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Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
Broadening the conversation begun in Making Publics in Early Modern Europe (2009), this book examines how the spatial dynamics of public making changed the shape of early modern society. The publics visited in this volume are voluntary groupings of diverse individuals that could coalesce through...
Published March 19th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
This book will constitute an original intervention into longstanding but insistently relevant debates around the significance of notions of ‘performativity’ to the critical analysis of early modern drama. In particular, the book aims to: show how the investigation of performativity can enable...
Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
This book explores the creation and use of artificially made humanoid servants and servant networks by fictional and non-fictional scientists of the early modern period. Beginning with an investigation of the roots of artificial servants, humanoids, and automata from earlier times, LaGrandeur...
Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
This book visits the fact that, in the pre-modern world, saints and lords served structurally similar roles, acting as patrons to those beneath them on the spiritual or social ladder with the word "patron" used to designate both types of elite sponsor. Chapman argues that this elision of patron...
Published December 4th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
This book offers a survey of how female and male characters in English Renaissance theatre participated and interacted in musical activities, both inside and outside the contemporary societal decorum. Wong’s analysis broadens our understanding of the general theatrical representation of music, or...
Published November 13th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Alchemy
Of interest to interdisciplinary historians as well as those in various other fields, this book presents the first publication of 14 poems ranging from 12 to 3,000 lines. The poems are printed in the chronological order of their composition, from Elizabethan to Augustan times, but nine of them are...
Published September 25th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
In this timely new study, Todd A. Borlik reveals the surprisingly rich potential for the emergent "green" criticism to yield fresh insights into early modern English literature. Deftly avoiding the anachronistic casting of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century authors as modern environmentalists, he...
Published May 29th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Revivals: Una Ellis-Fermor
First published in 1936, The Jacobean Drama is a brilliant interpretation of the drama written between the last years of Elizabeth I and the first years of Charles I. Professor Una Mary Ellis-Fermor’s book traces the evolution of thought and mood from the end of Marlowe’s career,...
Published May 28th 2012 by Routledge
