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  • Water and Cognition in Early Modern English Literature

    Edited by Nicholas Helms, Steve Mentz ...
    Series series Environmental Humanities in Pre-modern Cultures
    Water and cognition seem unrelated things, the one a physical environment and the other an intellectual process. The essays in this book show how bringing these two modes together revitalizes our understanding of both. Water and especially oceanic spaces have been central to recent trends in the environmental humanities and premodern ecocriticism. Cognition, including ideas about the “extended ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • Green Shakespeare

    From Ecopolitics to Ecocriticism

    by Gabriel Egan ...
    Series series Accents on Shakespeare
    Ecocriticism, a theoretical movement examining cultural constructions of Nature in their social and political contexts, is making an increasingly important contribution to our understanding of Shakespeare’s plays. Gabriel Egan's Green Shakespeare presents:an overview of the concept of ecocriticismdetailed ecocritical readings of Henry V, Macbeth, As You Like It, Antony & Cleopatra, King Lear, ... ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Embodied Cognition and Shakespeare's Theatre

    The Early Modern Body-Mind

    Edited by Laurie Johnson, John Sutton, Evelyn Tribble ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Shakespeare
    This collection considers issues that have emerged in Early Modern Studies in the past fifteen years relating to understandings of mind and body in Shakespeare’s world. Informed by The Body in Parts, the essays in this book respond also to the notion of an early modern ‘body-mind’ in which Shakespeare and his contemporaries are understood in terms of bodily parts and cognitive processes. What ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment

    Gender, Sexuality, and Race

    Edited by Valerie Traub ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment brings together 40 of the most important scholars and intellectuals writing on the subject today. Extending the purview of feminist criticism, it offers an intersectional paradigm for considering representations of gender in the context of race, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, and religion. In addition to sophisticated textual analysis drawing on ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Disability, Health, and Happiness in the Shakespearean Body

    Edited by Sujata Iyengar ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Shakespeare
    This book considers early modern and postmodern ideals of health, vigor, ability, beauty, well-being, and happiness, uncovering and historicizing the complex negotiations among physical embodiment, emotional response, and communally-sanctioned behavior in Shakespeare's literary and material world. The volume visits a series of questions about the history of the body and how early modern cultures ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Arden Research Handbook of Contemporary Shakespeare Criticism

    Edited by Dr Evelyn Gajowski ...
    Series series The Arden Shakespeare Handbooks
    The Arden Research Handbook of Contemporary Shakespeare Criticism is a wide-ranging, authoritative guide to research on critical approaches to Shakespeare by an international team of leading scholars. It contains chapters on 20 specific critical practices, each grounded in analysis of a Shakespeare play. These practices range from foundational approaches including character studies, close reading ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Passionate Playgoing in Early Modern England

    by Allison P. Hobgood ...
    Allison P. Hobgood tells a new story about the emotional experiences of theatregoers in Renaissance England. Through detailed case studies of canonical plays by Shakespeare, Jonson, Kyd and Heywood, the reader will discover what it felt like to be part of performances in English theatre and appreciate the key role theatregoers played in the life of early modern drama. How were spectators moved - ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Ecocriticism and Shakespeare

    Reading Ecophobia

    by Simon C. Estok ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book offers the term 'ecophobia' as a way of understanding and organizing representations of contempt for the natural world. Estok argues that this vocabulary is both necessary to the developing area of ecocritical studies and for our understandings of the representations of 'Nature' in Shakespeare. ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The Sound of Shakespeare

    by Wes Folkerth ...
    Series series Accents on Shakespeare
    The 'Sound of Shakespeare' reveals the surprising extent to which Shakespeare's art is informed by the various attitudes, beliefs, practices and discourses that pertained to sound and hearing in his culture.In this engaging study, Wes Folkerth develops listening as a critical practice, attending to the ways in which Shakespeare's plays express their author's awareness of early modern associations ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Arcticologies

    Early Modern Actions for Our Warmer World

    by Lowell Duckert ...
    Exploring the frozen past to rethink our warming futureDo we really know what cold is? In Arcticologies, Lowell Duckert delves into early modern European texts to trace how representations of frigidity from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries have contributed to historical understandings of climate and contemporary debates on climate change. Arguing that human culture and science are, in fact, ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Shakespeare and Complexity Theory

    by Claire Hansen ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Shakespeare
    In this new monograph, Claire Hansen demonstrates how Shakespeare can be understood as a complex system, and how complexity theory can provide compelling and original readings of Shakespeare’s plays. The book utilises complexity theory to illuminate early modern theatrical practice, Shakespeare pedagogy, and the phenomenon of the Shakespeare ‘myth’. The monograph re-evaluates Shakespeare, his ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Shakespeare and Emotion

    Edited by Katharine A. Craik ...
    Shakespeare and Emotion devotes sustained attention to the emotions as a novel way of exploring Shakespeare's works in their original contexts. A variety of disciplinary approaches drawn from literary, theatrical, historical, cultural and film studies brings the recent upsurge of interest in affect into conversation with some of the most urgent debates in Shakespeare studies. The volume provides ... Read more

    $101.99 USD