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  • Representing Masculinity in Early Modern English Satire, 1590–1603

    "A Kingdom for a Man"

    by Per Sivefors ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge
    Engaging with Elizabethan understandings of masculinity, this book examines representations of manhood during the short-lived vogue for verse satire in the 1590s, by poets like John Donne, John Marston, Everard Guilpin and Joseph Hall. While criticism has often used categorical adjectives like "angry" and "Juvenalian" to describe these satires, this book argues that they engage with early modern ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Changing satire

    Transformations and continuities in Europe, 1600–1830

    Edited by Cecilia Rosengren, Per Sivefors, Rikard Wingård ...
    Series Book 13 - Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies
    This edited collection brings together literary scholars and art historians, and maps how satire became a less genre-driven and increasingly visual medium in the seventeenth through the early nineteenth century. Changing satire demonstrates how satire proliferated in various formats, and discusses a wide range of material from canonical authors like Swift to little known manuscript sources and ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

  • Disseminating Shakespeare in the Nordic Countries

    Shifting Centres and Peripheries in the Nineteenth Century

    by Dr David Schalkwyk, Bi-qi Beatrice Lei, Silvia Bigliazzi ...
    Series series Global Shakespeare Inverted
    Charting the early dissemination of Shakespeare in the Nordic countries in the 19th century, this opens up an area of global Shakespeare studies that has received little attention to date. With case studies exploring the earliest translations of Hamlet into Danish; the first translation of Macbeth and the differing translations of Hamlet into Swedish; adaptations into Finnish; Kierkegaard's re ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Reconstructing Shakespeare in the Nordic Countries

    National Revival and Interwar Politics, 1870 – 1940

    by Dr David Schalkwyk, Silvia Bigliazzi, Bi-qi Beatrice Lei ...
    Series series Global Shakespeare Inverted
    Examining the changing reception of Shakespeare in the Nordic countries between 1870 and 1940, this follow-up volume to Disseminating Shakespeare in the Nordic Countries focuses on the broad movements of national revivalism that took place around the turn of the century as Finland and Norway, and later Iceland, were gaining their independence. The first part of the book demonstrates how ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

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  • The Complete Brecht Toolkit

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    A practical, hands-on guide - for actors, directors, teachers and students - to Brecht's theory and practice of theatre, with a full set of exercises to help put theory into practice.The Complete Brecht Toolkit examines, one by one, Brecht's many, sometimes contradictory ideas about theatre - and how he put them into practice. Here are explanations of all the famous key terms, such as Alienation ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Introduction to Theatre Directing

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    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
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  • Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism

    Art, Theater, Philosophy

    by Toril Moi ...
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    $224.99 USD

  • Heiner Müller's The Hamletmachine

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    Series series The Fourth Wall
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  • Murder Most Foul

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