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The Politics of Mirth

Jonson, Herrick, Milton, Marvell, and the Defense of Old Holiday Pastimes

By: Leah S. Marcus

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The Politics of Mirth

Jonson, Herrick, Milton, Marvell, and the Defense of Old Holiday Pastimes

By: Leah S. Marcus

Leah Marcus's The Politics of Mirth: Jonson, Herrick, Milton, Marvell, and the Defense of Old Holiday Pastimes is a fascinating study of why James and Charles promoted some types of rural sport and festival and of how certain literary texts participated in promoting or critiquing royal policy. . . . Marcus provocatively links texts not often studied in conjunction with one another, and she provides strong and detailed readings of those texts."—Jean E. Howard

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University of Chicago Press

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0226504522

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9780226504520

How Shakespeare Became Colonial

Editorial Tradition and the British Empire

By: Leah S. Marcus

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How Shakespeare Became Colonial

Editorial Tradition and the British Empire

By: Leah S. Marcus

In this fascinating book, Marcus argues that the colonial context in which Shakespeare was edited and disseminated during the heyday of British empire has left a mark on Shakespeare’s texts to the present day. Marcus traces important ways in which the colonial enterprise of setting forth the best possible Shakespeare for world consumption has continued to be visible in the recent treatment of Shakespeare’s texts today, despite our belief that we are global or post-colonial in approach.

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177

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Taylor & Francis

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1315298163

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9781315298160

Unediting the Renaissance

Shakespeare, Marlowe and Milton

By: Leah Marcus

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Unediting the Renaissance

Shakespeare, Marlowe and Milton

By: Leah Marcus

Unediting the Renaissance is a path-breaking and timely look at the issues of the textual editing of Renaissance works. Both erudite and accessible, it will be a fascinating and provocative read for any Renaissance student or scholar. Leah Marcus argues that `bad' versions of Renaissance texts such as Shakespeare's First Folio should not be viewed as mutilated copies of originals, but rather reputable alternatives encoding differences in ideology, cultural meaning and other elements of performance. Marcus focuses on key Renaissance works- Dr Faustus, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Taming of the Shrew, Hamlet and poems by Milton, Donne and Herrick - to re-exmaine how editorial intervention shapes the texts which are widely accepted as `definitive'. Examining the cultural attitudes, fears and influences which influence textual editors, from the seveteenth century to the present day, Marcus sheds new light on a previously unexamined aspect of Renaissance studies. A lively critique of current theoretical practices, Unediting the Renaissance will shift the ways in which Shakespeare and his contemporaries are edited and read.

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Routledge

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1134855923

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9781134855926

Young Queens

Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power

By: Leah Redmond Chang

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Young Queens

Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power

By: Leah Redmond Chang

Finalist for The Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Biography) One of the New Yorker’s Best Books of 2023 One of BookRiot's Best Biographies of 2023 Longlisted for the 2024 Women's Prize in Nonfiction The boldly original, dramatic intertwined story of Catherine de’ Medici, Elisabeth de Valois, and Mary, Queen of Scots—three queens exercising power in a world dominated by men. Orphaned from infancy, Catherine de’ Medici endured a tumultuous childhood. Married to the French king, she was widowed by forty, only to become the power behind the French throne during a period of intense civil strife. In 1546, Catherine gave birth to a daughter, Elisabeth de Valois, who would become Queen of Spain. Two years later, Catherine welcomed to her nursery the beguiling young Mary Queen of Scots, who would later become her daughter-in-law. Together, Catherine, Elisabeth, and Mary lived through the sea changes that transformed sixteenth-century Europe, a time of expanding empires, religious discord, and populist revolt, as concepts of nationhood began to emerge and ideas of sovereignty inched closer to absolutism. They would learn that to rule as a queen was to wage a constant war against the deeply entrenched misogyny of their time. Following the intertwined stories of the three women from girlhood through young adulthood, Leah Redmond Chang's Young Queens paints a picture of a world in which a woman could wield power at the highest level yet remain at the mercy of the state, her body serving as the currency of empire and dynasty, sacrificed to the will of husband, family, kingdom.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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0374720932

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9780374720933

How Shakespeare Became Colonial

Editorial Traditions and the British Empire

By: Leah Sinanoglou Marcus

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How Shakespeare Became Colonial

Editorial Traditions and the British Empire

By: Leah Sinanoglou Marcus

In this fascinating book, Leah Marcus argues that the colonial context in which Shakespeare was edited and disseminated during the heyday of British empire has left a mark on Shakespeare's texts to the present day. Shakespeare was presented as exemplary of British genius and those who edited and shaped the texts were very aware of the potential political and cultural impact this could have. Marcus traces important ways in which the colonial enterprise of setting forth the best possible Shakespeare for world consumption has continued to be visible in the recent treatment of Shakespeare's texts today, despite our belief that we are global or post-colonial in approach.

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1315298147

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The Politics of Mirth

Jonson, Herrick, Milton, Marvell, and the Defense of Old Holiday Pastimes

By: Leah Sinanoglou Marcus

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Jonson, Herrick, Milton, Marvell, and the Defense of Old Holiday Pastimes

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University of Chicago Press

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The Politics of Mirth

Jonson, Herrick, Milton, Marvell, and the Defense of Old Holiday Pastimes

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Jonson, Herrick, Milton, Marvell, and the Defense of Old Holiday Pastimes

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Unediting the Renaissance

Shakespeare, Marlowe and Milton

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Shakespeare, Marlowe and Milton

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Book's by Leah S. Marcus

The Politics of Mirth

The Politics of Mirth

How Shakespeare Became Colonial

How Shakespeare Became Colonial

Unediting the Renaissance

Unediting the Renaissance

Young Queens

Young Queens

How Shakespeare Became Colonial

How Shakespeare Became Colonial

The Politics of Mirth

The Politics of Mirth

The Politics of Mirth

The Politics of Mirth

Unediting the Renaissance

Unediting the Renaissance

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