, John Watkins ...
    Shakespeare and the Middle Ages brings together a distinguished, multidisciplinary group of scholars to rethink the medieval origins of modernity. Shakespeare provides them with the perfect focus, since his works turn back to the Middle Ages as decisively as they anticipate the modern world: almost all of the histories depict events during the Hundred Years War, and King John glances even further ... Read more

    $140.39 USD

  • Romantic Tragedies

    The Dark Employments of Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Shelley

    by Reeve Parker ...
    Series Book 87 - Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
    Troubled politically and personally, Wordsworth and Coleridge turned in 1797 to the London stage. Their tragedies, The Borderers and Osorio, were set in medieval Britain and early modern Spain to avoid the Lord Chamberlain's censorship. Drury Lane rejected both, but fifteen years later Coleridge's revision, Remorse, had spectacular success there, inspiring Shelley's 1819 Roman tragedy, The Cenci, ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The Routledge Research Companion to Shakespeare and Classical Literature

    Edited by Sean Keilen, Nick Moschovakis ...
    In this wide-ranging and ambitiously conceived Research Companion, contributors explore Shakespeare’s relationship to the classic in two broad senses. The essays analyze Shakespeare’s specific debts to classical works and weigh his classicism’s likeness and unlikeness to that of others in his time; they also evaluate the effects of that classical influence to assess the extent to which it is ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Greek Fragments in Postmodern Frames

    Rewriting Tragedy 1970-2005

    by Eleftheria Ioannidou ...
    Series series Classical Presences
    Greek Fragments in Postmodern Frames takes as its subject adaptation of Greek tragedy in the last decades, arguing that rewritings of Greek tragic texts in this period can be used as a tool to uncover a significant dialogue with postmodernism. Despite the large number of staged and written adaptations of Greek tragic texts in recent years, the idea still persists that tragedy is incompatible with ... Read more

    $97.19 USD