Author: Miles SmythPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
The Psalms of King David Paraphrased, and Turned Into English Verse, According to the Common Metre
Author: Miles Smyththe poet of the santuary
Author: josiah conderDramatic Extracts in Seventeenth-Century English Manuscripts
Author: Laura EstillPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 1644530473
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Throughout the seventeenth century, early modern play readers and playgoers copied dramatic extracts (selections from plays and masques) into their commonplace books, verse miscellanies, diaries, and songbooks. Dramatic Extracts in Seventeenth-Century English Manuscripts: Watching, Reading, Changing Plays is the first to examine these often overlooked texts, which reveal what early modern audiences and readers took, literally and figuratively, from plays. As this under-examined archival evidence shows, play readers and playgoers viewed plays as malleable and modular texts to be altered, appropriated, and, most importantly, used. These records provide information that is not available in other forms about the popularity and importance of early modern plays, the reasons plays appealed to their audiences, and the ideas in plays that most interested audiences. Tracing the course of dramatic extracting from the earliest stages in the 1590s, through the prolific manuscript circulation at the universities, to the closure and reopening of the theatres, Estill gathers these microhistories to create a comprehensive overview of seventeenth-century dramatic extracts and the culture of extracting from plays. Dramatic Extracts in Seventeenth-Century English Manuscripts: Watching, Reading, Changing Plays explores new archival evidence (from John Milton’s signature to unpublished university plays) while also analyzing the popularity of perennial favorites such as Shakespeare’s The Tempest. The study of dramatic extracts is the study of particulars: particular readers, particular manuscripts, particular plays or masques, particular historic moments. As D. F. McKenzie puts it, “different readers [bring] the text to life in different ways.” By providing careful analyses of these rich source texts, this book shows how active play-viewing and play-reading (that is, extracting) ultimately led to changing the plays themselves, both through selecting and manipulating the extracts and positioning the plays in new contexts. Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Catalogue ... of the Renowned Library Formerly at Britwell Court, Burnham, Bucks, the Property of S.R. Christie-Miller ...
Author: Sydney Richardson Christie-MillerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
The Churchman's Monthly Review and Chronicle
Author: A Dictionary of Hymnology
Author: John JulianA Dictionary of Hymnology, Setting Forth the Origin and History of Christian Hymns of All Ages and Nations. Ed
Author: John JulianThe Transformation of Anglicanism, 1643-1660
Author: John William PackerPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN:
Category : Hammond Henry, 1605-1660
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Sociocultural Dimensions of Lexis and Text in the History of English
Author: Peter PetréPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 902726399X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The chapters collected in this volume examine how the sociohistorical and cultural context may influence structural features of lexis and text types. Each paper pays particular attention to social ‘labels’ and attitudes (conservative, religious, ideological, endearing, or other), thereby focusing on their dynamic and historical dimension. Changes in these are analyzed in order to explain morphological, lexical, and textual changes that would otherwise be hard to account for. Together, they provide a varied window on the effect of historical versions of a dynamic society on lexis and text. Examining lexical and textual change in history from a sociocultural perspective teaches us a great deal – not just about the past, but it also makes us think about similar phenomena in the present, enhancing our knowledge about how universally human some of these phenomena are. This volume will be of great interest to (English) historical linguists, sociolinguists, and scholars of sociohistorical and cultural studies.
Author: John Holland