16th and 17th Century Literature
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Playable Media and the Rise of English Commercial Theater
Illuminates the fascinating, intertwined histories of games and the Early Modern theater
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2018 | $29.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Gaming the Stage" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2018 | $64.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Gaming the Stage" to Cart |
| Audio Download | 2018 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Audio Download, "Gaming the Stage" | |
| Web | 2018 | Open Access | Available | Read Online |
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open access
Playable Media and the Rise of English Commercial Theater
Illuminates the fascinating, intertwined histories of games and the Early Modern theater
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 2018 | $29.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Gaming the Stage" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2018 | $64.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Gaming the Stage" to Cart |
| Audio Download | 2018 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Audio Download, "Gaming the Stage" | |
| Web | 2018 | Open Access | Available | Read Online |
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open access
Playable Media and the Rise of English Commercial Theater
Illuminates the fascinating, intertwined histories of games and the Early Modern theater
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 2018 | $29.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Gaming the Stage" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2018 | $64.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Gaming the Stage" to Cart |
| Audio Download | 2018 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Audio Download, "Gaming the Stage" | |
| Web | 2018 | Open Access | Available | Read Online |
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open access
Playable Media and the Rise of English Commercial Theater
Illuminates the fascinating, intertwined histories of games and the Early Modern theater
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 2018 | $29.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Gaming the Stage" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2018 | $64.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Gaming the Stage" to Cart |
| Audio Download | 2018 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Audio Download, "Gaming the Stage" | |
| Web | 2018 | Open Access | Available | Read Online |
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Deploying the Popess Legend in Early Modern England
Investigates representations of the legend of Pope Joan in Early Modern England and their implications on social, political, and religious thought
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Hardcover | 2006 | $89.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "The Afterlife of Pope Joan" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2010 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The Afterlife of Pope Joan" | |
| Audio Download | 2021 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Audio Download, "The Afterlife of Pope Joan" |
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Deploying the Popess Legend in Early Modern England
Investigates representations of the legend of Pope Joan in Early Modern England and their implications on social, political, and religious thought
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Hardcover | 2006 | $89.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "The Afterlife of Pope Joan" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2010 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The Afterlife of Pope Joan" | |
| Audio Download | 2021 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Audio Download, "The Afterlife of Pope Joan" |
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Deploying the Popess Legend in Early Modern England
Investigates representations of the legend of Pope Joan in Early Modern England and their implications on social, political, and religious thought
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 2006 | $89.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "The Afterlife of Pope Joan" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2010 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The Afterlife of Pope Joan" | |
| Audio Download | 2021 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Audio Download, "The Afterlife of Pope Joan" |
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Feng Menglong and the Chinese Vernacular Story
How a member of the late Ming literati class creatively manipulated popular and literati culture to elevate an underrated literary genre
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| Paper | $15.00 | Available | Add Paper for "Appropriation and Representation" to Cart | |
| Web | Open Access | Available | Read Online |
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Feng Menglong and the Chinese Vernacular Story
How a member of the late Ming literati class creatively manipulated popular and literati culture to elevate an underrated literary genre
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | $15.00 | Available | Add Paper for "Appropriation and Representation" to Cart | |
| Web | Open Access | Available | Read Online |
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Selected Madrigals of Guarini
New translations and insightful commentary on art and courtly love in Renaissance Italy breathe fresh life into Guarini’s finest madrigals
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Hardcover | 2018 | $74.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "A Poetry Precise and Free" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2018 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "A Poetry Precise and Free" |
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Selected Madrigals of Guarini
New translations and insightful commentary on art and courtly love in Renaissance Italy breathe fresh life into Guarini’s finest madrigals
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Hardcover | 2018 | $74.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "A Poetry Precise and Free" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2018 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "A Poetry Precise and Free" |
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Shakespeare, Middleton, Jonson, and the Idea of News
News culture in England grew—not coincidentally—as a spectacular era of theatrical production and innovation reigned
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2015 | $34.95 | Available | Add Paper for "The Media Players" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2015 | $84.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "The Media Players" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2015 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The Media Players" |
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Shakespeare, Middleton, Jonson, and the Idea of News
News culture in England grew—not coincidentally—as a spectacular era of theatrical production and innovation reigned
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 2015 | $34.95 | Available | Add Paper for "The Media Players" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2015 | $84.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "The Media Players" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2015 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The Media Players" |
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Shakespeare, Middleton, Jonson, and the Idea of News
News culture in England grew—not coincidentally—as a spectacular era of theatrical production and innovation reigned
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 2015 | $34.95 | Available | Add Paper for "The Media Players" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2015 | $84.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "The Media Players" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2015 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The Media Players" |
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Disaster and Transformation in Homer, Shakespeare, Defoe, and the Modern World
Four thousand years of shipwrecks in literature and film
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Hardcover | 2014 | $59.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Shipwrecked" to Cart |
| Web | 2020 | Open Access | Available | Read Online |
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Disaster and Transformation in Homer, Shakespeare, Defoe, and the Modern World
Four thousand years of shipwrecks in literature and film
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Hardcover | 2014 | $59.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Shipwrecked" to Cart |
| Web | 2020 | Open Access | Available | Read Online |
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Eberhard Werner Happel, 1647-1690
A fascinating and exciting reevaluation of the 17th-century novels of Eberhard Happel
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Hardcover | 2014 | $79.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Mediating Culture in the Seventeenth-Century German Novel" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2014 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Mediating Culture in the Seventeenth-Century German Novel" |
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Eberhard Werner Happel, 1647-1690
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| Hardcover | 2014 | $79.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Mediating Culture in the Seventeenth-Century German Novel" to Cart |
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Reading and Romance in Early Modern England
An examination of representations of books and reading in 16th- and 17th-century English romance texts and the myths and metaphors these representations create, perpetuate, and reimagine
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Hardcover | 2013 | $54.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "The Immaterial Book" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2013 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The Immaterial Book" |
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Reading and Romance in Early Modern England
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Hardcover | 2013 | $54.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "The Immaterial Book" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2013 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The Immaterial Book" |
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Masculinity and Writing in Seventeenth-Century France
The first book-length study of writing, men, and masculinity in seventeenth-century France
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2009 | $31.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Manning the Margins" to Cart |
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Theories, Genres, Practices
Explores the diversity and creativity of early modern life-writing
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2006 | $34.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Early Modern Autobiography" to Cart |
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Boldly investigates the relationship between the sublime as an aesthetic category and the emergence of skepticism as a philosophical problem
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Hardcover | 2006 | $84.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Sublimity and Skepticism in Montaigne and Milton" to Cart |
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Early Women Writers and Canons in England, France, and Italy
Reveals how medieval and Renaissance women won acclaim in their contemporary canons, and offers reasons for the decline of their reputation in later ages
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2005 | $39.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Strong Voices, Weak History" to Cart |
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One Teacher's Story of the Power of Drama in a Women's Prison
An inspirational story for all teachers
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2004 | $20.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Shakespeare Behind Bars" to Cart |
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Humanism, Reformation, and the Art of Faith
This lavishly illustrated book provides a fresh and challenging new perspective on the life and Work of Dürer
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Hardcover | 2003 | $99.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Albrecht Durer's Renaissance" to Cart |
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Fresh and provocative readings of familiar stage objects provide new ways of understanding theater, dramatic literature, and culture
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2003 | $28.95 | Available | Add Paper for "The Stage Life of Props" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2010 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The Stage Life of Props" |
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Fresh and provocative readings of familiar stage objects provide new ways of understanding theater, dramatic literature, and culture
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2003 | $28.95 | Available | Add Paper for "The Stage Life of Props" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2010 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The Stage Life of Props" |
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Printed Marginalia in English Renaissance Books
A sideways look at books that sheds light on the activities of authors, printers, and readers during the English Renaissance
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Hardcover | 2001 | $94.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Managing Readers" to Cart |
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Genealogies of Modernity
A cultural history of the evolution of the modern body, as glimpsed at six critical moments
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2001 | $28.95 | Available | Add Paper for "The Culture of the Body" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2011 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The Culture of the Body" |
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Genealogies of Modernity
A cultural history of the evolution of the modern body, as glimpsed at six critical moments
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2001 | $28.95 | Available | Add Paper for "The Culture of the Body" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2011 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The Culture of the Body" |
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Bottom Lines on the Culture Wars
A challenging critique of academic culture and its blindspots
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2000 | $25.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Class, Critics, and Shakespeare" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2001 | $89.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Class, Critics, and Shakespeare" to Cart |
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Bottom Lines on the Culture Wars
A challenging critique of academic culture and its blindspots
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2000 | $25.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Class, Critics, and Shakespeare" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2001 | $89.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Class, Critics, and Shakespeare" to Cart |
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A Reader
A rich compendium of historical texts that reflect the English spoken by ordinary citizens of the early modern period
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Hardcover | 1999 | $89.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Everyday English 1500-1700" to Cart |
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The Postmodern Academy and the Early Modern Theater
Witty and engaging essays on the links between contemporary literary theory and Shakespearean theater
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Hardcover | 1998 | $74.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Shakespeare in Theory" to Cart |
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The first comprehensive anthology of seventeenth-century English women writers
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 1997 | $38.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Major Women Writers of Seventeenth-Century England" to Cart |
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Boy Heroines and Female Pages
Cross-dressing in Shakespeare: a context for Elizabethan gender studies
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 1996 | $29.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Gender in Play on the Shakespearean Stage" to Cart |
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Essays on Subjection
An ambitious study of literary, aesthetic, and philosophical authors on the modern subject versus the modern body
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 1995 | $26.95 | Available | Add Paper for "The Tremulous Private Body" to Cart |
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License, Play, and Power in Renaissance England
Probes English society in the age of Shakespeare
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 1995 | $25.95 | Available | Add Paper for "The Place of the Stage" to Cart |
25. 
Learning to Read George Herbert
A fascinating, accessible book that takes the reader on an intellectual and spiritual journey
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 1995 | $35.00 | Available | Add Paper for ""This Book of Starres"" to Cart |
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