Author: Achilles TatiusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greek literature
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
The Most Delectable and Pleasaunt History of Clitiphon and Leucippe: Written First in Greeke, by Achilles Statius, an Alexandrian: and Now Newly Translated Into English, by VV.B. Whereunto is Also Annexed the Argument of Euery Booke, in the Beginning of the Same, for the Better Vnderstanding of the Historie:.
Author: Achilles TatiusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greek literature
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Most Delectable and Pleasaunt History of Clitiphon and Leucippe
Author: The most delectable and pleasaunt history of Clitiphon and Leucippe
Author: TatiusThe Most Delectable and Pleasaunt History of Clitiphon and Leucippe ...
Author: Achilles TatiusThe Emblematics of the Self
Author: Elizabeth B. BeardenPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 144269615X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
The ancient Greek romances of Achilles Tatius and Heliodorus were widely imitated by early modern writers such as Miguel de Cervantes, Philip Sidney, and Mary Wroth. Like their Greek models, Renaissance romances used ekphrasis, or verbal descriptions of visual representation, as a tool for characterization. The Emblematics of the Self shows how the women, foreigners, and non-Christians of these tales reveal their identities and desires in their responses to the ‘verbal pictures’ of romance. Elizabeth B. Bearden illuminates how ‘verbal pictures’ enliven characterization in English, Spanish, and Neolatin romances from 1552 to 1621. She notes the capacity for change among characters — such as cross-dressed Amazons, shepherdish princesses, and white Mauritanians — who traverse transnational cultural and aesthetic environments. Engaging and rigorous, The Emblematics of the Self breaks new ground in understanding hegemonic and cosmopolitan European conceptions of the ‘other,’ as well as new possibilities for early modern identities, in an increasingly global Renaissance.
Figuring Sex Between Men from Shakespeare to Rochester
Author: Paul HammondPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198186922
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Includes discussion of the Sonnets, Twelfth night, and The merchant of Venice.
Reading Material in Early Modern England
Author: Heidi Brayman HackelPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521842518
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Reading Material in Early Modern England rediscovers the practices and representations of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English readers. By telling their stories and insisting upon their variety, Brayman Hackel displaces both the singular 'ideal' reader of literacy theory and the elite male reader of literacy history.
European Erotic Romance
Author: Victor SkretkowiczPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526135116
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
European Erotic Romance examines the Renaissance publication and translation of the ancient Greek erotic romances, and English adaptations of the genre by Sir Philip Sidney, Shakespeare and Lady Mary Sidney Wroth. Providing fresh insight into the development of the novel, this study identifies the politicisation of erotic romance by the European philhellene (lovers of all things Greek) Protestant movement. To English translators and authors, the complex plots, well developed moralised characters (particularly female) and rhetorical styles of the ancient novels signify political and social reform. Generous quotation and translations ensure that European Erotic Romance is accessible to a broad spectrum of readers. Its organisation lends itself to use as a course text. It is suitable for use by senior undergraduates and specialists in Renaissance literature, translation, rhetoric and history.
The Shakespearean comic and tragicomic
Author: Richard HillmanPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526144093
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
In exploring links between the early modern English theatre and France, Richard Hillman focuses on Shakespeare’s deployment of genres whose dominant Italian models and affinities might seem to leave little scope for French ones. The author draws on specific and unsuspected points of contact, whilst also pointing out a broad tendency by the dramatist, to draw on French material, both dramatic and non-dramatic, to inflect comic forms in potentially tragic directions. The resulting internal tensions are evident from the earliest comedies to the latest tragicomedies (or ‘romances’). While its many original readings will interest specialists and students of Shakespeare, this book will have broader appeal: it contributes significantly, from an unfamiliar angle, to the contemporary discourse concerned with early modern English culture within the European context. At the same time, it is accessible to a wide range of readers, with translations provided for all non-English citations.
Church Music and Protestantism in Post-Reformation England
Author: Jonathan WillisPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317166248
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
'Church Music and Protestantism in Post-Reformation England' breaks new ground in the religious history of Elizabethan England, through a closely focused study of the relationship between the practice of religious music and the complex process of Protestant identity formation. Hearing was of vital importance in the early modern period, and music was one of the most prominent, powerful and emotive elements of religious worship. But in large part, traditional historical narratives of the English Reformation have been distinctly tone deaf. Recent scholarship has begun to take increasing notice of some elements of Reformed musical practice, such as the congregational singing of psalms in meter. This book marks a significant advance in that area, combining an understanding of theory as expressed in contemporary religious and musical discourse, with a detailed study of the practice of church music in key sites of religious worship. Divided into three sections - 'Discourses', 'Sites', and 'Identities' - the book begins with an exploration of the classical and religious discourses which underpinned sixteenth-century understandings of music, and its use in religious worship. It then moves on to an investigation of the actual practice of church music in parish and cathedral churches, before shifting its attention to the people of Elizabethan England, and the ways in which music both served and shaped the difficult process of Protestantisation. Through an exploration of these issues, and by reintegrating music back into the Elizabethan church, we gain an expanded and enriched understanding of the complex evolution of religious identities, and of what it actually meant to be Protestant in post-Reformation England.