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The Affectionate Shepherd

Celebrating Richard Barnfield

By: Richard Barnfield

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The Affectionate Shepherd

Celebrating Richard Barnfield

By: Richard Barnfield

Despite various influential writers' and critics' high praise of the poetry of Richard Barnfield (1574-1620/26?), his work has long been marginalized in English literary history because of its pervasive homoeroticism. Current interest in literary representations of gender and sexuality, in dissent from dominant ideologies, and in the early modern possibilities of same-sexual subjectivities, accounts for the renewed interest in Barnfield's poetry. This new collection of essays seeks to provide a forum for his evaluation and reinterpretation in accord with his topicality for literary studies today.

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404

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Susquehanna University Press

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1575910497

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9781575910499

Accrington Through The 19th Century

By: Richard Shaw Crossley

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Accrington Through The 19th Century

By: Richard Shaw Crossley

A series of 100 articles appeared in the Accrington Observer in 1925-1927 under the title Accrington A Century Ago. Written By Richard Shaw Crossley with the help of Richard Ainsworth, they featured life and personalities of Accrington in the early part of the 19th century. For anyone researching their ancestors in Accrington there is a wealth of information and biographical details.

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306

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Lulu.com

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1300775963

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9781300775966

English Verse. Chaucer to Burns

By: Richard Henry Stoddard,William James Linton

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English Verse. Chaucer to Burns

By: Richard Henry Stoddard,William James Linton

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

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390

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385330270

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9783385330276

Thomas Heywood's Theatre, 1599–1639

Locations, Translations, and Conflict

By: Richard Rowland

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Thomas Heywood's Theatre, 1599–1639

Locations, Translations, and Conflict

By: Richard Rowland

In this major reassessment of his subject, Richard Rowland restores Thomas Heywood-playwright, miscellanist and translator-to his rightful place in early modern theatre history. Rowland contextualizes and historicizes this important contemporary of Shakespeare, locating him on the geographic and cultural map of London through the business Heywood conducts in his writing. Arguing that Heywood's theatrical output deserves the same attention and study that has been directed towards Shakespeare, Jonson, and more recently Middleton, this book looks at three periods of Heywood's creativity: the end of the Elizabethan era and the beginning of the Jacobean, the mid 1620s, and the mid to late 1630s. By locating the works of those years precisely in the political and cultural conflicts to which they respond, Rowland initiates a major reassessment of the remarkable achievements of this playwright. Rowland also pays attention to Heywood in performance, seeing this writer as a jobbing playwright working in an industry that depended on making writing work. Finally, the author explores how Heywood participated in the civic life of London in his writings beyond the playhouse. Here Rowland examines pamphlets, translations, and the sequence of lord mayor's pageants that Heywood produced as the political crisis deepened. Offering close readings of Heywood that establish the range, quality and theatrical significance of the writing, Thomas Heywood's Theatre, 1599-1639 fits a fascinating piece into the emerging picture of the 'complete' early modern English theatre.

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384

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Routledge

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1351879162

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9781351879163

'Ungainefull Arte'

Poetry, Patronage, and Print in the Early Modern Era

By: Richard A. McCabe

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Poetry, Patronage, and Print in the Early Modern Era

By: Richard A. McCabe

From antiquity to the Renaissance the pursuit of patronage was central to the literary career, yet relationships between poets and patrons were commonly conflicted, if not antagonistic, necessitating compromise even as they proffered stability and status. Was it just a matter of speaking lies to power? The present study looks beyond the rhetoric of dedication to examine how traditional modes of literary patronage responded to the challenge of print, as the economies of gift-exchange were forced to compete with those of the marketplace. It demonstrates how awareness of such divergent milieux prompted innovative modes of authorial self-representation, inspired or frustrated the desire for laureation, and promoted the remarkable self-reflexivity of Early Modern verse. By setting English Literature from Caxton to Jonson in the context of the most influential Classical and Italian exemplars it affords a wide comparative context for the reassessment of patronage both as a social practice and a literary theme.

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415

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Oxford University Press

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0191028940

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9780191028946

Shakespeare's Perfume

Sodomy and Sublimity in the Sonnets, Wilde, Freud, and Lacan

By: Richard Halpern

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Shakespeare's Perfume

Sodomy and Sublimity in the Sonnets, Wilde, Freud, and Lacan

By: Richard Halpern

Starting with St. Paul's argument that the Greeks were afflicted with homosexuality to punish their excessive love of statues, Richard Halpern uncovers a tradition in which aesthetic experience gives birth to the sexual—and thus reverses the Freudian thesis that erotic desire is sublimated into art. Rather, Halpern argues, sodomy was implicated with aesthetic categories from the very start, as he traces a connection between sodomy and the unrepresentable that runs from Shakespeare's Sonnets to Oscar Wilde's novella The Portrait of Mr. W.H., Freud's famous essay on Leonardo da Vinci, and Jacques Lacan's seminar on the ethics of psychoanalysis. Drawing on theology, alchemy, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and literary criticism, Shakespeare's Perfume explores how the history of aesthetics and the history of sexuality are fundamentally connected.

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134

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812202155

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9780812202151

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The Affectionate Shepherd

The Affectionate Shepherd

Accrington Through The 19th Century

Accrington Through The 19th Century

English Verse. Chaucer to Burns

English Verse. Chaucer to Burns

Thomas Heywood's Theatre, 1599–1639

Thomas Heywood's Theatre, 1599–1639

'Ungainefull Arte'

'Ungainefull Arte'

Shakespeare's Perfume

Shakespeare's Perfume

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