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Fair and Foul: Magical Figures in Early Modern Europe

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This volume publishes the results of a project on magical fiction and figures funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, which emerged from a conference focusing on the magus and his creative capacities befo…

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Angus Vine
Early Modern Merchants and Their Books

Vine provides the first dedicated account of the literary and intellectual lives of the merchants of 17th-century Britain. Drawing on methods in book history, and presenting a series of examples chosen to…

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Rebecca Yearling
Shakespeare's Violence and the Early Modern Spectator

This book explores how Shakespeare's original audience might have responded to his scenes of violence and, in the process, makes the case that fictional violence is valuable because it tells us about ours…

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Atrocity and Early Modern Drama

Extreme violence scarred the early modern period. Contemporary commentators grappled to find language to categorize the massacres, genocides, assassinations, enslavements, sacks, rapes, riots and regicide…

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Pat Rogers
Defoe's Tour and Early Modern Britain

Authoritative yet accessible, this is the first-ever comprehensive account of a true landmark in eighteenth-century travel writing. Daniel Defoe's Tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain is constantl…

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Tiffany Stern
Ballad Business

"In this first-ever account of the broadsheet ballads sold outside playhouses, Tiffany Stern reveals how ballads were product-placed in the plays of Shakespeare and Jonson, after plays as jigs by Tar…

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Simon Jackson
George Herbert and Early Modern Musical Culture

"Described by one contemporary as the 'sweet singer of The Temple', George Herbert has long been recognised as a lover of music. Nevertheless, Herbert's own participation in seventeenth-century music…

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Harry R McCarthy
Boy Actors in Early Modern England

Boy Actors in Early Modern England: Skill and Stagecraft in the Theatre provides a new approach to the study of early modern boy actors, offering a historical re-appraisal of these performers' physical sk…

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Early Modern Bonds of Trust

The concepts of trust and risk provide important insights into the social and cultural life of early modern England but remain relatively unexplored in early modern literary studies.This collection addres…

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Suzanne Gossett, Gordon McMullan
Editing an Early Modern Play

More than half a century ago Clifford Leech published a useful essay called 'On editing one's first play', intended to 'save newly commissioned editors from a sense of frustration and an expense of time' …

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Abigail Williams
Reading It Wrong

"How eighteenth-century literature depended on misinterpretation--and how this still shapes the way we read. Reading It Wrong is a new history of eighteenth-century English literature that explores w…

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Queering Early Modern Death in England

What does queer death have to do with early modern England? This collection interrogates the profoundly queer, strange, excessive, camp and uncanny dimensions of death in early modern English literary, th…

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Heather Bamford
Unprinted

Unprinted redefines reading in early modern Iberia through a critical discussion of manuscript culture, material texts, and reading practices, challenging core ideas of book history and uncovering a deepe…

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Clare Egan
Performing Libel in the Provinces

A study of the dramatic traditions and literary features of private libel occurring in the provinces during the reign of James I. The book focuses on the libel cases between private individuals tried in t…

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Early Modern Performance Beyond the Public Stage

The first major work to explore and analyse the popular 'extra-theatrical' performances which occurred in late medieval and Renaissance England.

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Hugh Murray, John Crawfurd, Peter Gordon, Thomas Lynn
An Historical and Descriptive Account of China

Reprint of the original, first published in 1836. The Antigonos publishing house specialises in the publication of reprints of historical books. We make sure that these works are made available to the pub…

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Hugh Murray, John Crawfurd, Peter Gordon, Thomas Lynn
An Historical and Descriptive Account of China

Reprint of the original, first published in 1836. The Antigonos publishing house specialises in the publication of reprints of historical books. We make sure that these works are made available to the pub…

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Closet Drama in Early Modern England

A collection of critical scholarship on early modern closet plays between 1560-1670 that were performed in private non-playhouse settings, covering textual history, women's writing, and contemporary stagi…

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Fumiko Joo
Peony Lantern Tales

""The Story of the Peony Lantern" by the Chinese author Qu You (1347-1433) travelled across lingual, cultural, and geopolitical borders in early modern East Asia. The original tale, set in …

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Closet Drama in Early Modern England

**A collection of critical scholarship on early modern closet plays performed in private non-playhouse settings between 1560 and 1670.**Capturing a lively period of performance, this volume covers textual…

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