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Download or read book British Sporting Literature and Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century written by Sharon Harrow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sport as it is largely understood today was invented during the long eighteenth century when the modern rules of sport were codified; sport emerged as a business, a spectacle, and a performance; and gaming organized itself around sporting culture. Examining the underexplored intersection of sport, literature, and culture, this collection situates sport within multiple contexts, including religion, labor, leisure time, politics, nationalism, gender, play, and science. A poetics, literature, and culture of sport swelled during the era, influencing artists such as John Collett and writers including Lord Byron, Jonathan Swift, and Henry Fielding. This volume brings together literary scholars and historians of sport to demonstrate the ubiquity of sport to eighteenth-century life, the variety of literary and cultural representations of sporting experiences, and the evolution of sport from rural pastimes to organized, regular events of national and international importance. Each essay offers in-depth readings of both material practices and representations of sport as they relate to, among other subjects, recreational sports, the Cotswold games, clothing, women archers, tennis, celebrity athletes, and the theatricality of boxing. Taken together, the essays in this collection offer valuable multiple perspectives on reading sport during the century when sport became modern.

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Download or read book Malone s life of Shakspeare comprehending an essay on the chronological order of his plays Appendix Shakspeare s coat of arms Conveyance from Walker to Shakspeare Shakspeare s mortgage Declaration of trust by Heminge c Shakspeare s will Extracts from Stratford register Entries on the stationers books List of the early editions of Shakspeare Dedication of the players 1623 Preface of the players Modern editions Plays ascribed to Shakspeare Plays altered from Shakspeare Character of Aubrey the antiquary written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators Comprehending a Life of the Poet and an Enlarged History of the Stage written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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