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Book The Enthusianstical Concerns of Dr  Henry More

Download or read book The Enthusianstical Concerns of Dr Henry More written by Daniel Clifford Fouke and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fouke examines the anti-enthusiastical crusade of the Cambridge Platonist, Henry More, while exploring connections between Hermeticism, Cartesianism, and religious radicalism. More is shown to offer, through the dialectical employment of speech genres, a consistent ideal of the spiritual life.

Book Renaissance Hybrids

Download or read book Renaissance Hybrids written by Mr Gary A Schmidt and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first book-length study explicitly to connect the postcolonial trope of hybridity to Renaissance literature, Gary Schmidt examines how sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English authors, artists, explorers and statesmen exercised a concerted effort to frame questions of cultural and artistic heterogeneity. This book is unique in its exploration of how 'hybrid' literary genres emerge at particular historical moments as vehicles for negotiating other kinds of hybridity, including but not limited to cultural and political hybridity. In particular, Schmidt addresses three distinct manifestations of 'hybridity' in English literature and iconography during this period. The first category comprises literal hybrid creatures such as satyrs, centaurs, giants, and changelings; the second is cultural hybrids reflecting the mixed status of the nation; and the third is generic hybrids such as the Shakespearean 'problem play,' the volatile verse satires of Nashe, Hall and Marston, and the tragicomedies of Beaumont and Fletcher. In Renaissance Hybrids, Schmidt demonstrates 'postmodern' considerations not to be unique to our own critical milieu. Rather, they can fruitfully elucidate cultural and literary developments in the English Renaissance, forging a valuable link in the history of ideas and practices, and revealing a new dimension in the relation of early modern studies to the concerns of the present.

Book The Origins of Sectarianism in Early Modern Ireland

Download or read book The Origins of Sectarianism in Early Modern Ireland written by Alan Ford and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-12-08 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book leading Irish historians examine the origins of sectarian division in early modern Ireland.

Book Marston  Rivalry  Rapprochement  and Jonson

Download or read book Marston Rivalry Rapprochement and Jonson written by Charles Cathcart and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Significant and unexplored signs of John Marston's literary rivalry with Ben Jonson are investigated here by Charles Cathcart. The centrepiece of the book is its argument that the anonymous play The Family of Love, sometimes attributed to Thomas Middleton and sometimes to Lording Barry, was in part the work of John Marston, and that it constitutes a whimsical statement of amity with Jonson. The book concerns itself with material rarely or never viewed as part of the "Poets' War" (such as the mutual attempted cuckoldings of The Insatiate Countess and the Middle Temple performance of Twelfth Night) rather than with texts (like Satiromastix and Poetaster) long considered in this light.

Book Playing Companies and Commerce in Shakespeare s Time

Download or read book Playing Companies and Commerce in Shakespeare s Time written by Roslyn Lander Knutson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-07-26 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Playing Companies and Commerce in Shakespeare's Time, first published in 2011, examines the nature of commercial relations among the theatre companies in London during the time of Shakespeare. Roslyn Knutson argues that the playing companies cooperated in the adoption of business practices that would enable the theatrical enterprise to flourish. Suggesting the guild as a model of economic cooperation, Knutson considers the networks of fellowship among players, the marketing strategies of the repertory, and company relationships with playwrights and members of the book trade. The book challenges two entrenched views about theatrical commerce: that companies engaged in cut-throat rivalry to drive one another out of business and that companies based business decisions on the personal and professional quarrels of the players and dramatists with whom they worked. This important contribution to theatre history will be of interest to scholars as well as historians.

Book Tudor England

    Book Details:
  • Author : Arthur F. Kinney
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2000-11-17
  • ISBN : 1136745300
  • Pages : 863 pages

Download or read book Tudor England written by Arthur F. Kinney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2000-11-17 with total page 863 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first encyclopedia to be devoted entirely to Tudor England. 700 entries by top scholars in every major field combine new modes of archival research with a detailed Tudor chronology and appendix of biographical essays. Entries include: * Edward Alleyn [actor/theatre manager] * Roger Ascham * Bible translation * cloth trade * Devereux family * Espionage * Family of Love * food and diet * James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell * inns * Ket's Rebellion * John Lyly * mapmaking * Frances Meres * miniature painting * Pavan * Pilgrimage of Grace * Revels Office * Ridolfi plot * Lady Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke * treason * and much more. Also includes an 8-page color insert.

Book Neo Latin Literature in Sweden in the Period 1620 1720

Download or read book Neo Latin Literature in Sweden in the Period 1620 1720 written by Hans Helander and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Specimens of the British Critics

Download or read book Specimens of the British Critics written by John Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Satiro mastix   Or  The Untrussing of the Humorous Poet

Download or read book Satiro mastix Or The Untrussing of the Humorous Poet written by Thomas Dekker and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire written by Kirk Freudenburg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-05-12 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Satire as a distinct genre of writing was first developed by the Romans in the second century BCE. Regarded by them as uniquely 'their own', satire held a special place in the Roman imagination as the one genre that could address the problems of city life from the perspective of a 'real Roman'. In this Cambridge Companion an international team of scholars provides a stimulating introduction to Roman satire's core practitioners and practices, placing them within the contexts of Greco-Roman literary and political history. Besides addressing basic questions of authors, content, and form, the volume looks to the question of what satire 'does' within the world of Greco-Roman social exchanges, and goes on to treat the genre's further development, reception, and translation in Elizabethan England and beyond. Included are studies of the prosimetric, 'Menippean' satires that would become the models of Rabelais, Erasmus, More, and (narrative satire's crowning jewel) Swift.

Book Every Man Out of His Humour

Download or read book Every Man Out of His Humour written by Ben Jonson and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonson's Every Man Out of His Humour is a comical satire about envy and aspiration among the ambitious middle classes, who seek happiness in fame and material fortune. This first critical edition of the play conveys early modern obsessions with wealth and self-display through historical contexts. The book offers an intriguing look at the course of urban comedy, and a wealth of information about social relationships and colloquial language at the end of the Elizabethan period.

Book Born for Opposition

Download or read book Born for Opposition written by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume VIII opens with Byron in Ravenna, in 1821. His passion for the Countess Guiccioli is subsiding into playful fondness, and he confesses to his sister Augusta that he is not "so furiously in love as at first." Italy, meanwhile, is afire with the revolutionary activities of the Carbornari, which Byron sees as "the very poetry of politics."

Book Renaissance Drama and the Politics of Publication

Download or read book Renaissance Drama and the Politics of Publication written by Zachary Lesser and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-11-18 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the practices and politics of early modern publishers of plays.

Book Classical Commentaries

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christina Shuttleworth Kraus
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2016
  • ISBN : 0199688982
  • Pages : 551 pages

Download or read book Classical Commentaries written by Christina Shuttleworth Kraus and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This rich collection of essays by an international group of authors explores a wide range of commentaries on ancient Latin and Greek texts. It pays particular attention to individual commentaries, national traditions of commentary, the part played by commentaries in the reception of classical texts, and the role of printing and publishing.

Book John Goodwin and the Puritan Revolution

Download or read book John Goodwin and the Puritan Revolution written by John Coffey and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `A major contribution to our understanding of the English Revolution.' Ann Hughes, Professor of Early Modern History, Keele University. John Goodwin [1594-1665] was one of the most prolific and controversial writers of the English Revolution; his career illustrates some of the most important intellectual developments of the seventeenth century. Educated at Queens'College, Cambridge, he became vicar of a flagship Puritan parish in the City of London. During the 1640s, he wrote in defence of the civil war, the army revolt, Pride's Purge, and the regicide, only to turn against Cromwell in 1657. Finally, repudiating religious uniformity, he became one of England's leading tolerationists. This richly contextualised study, the first modern intellectual biography of Goodwin, explores the whole range of writingsproduced by him and his critics. Amongst much else, it shows that far from being a maverick individualist, Goodwin enjoyed a wide readership, pastored one of the London's largest Independent congregations and was well connected tovarious networks. Hated and admired by Anglicans, Presbyterians and Levellers, he provides us with a new perspective on contemporaries like Richard Baxter and John Milton. It will be of special interest to students of Puritanism, the English Revolution, and early modern intellectual history. JOHN COFFEY is Reader in Early Modern History at the University of Leicester.

Book CRC World Dictionary of Palms

Download or read book CRC World Dictionary of Palms written by Umberto Quattrocchi and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 1004 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The History of the Life of Thomas Ellwood

Download or read book The History of the Life of Thomas Ellwood written by Thomas Ellwood and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2004 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ellwood's compelling autobiography offers a unique look on the early development of the Quaker movement in 17th century in England and its battles over religious freedom. Now back in print with a new introduction, this book will be of interest to many Quakers, plus many social and religious historians.