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The Children's Troupes and the Transformation of English Theater 1509-1608 - Jeanne Mccarthy - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Children's Troupes and the Transformation of English Theater 1509-1608 - Jeanne Mccarthy - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Children’s Troupes and the Transformation of English Theater 1509–1608 uncovers the role of the children’s companies in transforming perceptions of authorship and publishing, performance, playing spaces, patronage, actor training, and gender politics in the sixteenth century. Jeanne McCarthy challenges entrenched narratives about popular playing in an era of revolutionary changes, revealing the importance of the children’s company tradition’s connection with many early plays, as well as to the spread of literacy, classicism, and literate ideals of drama, plot, textual fidelity, characterization, and acting in a still largely oral popular culture. By addressing developments from the hyper-literate school tradition, and integrating discussion of the children’s troupes into the critical conversation around popular playing practices, McCarthy offers a nuanced account of the play-centered, literary performance tradition that came to define professional theater in this period. Highlighting the significant role of the children’s company tradition in sixteenth-century performance culture, this volume offers a bold new narrative of the emergence of the London theater.

DKK 440.00
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The Dividing Paths - Tom Hatley - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

The Dividing Paths - Tom Hatley - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

This book focuses on the American Cherokee people and the South Carolina settlers in the years 1608, when Charleston was established as the main town in the region, until 1785, when a treaty effectively removed the Cherokees from the region. It is concerned as much with the interaction between the two groups as the contrasts between them. The book contributes in major ways to understanding Indian-White relations in Colonial America.

DKK 482.00
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Regaining Paradise Lost - Thomas N. Corns - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Regaining Paradise Lost - Thomas N. Corns - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Paradise Lost is not merely the masterpiece of John Milton (1608-74) but a turning point in style and form, which had a profound influence on the poetry of the following century. Divided into two parts, this major survey begins by discussing the revolutionary characteristics of Paradise Lost in the context of contemporary literary norms and examines the theological, psychological, stylistic and narrative innovation in the poem. It then provides a fuller account of the complex, and now obscure political, and theological issues and other issues that Milton''s poem addresses and sought to resolve. It concludes by examining the themes discussed in the light of the influence of the poem on the tradition of English literature.

DKK 412.00
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Transactions of the Royal Historical Society: Volume 31 - Andrew Spicer - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Transactions of the Royal Historical Society: Volume 31 - Andrew Spicer - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Transactions of the Royal Historical Society is an annual collection of articles based on papers given to the Society by distinguished invited speakers and winners of RHS prizes. Volume 31 of the Sixth Series includes the following articles: ''Material Turns in British History: IV. Empire in India, Cancel Cultures and the Country House,'' ''Responding to Violence: Liturgy, Authority and Sacred Places, c. 900–c. 1150,'' ''Baroque around the Clock: Daniello Bartoli SJ (1608–1685) and the Uses of Global History,'' ''What Happens when a Written Constitution is Printed? A History across Boundaries,'' ''An Ottoman Arab Man of Letters and the Meanings of Empire, c. 1860,'' and ''Revisiting RHS''s ''Race, Ethnicity & Equality in UK History: A Report and Resource for Change.''''

DKK 440.00
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King Lear - Rene Weis - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

King Lear - Rene Weis - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

This reissed edition of Longman Annotated Texts King Lear includes comprehensive notes, annotations and an introduction, all designed to be of use to undergraduates and interested readers. King Lear is one of Shakespeare''s most widely studied tragedies. However, since the late 1970s textual scholars, critics and editors have argued that there is no single ''King Lear'' text. Anyone studying the play needs to be aware of two different texts, one based on the quarto of 1608, The History of King Lear, and a revised version published in the first folio of 1623, The Tragedy of King Lear. This edition offers a fully annotated, modern spelling version of the texts set side by side, identifying and elucidating the major discrepancies between the two. It presents some possible reasons for the differences between the two texts, which themselves shed light on a number of issues relating to literary transmission in the Renaissance and give an insight into the nature of performance and censorship.

DKK 594.00
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The Naval Miscellany - N.a.m. Rodger - Bog - Navy Records Society - Plusbog.dk

The Naval Miscellany - N.a.m. Rodger - Bog - Navy Records Society - Plusbog.dk

This edition contains documents from the seventeenth century to the Second World War. There is additional material to complement NRS Volume 116 from the Commission of Enquiry in 1608, an account of the Earl of Warwick’s voyage to the Mediterranean in 1627 and documents relating to the management of the Royal Dockyards between 1672 and 1678. There is an account of Benbow’s last battle and ensuing court martial in 1702, orders and correspondence relating to landings on the French coast in 1758, papers relating to operations in the Leeward Islands during the Seven Years War, letters from a naval captain from Portugal and the Mediterranean during the Napoleonic Wars, operation orders and reports relating to Copenhagen in 1807, letters from a midshipman in the Far East between 1818 and 1822, the capture of Bomarsund in 1854, a Committee of Inquiry relating to the Admiralty office in 1855, officers’ correspondence on the Dardanelles Campaign and, finally, the memoirs of a paymaster in the Royal Australian Navy, in both WWI and WW2.

DKK 530.00
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Shakespeare's Revision of KING LEAR - Steven Urkowitz - Bog - Princeton University Press - Plusbog.dk

Shakespeare's Revision of KING LEAR - Steven Urkowitz - Bog - Princeton University Press - Plusbog.dk

Of the three texts of King Lear--the Quarto version printed in 1608, the Folio edition of 1623, and the modern composite of these two early texts--it has been assumed that both the Quarto and Folio versions arc distortions of an unblemished original" now lost and that only the modern text accurately approaches Shakespeare''s lost original manuscript. Steven Urkowitz argues to the contrary that the Quarto and Folio are simply different stages of Shakespear''s writing--an early draft and a final revision--and that they reveal much about his process of composition.Originally published in 1980.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

DKK 747.00
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Journal, Memorials and Letters of Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge - - Bog - NUS Press - Plusbog.dk

Journal, Memorials and Letters of Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge - - Bog - NUS Press - Plusbog.dk

Admiral Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge, a Director in the Rotterdam chamber of the Dutch East Indies Company (VOC) for three decades during the early 17th century, set sail from the Dutch Republic in 1605. He launched an attack on Portuguese Melaka in 1606 and signed landmark treaties with the rulers of Johor (1606) and Ternate (1607). After his return to the Netherlands in the autumn of 1608 he wrote a series of epistolary reports and memoranda that were carefully studied by leading policy makers in the Republic, among them the renowned jurist Hugo Grotius, and Johan van Oldenbarnevelt. These materials contributed to the formulation of early VOC policy for the Southeast Asian region in the period 1605?20, and they yield candid insights into key issues of trade, security and the diplomacy of regional polities and their relations with Spain and Portugal. Here translated into English for the first time, and presented with 70 illustrations and maps from the period, this collection of treaties, reports and excerpts from Matelieff's travelogue will be of great interest to students of Southeast Asian and early colonial history and of the history of international law.

DKK 544.00
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Polish American Voices - - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Polish American Voices - - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

This volume presents 145 primary source documents of Polish immigrants from different waves and backgrounds speaking about their lives, concerns, and viewpoints in their own voices, while they grapple with issues of identity and strive to make sense of their lives in the context of migration. Poles have come to America since the Jamestown settlement in 1608 and constituted one of the largest immigrant groups at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. As of 2020, the Census Bureau lists them as the sixth largest ethnic group in the country. The history of their experience is an integral part of the American story as well as that of the broader Polish diaspora. Each of the ten comprehensive chapters presents a specific theme illuminated by a selection of letters, press articles, fragments of memoirs and autobiographical fiction, interviews, organizational papers, and other publications, as well as visual sources such as cartoons, posters, and photographs. Brief introductions to the documents and a "Further Reading" section offer historical context and point readers to additional resources. The book provides students and scholars with a broad understanding and an incentive for future study of the Polish experience in the United States.

DKK 510.00
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Bess of Hardwick’s Letters - Alison Wiggins - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Bess of Hardwick’s Letters - Alison Wiggins - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Bess of Hardwick''s Letters is the first book-length study of the c. 250 letters to and from the remarkable Elizabethan dynast, matriarch and builder of houses Bess of Hardwick ( c. 1527–1608). By surveying the complete correspondence, author Alison Wiggins uncovers the wide range of uses to which Bess put letters: they were vital to her engagement in the overlapping realms of politics, patronage, business, legal negotiation, news-gathering and domestic life. Much more than a case study of Bess''s letters, the discussions of language, handwriting and materiality found here have fundamental implications for the way we approach and read Renaissance letters. Wiggins offers readings which show how Renaissance letters communicated meaning through the interweaving linguistic, palaeographic and material forms, according to socio-historical context and function. The study goes beyond the letters themselves and incorporates a range of historical sources to situate circumstances of production and reception, which include Account Books, inventories, needlework and textile art and architecture. The study is therefore essential reading for scholars in historical linguistics, historical pragmatics, palaeography and manuscript studies, material culture, English literature and social history.

DKK 495.00
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Seventeenth-Century Flemish Garland Paintings - Susan Merriam - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Seventeenth-Century Flemish Garland Paintings - Susan Merriam - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Focusing on three celebrated northern European still life painters”Jan Brueghel, Daniel Seghers, and Jan Davidsz. de Heem”this book examines the emergence of the first garland painting in 1607-1608, and its subsequent transformation into a widely collected type of devotional image, curiosity, and decorative form. The first sustained study of the garland paintings, the book uses contextual and formal analysis to achieve two goals. One, it demonstrates how and why the paintings flourished in a number of contexts, ranging from an ecclesiastical center in Milan, to a Jesuit chapter house and private collections in Antwerp, to the Habsburg court in Vienna. Two, the book shows that when viewed over the course of the century, the images produced by Brueghel, Seghers and de Heem share important similarities, including an interest in self-referentiality and the exploration of pictorial form and materials. Using a range of evidence (inventories, period response, the paintings themselves), Susan Merriam shows how the pictures reconfigured the terms in which the devotional image was understood, and asked the viewer to consider in new ways how pictures are made and experienced.

DKK 579.00
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Milton's Secrecy - James Dougal Fleming - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Milton's Secrecy - James Dougal Fleming - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Scientific modernity treats interpretation as a matter of discovery. Discovery, however, may not be all that matters about interpretation. In Milton''s Secrecy, J. D. Fleming argues that the poetry and prose of John Milton (1608-1674) are about the presentation of a radically different hermeneutic model. This is based on openness within language, rather than on secrets within the world. Milton''s representations of meaning are exoteric, not esoteric; recognitive, not inventive. Milton''s Secrecy places its titular subject in opposition to the epistemology of modern natural science, and to the interpretative assumptions that science supports. At the same time, the book places Milton within early modern contexts of interpretation and knowledge. Drawing on Renaissance Neoplatonism, Tudor-Stuart ideology, and the Calvinist theory of conscience, Milton''s Secrecy argues that the attempt to theorize interpretation without discovery is not unorthodox within early modern English culture. If anything, Milton''s hostility to secrecy and discovery aligns him with his culture''s ethical and hermeneutic ideal. Milton''s Secrecy provides an historical framework for considering the theoretical validity of this ideal, by aligning it with the philosophical hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer.

DKK 552.00
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John Dee's Actions with Spirits (Volumes 1 and 2) - Christopher Whitby - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

John Dee's Actions with Spirits (Volumes 1 and 2) - Christopher Whitby - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

This was originally a two volume set which is now bound as one. Here is presented an investigation of the nature of the earliest extant records of the supposed communication with angels and spirits of John Dee (1527-1608) with the assistance of his two mediums or ''scryers'', Barnabas Saul and Edward Kelly. Volume 2 of this work is a transcription of the records in Dee''s hand contained in Sloane MS 3188, which has been transcribed only once before, by Elias Ashmole in 1672. Volume 1 is an introduction and thorough commentary to the text which is primarily explaining its many obscurities. The author describes the physical state of the manuscript and its history then continues with a biography of Dee and his scryers and some background to Renaissance occult philosophy. Further chapters address the arguments that the manuscript represents a conscious fraud or a cryptographical exercise and describe the magical system and instruments evolved during the communications or ''Actions''. The last, fascinating chapter examines Dee''s motives for believing so strongly in the truth of the Actions and suggests that a principal motive was the conviction, not held by Dee alone, that a new age was about to dawn upon earth.

DKK 677.00
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Aemilia Lanyer as Shakespeare’s Co-Author - Mark Bradbeer - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Aemilia Lanyer as Shakespeare’s Co-Author - Mark Bradbeer - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

This book presents original material which indicates that Aemilia Lanyer – female writer, feminist, and Shakespeare contemporary – is Shakespeare’s hidden and arguably most significant co-author. Once dismissed as the mere paramour of Shakespeare’s patron, Lord Hunsdon, she is demonstrated to be a most articulate forerunner of #MeToo fury. Building on previous research into the authorship of Shakespeare’s works, Bradbeer offers evidence in the form of three case studies which signal Aemilia’s collaboration with Shakespeare. The first case study matches the works of "George Wilkins" – who is currently credited as the co-author of the feminist Shakespeare play Pericles (1608) – with Aemilia Lanyer’s writing style, education, feminism and knowledge of Lord Hunsdon’s secret sexual life. The second case-study recognizes Titus Andronicus (1594), a play containing the characters Aemilius and Bassianus, to be a revision of the suppressed play Titus and Vespasian (1592), as authored by the unmarried pregnant Aemilia Bassano, as she then was. Lastly, it is argued that Shakespeare’s clowns, Bottom, Launce, Malvolio, Dromio, Dogberry, Jaques, and Moth, arise in her deeply personal war with the misogynist Thomas Nashe. Each case study reveals new aspects of Lanyer’s feminist activism and involvement in Shakespeare’s work, and allows for a deeper analysis and appreciation of the plays. This research will prove provocative to students and scholars of Shakespeare studies, English literature, literary history, and gender studies.

DKK 429.00
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The Child Witches of Olague - Lu Ann Homza - Bog - Pennsylvania State University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Child Witches of Olague - Lu Ann Homza - Bog - Pennsylvania State University Press - Plusbog.dk

In the early seventeenth century, thousands of children in Spain’s Navarre region claimed to have been bewitched. The Child Witches of Olague features the legal depositions of self-described child witches as well as their parents and victims. The volume sheds new light on Navarre’s massive witch persecution (1608–14), illuminating the tragic cost of witch hunts and opening a new window onto our understanding of early modern Iberian life. Drawing from Spanish-language sources only recently discovered, Homza translates and annotates three court cases from Olague in 1611 and 1612. Two were defamation trials involving the slur “witch,” and the third was a petition for divorce filed by an accused witch and wife. These cases give readers rare access to the voices of illiterate children in the early modern period. They also speak to the emotions of witch-hunting, with testimony about enraged, terrified parents turning to vigilante justice against neighbors. Together the cases highlight gender norms of the time, the profound honor code of early modern Navarre, and the power of children to alter adult lives. With translations of Inquisition correspondence and printed pamphlets added for context, The Child Witches of Olague offers a portrait of witch-hunting as a horrific, contagious process that fractured communities. This riveting, one-of-a-kind book will appeal to anyone interested in the history of witch hunts, life in early modern Spain, and history as revealed through court testimony.

DKK 547.00
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