Author: Thomas Lodge
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 111

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Author: Thomas Lodge
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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Author: Thomas Lodge
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 111

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ISBN: 0198117353
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 573

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Author: Raphael Lyne
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 9780198187042
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 470

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Ovid's Changing Worlds looks at the four most important English imitations of the Metamorphoses in the English Renaissance: the translations of Arthur Golding and George Sandys, Spenser's Faerie Queene, and Michael Drayton's Poly-Olbion. It sheds new light on dealings with the classics in the period and shows that the emergence of English literature was a complex and fascinating process.

Author: Luther Samuel Livingston
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 596

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Author: Sandra Billington
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571299997
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 161

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Who is the Fool and what does he mean to us? Pre-1900 scholars thought him a Renaissance fashion, a continental import of note in the British Isles only between 1486 and the 1630s, per his appearances in Shakespeare's plays. However, as Sandra Billington shows in this pioneering study, the Fool has been with us from medieval times and has worn many guises: village idiot and sophisticated comedian, embodiment of Satan and God's own jester. He has managed, as Billington notes, 'to inspire or infect our thinking for at least eight hundred years'.

Author: Sten F. Vedi
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1469170175
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 98

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This book challenges the general assumption that William Shakespeare was the sole author of Hamlet. It is maintained that the plot line and the characters were drawn up by someone else. This someone is thought to have been a person of high rank, a feudal prince, in the Elizabethan society. Being a nobleman whose constant presence at Court was expected, he must have been familiar with life, gossip and intrigues of the Court. Furthermore, he had knowledge about the Danish court and Elsinore, probably imparted to him by envoys who had visited Elsinore. The scene of the play is Elsinore, but it mirrors the English court. In Elsinore is revisited we walk in the footsteps of the Queens envoys to see if we can discover how and why the site of Elsinore entered into the play and we meet men like Ramelius alias Polonius, but also Rosencrantz and Guildenstern who all entered the portrait gallery of famous characters in world literature. The purpose of Revisiting Elsinore has been to find a key to unveil the secret co-author of Hamlet. This has been done partly by a renewed reading of some primary and secondary sources, partly by discovery of an hitherto overlooked or neglected primary source.

Author: Philip Massinger
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 616

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Author: Andy Kesson
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526101858
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 318

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During Shakespeare's lifetime, John Lyly was repeatedly described as the central figure in contemporary English literature. This book takes that claim seriously, asking how and why Lyly was considered the most important writer of his time. Kesson traces Lyly's work in prose fiction and the theatre, demonstrating previously unrecognised connections between these two forms of entertainment. The final chapter examines how his importance to early modern authorship came to be forgotten in the late seventeenth century and thereafter. This book serves as an introduction to Lyly and early modern literature for students, but its argument for the central importance of Lyly himself and 1580s literary culture makes it a significant contribution to current scholarly debate. Its investigation of the relationship between performance and print means that it will be of interest to those who care about, watch or work in early modern performance.