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  • Five Elizabethan progress entertainments
    Leah Scragg
    Designed to introduce the student or general reader to a largely unfamiliar area of Elizabethan theatrical activity, Five Elizabethan progress entertainments focuses on a group of entertainments mounted for the monarch in the closing years of her reign. Richly annotated, and prefaced by a substantial introduction, the texts enable an understanding of the motives underlying not ...
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    28,87 €

  • Love’s Metamorphosis
    Leah Scragg
    First performed in the 1580s, Love’s Metamorphosis is widely regarded as the most elegantly structured of Lyly’s plays. The plot looks back to the account of Erisichthon’s punishment for the desecration of Ceres’ grove in Ovid’s Metamorphosis, but the Ovidian story is woven into a wider network of interests turning upon aspects of love. A series of allusions to earlier Lylian c...
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  • Mother Bombie
    John Lyly / Leah Scragg
    Mother Bombie is unique among Lyly’s comedies in its urban setting and focus upon middle and lower class concerns. The play turns on the tissue of misconceptions surrounding the efforts of four fathers to secure socially advantageous marriages for their heirs, and the determination of their young servants to exploit their masters’ misguided aspirations for their own advantage....
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    25,93 €

  • The Woman in the Moon
    John Lyly / Leah Scragg
    His last known work and the only one to be written primarily in verse, The Woman in the Moon is among Lyly’s most entertaining plays. Turning upon the construction of the female character, it has been read as highly misogynistic, and as a sixteenth-century feminist manifesto. The biblical version of the creation of woman is overturned in the first scene when the play’s supreme...
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    28,76 €

  • Discovering Shakespeare’s Meaning
    Leah Scragg
     Discusses how meaning is generated in Shakespearian drama and the kinds of approaches that might lead to a fuller understanding of the plays. Each chapter focuses on one aspect of the dramatic composition, such as verse and prose, imagery and spectacle, and the use of soliloquy, and explores how this contributes to the overall meaning. ...
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    98,95 €