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Richard Strier
A collection of thought-provoking essays that treat the political, social, and philosophical themes of Shakespeare's plays
In Shakespearean Issues, Richard Strier has written a set of linked essays bound by…
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This book changes the way we read one of the greatest masters of the lyric poem in English. Unlike much recent scholarship on George Herbert, Love Known demonstrates the inseparability…
This book shows Shakespeare confronting political, social, and philosophical issues: the motives of characters and ethical judgments on them; the defining features of legal systems; the problem of economic inequality…
This text argues against the application of priori schemes to Renaissance (and all) texts. It argues for the possibility and desirability of rigorously attentive but pre-theoretical reading, taking an approach…
Who during the Renaissance could have dissented from the values of reason and restraint, patience and humility, rejection of the worldly and the physical? This title counters the prevalent view…
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This collection of studies from eight scholars explores the relationship between writing and public concerns in seventeenth-century England. The essays share a concern with the relationship between the act of…
This volume, first published in 2000, focuses on the relationship between writing and public concerns in seventeenth-century England before, during and after the civil wars and revolution of the mid-century…
The Historical Renaissance both exemplifies and examines the most influential current in contemporary studies of the English Renaissance: the effort to analyze the interplay between literature, history, and politics. The…
This collection of essays by historians and literary scholars treats English history and culture from the Reformation to the Glorious Revolution as a single coherent period in which religion is…
This collection of essays adopts a novel, interdisciplinary approach to a diverse group of texts composed in London during the Renaissance. Eight literary scholars and eight historians from two continents…
Demonstrates that Shakespeare’s thinking about legal concepts points to a deep engagement with the law’s technical workings, its underlying premises, and its social effects. This book considers Shakespeare’s awareness of…
Bradin Cormack
Nine of the world’s top primate experts compose the most extensive picture to date of what the behavior of monkeys and apes can tell us about our own evolution as…
