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Green Desire

Imagining Early Modern English Gardens

By: Rebecca Weld Bushnell

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Green Desire

Imagining Early Modern English Gardens

By: Rebecca Weld Bushnell

For Rebecca Bushnell, English gardening books tell a fascinating tale of the human love for plants and our will to make them do as we wish. These books powerfully evoke the desires of gardeners: they show us gardeners who, like poets, imagine not just what is but what should be. In particular, the earliest English garden books, such as Thomas Hill's The Gardeners Labyrinth or Hugh Platt's Floraes Paradise, mix magical practices with mundane recipes even when the authors insist that they rely completely on their own experience in these matters. Like early modern "books of secrets," early gardening manuals often promise the reader power to alter the essential properties of plants: to make the gillyflower double, to change the lily's hue, or to grow a cherry without a stone. Green Desire describes the innovative design of the old manuals, examining how writers and printers marketed them as fiction as well as practical advice for aspiring gardeners. Along with this attention to the delights of reading, it analyzes the strange dignity and pleasure of garden labor and the division of men's and women's roles in creating garden art. The book ends by recounting the heated debate over how much people could do to create marvels in their own gardens. For writers and readers alike, these green desires inspired dreams of power and self-improvement, fantasies of beauty achieved without work, and hopes for order in an unpredictable world—not so different from the dreams of gardeners today.

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Green Desire

Imagining Early Modern English Gardens

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Prophesying Tragedy

Sign and Voice in Sophocles' Theban Plays

By: Rebecca Weld Bushnell

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Prophesying Tragedy

Sign and Voice in Sophocles' Theban Plays

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Prophesying Tragedy investigates the political and epistemological dimensions of the conflict between heroes and prophets in homer's Iliad and Sophocles' Theban plays, Antigone, Oedipus the King, and Oedipus at Colonus. Rebecca Weld Bushnell asserts that an understanding of tragic fate, as represented in prophecy, can be achieved through an awareness of the historical relationship of tragedy to culture and politics, for the tragic hero's interpretation and defiance of prophecy both reflected and influenced the political abuse of oracles and omens.

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1501745581

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9781501745584

Tragedies of Tyrants

Political Thought and Theater in the English Renaissance

By: Rebecca Weld Bushnell

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Political Thought and Theater in the English Renaissance

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1501745573

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Tragedies of Tyrants

Political Thought and Theater in the English Renaissance

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Political Thought and Theater in the English Renaissance

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