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Author : Sophia B. Blaydes
Publisher : Scholarly Title
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Sir William Davenant written by Sophia B. Blaydes and published by Scholarly Title. This book was released on 1986 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R.E. Pritchard
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
ISBN 13 : 1399093509
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare's Other Son? written by R.E. Pritchard and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2022-05-05 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir William Davenant (1606-1668) was in his time widely known as 'Davenant the Poet'. The son of an Oxford vintner (or quite possibly the natural son of his godfather, William Shakespeare), he wrote poems for and about the Court of Charles I, and, despite losing his nose to mercury treatment for the clap, which other people thought funny, went on to replace Ben Jonson as Poet Laureate and collaborate with Inigo Jones in composing spectacular Court masques, as well as writing many successful plays -- a few fashionably blood-thirsty, most showing a real comic gift, humanity and sympathy with 'ordinary life'. In the Civil War, he earned a knighthood as an especially successful gun-runner for the Royalists, before escaping to Paris, where he worked on an epic poem. Then sent off by Charles II to colonize Virginia but captured by the Parliamentarians, he escaped execution but was imprisoned for five years. With the Restoration, he practically re-invented English theatre, with the first English opera, women actors, movable scenery and the proscenium arch, as well as reviving interest in Shakespeare with inventive adaptations. Energetic, affable and resilient, he was an appealing and well-liked character. Celebrated and important in his day, Davenant is now surprisingly little known. This enterprising study introduces modern readers to his wit, poetry, and growing scepticism as to Court and aristocratic values, and his developing feminist sympathies. Here, select excerpts and summaries bring this entertaining writer to a new, wider audience.
Author : Ingo Berensmeyer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110444887
Total Pages : 750 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Handbook of English Renaissance Literature written by Ingo Berensmeyer and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook of English Renaissance literature serves as a reference for both students and scholars, introducing recent debates and developments in early modern studies. Using new theoretical perspectives and methodological tools, the volume offers exemplary close readings of canonical and less well-known texts from all significant genres between c. 1480 and 1660. Its systematic chapters address questions about editing Renaissance texts, the role of translation, theatre and drama, life-writing, science, travel and migration, and women as writers, readers and patrons. The book will be of particular interest to those wishing to expand their knowledge of the early modern period beyond Shakespeare.
Author : Alfred Harbage
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512816655
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)
Download or read book Sir William Davenant written by Alfred Harbage and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First thorough biography of the colorful and gifted seventeenth-century playwright who was also the father of English opera, the first to use English actresses in his plays, and the creator of modern stage construction.
Author : Takashi Yoshinaka
Publisher : DS Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843842653
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Marvell's Ambivalence written by Takashi Yoshinaka and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2011 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh reading of Marvell's most important works, exploring the variety and complexity of his approaches to contemporary religious and political events. Andrew Marvell's celebrated poetic ambivalence to the philosophical, political and religious controversies of mid-seventeenth century England is the subject of this book, which includes major new historical readings of his most important lyrics and political verse, incorporating material from hitherto unpublished contemporary manuscripts. It places the poetic imagination of Marvell and his contemporaries - such as John Milton, Henry Vaughan, Abraham Cowley, Margaret Cavendish, William Davenant, and Thomas Fairfax - into the context of the turbulent public events of the time; and demonstrates Marvell's hitherto unnoticed connection with the liberal, rational and sceptical thinkers associated with the Great Tew circle. It also argues that Marvell's "middle way" in theology is bound up with his ambivalence towards the Calvinist God. Takashi Yoshinaka took his D.Phil. at the University of Oxford, and is Professor of English in the Graduate School of Letters, Hiroshima University.
Author : Anthony Welch
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300178867
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Renaissance Epic and the Oral Past written by Anthony Welch and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores why Renaissance epic poetry clung to fictions of song and oral performance in an age of growing literacy. Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poets, Anthony Welch argues, came to view their written art as newly distinct from the oral cultures of their ancestors. Welch shows how the period’s writers imagined lost civilizations built on speech and song—from Homeric Greece and Celtic Britain to the Americas—and struggled to reconcile this oral inheritance with an early modern culture of the book. Welch’s wide-ranging study offers a new perspective on Renaissance Europe’s epic literature and its troubled relationship with antiquity.
Author : Donald R. Kelley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521590693
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (96 download)
Download or read book The Historical Imagination in Early Modern Britain written by Donald R. Kelley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-09-13 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distinguished historians and literary scholars explore the overlap, interplay, and interaction between history and fiction.
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Total Pages : 406 pages
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Download or read book University of California Publications in Modern Philology written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Fritz Winther
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Total Pages : 390 pages
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Download or read book Wilhelm Busch als dichter, künstler, psychologe und philosoph written by Fritz Winther and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philip Major
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317010396
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Thomas Killigrew and the Seventeenth-Century English Stage written by Philip Major and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite his significant influence as a courtier, diplomat, playwright and theatre manager, Thomas Killigrew (1612-1683) remains a comparatively elusive and neglected figure. The original essays in this interdisciplinary volume shine new light on a singular, contradictory Englishman 400 years after his birth. They increase our knowledge and deepen our understanding not only of Killigrew himself, but of seventeenth-century dramaturgy, and its complex relationship to court culture and to evolving aesthetic tastes. The first book on Killigrew since 1930, this study re-examines the significant phases of his life and career: the little-known playwriting years of the 1630s; his long exile during the 1640s and 1650s, and its personal, political and literary repercussions; and the period following the Restoration, when, with Sir William Davenant, he enjoyed a monopoly of the London stage. These fresh accounts of Killigrew build on the recent resurgence of interest in royalists and the royalist exile, and underscore literary scholars' continued fascination with the Restoration stage. In the process, they question dominant assumptions about neatly demarcated seventeenth-century chronological, geographic and cultural boundaries. What emerges is a figure who confounds as often as he justifies traditional labels of dilettante, cavalier wit and swindler.
Author : Thomas Humphry Ward
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 530 pages
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Download or read book The English Poets written by Thomas Humphry Ward and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Anderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 912 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Works of the British Poets written by Robert Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1795 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward Tayler
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 9781462091539
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Literary Criticism of 17Th Century England written by Edward Tayler and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-07-07 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of writings by English Renaissance poets and essayists includes poems and essays by Ben Jonson, George Chapman and Samuel Daniel. Excerpts from Francis Bacon, John Milton, William Drummond, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell, Abraham Cowley. The book also surveys the origins, range and development of literary taste and practice in 16th and 17th century England. Then, as now, poets anchored their lines between the poles of tradition and inspiration, loyalty and liberty, art and truth. Edward W. Tayler is the emeritus Lionel trilling Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. His other books include Nature and Art in the Renaissance, Milton Poetry, and Donne Idea of a Woman. p> he selection is excellent?The introduction is most admirable and ?Tayler wisely is generous with explanations and identifications?His most volume supplants Sringarn as THE best collection of seventeenth-century criticism.?/p> Seventeenth-Century News Winter 1967
Author : Joel Elias Spingarn
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century ... written by Joel Elias Spingarn and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Wells Moulton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 812 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors: 1639-1729 written by Charles Wells Moulton and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Wells Moulton
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 812 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)
Download or read book 1639-1729 written by Charles Wells Moulton and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Erin Webster
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019259057X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book The Curious Eye written by Erin Webster and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Curious Eye explores early modern debates over two related questions: what are the limits of human vision, and to what extent can these limits be overcome by technological enhancement? In our everyday lives, we rely on optical technology to provide us with information about visually remote spaces even as we question the efficacy and ethics of such pursuits. But the debates surrounding the subject of technologically mediated vision have their roots in a much older literary tradition in which the ability to see beyond the limits of natural human vision is associated with philosophical and spiritual insight as well as social and political control. The Curious Eye provides insight into the subject of optically-mediated vision by returning to the literature of the seventeenth century, the historical moment in which human visual capacity in the West was first extended through the application of optical technologies to the eye. Bringing imaginative literary works by Francis Bacon, John Milton, Margaret Cavendish, and Aphra Behn together with optical and philosophical treatises by Johannes Kepler, René Descartes, Robert Hooke, Robert Boyle, and Isaac Newton, the volume explores the social and intellectual impact of the new optical technologies of the seventeenth century on its literature. At the same time, it demonstrates that social, political, and literary concerns are not peripheral to the optical science of the period but, rather, an integral part of it, the legacy of which we continue to experience.
