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Collects leading scholars' insight on the plays, production, music, audiences, and political and aesthetic concerns
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Reading a play and watching it performed onstage are quite different experiences. Likewise, studying a country's th
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This book is about Jewish language. The fact that Jews speak and write in distinctive ways is well known. (The journalis
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In a late 1590s atlas proof from cartographer John Speed, Queen Elizabeth appears, crowned and brandishing a ruler as th
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Fabulous yet fierce, imperious yet impetuous, boss yet bitchy—divas are figures of paradox. Their place in culture is eq
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Explores the theater’s unprecedented focus on the contemporary city in early modern London. Examines plays by Shakespear
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Studies the implications of laughter of the French Dramatic stage from the ridiculous to the absurd and the pain of laug
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Examines the political rhetoric of Mary I, Elizabeth and James, reported gallows confessions of mother convicts and the
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The deaths of husbands radically changed women’s lives in the early modern period. While losing male protection, widows
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One of the outstanding painters of the nineteenth century, Francisco Laso (1823–1869) set out to give visual form to mod
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