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Under the Tudor monarchy, English law expanded to include the category of "treason by words." Rebecca Lemon investigates this remarkable phrase both as a legal charge and as a cultural event. English citizens, she shows, expressed competing notions of treason in opposition to the growing absolutism of the monarchy. Lemon explores the complex participation of texts by John Donne, Ben Jonson, and William Shakespeare in the legal and political controversies marking the Earl of Essex's 1601 rebellion and the 1605 Gunpowder Plot.

Lemon suggests that the articulation of diverse ideas about treason within literary and polemical texts produced increasingly fractured conceptions of the crime of treason itself. Further, literary texts, in representing issues familiar from political polemic, helped to foster more free, less ideologically rigid, responses to the crisis of treason. As a result, such works of imagination bolstered an emerging discourse on subjects' rights. Treason by Words offers an original theory of the role of dissent and rebellion during a period of burgeoning sovereign power. ... Read more

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Comprehensive college textbook of British literature from Beowulf to Sheridan. ... Read more

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A Short History of Early Modern England presents the historical and cultural information necessary for a richer understanding of English Renaissance literature.

• Written in a clear and accessible style for an undergraduate level audience
• Gives an overview of the period’s history as well as an understanding of the historiographic issues
• Explores key historical and literary events, from the Wars of the Roses to the publication of John Milton’s Paradise Regained
• Features in depth explanations of key terms and concepts, such as absolutism and the Elizabethan Settlement

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This is a new, three-volume edition of an anonymous Elizabethan history play that has intrigued Shakespeare scholars for more than a century. A set of Text and Variorum Notes meticulously records the variant readings of previous editors and provides relevant citations from contemporary sources and other analytic comments to clarify the play's meanings, concerns and thematic preoccupations. Among other features of this edition are an original conclusion in the Elizabethan manner (some lines of the final scene are missing), a book-length Introduction proving that Shakespeare wrote the play, and a 100-page supplement detailing over 1,600 echoes and parallels with the Collected Works. This work is a must for every Shakespearean collection. ... Read more

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This is a new, three-volume edition of an anonymous Elizabethan history play that has intrigued Shakespeare scholars for more than a century. A set of Text and Variorum Notes meticulously records the variant readings of previous editors and provides relevant citations from contemporary sources and other analytic comments to clarify the play's meanings, concerns and thematic preoccupations. Among other features of this edition are an original conclusion in the Elizabethan manner (some lines of the final scene are missing), a book-length Introduction proving that Shakespeare wrote the play, and a 100-page supplement detailing over 1,600 echoes and parallels with the Collected Works. This work is a must for every Shakespearean collection. ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's preservation reformatting program. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the text that can both be accessed online and used to create new print copies. This book and thousands of others can be found in the digital collections of the University of Michigan Library. The University Library also understands and values the utility of print, and makes reprints available through its Scholarly Publishing Office. ... Read more

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What makes Shakespeare great? Why do we still read and perform his works? In this deft and witty introduction, David Bevington argues that Shakespeare continues to live among us today because his representations of the human condition are believable, endearing, and touchingly human. The book is structured around Shakespeare’s immortalizing of the arc of human life from infancy and childhood to adulthood, advancing age, and eventual death, as set out by Jaques in the ‘Seven Ages of Man’ speech from As You Like It.

For this extended second edition, the author has added more material on fathers and sons, the perils of courtship, the circumstances of Shakespeare’s own life, the performance history of his plays on stage and on screen, his delicate representation of gender relations, and more. In a new final chapter on Shakespeare Today, he looks at the remarkable diversity of interpretations in modern criticism and performance of Shakespeare as a key to his ‘infinite variety’, and his ability to adapt to a changing world. ... Read more

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Very Useful for Students
For students struggling with Shakespeare, or the play Hamlet in particular, this book will prove extremely enlightening and useful.It consists of numerous short, very informative articles, written by noted literary scholars or experts on the play, among them R.A. Foakes, Marvin Rosenberg, Rebebba West, and even the great Shakespearean actor Laurence Olivier himself.The editor, Don Nardo, provides an excellent introductory article that sums up Shakespeare and his times, and also a generous bibliography that will give students plenty of supllementary material to look for. ... Read more

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One of his most widely read works, Shakespeare's comedy has been described as both a study of love and marriage and the abuse of wealth. (20020501) ... Read more

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This Kindle book includes: The Age of Shakespeare by Swinburne, Bacon is Shake-speare by Durning-Lawrence, Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by Nesbit, Characters of Shakespeare's Plays by Hazlitt, An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway by Rudd, Is Shakespeare Dead? by Mark Twain, The Man Shakespeare by Frank Harris, Notes to Shakespeare volume 1 Comedies and volume 3 Tragedies by Samuel Johnson, The People for Whom Shakespeare Wrote by Warner, The Phlosophy of the Plays of Shakespeare by Delia Bacon, Preface to Shakespeare by Samuel Johnson, Preface to the Works of Shakespeare by Theobald, Shakespreare and Precious Stones by Kunz, Shakespeare Bacon ad the Great Unknown by Lang, Shakespeare: His life Art and Character volume 1 by Hudson, Shakespeare Study Programs: the Comedies by Porter and Clarke, Shakespeare's Bones by Ingleby, Shakespeare's Insomnia and the Causes Thereof by head, Shakspere and Montaigne by Feis, Shakspeare or the Poet by Emerson, The Sources and Analogies of A Midsummer Night's Dream by Sidgwick, A Study of Shakespeare by Swinburne, and Tales from Shakespeare by Lamb.According to Wikipedia: "William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564 – died 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "The Bard"). His surviving works consist of 38 plays,154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language, and are performed more often than those of any other playwright."
Responding to customer feedback, I made changes to the formatting on 7/3/2009.If you bought a copy before then, you should be able to download the new version at no extra cost.Feedback always welcome. seltzer@samizdat.com ... Read more

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Short essay. Literary hoax, supported by fictitious letters.First published in 1887. According to Wikipedia: "William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564 – died 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "The Bard"). His surviving works consist of 38 plays,154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language, and are performed more often than those of any other playwright." ... Read more

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Why Shakespeare Couldn't Sleep and You Can
From the title, I judged this to be a spoof, and possibly one of the sources of the movie SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE. I was mistaken. It is a thoroughly-researched monograph about Shakespeare's numerous references to insomnia in his work, and what those references suggest about him. If you're not especially interested in Shakespeare as a man, you probably won't enjoy this book, but I did. ... Read more

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In Celebration Of The Tercentenary Of The First Folio Shakespeare. With Eight Plates. ... Read more

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In Celebration Of The Tercentenary Of The First Folio Shakespeare. With Eight Plates. ... Read more

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In Celebration Of The Tercentenary Of The First Folio Shakespeare. With Eight Plates. ... Read more