Author: Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1843846616
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Catalogue of the Reference Library
Author: Paisley Free Public Library and Museum. Reference LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1072
Book Description
S.'s American Bibliographer
Author: Henry Stevens (Jr.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Catalogue of Books in the Library of the Philosophical Society of Glasgow
Author: Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Catalogue of the Science library in the South Kensington museum
Author: Science museum librPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
A Catalogue of Books in the Library of the Solicitors in the Supreme Courts of Scotland
Author: Society of Solicitors before the Supreme Courts of Scotland. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Food in Shakespeare
Author: Joan FitzpatrickPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131713432X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
A study of common and exotic food in Shakespeare's plays, this is the first book to explore early modern English dietary literature to understand better the significance of food in Shakespearean drama. Food in Shakespeare provides for modern readers and audiences an historically accurate account of the range of, and conflicts between, contemporary ideas that informed the representations of food in the plays. It also focuses on the social and moral implications of familiar and strange foodstuff in Shakespeare's works. This new approach provides substantial fresh readings of Hamlet, Macbeth, As you Like It, The Winter's Tale, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, Henry V, Titus Andronicus, Coriolanus, Pericles, Timon of Athens, and the co-authored Sir Thomas More. Among the dietaries explored are Andrew Boorde's A Compendyous Regyment or a Dyetary of Healthe (1547), William Bullein's The Gouernement of Healthe (1595), Thomas Elyot's The Castle of Helthe (1595) and Thomas Cogan's The Hauen of Health (1636). These dieteries were republished several times in the early modern period; together they typify the genre's condemnation of surfeit and the tendency to blame human disease on feeding practices. This study directs scholarly attention to the importance of early modern dietaries, analyzing their role in wider culture as well as their intersection with dramatic art. In the dietaries food and drink are indices of one's position in relation to complex ideas about rank, nationality, and spiritual well-being; careful consumption might correct moral as well as physical shortcomings. The dietaries are an eclectic genre: some contain recipes for the reader to try, others give tips on more general lifestyle choices, but all offer advice on how to maintain good health via diet. Although some are more stern and humourless than others, the overwhelming impression is that of food as an ally in the battle against disease and ill-health as well as a potential enemy.
The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Catalogue of the Science Library in the South Kensington Museum
Author: South Kensington Museum. Science LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Damnable Practises: Witches, Dangerous Women, and Music in Seventeenth-Century English Broadside Ballads
Author: Sarah F. WilliamsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317154894
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
Broadside ballads-folio-sized publications containing verse, a tune indication, and woodcut imagery-related cautionary tales, current events, and simplified myth and history to a wide range of social classes across seventeenth century England. Ballads straddled, and destabilized, the categories of public and private performance spaces, the material and the ephemeral, music and text, and oral and written traditions. Sung by balladmongers in the streets and referenced in theatrical works, they were also pasted to the walls of local taverns and domestic spaces. They titillated and entertained, but also educated audiences on morality and gender hierarchies. Although contemporaneous writers published volumes on the early modern controversy over women and the English witch craze, broadside ballads were perhaps more instrumental in disseminating information about dangerous women and their acoustic qualities. Recent scholarship has explored the representations of witchcraft and malfeasance in English street literature; until now, however, the role of music and embodied performance in communicating female transgression has yet to be investigated. Sarah Williams carefully considers the broadside ballad as a dynamic performative work situated in a unique cultural context. Employing techniques drawn from musical analysis, gender studies, performance studies, and the histories of print and theater, she contends that broadside ballads and their music made connections between various degrees of female crime, the supernatural, and cautionary tales for and about women.
