The Ship of Fools Tradition in Early Modern England
Title | The Ship of Fools Tradition in Early Modern England PDF eBook |
Author | Turi Zita Ágnes |
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Release | 2014 |
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The Ship of Fools
Title | The Ship of Fools PDF eBook |
Author | Sebastian Brant |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 420 |
Release | 2012-07-12 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 0486143120 |
Definitive English language edition of influential (1494) allegorical classic. Sweeping satire of weaknesses, vices, grotesqueries of the day. Includes 114 royalty-free illustrations.
Shakespeare’s Hobby-Horse and Early Modern Popular Culture
Title | Shakespeare’s Hobby-Horse and Early Modern Popular Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Natália Pikli |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 287 |
Release | 2021-08-26 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1000431614 |
This book explores the ways in which the early modern hobby-horse featured in different productions of popular culture between the 1580s and 1630s. Natália Pikli approaches this study with a thorough and interdisciplinary examination of hobby-horse references, with commentary on the polysemous uses of the word, offers an informative background to reconsider well-known texts by Shakespeare and others, and provides an overview on the workings of cultural memory regarding popular culture in early modern England. The book will appeal to those with interest in early modern drama and theatre, dramaturgy, popular culture, cultural memory, and iconography.
The Circulation of Knowledge in Early Modern English Literature
Title | The Circulation of Knowledge in Early Modern English Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Sophie Chiari |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 299 |
Release | 2016-03-09 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1317038169 |
With its many rites of initiation (religious, educational, professional or sexual), Elizabethan and Jacobean education emphasized both imitation and discovery in a struggle to bring population to a minimal literacy, while more demanding techniques were being developed for the cultural elite. The Circulation of Knowledge in Early Modern English Literature examines the question of transmission and of the educational procedures in16th- and 17th-century England by emphasizing deviant practices that questioned, reassessed or even challenged pre-established cultural norms and traditions. This volume thus alternates theoretical analyses with more specific readings in order to investigate the multiple ways in which ideas then circulated. It also addresses the ways in which the dominant cultural forms of the literature and drama of Shakespeare’s age were being subverted. In this regard, its various contributors analyze how the interrelated processes of initiation, transmission and transgression operated at the core of early modern English culture, and how Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare and Thomas Middleton, or lesser known poets and playwrights such as Thomas Howell, Thomas Edwards and George Villiers, managed to appropriate these cultural processes in their works.
Representing the Plague in Early Modern England
Title | Representing the Plague in Early Modern England PDF eBook |
Author | Rebecca Totaro |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 269 |
Release | 2010-09-13 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 1136963243 |
This collection offers readers a timely encounter with the historical experience of people adapting to a pandemic emergency and the corresponding narrative representation of that crisis, as early modern writers transformed the plague into literature. The essays examine the impact of the plague on health, politics, and religion as well as on the plays, prose fiction, and plague bills that stand as witnesses to the experience of a society devastated by contagious disease. Readers will find physicians and moralists wrestling with the mysteries of the disease; erotic escapades staged in plague-time plays; the poignant prose works of William Bullein and Thomas Dekker; the bodies of monarchs who sought to protect themselves from plague; the chameleon-like nature of the plague as literal disease and as metaphor; and future strains of plague, literary and otherwise, which we may face in the globally-minded, technology-dependent, and ecologically-awakened twenty-first century. The bubonic plague compelled change in all aspects of lived experience in Early Modern England, but at the same time, it opened space for writers to explore new ideas and new literary forms—not all of them somber or horrifying and some of them downright hilarious. By representing the plague for their audiences, these writers made an epidemic calamity intelligible: for them, the dreaded disease could signify despair but also hope, bewilderment but also a divine plan, quarantine but also liberty, death but also new life.
Literature and Culture in Early Modern London
Title | Literature and Culture in Early Modern London PDF eBook |
Author | Lawrence Manley |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 638 |
Release | 1995-05-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521461610 |
The literature of early modern London, and its contribution to the development of metropolitan culture.
Travelling around Cultures
Title | Travelling around Cultures PDF eBook |
Author | Zsolt Győri |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2017-01-06 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1443869333 |
Culture has always relied on art, just as artists have been dependent on culture as a problem field to draw inspiration from and as a store of social, ideological, and political practices to endorse or criticise. This volume addresses this dynamic reality by investigating how literary, cinematic, and artistic practices expose the often invisible structures and discourses which underlie the values, concepts, rites, and myths specific to Anglo-American cultural environments. On the one hand, the chapters (re-)visit classical, as well as contemporary, authors, including Charles Dickens, Emily Dickinson, Janice Galloway and Matthew Kneale, through the lenses of culture, to explore how their works become social commentaries and a cultural diagnosis. On the other hand, they explore the politics and ideological effects of cultural practices exemplified by such matters as censorship, reading communities, fan fiction and travelogues.