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Shakespeare and Renaissance Studies 2008
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NEW TITLES AND KEY BACKLIST
Profiling Shakespeare Marjorie Garber, Harvard University, USA page 1
This collection brings together new and classic essays that show the outline of a Shakespeare rather different from the man portrayed by biographers from his time to our own.
Gothic Shakespeares Edited by John Drakakis, University of Stirling, UK and Dale Townshend, University of Stirling, UK page 2
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Renaissance Studies . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Engines of the Imagination Jonathan Sawday, University of Strathclyde, UK page 10
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Challenging the artificial divide between technological studies and cultural history, Engines of the Imagination traces the story of the imaginative encounter with machines and machinery in the European Renaissance.
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The monographs that compose the Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture series incisively probe early modern literature and culture, offering original observations about everything from the role of ageing and dreaming during this time period to the drama of Shakespeare and Jonson.
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Alternative Shakespeares
Profiling Shakespeare
Volume 3
Marjorie Garber, Harvard University, USA
Edited by Diana E. Henderson, MIT, Massachusetts, USA
The title of this collection, Profiling Shakespeare, is meant strongly, in its double sense. These essays show the outline of a Shakespeare rather different from the man sought so earnestly and eagerly by biographers from his time to our own. And they also show the effects, the ephemera, the clues and cues, welcome and unwelcome, out of which Shakespeareâs admirers, citers, fans and dedicated scholars have pieced together a vision of the playwright, whether as sage, lover, psychologist, guidance counselor, or successful businessman.This collection brings together classic pieces, hard-to-find chapters, and two new essays. Here, Garber has produced a series of essays at once serious and highly readable, each one ranging broadly across time periods (early modern to postmodern) and touching upon both high and popular culture.
Series: New Accents This volume takes up the challenge embodied in its predecessors, Alternative Shakespeares and Alternative Shakespeares 2, to identify and explore the new, the changing and the radically âotherâ possibilities for Shakespeare Studies at our particular historical moment. Alternative Shakespeares 3 introduces the strongest and most innovative of the new directions emerging in Shakespearean scholarship â ranging across performance studies, multimedia and textual criticism, concerns of economics, science, religion and ethics â as well as the ânext stepâ work in areas such as postcolonial and queer studies that continue to push the boundaries of the field. The contributors approach each topic with clarity and accessibility in mind, enabling student readers to engage with serious âalternativesâ to established ways of interpreting Shakespeareâs plays and their roles in contemporary culture. The expertise, commitment and daring of this volumeâs contributors shine through each essay, maintaining the progressive edge and real-world urgency that are the hallmark of Alternative Shakespeares. This volume is essential reading for students and scholars of Shakespeare who seek an understanding of current and future directions in this ever-changing field.
Contents: Preface 1. Shakespeareâs Ghost Writers 2. Hamlet: Giving Up the Ghost 3. Macbeth: The Male Medusa 4. Shakespeare as Fetish 5. Character Assassination 6. Out of Joint 7. Roman Numerals 8. Second-Best Bed 9. Shakespeareâs Dogs 10. Shakespeareâs Laundry List 11. Shakespeareâs Faces 12. MacGuffin Shakespeare 13. Fatal Cleopatra 14. What Did Shakespeare Invent? 15. Bartlettâs Familiar Shakespeare March 2008: 328pp Hb: 978-0-415-96445-6: US $95.00 Pb: 978-0-415-96446-3: US $27.95 eBook: 978-0-203-93098-4
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ACCENTS ON SHAKESPEARE
Accents on Shakespeare
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Gothic Shakespeares Edited by John Drakakis, University of Stirling, UK and Dale Townshend, University of Stirling, UK
âThey are remarkably comprehensive, timely, and informative, and an essential way to keep current with the fundamental ideas in Shakespearean criticism.â
Shakespeare was both influenced by and influential in the rise of the gothic in literature and culture. Shakespeareâs plays are full of ghosts, suspense, fear-inducing moments and cultural anxieties which many writers have since emulated, adapted and appropriated.
âArthur Kinney, University of Massachusetts, USA
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Presentist Shakespeares Edited by Hugh Grady, Arcadia University, Pennsylvania, USA and Terence Hawkes, University of Cardiff, UK Presentist Shakespeares is the first extended study of the principles and practice of âpresentism,â a critical movement that takes account of the never-ending dialogue between past and present. Contributors include: Catherine Belsey, Michael Bristol, Linda Charnes, John Drakakis, Ewan Fernie, Evelyn Gajowski, Hugh Grady, Terence Hawkes and Kiernan Ryan. Selected Table of Contents: General Editorâs Preface. Introduction: Presenting Presentism. Band of Brothers. Historicising New Historicism. â . . . And Iâm the King of Franceâ. Shakespeare, and Belief, in the Future. Present Text: Editing The Merchant of Venice. Action! Henry V. Lavinia as âBlank Pageâ and the Presence of Feminist Critical Practices. Hamlet and the Present: Notes on the Moving Aesthetic âNowâ. Troilus and Cressida: The Perils of Presentism. Notes. Bibliography. Index 2006: 208pp Hb: 978-0-415-38528-2: US $110.00 Pb: 978-0-415-38529-9: US $35.95 eBook: 978-0-203-96587-0
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Looking particularly, though not exclusively, at the rise of gothic fiction in the eighteenth century, the contributors argue that without Shakespeare as a point of reference the gothic mode in fiction and drama may not have evolved in the way it did. They argue that the complex dialogue with Shakespeare through the use of quotation, citation, and analogy requires to be radically appraised in the light of recent Literary Theory, and the popular extensions of the Gothic into modern modes of representation such as film. This volume offers a truly original and provocative account of Gothic reformulations of Shakespeare. Contributors:Sue Chaplin, Angela Wright, Robert Miles, Michael Gamer, Elisabeth Bronfen, Glennis Byron, Peter Hutchings, Fred Botting, Scott Wilson and Jerrold E. Hogle August 2008: 224pp Hb: 978-0-415-42066-2: US $120.00 Pb: 978-0-415-42067-9: US $35.95
Hamletâs Heirs Shakespeare and The Politics of a New Millennium Linda Charnes, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA Challenging assumptions about historical periodicity, modernity and the uses of Shakespeare in present day contexts, this study of his legacy in current American and British politics includes a discussion of Bush, Blair, 9-11 and the London bombings. 2006: 168pp Hb: 978-0-415-26193-7: US $105.00 Pb: 978-0-415-26194-4: US $35.95 eBook: 978-0-203-96860-4
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Accents on Shakespeare supplies an exciting range of provocative, cutting-edge accounts of and comments on new developments in Shakespeare studies. The books in the series either apply theory, or broaden and adapt it in order to connect with concrete teaching concerns. In the process, they also reflect and engage with the major developments in Shakespeare studies.
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ACCENTS ON SHAKESPEARE Shakespeare, Authority, Sexuality
Additional titles in the Accents on Shakespeare series
Unfinished Business in Cultural Materialism Alan Sinfield, University of Sussex, UK âIf there were a version of Desert Island Discs for literary criticism, this book would top the list of things I would want with me to read again and again for its clarity of purpose, its generosity of spirit, the brilliance of its insights, and its ability to engage seamlessly and resonantly with current scholarship, contemporary politics, historical dynamics, and the meanings of Shakespeare.â âLena Cowen Orlin, University of Maryland, USA, and Executive Director of the Shakespeare Association of America
This reassessment of cultural materialism as a way of understanding textuality, history and culture, has been written by one of the founding figures of this critical movement. It will produce new challenges for the field of Renaissance Studies.
Making Shakespeare From Stage to Page Tiffany Stern
Marxist Shakespeares Edited by Jean E. How ard and Scott Cutler Shershow
Philosophical Shakespeare Edited by John Joughlin
Shakespeare and Appropriation Edited by Christy Desmet and Robert Saw yer
Shakespeare and Feminist Performance Ideology on Stage Sarah Werner
Shakespeare and Modern Theatre The Performance of Modernity Edited by Michael Bristol, Kathleen McLuskie and Christopher Holmes
2006: 240pp Hb: 978-0-415-40235-4: US $110.00 Pb: 978-0-415-40236-1: US $35.95 eBook: 978-0-203-96502-3
Shakespeare and Modernity
Green Shakespeare
Shakespeare in Psychoanalysis
Early Modern to Millenium Edited by Hugh Grady
Philip Armstrong
From Ecopolitics to Ecocriticism
Shakespeare in the Present
Gabriel Egan, Loughborough University, UK âEganâs purpose is to read Shakespeare in an entirely new context. I hope he succeeds in his purpose and that his book will be widely read and its lessons understood.â
Terence Haw kes
Shakespeare Without Women Dympna Callaghan
Shame in Shakespeare Ew an Fernie
âRenaissance Quarterly Review
Pushing ecocriticism beyond the typical boundaries of ânatureâ writing, this interdisciplinary account introduces one of the most lively areas of Shakespeare studies and presents a convincing case for his continuing relevance to
The Sound of Shakespeare Wes Folkerth
Spiritual Shakespeares Edited by Ew an Fernie NOT AVAILABLE FOR SALE IN CANADA
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SHAKESPEARE CRITICISM
Shakespeare Criticism
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King Lear Series Editor: Philip Kolin, University of Southern Mississippi, USA These comprehensive critical collections are a must-have for students, libraries and scholars alike. Each volume gathers the most influential criticism, key contemporary interpretations and reviews of the most influential productions of Shakespeareâs masterworks. For more information on the series, visit: http://www.routledgeliterature.com/books/series /Shakespeare+Criticism
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Macbeth New Critical Essays Edited by Nick Moschovakis, Reed College, USA This volume offers a wealth of critical analysis, supported with ample historical and bibliographical information about one of Shakespeareâs most enduringly popular and globally influential plays.Written to a level that will be both accessible to advanced undergraduates and, at the same time, useful to postgraduates and specialists in the field, this book will greatly enhance any study of Macbeth. Contributors: Rebecca Lemon, Jonathan Baldo, Rebecca Ann Bach, Julie Barmazel, Abraham Stoll, Lois Feuer, Stephen Deng, Lisa Tomaszewski, Lynne Bruckner, Michael David Fox, James Wells, Laura Engel, Stephen Buhler, Bi-qi Beatrice Lei, Kim Fedderson and J. Michael Richardson, Bruno Lessard, Pamela Mason.
New Critical Essays Edited by Jeffrey Kahan, University of La Verne, USA Issues of identity and authenticity across time and mediums are outlined and debated critically in King Lear: New Critical Essays. Using a variety of approaches, from postcolonialism and New Historicism to psychoanalysis and gender studies, the contributors offer major new interpretations of writing, editing, and cultural productions of King Lear. This book is an up-to-date and comprehensive anthology of textual scholarship, performance research, and critical writing on one of Shakespeareâs most important and perplexing tragedies. Contributors: Jeffrey Kahan,R.A. Foakes, Richard Knowles, Tom Clayton, Cynthia Clegg, Ed Rocklin, Christy Desmet, Paul Cantor, Robert V. Young, Stanley Stewart and Jean R. Brink. April 2008: 342pp Hb: 978-0-415-77526-7: US $110.00 eBook: 978-0-203-09008-4
Allâs Well, That Ends Well New Critical Essays Edited by Gary Waller, Purchase College State University of New York, USA Shedding much-needed light on one of Shakespeareâs most intriguing and significant plays, this book features contributions from leading scholars who critically examine the play from a variety of perspectives.
April 2008: 384pp Hb: 978-0-415-97404-2: US $110.00 eBook: 978-0-203-93070-0
Contributors: Steven Mentz, Regina Buccola, Paul Gleed, Deanne Williams, Kent R. Lehnhof, Ellen Belton, Helen Wilcox, Michele Osherow, David M. Bergeron, Nicholas Ray, Catherine Field, Terry Reilly, Craig Dionnea and Bob White
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Two Gentlemen of Verona
Additional titles in the Shakespeare Criticism series
Critical Essays Edited by June Schlueter
Venus and Adonis Critical Essays Philip Kolin
Antony and Cleopatra New Critical Essays Edited by Sara M. Deats
The Winterâs Tale Critical Essays Edited byMaurice Hunt
As You Like It from 1600 to the Present Critical Essays Edited by Edw ard Tomarken
The Comedy of Errors
2ND EDITION
Critical Essays Edited by Robert S. Miola and Philip C. Kolin
Shakespeare: The Basics Sean McEvoy, Varndean College, Brighton, UK
Hamlet
Series: The Basics
Critical Essays Edited by Arthur F. Kinney
The second edition of this bestselling guide demystifies Shakespeareâs plays and brings critical ideas within a beginnerâs grasp. The text provides a thorough general introduction to the plays, based on the exciting new approaches shaping the field of Shakespeare studies.
Henry VI Critical Essays Edited by Thomas Pendleton
Julius Caesar New Critical Essays Edited by Horst Zander
Loveâs Labourâs Lost Critical Essays Edited by Felicia Hardison Londre
The Merchant of Venice Critical Essays Edited by John W. Mahon and Ellen Macleod Mahon
Demonstrating how interpretations of Shakespeare are linked to cultural and political contexts, and providing readings of the most frequently studied plays in the light of contemporary critical thought, Shakespeare: The Basics explores: ⢠Shakespeareâs language
A Midsummer Nightâs Dream
⢠the plays as performance texts
Critical Essays Edited by Dorothea Kehler
⢠the cultural and political contexts of the plays ⢠early modern theatre practice
Othello
⢠new understandings of the major genres.
Critical Essays Edited by Philip Kolin
Fully updated to include discussion of criticism and performance in the last five years, a new chapter on Shakespeare on film, and a broader critical approach, this book is the essential resource for all students of Shakespeare.
Pericles Critical Essays David Skeele
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Shakespeareâs Sonnetts Critical Essays Edited by James Schiffer
The Taming of the Shrew
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Routledge Guides to Literature The Routledge Guides to Literature (RGL) series offer intelligent guides to the authors and works most frequently studied by students of English literature, guiding readers from the basics through to an advanced understanding of the featured works. Unlike other guidebooks, the RGL series offers a comprehensive analysis of each author or text, but also acts as a springboard to inspire and equip students for further, independent study. Fully cross-referenced, the books are easy to navigate and their engagement with context, work and criticism offer the widest possible range of background and analysis, making RGLs the ideal companion for study of any text or author. For more information on the series, visit: http://www.routledgeliterature.com/books/series /Routledge+Guides+to+Literature
William Shakespeareâs Hamlet A Sourcebook Edited by Sean McEvoy, Varndean College, Brighton, UK 2006: 200pp Hb: 978-0-415-31432-9: US $95.00 Pb: 978-0-415-31433-6: US $26.95
Additional titles in the Routledge Guides to Literature series William Shakespeareâs King Lear A Sourcebook Edited by Grace Ioppolo
William Shakespeareâs The Merchant of Venice
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William Shakespeareâs Twelfth Night A Sourcebook
A Sourcebook Edited by S.P. Cerasano
William Shakespeareâs Othello A Sourcebook Edited by Andrew Hadfield
Edited by Sonia Massai, Kingâs College London, UK
2007: 224pp Hb: 978-0-415-30332-3: US $95.00 Pb: 978-0-415-30333-0: US $26.95
William Shakespeareâs Macbeth A Sourcebook Edited by Alexander Leggatt
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SHAKESPEARE Shakespeare and Cognition
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Aristotleâs Legacy and Shakespearean Drama
Shakespeare in French Theory
Arthur Kinney
King of Shadows âShakespeare and Cognition is a fascinating and wide-ranging examination of why his plays, whilst rooted in the late sixteenth-early seventeenth century, have retained their appeal for four centuries.â
Richard Wilson, Cardiff University, UK Examining both the violent history and promising future of the plays, Shakespeare in French Theory is a timely reminder of the relevance of Shakespeare and the lasting value of French thinking.
âBritish Theatre Guide
Drawing on Aristotleâs metaphysics and contemporary cognitive literary theory, Arthur Kinney explores five key objects/images in Shakespeareâs plays - crowns, bells, rings, graves and ghosts - that are not actually seen but are central to the imagination of both the playwright and the playgoers. 2006: 224pp Hb: 978-0-415-97752-4: US $105.00 Pb: 978-0-415-97753-1: US $31.95
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World-Wide Shakespeares
Colorblind Shakespeare
Local Appropriations in Film and Performance
New Perspectives on Race and Performance
Edited by Sonia Massai, Kingâs College London, UK
Ayanna Thompson, Arizona State University, USA
âA very significant contribution to the growing body of critical literature on Shakespeare appropriations within specific theatrical and critical traditions around the globe.â
This collection of fourteen original essays explores both the production history of colorblind casting in cultural terms and the theoretical implications of this practice for reading Shakespeare in a contemporary context.
âJill Levenson, University of Toronto, Canada
âWorld-Wide Shakespeares is undoubtedly a valuable and timely addition to our understanding of what artists are doing to and with Shakespeare across the globe and how their work signifies both locally and internationally.â
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Shakespeare and Childâs Play Performing Lost Boys on Stage and Screen
The Routledge Companion to Directorsâ Shakespeare Edited by John Russell Brown, Middlesex University, UK âBringing directorial labour into sharp focus,this long overdue volume represents a valuable contribution to theatre history. It not only heightens our understanding of the art and craft of directing Shakespeare but also enables a comprehensive overview of over a century of directorial practice. This is a book to be read, and reread: there are deep pleasures here.â
Carol Chillington Rutter, University of Warwick, UK Arguing that contemporary culture uses Shakespeare to rethink these same issues today as we experience a post-modern crisis in âchildness,â Shakespeare and Childâs Play first locates ideas of childhood in early modern theorizations and performances then analyzes a range of recent performances on stage and film that put our own cultureâs conflicted responses to the emotive issue of the child squarely in view. 2008: 272pp Hb: 978-0-415-36518-5: US $124.95 Pb: 978-0-415-36519-2: US $35.95 eBook: 978-0-203-01658-9:
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âAn invaluable resource for anyone interested in modern Shakespeare production. The breadth of coverage is one of its greatest assets. A major contribution to Shakespeare performance studies.â âJames Loehlin, University of Texas, USA
Acting From Shakespeareâs First Folio Theory Text and Performance Don Weingust, Tufts University, USA Do extra syllables in a line suggest how it might be played? Can Folio commas reveal character? Don Weingust places this work on Folio performance possibility within current understandings about Shakespearean text, describing ways in which these challenging theories about acting often align quite nicely with the work of the theoriesâ critics. Weingust looks at the work of Patrick Tucker and his Londonbased Original Shakespeare Company, who have sought to discover the opportunities in using First Folio texts, acting techniques, and what they consider to be original Shakespearean performance methodologies. Weingust argues that their experimental performances at the Globe on Bankside have revealed enhanced possibilities not only for performing Shakespeare, but for theatrical practice in general.
The Routledge Companion to Directorâs Shakespeare is a major collaborative book about plays in performance. Thirty authoritative accounts describe in illuminating detail how some of theatreâs most talented directors have brought Shakespeareâs texts to the stage. A must-have work of reference for students of both Shakespeare and theatre, this book presents some of the most acclaimed productions of the last hundred years in a variety of cultural and political contexts. Each entry describes a directorâs own theatrical vision, and methods of rehearsal and production. Notable entries include: Ingmar Bergman; Peter Brook; Declan Donnelan; Tyrone Guthrie; Peter Hall; Fritz Kortner; Robert Lepage; Joan Littlewood; Yukio Ninagawa; Joseph Papp; Roger Planchon; Max Reinhardt; Giorgio Strehler; Deborah Warner; Orson Welles; Franco Zeffirelli. April 2008: 560pp Hb: 978-0-415-40044-2: US $153.00 eBook: 978-0-203-93252-0
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Shakespeare in Childrenâs Literature
Stephen Greenblatt
Gender and Cultural Capital
Mark Robson, University of Nottingham, UK
Erica Hateley, Kansas State University, USA
Series: Routledge Critical Thinkers
Series: Childrenâs Literature and Culture
Stephen Greenblatt is the most important exponent of ânew historicism,â a dynamic critical movement which rejects the traditional reliance on individual canonical texts, exploring a multitude of other, more marginal works and voices. Questioning not just literary but social, political and cultural assumptions about knowledge and power, Greenblattâs work has had a huge impact on contemporary theory.
Shakespeare in Childrenâs Literature looks at the genre of Shakespeare-for-children, considering both adaptations of his plays and childrenâs novels in which he appears as a character. Drawing on feminist theory and sociology, Hateley demonstrates how Shakespeare for children utilizes the ongoing cultural capital of âShakespeareâ and the pedagogical aspects of childrenâs literature to perpetuate anachronistic forms of identity and authority. July 2008: 192pp Hb: 978-0-415-96492-0: US $95.00
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Mark Robson discusses ideas specific to particular works and explores the relation of Greenblattâs thought to new historicism as well as other modes of criticism including the key topics of: context, cultural poetics, power, subversion and containment, thick description, anecdotes.
Shakespeare and the Economic Imperative âWhatâs aught but as âtis valued?â Peter F. Grav, University of Toronto, Canada Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors Working from the perspective of the new economic criticism, this study uses close reading and historical contextualization to examine the relationship between interpersonal relationships and economics in the plays of Shakespeare. January 2008: 272pp Hb: 978-0-415-96316-9: US $95.00 eBook: 978-0-203-92791-5
Providing a starting point for readers new to this crucial theoristâs sometimes complex texts, or support for those deepening their understanding of his work, this guidebook is ideal for students in the fields of literary, history, social and cultural studies. 2007: 160pp Hb: 978-0-415-34384-8: US $95.00 Pb: 978-0-415-34385-5: US $21.95 eBook: 978-0-203-40801-8:
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Learning to Curse Shakespeare in the Victorian Periodicals
Essays in Early Modern Culture
Kathryn Prince, The Shakespeare Institute, UK
Series: Routledge Classics
Stephen Greenblatt, Harvard University, USA
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
With a new introduction by the author
Shakespeare in the Victorian Periodicals offers an entirely new perspective on popular Shakespeare reception by focusing on articles published in Victorian periodicals. Shakespeare had already reached the apex of British culture in the previous century, becoming the national poet of the middle and upper classes, but during the Victorian era he was embraced by more marginal groups. If Shakespeare was sometimes employed as an instrument of enculturation imposed on these groups, he was also used by them to resist this cultural hegemony.
âGreenblatt writes with modest elegance, is a superb scholar and researcher, and deserves his status as the first voice in Renaissance studies today.â âVirginia Quarterly Review
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RENAISSANCE STUDIES
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Engines of the Imagination
The Renaissance World
Renaissance Culture and the Rise of the Machine
Edited by John Jeffries Martin, Trinity University, Texas, USA
Jonathan Sawday, University of Strathclyde, UK At what point did machines and technology begin to have an impact on the cultural consciousness and imagination of Europe? How was this reflected through the art and literature of the time? Was technology a sign of the fall of humanity from its original state of innocence or a sign of human progress and mastery over the natural world? In his characteristically lucid and captivating style, Jonathan Sawday investigates these questions and more by engaging with the poetry, philosophy, art, and engineering of the period to find the lost world of the machine in the pre-industrial culture of the European Renaissance. The aesthetic and intellectual dimension of these machines appealed to familiar figures such as Shakespeare, Francis Bacon, Montaigne, and Leonardo da Vinci as well as to a host of lesser known writers and artists in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This intellectual engagement with machines in the European Renaissance gave rise to new attitudes towards gender, work and labor, and even fostered the new sciences of artificial life and reason which would be pursued by figures such as Descartes, Hobbes, and Leibniz in the seventeenth century. Writers, philosophers and artists had mixed and often conflicting reactions to technology, reflecting a paradoxical attitude between modern progress and traditional values. Underpinning the enthusiastic creation of a machine-driven world, then, were stories of loss and catastrophe. These contradictory attitudes are part of the legacy of the European Renaissance, just as much as the plays of Shakespeare or the poetry of John Milton. And this historical legacy helps to explain many of our own attitudes towards the technology that surrounds us, sustains us, and sometimes perplexes us in the modern world.
Series: Routledge Worlds With an interdisciplinary approach that encompasses the history of ideas, political history, cultural history and art history, this volume, in the successful Routledge Worlds series, offers a sweeping survey of Europe in the Renaissance, from the late thirteenth to early seventeenth centuries, and shows how the Renaissance laid key foundations for many aspects of the modern world. Collating thirty-four essays from the fieldâs leading scholars, John Jeffries Martin shows that this period of rapid and complex change resulted from a convergence of a new set of social, economic and technological forces alongside a cluster of interrelated practices including painting, sculpture, humanism and science, in which the elites engaged. Unique in its balance of emphasis on elite and popular culture, on humanism and society, and on women as well as men, The Renaissance World grapples with issues as diverse as Renaissance patronage and the development of the slave trade. Contributors:Albert Russell Ascoli, Francisco Bethencourt, David Bevington, Douglas Biow, Susan R. Boettcher, Peter Burke, Caroline Castiglione, Samuel K. Cohn, Jr., Alexander Cowan, Thomas Dandelet, N. S. Davidson, Robert C. Davis, Constantin Fasolt, Joanne M. Ferraro, Paula Findlen, David Gentilcore, Meredith J. Gill, Daniel Goffman, Kenneth Gouwens, Anthony Grafton, Brad S. Gregory, John A. Marino, Lyle Massey, Alida C. Metcalf, Jacqueline Marie Musacchio, François Rigolot, Ingrid Rowland, David Harris Sacks, Regina Mara Schwartz, Randolph Starn, Michael Tworek, Katherine Elliot van Liere and Bronwen Wilson 2007: 728pp Hb: 978-0-415-33259-0: US $240.00
The Routledge Anthology of Renaissance Drama
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Edited by Simon Barker and Hilary Hinds This anthology offers an introduction to Renaissance theatre in its historical and political contexts, along with newly edited texts of ten plays and a masque.
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Reading Renaissance Ethics
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Edited by Naomi Conn Liebler, Montclair State University, USA Emphasizing the significance of early modern prose fiction as a hybrid genre that absorbed cultural, ideological and historical strands of the age, this fascinating study brings together an outstanding cast of critics including: Sheila T. Cavanaugh, Stephen Guy-Bray, Mary Ellen Lamb, Joan Pong Linton, Steve Mentz, Constance C. Relihan, Goran V. Stanivukovic with an afterword from Arthur Kinney.
Bringing together some of the best current practitioners of historical and formal criticism, Reading Renaissance Ethics assesses the ethical performance of renaissance texts as historical agents in their time and in ours. Exploring the nature and mechanics of cultural agency, the book explains with greater clarity just what is at stake when canon-formation, aesthetic evaluation and curricular reform are questioned and revised. Taking seriously the question of what to read requires us to consider exactly what it is that we do when we read and when we write about our reading. Reading Renaissance Ethics asks what sorts of events took place when Renaissance texts were first read and how this differs from the way we read and teach them now. February 2007: 216x138: 304pp Hb: 978-0-415-40634-5: US $110.00 Pb: 978-0-415-40635-2: US $35.95 eBook: 978-0-203-96264-0
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Each of the essays in this collection considers the reciprocal relation of early modern prose fiction to class distinctions, examining factors such as: ⢠the impact of prose fiction on the social, political and economic fabric of early modern England ⢠the way in which a growing emphasis on literacy allowed for increased class mobility and newly flexible notions of class ⢠how the popularity of reading and the subsequent demand for books led to the production and marketing of books as an industry ⢠complications for critics of prose fiction, as it began to be considered an inferior and trivial art form. 2006: 200pp Hb: 978-0-415-35840-8: US $120.00 Pb: 978-0-415-35841-5: US $34.95 eBook: 978-0-203-00458-6
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Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage Ayanna Thompson, Arizona State University, USA
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Women, Murder, and Equity in Early Modern England Randall Martin, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton This book presents the first comprehensive study of over 120 printed news reports of murders and infanticides committed by early modern women. It offers an interdisciplinary analysis of female homicide in post-Reformation news formats ranging from ballads to newspapers. Individual cases are illuminated in relation to changing legal, religious, and political contexts, as well as the dynamic growth of commercial crime-news and readership. October 2007: 300pp Hb: 978-0-415-96115-8: US $95.00 eBook: 978-0-203-93512-5
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Fictions of Old Age in Early Modern Literature and Culture Nina Taunton, Brunel University, UK Fictions of Old Age in Early Modern Literature and Culture is a new and timely exploration of the issues and circumstances at work in representations of old age in the early modern period. It deals with both factual and literary material drawn from a range of genres as a means of rounding out the experience of growing old and aims to give readers a sense of the diversity involved in the theorizing, politics and gendering of old age and ageing.
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Reading the Early Modern Dream The Terrors of the Night
This thought-provoking collection of essays explores dreams and visions in early modern Europe, canvassing the place of the dream and dream-theory in texts and in social movements. In topics ranging from the dreams of animals to the visions of Elizabeth I, and from prophetic dreams to ghosts in political writing, this book asks what meanings early modern people found in dreams. 2007: 182pp Hb: 978-0-415-38601-2: US $120.00
The Popular Culture of Shakespeare, Spenser and Jonson Mary Ellen Lamb
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Our Scene is London
Shakespeare and the Cultural Colonization of Ireland
Ben Jonsonâs City and the Space of the Author James D. Mardock, University of Nevada, Reno, USA
Robin Bates, Seton Hall University, USA Focusing on plays (Richard II, Henry V, and Hamlet) which appear prominently in the writing of the Irish nationalist movement of the early twentieth century, this study explores how Irish writers such as Sean OâCasey, Samuel Beckett, W. B. Yeats, G. B. Shaw, James Joyce, and Seamus Heaney resisted English cultural colonization through a combination of reappropriation and critique of Shakespeareâs work. 2007: 170pp Hb: 978-0-415-95816-5: US $95.00 eBook: 978-0-203-93080-9
With its three-part rubric of London, drama, and space, this study brings to the currently vigorous critical discussion of Jonsonian authorship the sense of how another sort of dramatic textâthat of Londonâs spaces as interpreted through dramatic practice both in the streets of the city and on its stagesâis also an integral factor in the emergence of the early modern author. 2007: 174pp Hb: 978-0-415-97763-0: US $95.00 eBook: 978-0-203-92851-6
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Milton and the Spiritual Reader
City/Stage/Globe
Reading and Religion in Seventeenth-Century England
Performance and Space in Shakespeareâs London
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D.J. Hopkins, San Diego State University, USA City/Stage/Globe not only organizes a selection of plays, pageants, maps, and masques in the historical and cultural contexts in which they emerged, but also uses performance theory to locate the ways in which these seemingly ephemeral events contributed to lasting change in the spatial concepts and physical topography of early modern London. 2007: 250pp Hb: 978-0-415-97694-7: US $95.00
Milton and the Spiritual Reader considers how John Miltonâs later works demonstrate the intensive struggle of spiritual reading. Milton presents his own rigorous process of reading in order to instruct his readers how to advance their spiritual knowledge. Recent studies of Miltonâs readers neglect this spiritual dimension and focus on politics. Since Milton considers the individual soul at least as important as the body politic, Ainsworth focuses on uncovering the spiritual characteristics of the reader Milton tries to shape through his texts. 2007: 321pp Hb: 978-0-415-96251-3: US $95.00 eBook: 978-0-203-92668-0
Idioms of Self Interest Credit, Identity, and Property in English Renaissance Literature
Miltonâs Uncertain Eden
Jill Phillips Ingram, Ohio University, USA
Understanding Place in Paradise Lost
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Andrew Mattison Presenting a variety of ways of thinking about place in the Renaissance and in Paradise Lost, Miltonâs Uncertain Eden explores destabilization as it affects aspects of the poem from Adamâs sense of the landscape of Eden to the meaning of the Fall itself.
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The Tower of London in English Renaissance Drama Icon of Opposition Kristen Deiter, Marywood University, USA The Tower of London in English Renaissance Drama historicizes the Tower of Londonâs evolving meanings in English culture alongside its representation in renaissance history plays. While Elizabeth I, James I, and Charles I fashioned the Tower as a showplace of royal authority, magnificence, and entertainment, the playwrights of the time revealed the Towerâs instability as a royal symbol and represented it, instead, as an emblem of opposition to the crown and as a bodily and spiritual icon of non-royal English identity.
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A/B/C/D
I/J/K/L
Accents on Shakespeare (series) .................................2,3
Idioms of Self Interest .................................................13
Acting From Shakespeareâs First Folio ...........................8
Ingram, Jill Phillips.......................................................13
Ainsworth, David ........................................................13
Kahan, Jeffrey...............................................................4
Allâs Well, That Ends Well .............................................4
King Lear ......................................................................4
Alternative Shakespeares ..............................................1
Kinney, Arthur ..............................................................7
Barker, Simon .............................................................10
Lamb, Mary Ellen ........................................................12
Basics (series) ................................................................5
Learning to Curse .........................................................9
Bates, Robin ...............................................................13
Leggatt, Alexander .......................................................6
Brown, John Russell ......................................................8
Liebler, Naomi Conn ...................................................11
Charnes, Linda..............................................................2
Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory (series) ..............13
Childrenâs Literature and Culture (series) .......................9 City/Stage/Globe .........................................................13
M/N/O/P
Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry .........................................................................11
Macbeth .......................................................................4
Colorblind Shakespeare ................................................7 Deiter, Kristen .............................................................14 Drakakis, John ..............................................................2
Dramatists and their Manuscripts in the Age of Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton and Heywood ..........12
Mardock, James D. .....................................................13 Martin, John Jeffries ...................................................10 Martin, Randall ...........................................................12 Massai, Sonia.............................................................6,7 Mattison, Andrew.......................................................13 McEvoy, Sean.............................................................5,6
Milton and the Spiritual Reader ..................................13
E/F/G/H Early Modern Prose Fiction ..........................................11 Egan, Gabriel ................................................................3
Engines of the Imagination .........................................10 Fictions of Old Age in Early Modern Literature and Culture .......................................................................12 Garber, Marjorie ...........................................................1
Gothic Shakespeares .....................................................2
Miltonâs Uncertain Eden..............................................13 Moschovakis, Nick ........................................................4
New Accents (series) .....................................................1 OâCallaghan, Michelle.................................................12
Our Scene is London ...................................................13 Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage ....................................................12
Grady, Hugh .................................................................2
Popular Culture of Shakespeare, Spenser and Jonson .................................................................12
Grav, Peter F..................................................................9
Presentist Shakespeares ................................................2
Green Shakespeare .......................................................3
Prince, Kathryn .............................................................9
Greenblatt, Stephen......................................................9
Profiling Shakespeares ..................................................1
Grossman, Marshall ....................................................11
Hamletâs Heirs ..............................................................2 Hateley, Erica ................................................................9 Hawkes, Terence ...........................................................2 Henderson, Diana E. .....................................................1 Hinds, Hilary ...............................................................10 Hodgkin, Katharine.....................................................12
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W/X/Y/Z
Reading Renaissance Ethics .........................................11
Waller, Gary ..................................................................4
Reading the Early Modern Dream ...............................12
Wayne, Valerie............................................................12
Renaissance World, The ..............................................10
Weingust, Don..............................................................8
Rhetoric, Women and Politics in Early Modern England ......................................................................11
William Shakespeareâs Hamlet ......................................6 William Shakespeareâs Macbeth ....................................6
Richards, Jennifer........................................................11
William Shakespeareâs Twelfth Night ............................6
Rivers, Isabel ...............................................................11
Wilson, Richard.............................................................7
Robson, Mark ...............................................................9
Wiseman, Sue.............................................................12
Routledge Anthology of Renaissance Drama, The .......10
Women, Murder, and Equity in Early Modern England.................................................12
Routledge Classics (series) .............................................9 Routledge Companion to Directorsâ Shakespeare, The ...............................................................................8
World-Wide Shakespeares ............................................7
Routledge Critical Thinkers (series) ................................9 Routledge Guides to Literature (series) ..........................6 Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture (series) .....................................................12 Routledge Worlds (series)............................................10 Rutter, Carol Chillington ...............................................8 Sawday, Jonathan .......................................................10
Shakespeare and Childâs Play ........................................8 Shakespeare and Cognition ..........................................7 Shakespeare and the Cultural Colonization of Ireland ....................................................................13 Shakespeare and the Economic Imperative ...................9 Shakespeare Criticism (series) .....................................5,6 Shakespeare in Childrenâs Literature .............................9 Shakespeare in French Theory .......................................7 Shakespeare in the Victorian Periodicals........................9 Shakespeare, Authority, Sexuality .................................3 Shakespeare: The Basics................................................5 Sinfield, Alan ................................................................3
Staging Early Modern Romance ..................................12 Stephen Greenblatt ......................................................9 Studies in Major Literary Authors (series) ................9, 13 Taunton, Nina .............................................................12 Thompson, Ayanna..................................................7,12 Thorne, Alison ............................................................11
Tower of London in English Renaissance Drama, The .............................................................................14
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