Author: Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192603175
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 865
Book Description
Author: Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192603175
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 865
Book Description
Subjects on the World's Stage
Author: David G. AllenPublisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874135442
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
"In this collection eighteen scholars offer various readings on British literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Although the period covered ranges from the thirteenth through the seventeenth centuries, the essays are tied together by a common interest in one of three topics: poetic personae, dramatic production, and the influence of social context upon authors or dramatists. Common to these topics is the crucial point of contact between an artist and society that prompts the literary imagination to respond either with the creation of a new character or with the demonstration of change in an old one."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature
Author: Merriam-Webster, IncPublisher: Merriam-Webster
ISBN: 9780877790426
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1260
Book Description
Describes authors, works, and literary terms from all eras and all parts of the world.
First Readers of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, 1590-1790
Author: Faith D. AckerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000190811
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
For more than four centuries, cultural preferences, literary values, critical contexts, and personal tastes have governed readers’ responses to Shakespeare’s sonnets. Early private readers often considered these poems in light of the religious, political, and humanist values by which they lived. Other seventeenth- and eighteenth- century readers, such as stationers and editors, balanced their personal literary preferences against the imagined or actual interests of the literate public to whom they marketed carefully curated editions of the sonnets, often successfully. Whether public or private, however, many disparate sonnet interpretations from the sonnets’ first two centuries in print have been overlooked by modern sonnet scholarship, with its emphasis on narrative and amorous readings of the 1609 sequence. First Readers of Shakespeare’s Sonnets reintroduces many early readings of Shakespeare’s sonnets, arguing that studying the priorities and interpretations of these previous readers expands the modern critical applications of these poems, thereby affording them numerous future applications. This volume draws upon book history, manuscript studies, and editorial theory to recover four lost critical approaches to the sonnets, highlighting early readers’ interests in Shakespeare’s classical adaptations, political applicability, religious themes, and rhetorical skill during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Idea. The Shepheard's Garland
Author: Michael DraytonThe Mirrour of Majestie, Or, The Badges of Honour Conceitedly Emblazoned
Author: Sir Henry GoodyerePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Emblems
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
The Development of the Sonnet
Author: Michael R. G. SpillerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134882882
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Gentleman's Magazine
Author: The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry Before 1600
Author: Michelle M. SauerPublisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438108346
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
Some of the most important authors in British poetry left their mark onliterature before 1600, including Geoffrey Chaucer, Edmund Spenser, and, of course, William Shakespeare. "The Facts On File Companion to British Poetry before 1600"is an encyclopedic guide to British poetry from the beginnings to theyear 1600, featuring approximately 600 entries ranging in length from300 to 2,500 words.
The Holbein Society's Facsimile Reprints
Author: Holbein SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illustrated books
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description