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  • Performing Gods in Classical Antiquity and the Age of Shakespeare
    Dustin W. Dixon / John S. Garrison
    The gods have much to tell us about performance. When human actors portray deities onstage, such divine epiphanies reveal not only the complexities of mortals playing gods but also the nature of theatrical spectacle itself. The very impossibility of rendering the gods in all their divine splendor in a truly convincing way lies at the intersection of divine power and the power o...
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    51,27 €

  • Performing Gods in Classical Antiquity and the Age of Shakespeare
    Dustin W. Dixon / John S. Garrison
    The gods have much to tell us about performance. When human actors portray deities onstage, such divine epiphanies reveal not only the complexities of mortals playing gods but also the nature of theatrical spectacle itself. The very impossibility of rendering the gods in all their divine splendor in a truly convincing way lies at the intersection of divine power and the power o...
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    167,56 €

  • Friendship and Queer Theory in the Renaissance
    John S. Garrison
    Studies of Renaissance literature frequently frame marriage as signalling the resolution of narrative conflicts and the necessary end of comedies. This book proposes that we think beyond the all-pervasive figure of the couple, too often framed as the core unit of social relations. The author challenges these assumptions and suggests new framewor ...
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    82,93 €

  • Shakespeare and the Afterlife
    John S. Garrison
    The question of what happens after death was a vital one in Shakespeare’s time, as it is today. And, like today, the answers were by no means universally agreed upon. Early moderns held surprisingly diverse beliefs about the afterlife and about how earthly life affected one’s fate after death. Was death akin to a sleep where one did not wake until judgment day? Were sick bodies...
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    128,52 €

  • Shakespeare and the Afterlife
    John S. Garrison
    The question of what happens after death was a vital one in Shakespeare’s time, as it is today. And, like today, the answers were by no means universally agreed upon. Early moderns held surprisingly diverse beliefs about the afterlife and about how earthly life affected one’s fate after death. Was death akin to a sleep where one did not wake until judgment day? Were sick bodies...
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    39,72 €

  • Friendship and Queer Theory in the Renaissance
    John S. Garrison
    Studies of Renaissance literature frequently frame marriage as signalling the resolution of narrative conflicts and the necessary end of comedies. This book proposes that we think beyond the all-pervasive figure of the couple, too often framed as the core unit of social relations. The author challenges these assumptions and suggests new frameworks within which to analyze litera...
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    302,08 €