Product Description: Doctor Faustus: A critical Guide

Product Description: Complementing other volumes in the Shakespeare Criticism Series, this collection of twenty original essays will expand the critical contexts in which Antony and Cleopatra can be enjoyed as both literature and theater. The essays will cover a wide spectrum of topics and utilize a diversity of scholarly methodologies, including textual and performance-oriented approaches, intertextual studies, as well as feminist, psychoanalytical, Marxist, and postcolonial inquiries...read more

Product Description: War and Words is a sweeping study of the profound, painful, and most significantly, defining cultural moments. Working from Homer through to Hemingway and in all traditions, some of the nation's best scholars of literature illustrate how literature and language affect not only the present but also future generations by shaping history even as they represent it...read more

Product Description: This collection of essays on Christopher Marlowe seeks to expand the critical perspectives on Marlowe's poems and plays by bringing together essays that examine diverse aspects of Marlowe's artistry, while simultaneously embedding his poems and plays within their theatrical, cultural and social milieus...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This study enlists both postmodern theory and early modern history in a cultural reading of the construction of sex, gender, and sexuality in Dido, Queene of Carthage, Tamburlaine I and II, Edward II, and Doctor Faustus. Some of the aspects of the plays explored in this study include the symmetry or assymetry of gender; the representation of gender as natural and universal or discursively constructed; the reinforcement or subversion of traditional gender traits, gender principles, and gender structures; and the relationship of sex, gender, and sexuality...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This collection of new essays from 29 feminist scholars in a range of humanities and social science disciplines argues that pedagogical methods, as well as curricula and textbooks, should reflect feminist theories and emphases. At the same time, the scholars demonstrate that feminists can advocate both hierarchy and equality, authority and freedom, order and flexibility, objectivity and subjectivity, reason and feeling, without being guilty of philosophical treason...read more