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The Art of Albrecht Durerby Heinrich WolfflinISBN 0714814679 (0-7148-1467-9)
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Bard of Avon: The Story of William Shakespeareby Diane Stanley, Peter VennemaISBN 0688162940 (0-688-16294-0)
Softcover, Mulberry Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bard of Avon: The Story of William Shakespeare'Book summary:William Shakespeare was the son of a glovemaker, a small-town boy with a grammar school education. Yet he grew up to become the greatest English-speaking playwright in the world. Bard of Avon: The Story of William Shakespeare is both his story and that of a great art rediscovered in the modern world.
Drama had been forgotten since the days of ancient Greece, but it reemerged in Elizabethan London with the building of the first modern theater. Its impact can still be imagined today. There were the theaters, open to the weather and featuring neither sets nor curtains, but equipped with dramatic special effects. There were the companies of actors--the leading men, the comedians, the boys who played women's roles--and the playwrights who gave them all lines to say.
Best of all, there was William Shakespeare, who rubbed shoulders with noblemen and royalty as well as with the rowdy crowds at the foot of the stage. He was suspected of involvement in a treasonous rebellion, and his last play literally brought down the house when cannon effects set fire to the famous Globe theater and it burned to the ground.
Award-winning collaborators Diane Stanley and Peter Vennema have once again created a feast of words and pictures to celebrate the life of a remarkable person from the pages of history: William Shakespeare, a man for all time."
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Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers - Bard of Avon: The Story of William Shakespeare: ISBN 0688162940 (0-688-16294-0)
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- Bard of Avon: The Story of William Shakespeare: ISBN 0688091083 (0-688-09108-3)
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Bartholomew Fairby Ben Johnson, G. R. HibbardISBN 0713635312 (0-7136-3531-2)
Softcover, Methuen Drama
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Canterbury Talesby Geoffrey Chaucer, Barbara CohenISBN 0688062016 (0-688-06201-6)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Canterbury Tales'Book summary:On a spring day in April--sometime in the waning years of the 14th century--29 travelers set out for Canterbury on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Saint Thomas Beckett. Among them is a knight, a monk, a prioress, a plowman, a miller, a merchant, a clerk, and an oft-widowed wife from Bath. Travel is arduous and wearing; to maintain their spirits, this band of pilgrims entertains each other with a series of tall tales that span the spectrum of literary genres. Five hundred years later, people are still reading Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. If you haven't yet made the acquaintance of the Franklin, the Pardoner, or the Squire because you never learned Middle English, take heart: this edition of the Tales has been translated into modern idiom.
From the heroic romance of "The Knight's Tale" to the low farce embodied in the stories of the Miller, the Reeve, and the Merchant, Chaucer treated such universal subjects as love, sex, and death in poetry that is simultaneously witty, insightful, and poignant. The Canterbury Tales is a grand tour of 14th-century English mores and morals--one that modern-day readers will enjoy. [via]
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The Changelingby Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, Joost DaalderISBN 0713668849 (0-7136-6884-9)
Softcover, Methuen Drama
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Chapman's Homer: The Iliadby Allardyce Nicoll, George ChapmanISBN 0691002363 (0-691-00236-3)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chapman's Homer: The Iliad'Book summary:George Chapman's translations of Homer are the most famous in the English language. Keats immortalized the work of the Renaissance dramatist and poet in the sonnet "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer." Swinburne praised the translations for their "romantic and sometimes barbaric grandeur," their "freshness, strength, and inextinguishable fire." The great critic George Saintsbury (1845-1933) wrote: "For more than two centuries they were the resort of all who, unable to read Greek, wished to know what Greek was. Chapman is far nearer Homer than any modern translator in any modern language."
This volume presents the original (1611) text of Chapman's translation of the Iliad, making only a small number of modifications to punctuation and wording where they might confuse the modern reader. The editor, Allardyce Nicoll, provides an introduction and a glossary. Garry Wills contributes a preface, in which he explains how Chapman tapped into the poetic consonance between the semi-divine heroism of the Iliad's warriors and the cosmological symbols of Renaissance humanism.
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Chapman's Homer: The Odysseyby Homer, Allardyce Nicoll, George ChapmanISBN 0691048916 (0-691-04891-6)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chapman's Homer: The Odyssey'Book summary:George Chapman's translations of Homer are among the most famous in the English language. Keats immortalized the work of the Renaissance dramatist and poet in the sonnet "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer." Swinburne praised the translations for their "romantic and sometimes barbaric grandeur," their "freshness, strength, and inextinguishable fire." The great critic George Saintsbury (1845-1933) wrote: "For more than two centuries they were the resort of all who, unable to read Greek, wished to know what Greek was. Chapman is far nearer Homer than any modern translator in any modern language." This volume presents the original text of Chapman's translation of the Odyssey (1614-15), making only a small number of modifications to punctuation and wording where they might confuse the modern reader. The editor, Allardyce Nicoll, provides an introduction, textual notes, a glossary, and a commentary. Garry Wills's preface to the Odyssey explores how Chapman's less strained meter lets him achieve more delicate poetic effects as compared to the Iliad. Wills also examines Chapman's "fine touch" in translating "the warm and human sense of comedy" in the Odyssey.
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That deep-browed Homer ruled as his demesne;
Yet did I never breathe its pure serene
Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold.
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Complete Poems and Selected Letters of Michelangeloby Criegton GilbertISBN 0691003246 (0-691-00324-6)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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A Documentary History of Artby Elizabeth Basye Gilmore HoltISBN 0691039690 (0-691-03969-0)
Hardcover, Princeton University Press
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A Documentary History of Art: The Middle Ages and the Renaissanceby Elizabeth Basye Gilmore HoltISBN 0691003335 (0-691-00333-5)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Dorothy Dunnett Companionby Elspeth MorrisonISBN 0718137752 (0-7181-3775-2)
Hardcover, Michael Joseph
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Dr Simon Forman: A Most Notorious Physicianby Judith CookISBN 0701168994 (0-7011-6899-4)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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Drawings by Michelangelo in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen at Windsor Castle, the Ashmolean Museum, the British Museum and Other English Collections: An Exhibition Held in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, 6th February to 27th April 1975by British Museum, Michelangelo BuonarrotiISBN 0714107425 (0-7141-0742-5)
Hardcover, British Museums Publications Ltd
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The Drawings of Leonardo Da Vinciby Martin Kemp, A.E. Popham, LeonardoISBN 071266100X (0-7126-6100-X)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Dress in Italian Painting, 1460-1500by Elizabeth BirbariISBN 0719524237 (0-7195-2423-7)
Hardcover, J. Murray
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An Elizabethan Progressby Zillah M. DoveyISBN 0750910402 (0-7509-1040-2)
Hardcover, Sutton Pub Ltd
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An Elizabethan Progress: The Queen's Journey into East Anglia, 1578by Zillah DoveyISBN 0750921501 (0-7509-2150-1)
Softcover, Sutton Pub Ltd
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English Humanism: Wyatt to Cowleyby Joanna ParkerISBN 0709920679 (0-7099-2067-9)
Softcover, Routledge
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The English Icon:Elizabethan & Jacobean Portraiture: Elizabethan & Jacobean Portraitureby Roy C. Strong, Paul Mellon Foundation for British ArtISBN 0710067348 (0-7100-6734-8)
Hardcover, Paul Mellon Foundation for British Art, in association with Routledge & K. Paul
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The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moralby Francis BaconISBN 0760770182 (0-7607-7018-2)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble Books
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Every Man in His Humourby Ben JonsonISBN 0713643978 (0-7136-4397-8)
Softcover, Methuen Drama
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Faust I & IIby Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Stuart AtkinsISBN 069103656X (0-691-03656-X)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Faust I & II'Book summary:Green Spain, as Northern Spain is often known, offers the visitor a great variety of landscapes: lush forests, deep-green valleys, soaring high mountain scenery, and exquisite beaches. For those looking for more than sun and sand, cultural highlights such as Santiago de Compostela, and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao are contrasted with the wonderful national parks that can be found in the Central and Eastern Pyrenees. But the best beaches and most charming villages are not neglected. Everything is depicted in the glorious visual style for which Eyewitness Travel Guides are known. [via]
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Faust:Parts 1 & 2by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Bayard TaylorISBN 0722179049 (0-7221-7904-9)
Hardcover, Sphere
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Florentine Renaissance Sculptureby Charles AveryISBN 0719519322 (0-7195-1932-2)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Food & Feast In Tudor Englandby Alison SimISBN 0750937726 (0-7509-3772-6)
Softcover, Sutton Pub Ltd
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Henry VIIIby William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine, Barbara A. MowatISBN 0743273303 (0-7432-7330-3)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
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Henry VIII: Images of a Tudor Kingby Christopher Lloyd, Simon Thurley, Hampton Court (Richmond upon Thames, London, England)ISBN 0714826995 (0-7148-2699-5)
Softcover, Phaidon Inc Ltd
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Iliad and the Odysseyby Marcia Williams, Homer Iliad, Homer OdysseyISBN 0763600539 (0-7636-0053-9)
Hardcover, Candlewick Pr
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In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Madeby Norman CantorISBN 0756780144 (0-7567-8014-4)
Softcover, Diane Pub Co
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Invisible Listeners: Lyric Intimacy in Herbert, Whitman, And Ashberyby Helen Hennessy VendlerISBN 0691116180 (0-691-11618-0)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Italian Renaissance Sculptureby John Pope-HennessyISBN 0714838829 (0-7148-3882-9)
Softcover, Phaidon Inc Ltd
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King Johnby William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine, Barbara A. MowatISBN 0743484983 (0-7434-8498-3)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'King John'Book summary:FOLGER Shakespeare Library
The world's leading center for Shakespeare studies
Each edition includes:
" Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play
" Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play
" Scene-by-scene plot summaries
" A key to famous lines and phrases
" An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language
" An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play
" Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books
Essay by Deborah T. Curren-Aquino
The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., is home to the world's largest collection of Shakespeare's printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs. For more information, visit www.folger.edu.
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Lectures on Shakespeareby W. H. Auden, Arthur C. KirschISBN 0691102821 (0-691-10282-1)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lectures on Shakespeare'Book summary:After transplanting himself from England to the United States in 1939, W.H. Auden immediately became a kind of academic knight-errant, teaching at five different schools in as many years. Little evidence survives of most of these gigs. But in 1946, Auden gave a course on Shakespeare at Manhattan's New School, and luckily, several of the students attending took maniacally assiduous notes. Now Arthur Kirsch has collated the whole batch--and, one assumes, done some major nip-and-tuck work on this textual nightmare. The result is an insightful, eccentric, and perhaps essential slice of Bardolatry, which tells us as much about Auden as his subject.
Nobody can accuse Auden of parroting the party line on this greatest of English writers. In one of the nuttier moments in the lecture series, in fact, he expressed his distaste for The Merry Wives of Windsor by declining to say a word about it--instead he simply played a recording of Verdi's Falstaff for the perplexed audience. Elsewhere his tendency was to view Shakespeare's creations as flesh-and-blood characters rather than poetic constructs: "If Antony and Cleopatra have a more tragic fate than we do, that is because they are far more successful than we are, not because they are essentially different." He's harder pressed to locate any success stories in Julius Ceasar: the protagonist strikes him as a fading despot, Octavius is "a very cold fish," and Cassius "a choleric man--a General Patton." And sometimes, as in this discussion of Falstaff's role in the double-decker Henry IV, Auden spins off his own freestanding riffs, which amount to short prose poems on Shakespearean themes:
A fat man looks like a cross between a very young child and a pregnant mother. The Greeks thought of Narcissus as a slender youth, but I think they were wrong. I see him as a middle-aged man with a corporation, for, however ashamed he may be of displaying it in public, in private a man with a belly loves it dearly--it may be an unprepossessing child to look at, but he's borne it all by himself.
Auden would return to the Bard's terrain many times in his career, most notably in "The Sea and the Mirror." But for sheer penetration and puckish humor, Lectures on Shakespeare is hard to beat, and demonstrates that for all their differences, both the speaker and his subject had a crucial thing in common--what Auden calls "a fabulously good taste for words." --James Marcus [via]More editions of Lectures on Shakespeare:
Leonardoby Not AvailableISBN 0760726760 (0-7607-2676-0)
Hardcover, Taschen America Llc
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Masaccio : The Complete Paintings by the Master of Perspectiveby Richard FremantleISBN 0765108666 (0-7651-0866-6)
Hardcover, Smithmark Publishers, Incorporated
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Michelangeloby Anthony HughesISBN 0714834831 (0-7148-3483-1)
Softcover, Phaidon Inc Ltd
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Morals and Medicine the Moral Problems of the Patients Right to Knowby Joseph FletcherISBN 0691020043 (0-691-02004-3)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The New Testament, 1526by W. R. Cooper, David Daniell, William TyndaleISBN 0712346643 (0-7123-4664-3)
Hardcover, British Library, The
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The New Testament, 1526'Book summary:The publication in 1526 of a modestly-priced pocket edition of the New Testament in English was arguably the most important single event in the history of the English Reformation. This volume is a complete reprint of William Tyndale's pioneering translation of the New Testament from Greek into English. Produced at the same size as the original edition, it presents Tyndale's words in the original spelling. It has been transcribed and edited by Dr W.R. Cooper, and has an introduction by David Daniell, author of a biography of Tyndale and Chairman of the Tyndale Society. William Tyndale's influence has been as wide as Shakespeare's . Between 1525 and 1535 he gave us our English Bible, translating the whole of the New Testament and half of the Old Testament. His pocket-sized Bibles were smuggled into England, ruthlessly sought out by the Church, confiscated and destroyed. Tyndale himself was condemned as a heretic, strangled and burned outside Brussels in 1536. [via]
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Painting in Florence and Siena After the Black Deathby Millard MeissISBN 0691003122 (0-691-00312-2)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Painting Power and Patronage the Rise of the Professional Artist: The Rise of the Professional Artist in Renaissance Italyby Bram KempersISBN 0713990201 (0-7139-9020-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Perfect House: A Journey With Renaissance Master Andrea Palladioby Witold RybczynskiISBN 0743205871 (0-7432-0587-1)
Softcover, Scribner
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The Pilgrim's Progressby John BunyanISBN 0708980724 (0-7089-8072-4)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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The Poem's Two Bodies: The Poetics of the 1590 Faerie Queeneby David L. MillerISBN 0691015120 (0-691-01512-0)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Poetry and Politics in the English Renaissanceby David NorbrookISBN 0710097786 (0-7100-9778-6)
Hardcover, Routledge
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Portrait in the Renaissanceby John Wyndham Pope-HennesseyISBN 0691018251 (0-691-01825-1)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Prophecy and People in Renaissance Italyby Ottavia Niccoli, Lydia G. CochraneISBN 0691008353 (0-691-00835-3)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Queen Elizabeth I: Selected Worksby Steven W. MayISBN 0743476441 (0-7434-7644-1)
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Radical Tragedy: Religion, Ideology and Power in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporariesby Jonathan DollimoreISBN 0745006221 (0-7450-0622-1)
Softcover, Harvester Wheatsheaf
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Renaissance Townby Jacqueline Morley, John JamesISBN 0750019387 (0-7500-1938-7)
Hardcover, Wayland Pub Ltd
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The Roaring Girlby Thomas Middleton, Thomas Dekker, Elizabeth CookISBN 071366813X (0-7136-6813-X)
Softcover, Methuen Drama
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Sejanus, His Fallby Ben Jonson, Philip J. AyresISBN 071901641X (0-7190-1641-X)
Hardcover, Manchester University Press
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Sejanus, His Fall: Ben Jonsonby Philip J. AyresISBN 0719057027 (0-7190-5702-7)
Softcover, Manchester Univ Pr
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The Serpent And The Moon: Two Rivals For The Love Of A Renaissance Kingby Princess Michael of KentISBN 0743251067 (0-7432-5106-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Shakespeare: A Study and Research Guideby David M. Bergeron, Geraldo U. De SousaISBN 0700606939 (0-7006-0693-9)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Kansas
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shakespeare: A Study and Research Guide'Book summary:Confronted with the formidable and at times daunting mass of materials on Shakespeare, where does the beginning student--or even a seasoned one--turn for guidance? Answering that question remains the central aim of this new edition of a guide that has been a much admired mainstay of Shakespeare studies for two decades.
Thoroughly revised and updated, this widely used teaching and study tool adds concise analyses of more than 100 new books on Shakespeare published since the 1987 edition. It also greatly expands the section on the history plays and provides separate new categories for film and television and for culture studies focusing upon seasonal festivities, hospitality, courtship rituals, sexuality, and other Renaissance social practices.
Like its predecessors, the third edition continues to provide a thoughtful overview of the development and present state of Shakespeare scholarship and its extraordinarily diverse critical approaches--including sections on feminism and gender studies, Shakespeare's Romances, poststructuralism, and the new historicism--as well as summaries and evaluations of scores of bibliographies, periodicals, monographs, and reference books.
For beginning and advanced students alike, the guide offers practical advice for doing research and writing critical papers on Shakespeare--including how to select and develop topics, prepare a working bibliography and outline, take notes, avoid plagiarism, and use appropriate documentation following the MLA system. Students will find especially instructive the new model research paper, which provides an easy-to-understand example. [via]
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Shakespeare's Bawdy: A Literary & Psychological Essay and a Comprehensive Glossaryby Eric PartridgeISBN 0710062702 (0-7100-6270-2)
Hardcover, Routledge & K. Paul
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Shakespeare's England: Life in Elizabethan & Jacobean Timesby Ron PritchardISBN 0750932112 (0-7509-3211-2)
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The Story of Artby Ernst Hans J. GombrichISBN 0714832472 (0-7148-3247-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Story of Art'Book summary:"The Story of Art", one of the best-known and best-loved books on art ever written, has been a world bestseller for over half a century. Professor Gombrich's clear and engaging text combines with hundreds of full-colour illustrations to trace the history of art in an unfolding narrative, from primitive cave paintings to controversial art works of the present day. [via]
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Taking Position: On the Erotic in Renaissance Cultureby Bette TalvacchiaISBN 0691086834 (0-691-08683-4)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Taking Position: On the Erotic in Renaissance Culture'Book summary:Taking Positions is an innovative exploration of the place of the erotic in Renaissance art and culture, focusing on a notorious set of images created by the young Italian master Giulio Romano. In the early 1520s, Giulio made sixteen drawings of couples in various sexual positions. Known as I modi ("the positions"), the drawings were modeled on classical sources and themselves became a model for erotica in early modern Europe. Bette Talvacchia presents the first comprehensive account of the origins, impact, and context of these drawings, discussing in highly original ways such issues as censorship, religious teachings about sex, and the influence of antique culture.
Talvacchia presents evidence that Giulio modeled I modi in part on coinlike ancient Roman medals known as spintriae, which portrayed diverse sexual positions. She reconstructs how the drawings were first circulated privately and then made into engravings that were distributed publicly. She considers what it reveals about Renaissance culture that authorities began to consider I modi obscene and threatening--they went so far as to jail the engraver--only when the images became available to the public. More broadly, Talvacchia explores how sixteenth-century discourse used the terms onesto and disonesto--roughly analogous to the terms natural and unnatural in Catholic teachings about sexual sin--to distinguish between the erotic and the obscene.
The book also traces the influence of Giulio's drawings throughout the sixteenth century. Talvacchia looks, in particular, at two related sets of prints: Jacopo Caraglio's Loves of the Gods and a manual of anatomy by the French doctor and printer Charles Estienne. In the former, she shows how explicit sexual representation was legitimized with a cover of ancient mythology. She then examines how Estienne transformed Caraglio's erotic images into strange anatomical figures of the female body and what this transformation shows about the place of women's sexuality in Renaissance medicine.
The book is generously illustrated and includes full translations of the infamous sonnets that Pietro Aretino wrote to accompany I modi. Provocative, rigorously researched, and carefully argued, Taking Positions is a major contribution to our understanding of the erotic in Renaissance culture.
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Thy Father Is a Gorbellied Codpiece: Create over 100,000 of Your Own Shakespearean Insultsby Barry KraftISBN 0765191482 (0-7651-9148-2)
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Tis Pity She's a Whoreby John Ford, Martin WigginsISBN 0713650605 (0-7136-5060-5)
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True & Faithful Relation of What Passed for Many Years Between Dr. John Dee & Some Spirits (1659)by John Dee, Meric CasaubonISBN 0766108120 (0-7661-0812-0)
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The Tudor Tailor: Reconstructing 16th-Century Dressby Ninya Mikhaila, Jane Malcolm-DaviesISBN 0713489855 (0-7134-8985-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tudor Tailor: Reconstructing 16th-Century Dress'Book summary:A valuable sourcebook for costume designers, dressmakers and those involved in historical reenactments, this book contains all the information you need to create authentic clothes from the Tudor period. Computer-generated, historically accurate patterns enable you to make a wide range of garments, such as doublets, hose, bodices, skirts, hats and headdresses -- even underwear. There are also plenty of ideas for decoration and embellishment such as ruffs, cuffs, collars, embroidery and other surface decoration. The full range of Tudor society is represented, including lower- and middle-class clothing as well as the more sumptuous costumes from the courts of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I. There is also information on how to store and look after your finished clothing. In addition to the patterns, there are detailed drawings of each costume and information about historical context, including original paintings and source material. [via]
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Venice: Lion City The Religion Of Empireby Garry WillsISBN 0756780160 (0-7567-8016-0)
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The World's Great ClassicsISBN 0717200019 (0-7172-0001-9)
Hardcover, Xs Books
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