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  • None a Stranger There

    England and/in Europe on the Early Modern Stage

    by Scott Oldenburg, Matteo Pangallo, Heather Bailey, Todd Andrew Borlik, William Casey Caldwell, Matthew Carter, Kevin Chovanec0, John S. Garrison1, Jamie Paris2, Vimala C. Pasupathi3, Kyle Pivetti4, Margaret Tudeau-Clayton5 ...
    Series series Strode Studies in Early Modern Literature and Culture
    A wide-ranging group of scholarly essays that probe the historical nature of English identity, both through self-definition and in relationship to the rest of Europe ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Various Artists' Red Hot + Blue

    by Professor John S. Garrison ...
    Series series 33 1/3
    Red Hot + Blue is a meditation on music's capacity to find us, transform us, and help us make sense of our historical moment. Blending memoir and cultural history, Garrison recalls his coming out at the height of the AIDS crisis alongside the music industry's first major response to the epidemic. In 1990, a groundbreaking effort by musical artists sought to combat the silence and stigma about the ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • The Pleasures of Memory in Shakespeare's Sonnets

    by John S. Garrison ...
    The Pleasures of Memory in Shakespeare's Sonnets uses Shakespeare's poetry as a case study for the mutually formative relationship between desire and recollection. Through a series of close readings that are both historically situated and informed by recent theory, it traces how the speaker of the poems strives for a more agential relationship to his own memory by treating recollection as a form ... Read more

    $72.89 USD

  • Glass

    by Professor John S. Garrison ...
    Series series Object Lessons
    Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Pause and look around: you will see that you are surrounded by glass. It reflects and refracts light through your windows; it encircles a glowing filament above you; it's in a mirror hanging on the wall; it lies shattered in a dented corner of an iPhone-you're drinking water out of a pint ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Performing Gods in Classical Antiquity and the Age of Shakespeare

    by Professor Dustin W. Dixon, Professor John S. Garrison ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
    The gods have much to tell us about performance. When human actors portray deities onstage, such divine epiphanies reveal not only the complexities of mortals playing gods but also the nature of theatrical spectacle itself. The very impossibility of rendering the gods in all their divine splendor in a truly convincing way lies at the intersection of divine power and the power of the theater. This ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Making Milton

    Print, Authorship, Afterlives

    Edited by Emma Depledge, John S. Garrison, Marissa Nicosia ...
    This volume consists of fourteen original essays that showcase the latest thinking about John Milton's emergence as a popular and canonical author. Contributors consider how Milton positioned himself in relation to the book trade, contemporaneous thinkers, and intellectual movements, as well as how his works have been positioned since their first publication. The individual chapters assess Milton ... Read more

    $86.39 USD

  • Shakespeare at Peace

    by Kyle Pivetti, John S. Garrison ...
    Series series Spotlight on Shakespeare
    In the current climate of global military conflict and terrorism, Shakespeare at Peace offers new readings of Shakespeare’s plays, illuminating a discourse of peace previously shadowed by war and violence. Using contemporary examples such as speeches, popular music, and science fiction adaptations of the plays, Shakespeare at Peace reads Shakespeare’s work to illuminate current debates and ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Friendship and Queer Theory in the Renaissance

    Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern England

    by John S. Garrison ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
    In this volume, the author offers a substantial reconsideration of same-sex relations in the early modern period, and argues that early modern writers – rather than simply celebrating a classical friendship model based in dyadic exclusivity and a rejection of self-interest – sought to innovate on classical models for idealized friendship. This book redirects scholarly conversations regarding ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Sexuality and Memory in Early Modern England

    Literature and the Erotics of Recollection

    Edited by John S. Garrison, Kyle Pivetti ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
    This volume brings together two vibrant areas of Renaissance studies today: memory and sexuality. The contributors show that not only Shakespeare but also a broad range of his contemporaries were deeply interested in how memory and sexuality interact. Are erotic experiences heightened or deflated by the presence of memory? Can a sexual act be commemorative? Can an act of memory be eroticized? How ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Shakespeare and the Afterlife

    by John S. Garrison ...
    Narrated by Steven Crossley ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 28 min

    The question of what happens after death was a vital one in Shakespeare's time, as it is today. And, like today, the answers were by no means universally agreed upon. Early moderns held surprisingly diverse beliefs about the afterlife and about how earthly life affected one's fate after death. Was death akin to a sleep where one did not wake until judgment day? Were sick bodies healed in heaven? ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare's Poetry

    Edited by Jonathan Post ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare's Poetry contains thirty-eight original essays written by leading Shakespeareans around the world. Collectively, these essays seek to return readers to a revivified understanding of Shakespeare's verbal artistry in both the poems and the drama. The volume understands poetry to be not just a formal category designating a particular literary genre but to be ... Read more

    $44.99 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