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By Julie Sanders (editor)

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9780521895712 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, July 12, 2010), cover price $129.99

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9781107637092 | Reprint edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, January 30, 2014), cover price $32.99

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Product Description: The theme of the body-and-soul relationship in medieval texts and in modern reworkings of medieval matter is explored in the articles here, specifically the representation of the body in romance; the relevance of bawdy tales to the cultural experience of authors and readers in the middle ages; the function of despair, or melancholy, in medieval and Renaissance literature; and the political significance of late medieval representations of `bodies' in the chroniclers' accounts of the Rising and in Gower's poems...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Piero Boitani (editor) and Anna Torti (editor)

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9780859915458 | Ds Brewer, September 1, 1999, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: The theme of the body-and-soul relationship in medieval texts and in modern reworkings of medieval matter is explored in the articles here, specifically the representation of the body in romance; the relevance of bawdy tales to the cultural experience of authors and readers in the middle ages; the function of despair, or melancholy, in medieval and Renaissance literature; and the political significance of late medieval representations of `bodies' in the chroniclers' accounts of the Rising and in Gower's poems.

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By Richard Maxwell (editor)

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9780521862523, titled "The Cambridge Companion to Fiction of the Romantic Period" | Reprint edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, March 31, 2008), cover price $110.00

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9780521681087, titled "The Cambridge Companion to Fiction of the Romantic Period" | Reprint edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, March 24, 2008), cover price $34.99

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Product Description: Miguel de Cervantes's Novelas ejemplares, a collection of short stories in the tradition of Boccaccio, has a solid foundation in the history of Golden Age Spain. Joseph V Ricapito studies Cervantes's work from the point of view of "novelized history" or "history novelized...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781557530783, titled "Cervantes's Novelas Ejemplares: Between History and Creativity" | Purdue Univ Pr, February 1, 1996, cover price $39.95

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9781557532046, titled "Cervantes's Novelas Ejemplares: Between History and Creativity" | Purdue Univ Pr, February 1, 2000, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: Miguel de Cervantes's Novelas ejemplares, a collection of short stories in the tradition of Boccaccio, has a solid foundation in the history of Golden Age Spain.

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Product Description: First published in 1927, this book aims to trace the development of Christopher Marlowe’s mind and art as these are revealed in the surviving parts of his work, while portraying the personality thus perceived. Professor Ellis-Fermor begins by looking at Marlowe’s life and early works, before making a more detailed study of Tamburlaine, Faustus, The Plays of Policy, and finaly Hero and Leander...read more

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9780415630443 | Routledge, November 15, 2013, cover price $46.95 | About this edition: First published in 1927, this book aims to trace the development of Christopher Marlowe’s mind and art as these are revealed in the surviving parts of his work, while portraying the personality thus perceived.

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By W. Terrence Gordon (editor)

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9781584230670 | Gingko Pr Inc, April 1, 2006, cover price $39.95

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9781584232353, titled "Classical Trivium: The Place of Thomas Nashe in the Learning of His Time" | Reprint edition (Gingko Pr Inc, August 30, 2006), cover price $29.95

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9780226243115 | Univ of Chicago Pr, January 15, 2003, cover price $87.00

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9780226243122 | Univ of Chicago Pr, September 1, 2003, cover price $34.00

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Product Description: Rare book: Price in USD

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9788437620220 | Catedra Ediciones, June 30, 2004, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Rare book: Price in USD

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Product Description: The identity of Shakespeare, the most important poet and dramatist in the English language, has been debated for centuries. This historical work investigates the role of Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, establishing him as most likely the author of Shakespeare's literary oeuvre...read more

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9780786463138 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, December 23, 2011, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: The identity of Shakespeare, the most important poet and dramatist in the English language, has been debated for centuries.
9780201064674, titled "A Prolog Primer" | Addison-Wesley, June 1, 1986, cover price $21.20 | also contains A Prolog Primer | About this edition: Prolog Primer.

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Product Description: The essays in this volume interrogate the unique and often problematic relationship between early modern cultural studies and ecocriticism, providing theoretical insights and models for a future practice that successfully wed the two disciplines.
By Thomas Hallock (editor)

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9780230604612 | Palgrave Macmillan, December 15, 2008, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: The essays in this volume interrogate the unique and often problematic relationship between early modern cultural studies and ecocriticism, providing theoretical insights and models for a future practice that successfully wed the two disciplines.

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Product Description: Edmund Spenser's censored attacks on Lord Burghley (Elizabeth I's powerful first minister) serve as the basis for a reassessment of the poet's mid-career, challenging the dates of canonical texts, the social and personal contexts for scandalous topical allegories, and the new historicist portrait of Spenser's 'worship' of power and state ideology...read more

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9780230299030 | Palgrave Macmillan, November 15, 2011, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: Edmund Spenser's censored attacks on Lord Burghley (Elizabeth I's powerful first minister) serve as the basis for a reassessment of the poet's mid-career, challenging the dates of canonical texts, the social and personal contexts for scandalous topical allegories, and the new historicist portrait of Spenser's 'worship' of power and state ideology.

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Product Description: The comic grotesque is a powerful element in a great deal of Elizabethan literature, but one which has attracted scant critical attention. In this study, first published in 1980, Neil Rhodes examines the nature of the grotesque in late sixteenth-century culture, and shows the part it played in the development of new styles of comic prose and drama in Elizabethan England...read more

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9781138804074 | Routledge, June 10, 2014, cover price $155.00 | About this edition: The comic grotesque is a powerful element in a great deal of Elizabethan literature, but one which has attracted scant critical attention.

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9781138804098 | Routledge, July 14, 2015, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: The comic grotesque is a powerful element in a great deal of Elizabethan literature, but one which has attracted scant critical attention.

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9781861891105 | Reaktion Books, June 1, 2002, cover price $35.00

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9781861891983 | Reaktion Books, April 4, 2004, cover price $25.00

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Provides a guide to every play in the Shakespearean canon, as well as an in-depth profile of Shakepeare's life, a portrait of the Elizabethan world and its theater, and facts about the Bard's poetry, influence, and literary significance.

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9781465402264 | Reprint edition (Dk Pub, January 16, 2013), cover price $19.95
9780789493330 | Dk Pub, April 1, 2004, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Provides a guide to every play in the Shakespearean canon, as well as an in-depth profile of Shakepeare's life, a portrait of the Elizabethan world and its theater, and facts about the Bard's poetry, influence, and literary significance.

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9781417634828 | Turtleback Books, April 1, 2004, cover price $39.15 | About this edition: Provides a guide to every play in the Shakespearean canon, as well as an in-depth profile of Shakepeare's life, a portrait of the Elizabethan world and its theater, and facts about the Bard's poetry, influence, and literary significance.

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Product Description: Con esta investigación se pretende poner de manifiesto cuáles son y cómo utiliza Tirso deMolina las técnicas dramáticas a su alcance.

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9788483713341 | Universidad De Murcia, June 30, 2002, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Con esta investigación se pretende poner de manifiesto cuáles son y cómo utiliza Tirso deMolina las técnicas dramáticas a su alcance.

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Product Description: "This is one of the few books on Montaigne that fuses analytical skill with humane awareness of why Montaigne matters."—Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of Humanities, Yale University"In this exhilarating and learned book on Montaigne's essays, Lawrence D...read more

Hardcover:

9780231119924 | Columbia Univ Pr, May 2, 2009, cover price $85.00

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9780231119931 | Reprint edition (Columbia Univ Pr, October 21, 2011), cover price $28.00 | About this edition: "This is one of the few books on Montaigne that fuses analytical skill with humane awareness of why Montaigne matters.

Miscellaneous:

9780231512510 | Columbia Univ Pr, June 1, 2010, cover price $23.99

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Product Description: This book explores what Columbus searched for but did not find: India. Rather than study the geographical area denoted by that word, it focuses on the figures of India and the East in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century European thought...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780804739702 | Stanford Univ Pr, March 1, 2002, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: This book explores what Columbus searched for but did not find: India.

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Offers information on lodgings, restaurants, sights, and activities, and includes practical travel advice and tips on local excursions

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9780028621067 | 5th edition (Frommer, May 1, 1998), cover price $14.95 | also contains The Invention of the Renaissance Woman: The Challenge of Female Independence in the Literature and Thought of Italy and England | About this edition: Offers information on lodgings, restaurants, sights, and activities, and includes practical travel advice and tips on local excursions
9780028608921, titled "Frommer's Toronto" | 4th edition (Frommer, January 1, 1997), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Offers information on lodgings, restaurants, sights, and activities, and includes practical travel advice and tips on local excursions

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