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Product Description: Working Subjects in Early Modern English Drama investigates the ways in which work became a subject of inquiry on the early modern stage and the processes by which the drama began to forge new connections between labor and subjectivity in the period...read more
By Natasha Korda (editor)

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9781409410775 | Ashgate Pub Co, February 1, 2011, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: Working Subjects in Early Modern English Drama investigates the ways in which work became a subject of inquiry on the early modern stage and the processes by which the drama began to forge new connections between labor and subjectivity in the period.

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Product Description: In this study, Murakami overturns the misconception that popular English morality plays were simple medieval vehicles for disseminating conservative religious doctrine. On the contrary, Murakami finds that moral drama came into its own in the sixteenth century as a method for challenging normative views on ethics, economics, social rank, and political obligation...read more

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9780415886314 | Reprint edition (Routledge, February 7, 2011), cover price $141.00 | About this edition: In this study, Murakami overturns the misconception that popular English morality plays were simple medieval vehicles for disseminating conservative religious doctrine.

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Product Description: John Lyly is the first collection of essays dedicated solely to the work of this University Wit, celebrity prose writer, and playwright to the court of Elizabeth. Lyly's energy and wit inspired his contemporaries to follow new directions in prose fiction and stage comedy, and his writings still illuminate sixteenth-century culture for the modern reader...read more
By Ruth Lunney (editor)

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9780754628545 | Ashgate Pub Co, March 1, 2011, cover price $350.00 | About this edition: John Lyly is the first collection of essays dedicated solely to the work of this University Wit, celebrity prose writer, and playwright to the court of Elizabeth.

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Product Description: This essay collection builds on the latest research on the topic of theatre audiences in early modern England. In broad terms, the project answers the question, 'How do we define the relationships between performance and audience?'.
By Nova Myhill (editor)

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9780230110649 | 1 edition (Palgrave Macmillan, February 15, 2011), cover price $105.00 | About this edition: This essay collection builds on the latest research on the topic of theatre audiences in early modern England.

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Product Description: The succession to the throne, Lisa Hopkins argues here, was a burning topic not only in the final years of Elizabeth but well into the 1630s, with continuing questions about how James's two kingdoms might be ruled after his death...read more

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9781409406471 | Ashgate Pub Co, May 1, 2011, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: The succession to the throne, Lisa Hopkins argues here, was a burning topic not only in the final years of Elizabeth but well into the 1630s, with continuing questions about how James's two kingdoms might be ruled after his death.

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Product Description: A collection of 13 articles relating to developments in the history of 18th-century exact science, focusing on the writings of such figures as Jean d'Alembert, Leonhard Euler, and Joseph Louis Lagrange. The volume presents their work on the principles of calculus and the theory of motion, and serves to clarify the conceptual foundation of analysis and mechanics in the century following Newton...read more

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9781409409021 | Ashgate Pub Co, May 1, 2011, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: A collection of 13 articles relating to developments in the history of 18th-century exact science, focusing on the writings of such figures as Jean d'Alembert, Leonhard Euler, and Joseph Louis Lagrange.

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By Richard Schoch (editor)

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9780826442253 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, June 2, 2011, cover price $150.00

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Product Description: Though individual prologues and epilogues have been treated in depth, very little scholarship has been published on early modern framing texts as a whole. "The Framing Text in Early Modern English Drama" fills a gap in the literature by examining the origins of these texts, and investigating their growing importance and influence in the theatre of the period...read more

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9781409410171, titled "The Framing Text in Early Modern English Drama: 'Whining' Prologues and 'Armed' Epilogues" | Ashgate Pub Co, July 31, 2011, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: Though individual prologues and epilogues have been treated in depth, very little scholarship has been published on early modern framing texts as a whole.

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Product Description: Containing detailed readings of plays by Shakespeare, Marlowe and Middleton, as well as poetry and prose, this book provides a major historical and critical reassessment of the relationship between early modern Protestantism and drama...read more

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9780521760171 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, October 30, 2009), cover price $99.99 | About this edition: Containing detailed readings of plays by Shakespeare, Marlowe and Middleton, as well as poetry and prose, this book provides a major historical and critical reassessment of the relationship between early modern Protestantism and drama.

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9781107402775 | Reissue edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, August 11, 2011), cover price $44.99 | About this edition: Containing detailed readings of plays by Shakespeare, Marlowe and Middleton, as well as poetry and prose, this book provides a major historical and critical reassessment of the relationship between early modern Protestantism and drama.

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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

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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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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 Shakespeare’s timeless preeminence as an author...read more

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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?

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Product Description: George Bagshawe Harrison (1894-1991) was a renowned scholar and critic who produced many books on Elizabethan and Jacobean literature. In this volume, originally published in 1924, Harrison provides a concise introduction to the development of Elizabethan drama...read more

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9780374936884 | Octagon Books, June 1, 1972, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Provides insight into the nature of English drama from the late-sixteenth to early-seventeenth centuries in this discussion of outstanding playwrights and their works

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9781107612167, titled "The Story of Elizabethan Drama" | Reissue edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, January 12, 2012), cover price $34.99 | About this edition: George Bagshawe Harrison (1894-1991) was a renowned scholar and critic who produced many books on Elizabethan and Jacobean literature.

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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 show 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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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