Author: Jacopo AFFINATI D'ACUTOPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 364
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The Dumbe Divine Speaker; Or, Dumbe Speaker of Divinity. A ... Treatise in Praise of Silence: Shewing Both the Dignitie, and Defects of the Tongue ... Translated by A. M.
Author: Jacopo AFFINATI D'ACUTOPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Elizabethan Translations from the Italian
Author: Mary Augusta ScottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comparative literature
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Performing Disability in Early Modern English Drama
Author: Leslie C. DunnPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030572080
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
Performing Disability in Early Modern English Drama investigates the cultural work done by early modern theatrical performances of disability. Proffering an expansive view of early modern disability in performance, the contributors suggest methodologies for finding and interpreting it in unexpected contexts. The volume also includes essays on disabled actors whose performances are changing the meanings of disability in Shakespeare for present-day audiences. By combining these two areas of scholarship, this text makes a unique intervention in early modern studies and disability studies alike. Ultimately, the volume generates a conversation that locates and theorizes the staging of particular disabilities within their historical and literary contexts while considering continuity and change in the performance of disability between the early modern period and our own.
Managing Readers
Author: William W. E. SlightsPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472112296
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
A sideways look at books that sheds light on the activities of authors, printers, and readers during the English Renaissance
Anthony Munday and the Catholics, 1560–1633
Author: Donna B. HamiltonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351957880
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
In this new study, Donna B. Hamilton offers a major revisionist reading of the works of Anthony Munday, one of the most prolific authors of his time, who wrote and translated in many genres, including polemical religious and political tracts, poetry, chivalric romances, history of Britain, history of London, drama, and city entertainments. Long dismissed as a hack who wrote only for money, Munday is here restored to his rightful position as an historical figure at the centre of many important political and cultural events in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. In Anthony Munday and the Catholics, 1560-1633, Hamilton reinterprets Munday as a writer who began his career writing on behalf of the Catholic cause and subsequently negotiated for several decades the difficult terrain of an ever-changing Catholic-Protestant cultural, religious, and political landscape. She argues that throughout his life and writing career Munday retained his Catholic sensibility and occasionally wrote dangerously on behalf of Catholics. Thus he serves as an excellent case study through which present-day scholars can come to a fuller understanding of how a person living in this turbulent time in English history - eschewing open resistance, exile or martyrdom - managed a long and prolific writing career at the centre of court, theatre, and city activities but in ways that reveal his commitment to Catholic political and religious ideology. Individual chapters in this book cover Munday's early writing, 1577-80; his writing about the trial and execution of Jesuit Edmund Campion; his writing for the stage, 1590-1602; his politically inflected translations of chivalric romance; and his writings for and about the city of London, 1604-33. Hamilton revisits and revalues the narratives told by earlier scholars about hack writers, the anti-theatrical tracts, the role of the Earl of Oxford as patron, the political-religious interests of Munday's plays, the implications of Mu
'A Moving Rhetoricke'
Author: Christina LuckyjPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719061561
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
An investigation of a wide range of contemporary sources, from domestic conduct guides to emblem books, this study offers fresh perspectives on both culture and literature.
Language and Social Relations in Early Modern England
Author: Hillary TaylorPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198917686
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
What was the interrelation between language, power, and socio-economic inequality in England, c. 1550-1750? Early modern England was a hierarchical society that placed considerable emphasis on order; language was bound up with the various structures of authority that made up the polity. Members of the labouring population were expected to accept their place, defer to their superiors, and refrain from 'murmuring' about a host of issues. While some early modern labouring people fulfilled these expectations, others did not; because of their defiance, the latter were more likely to make their way into the historical record, and historians have previously used the evidence that they generated to reconstruct various forms of resistance and negotiation involved in everyday social relations. Hillary Taylor instead considers the limits that class power placed on popular expression, and with what implications. Using a wide variety of sources, Taylor examines how members of the early modern English labouring population could be made to speak in ways that reflected and even seemed to justify their subordinated positions--both in their eyes and those of their social superiors. By reconstructing how class power structured and limited popular expression, this study not only presents a new interpretation of how inequality was normalized over the course of the period, but also sheds new light on the constraints that labouring people overcame when they engaged in individual or collective acts of defiance against their 'betters.' It revives domination and subordination as objects of inquiry and demonstrates the ways in which language--at the levels of ideology and social practice--reflected, reproduced, and naturalized inequality over the course of the early modern period.
Milton and the Ineffable
Author: Noam ReisnerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199572623
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Situating Milton's poetics of ineffability in the context of the intellectual cross-currents of Renaissance humanism and Protestant theology, this text reassesses Milton's poetry in light of the literary and conceptual problems posed by the poet's attempt to put into words that which is unsayable and beyond representation.
Taste and Knowledge in Early Modern England
Author: Elizabeth L. SwannPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108802281
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Elizabeth Swann investigates the relationship between the physical sense of taste and taste as a figurative term associated with knowledge and judgment in early modern literature and culture. She argues that - unlike aesthetic taste in the eighteenth century - discriminative taste was entwined with embodied experience in this period. Although taste was tarnished by its associations with Adam and Eve's fall from Eden, it also functioned positively, as a source of useful, and potentially redemptive, literary, spiritual, experimental, and intersubjective knowledge. Taste and Knowledge in Early Modern England juxtaposes canonical literary works by authors such as Shakespeare with a broad range of medical, polemical, theological, philosophical, didactic, and dietetic sources. In doing so, the book reveals the central importance of taste to the experience and articulation of key developments in the literate, religious, and social cultures of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Freedom of speech, 1500–1850
Author: Robert G. IngramPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526147092
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 435
Book Description
This collection brings together historians, political theorists and literary scholars to provide historical perspectives on the modern debate over freedom of speech, particularly the question of whether limitations might be necessary given religious pluralism and concerns about hate speech. It integrates religion into the history of free speech and rethinks what is sometimes regarded as a coherent tradition of more or less absolutist justifications for free expression. Contributors examine the aims and effectiveness of government policies, the sometimes contingent ways in which freedom of speech became a reality and a wide range of canonical and non-canonical texts in which contemporaries outlined their ideas and ideals. Overall, the book argues that while the period from 1500 to 1850 witnessed considerable change in terms of both ideas and practices, these were more or less distinct from those that characterise modern debates.