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Making Make-believe Real: Politics as Theater in Shakespeare's Time

By Garry Wills

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9780300197532 | Yale Univ Pr, June 10, 2014, cover price $30.00

9780314889393, titled "American Constitution: Cases-Comments-Questions" | 7th edition (West Group, July 1, 1991), cover price $53.95 | also contains American Constitution: Cases-Comments-Questions, Making Make-believe Real: Politics As Theater in Shakespeare's Time

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9780300212716 | Reprint edition (Yale Univ Pr, June 30, 2015), cover price $20.00 | also contains Making Make-believe Real: Politics As Theater in Shakespeare's Time

Making Make-believe Real: Politics As Theater in Shakespeare's Time

By Garry Wills

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9780300212716 | Reprint edition (Yale Univ Pr, June 30, 2015), cover price $20.00 | also contains Making Make-believe Real: Politics as Theater in Shakespeare's Time

The Cambridge Introduction to Early Modern Drama, 1576-1642

Product Description: Engaging and stimulating, this Introduction provides a fresh vista of the early modern theatrical landscape. Chapters are arranged according to key genres (tragedy, revenge, satire, history play, pastoral and city comedy), punctuated by a series of focused case studies on topics ranging from repertoire to performance style, political events to the physical body of the actor, and from plays in print to the space of the playhouse...read more

By Julie Sanders

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9781107013568 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 30, 2014, cover price $79.99 | About this edition: Engaging and stimulating, this Introduction provides a fresh vista of the early modern theatrical landscape.

Staging Women and the Soul-body Dynamic in Early Modern England

Product Description: Though the gender-coded soul-body dynamic lies at the root of many negative and disempowering depictions of women, Sarah Johnson here argues that it also functions as an effective tool for redefining gender expectations. Building on past criticism that has concentrated on the debilitating cultural association of women with the body, she investigates dramatic uses of the soul-body dynamic that challenge the patriarchal subordination of women...read more

By Sarah E. Johnson

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9781472411228 | 1 edition (Ashgate Pub Co, March 28, 2014), cover price $149.95 | About this edition: Though the gender-coded soul-body dynamic lies at the root of many negative and disempowering depictions of women, Sarah Johnson here argues that it also functions as an effective tool for redefining gender expectations.

The Cambridge Introduction to Early Modern Drama, 1572-1642

By Julie Sanders

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9781107645479 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 30, 2014, cover price $28.99 | About this edition: Engaging and stimulating, this Introduction provides a fresh vista of the early modern theatrical landscape.

Early Modern Theatricality

By Henry S. Turner (editor)

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9780199641352 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 5, 2014, cover price $150.00

Performing Economic Thought: English Drama and Mercantile Writing 1600-1642

Product Description: This study examines the structural similarities between English mercantile treatises and drama c1600-1642. Bradley D. Ryner analyses the representational conventions of plays and mercantile treatises written between the chartering of the English East India Company in 1600 and the closing of the public playhouses at the outset of the English Civil War in 1642...read more

By Bradley D. Ryner

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9780748684656 | Edinburgh Univ Pr, January 1, 2014, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: This study examines the structural similarities between English mercantile treatises and drama c1600-1642.

Staging Authority in Caroline England: Prerogative, Law and Order in Drama, 1625-1642

Product Description: Considering plays by Philip Massinger, Richard Brome, Ben Jonson, John Ford and James Shirley, this study addresses the political import of Caroline drama as it engages with contemporary struggles over authority between royal prerogative, common law and local custom in seventeenth-century England...read more

By Jessica Dyson

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9781409433323 | Ashgate Pub Co, October 28, 2013, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: Considering plays by Philip Massinger, Richard Brome, Ben Jonson, John Ford and James Shirley, this study addresses the political import of Caroline drama as it engages with contemporary struggles over authority between royal prerogative, common law and local custom in seventeenth-century England.

Thomas Killigrew and the Seventeenth-century English Stage: New Perspectives

Product Description: Despite his significant influence as a courtier, diplomat, playwright and theatre manager, Thomas Killigrew (1612-1683) remains a comparatively elusive and neglected figure. The original essays in this interdisciplinary volume shine new light on a singular, contradictory Englishman 400 years after his birth...read more

By Philip Major (editor)

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9781409466680 | Ashgate Pub Co, October 28, 2013, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: Despite his significant influence as a courtier, diplomat, playwright and theatre manager, Thomas Killigrew (1612-1683) remains a comparatively elusive and neglected figure.

Romance on the Early Modern Stage: English Expansion Before and After Shakespeare

Product Description: In Shakespeare studies, 'Romance' is widely understood to refer to the plays composed and performed in the waning days of the playwright's career. Romance on the Early Modern Stage introduces a new history for the genre, one that dates back to the first years of the commercial theatre in London...read more

By Cyrus Mulready

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9781137322708 | Palgrave Macmillan, August 15, 2013, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: In Shakespeare studies, 'Romance' is widely understood to refer to the plays composed and performed in the waning days of the playwright's career.

Studying Shakespeare's Contemporaries

Product Description: Studying Shakespeareâs Contemporaries is an accessible guide to the non-Shakespearian drama of Renaissance England that can be read as complete subject overview or used as an indexed reference resource.

By Eric Rasmussen

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9781405132435 | Blackwell Pub, February 3, 2014, cover price $89.95 | About this edition: Studying Shakespeareâs Contemporaries is an accessible guide to the non-Shakespearian drama of Renaissance England that can be read as complete subject overview or used as an indexed reference resource.

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9781405132442 | Blackwell Pub, February 3, 2014, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Studying Shakespeare’s Contemporaries is an accessible guide to the non-Shakespearian drama of Renaissance England that can be read as complete subject overview or used as an indexed reference resource.

The English Clown Tradition from the Middle Ages to Shakespeare

Product Description: From the late-medieval period through to the seventeenth century, English theatrical clowns carried a weighty cultural significance, only to have it stripped from them, sometimes violently, by the close of the Renaissance when the famed "license" of fooling was effectively revoked...read more

By Robert Hornback

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9781843842002 | Ds Brewer, September 17, 2009, cover price $90.00

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9781843843566 | Reprint edition (Ds Brewer, July 18, 2013), cover price $45.00 | About this edition: From the late-medieval period through to the seventeenth century, English theatrical clowns carried a weighty cultural significance, only to have it stripped from them, sometimes violently, by the close of the Renaissance when the famed "license" of fooling was effectively revoked.

Violence Against Women in Early Modern Performance: Invisible Acts

Product Description: Examining some of the most iconic texts in English theatre history, including Titus Andronicus, The Duchess of Malfi and The Changeling, this book reveals the pernicious erasure of rape and violence against women in the early modern era, and the politics and ethics of rehearsing these negotiations on the twentieth- and twenty-first century stages...read more

By Kim Solga

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9780230219540 | 1 edition (Palgrave Macmillan, November 15, 2009), cover price $110.00

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9781137274717 | Reprint edition (Palgrave Macmillan, February 15, 2013), cover price $34.00 | About this edition: Examining some of the most iconic texts in English theatre history, including Titus Andronicus, The Duchess of Malfi and The Changeling, this book reveals the pernicious erasure of rape and violence against women in the early modern era, and the politics and ethics of rehearsing these negotiations on the twentieth- and twenty-first century stages.

The Quest for Cardenio: Shakespeare, Fletcher, Cervantes, and the Lost Play

By Gary Taylor (editor)

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9780199641819 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 25, 2012, cover price $65.00

The Mysterious Connection Between Thomas Nashe, Thomas Dekker, and T. M.: An English Renaissance Deception?

By Donna N. Murphy

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9781443841122 | Cambridge Scholars Pub, November 1, 2012, cover price $75.95

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9781443853620 | Cambridge Scholars Pub, January 15, 2014, cover price $33.95

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Contemporary Dramatists

Product Description: While Shakespeare's popularity has continued to grow, so has the attention paid to the work of his contemporaries. The contributors to this Companion introduce the distinctive drama of these playwrights, from the court comedies of John Lyly to the works of Richard Brome in the Caroline era...read more

By Ton Hoenselaars (editor)

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9780521767545 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 19, 2012, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: While Shakespeare's popularity has continued to grow, so has the attention paid to the work of his contemporaries.

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9780521128742 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 19, 2012, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: While Shakespeare's popularity has continued to grow, so has the attention paid to the work of his contemporaries.

Middleton and Rowley: Forms of Collaboration in the Jacobean Playhouse

Product Description: Can the inadvertent clashes between collaborators produce more powerful effects than their concordances? For Thomas Middleton and William Rowley, the playwriting team best known for their tragedy The Changeling, disagreements and friction proved quite beneficial for their work...read more

By David Nicol

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9781442643703 | Univ of Toronto Pr, October 30, 2012, cover price $52.00 | About this edition: Can the inadvertent clashes between collaborators produce more powerful effects than their concordances?

Re-Imagining Western European Geography in English Renaissance Drama

Product Description: Matei-Chesnoiu examines the changing understanding of world geography in sixteenth-century England and the concomitant involvement of the London theatre in shaping a new perception of Western European space. Fresh readings are offered of Shakespeare, Jonson, Marlowe, Middleton, Dekker, Massinger, Marston, and others...read more

By Monica Matei-chesnoiu

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9780230366305 | Palgrave Macmillan, September 4, 2012, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: Matei-Chesnoiu examines the changing understanding of world geography in sixteenth-century England and the concomitant involvement of the London theatre in shaping a new perception of Western European space.

Europe's Languages on England's Stages, 1590-1620

By Marianne Montgomery

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9781409422877 | Ashgate Pub Co, June 1, 2012, cover price $149.95

The Disguised Ruler in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries

Product Description: In the early seventeenth century, the London stage often portrayed a ruler covertly spying on his subjects. Traditionally deemed 'Jacobean disguised ruler plays', these works include Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, Marston's The Malcontent and The Fawn, Middleton's The Phoenix, and Sharpham's The Fleer...read more

By Kevin A. Quarmby

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9781409401599 | Ashgate Pub Co, March 1, 2012, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: In the early seventeenth century, the London stage often portrayed a ruler covertly spying on his subjects.

Early Modern Drama and the Bible: Contexts and Readings, 1570-1625

Product Description: Early modern drama is steeped in biblical language, imagery and stories. This collection examines the pervasive presence of scripture on the early modern stage. Exploring plays by writers such as Shakespeare, Marlowe, Middleton, and Webster, the contributors showÂ how theatre offers a site of public and communal engagement with the Bible...read more

By Adrian Streete (editor)

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9780230301092 | Palgrave Macmillan, November 15, 2011, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: Early modern drama is steeped in biblical language, imagery and stories.

Family and the State in Early Modern Revenge Drama: Economies of Vengeance

By Chris McMahon

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9780415807753 | Routledge, December 22, 2011, cover price $145.00

Sexual Types: Embodiment, Agency, and Dramatic Character from Shakespeare to Shirley

By Mario Digangi

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9780812243611 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, September 22, 2011, cover price $65.00

Shakespeare Only

Product Description: Three decades of controversy in Shakespeare studies can be summed up in a single question: Was Shakespeare one of a kind? On one side of the debate are the Shakespeare lovers, the bardolatrists, who insist on Shakespeareâs timeless preeminence as an author...read more

By Jeffrey Knapp

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9780226445717 | 1 edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, October 15, 2009), cover price $41.00 | About this edition: Three decades of controversy in Shakespeare studies can be summed up in a single question: Was Shakespeare one of a kind?

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9780226445724 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, October 30, 2011), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Three decades of controversy in Shakespeare studies can be summed up in a single question: Was Shakespeare one of a kind?

Playwright, Space and Place in Early Modern Performance: Shakespeare and Company

Product Description: Analyzing Elizabethan and Jacobean playtexts for their spatial implications, this innovative study discloses the extent to which the resources and constraints of public playhouse buildings affected the construction of the fictional worlds of early modern plays...read more

By Tim Fitzpatrick

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9781409428275 | Ashgate Pub Co, October 1, 2011, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: Analyzing Elizabethan and Jacobean playtexts for their spatial implications, this innovative study discloses the extent to which the resources and constraints of public playhouse buildings affected the construction of the fictional worlds of early modern plays.

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