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  • Stolen Goods in British Detective Fiction
    Lisa Hopkins
    This book pushes beyond the focus of murder mysteries in British detective fiction to illuminate elements of what is perhaps the next most pertinent subgenre: stories of burglary and theft. Chapters cover work including E. W. Hornung’s Raffles stories, Sherlock Holmes’s investigation of as well as his own commitment of theft, Agatha Christie’s novels, and more. Outside of the t...
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    166,97 €

  • Bare Ruined Choirs
    Lisa Hopkins
    The book discusses the demarcation of secular and sacred territory in early modern English drama. It focuses primarily on four plays, Thorney Abbey, A Knack to Know a Knave, A Shoemaker a Gentleman and The Lovesick King, but puts these in dialogue with Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear and Doctor Faustus. ...
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    35,47 €

  • The Queen, or the Excellency of Her Sex
    Lisa Hopkins
    A scholarly, modern-spelling edition of a play by the Caroline dramatist John Ford, which has not seen much previous critical attention due to being accidentally omitted from the 1652 edition of his complete works. The introduction resituates the play in the Ford canon and explores how it spoke to audiences when it was first composed in the late 1620s, when it tapped into the c...
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    157,80 €

  • The Places Where There Are Spaces
    Lisa Hopkins
    Explore mindfulness, well-being, and the art of living a created life in this collection of thought-provoking and motivational stories. Discover the benefits of embracing the present moment and savoring the beauty in unplanned, non-specific moments that enrich our lives. Drawing from her 25-year career as a performing artist and educator, and her expertise as a life coach, Coac...
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    20,98 €

  • The Places Where There Are Spaces
    Lisa Hopkins
    Explore mindfulness, well-being, and the art of living a created life in this collection of thought-provoking and motivational stories. Discover the benefits of embracing the present moment and savoring the beauty in unplanned, non-specific moments that enrich our lives. Drawing from her 25-year career as a performing artist and educator, and her expertise as a life coach, Coac...
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    31,54 €

  • Ocular Proof and the Spectacled Detective in British Crime Fiction
    Lisa Hopkins
    From Sherlock Holmes onwards, fictional detectives use lenses: Ocular Proof and the Spectacled Detective in British Crime Fiction argues that these visual aids are metaphors for ways of seeing, and that they help us to understand not only individual detectives’ methods but also the kinds of cultural work detective fiction may do.  It is sometimes regarded as a socially conserva...
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    144,94 €

  • Ocular Proof and the Spectacled Detective in British Crime Fiction
    Lisa Hopkins
    From Sherlock Holmes onwards, fictional detectives use lenses: Ocular Proof and the Spectacled Detective in British Crime Fiction argues that these visual aids are metaphors for ways of seeing, and that they help us to understand not only individual detectives’ methods but also the kinds of cultural work detective fiction may do.  It is sometimes regarded as a socially conserva...
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    48,39 €

  • TRIGGERED REACTIONS CONQUERED
    Lisa Hopkins
    My innocence, gone at 10 years old. Rape, molestation, alcoholism, lies, abomination, confusion and insanity. Just to name a few circumstances that I had encountered. It all started when I was 10 years old. How does a person overcome this type of turmoil, what would I have to do to endure. Should I run and hide, bury my face in the sand with my hands on top of my head. Many hav...
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    28,92 €

  • Burial Plots in British Detective Fiction
    Lisa Hopkins
    Burial Plots in British Detective Fiction offers an overview of the ways in which the past is brought back to the surface and influences the present in British detective fiction written between 1920 and 2020. Exploring a range of authors including Agatha Christie, Patricia Wentworth, Val McDermid, Sarah Caudwell, Georgette Heyer, Dorothy Dunnett, Jonathan Stroud and Ben Aaronov...
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    134,42 €

  • Magical Transformations on the Early Modern English Stage
    Helen Ostovich / Lisa Hopkins
    Considering a variety of questions centering on magic and, or in, performance, this volume furthers the debate about the cultural work performed by representations of magic on the early modern English stage. Collectively the essays show that the idea of transformation applies not only to the objects and subjects of magic, but that the plays themsel ...
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    82,59 €

  • Burial Plots in British Detective Fiction
    Lisa Hopkins
    Burial Plots in British Detective Fiction offers an overview of the ways in which the past is brought back to the surface and influences the present in British detective fiction written between 1920 and 2020. Exploring a range of authors including Agatha Christie, Patricia Wentworth, Val McDermid, Sarah Caudwell, Georgette Heyer, Dorothy Dunnett, Jonathan Stroud and Ben Aaronov...
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    132,60 €

  • After Austen
    Lisa Hopkins
    This collection of twelve new essays examines some of what Jane Austen has become in the two hundred years since her death.  Some of the chapters explore adaptations or repurposings of her work while others trace her influence on a surprising variety of different kinds of writing, sometimes even when there is no announced or obvious debt to her.  In so doing they also inevitabl...
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    195,31 €

  • Bess of Hardwick
    Lisa Hopkins
    Bess of Hardwick was one of the most extraordinary figures of Elizabethan England. She was born the daughter of a country squire. But by the end of her long life (which a recent redating of her birth suggests was even longer than previously thought) she was the richest woman in England outside the royal family, had risen to the rank of countess and seen two of her daughters d...
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    169,80 €

  • After Austen
    Lisa Hopkins
    This collection of twelve new essays examines some of what Jane Austen has become in the two hundred years since her death.  Some of the chapters explore adaptations or repurposings of her work while others trace her influence on a surprising variety of different kinds of writing, sometimes even when there is no announced or obvious debt to her.  In so doing they also inevitabl...
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    193,62 €

  • Renaissance Drama on the Edge
    Lisa Hopkins
    Recurring to the governing idea of Shakespeare on the Edge, Hopkins expands the parameters of her investigation beyond England to include the Continent, and beyond Shakespeare to include dramatists ranging from Christopher Marlowe to John Ford. Hopkins also expands her notion of liminality to explore not only geographical borders, but also the intersection of the material and t...
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    66,71 €

  • Shakespearean Allusion in Crime Fiction
    Lisa Hopkins
    This book explores why crime fiction so often alludes to Shakespeare. It ranges widely over a variety of authors including classic golden age crime writers such as the four ’queens of crime’ (Allingham, Christie, Marsh, Sayers), Nicholas Blake and Edmund Crispin, as well as more recent authors such as Reginald Hill, Kate Atkinson and Val McDermid.  It also looks at the fondness...
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    64,97 €

  • The Lady’s Trial
    Lisa Hopkins
    The Lady’s Trial, Ford’s last play, encapsulates the final development of his own unique theatrical aesthetic whilst looking back to the drama of his youth, most notably Othello, whose story is here rewritten. In Ford’s version, the supposedly wronged husband, the victorious general Auria, does not simply take the word of his friend, the well-intentioned but overly suspicious...
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    28,67 €

  • Magical Transformations on the Early Modern English Stage
    Helen Ostovich / Lisa Hopkins
    Magical Transformations on the Early Modern Stage furthers the debate about the cultural work performed by representations of magic on the early modern English stage. It considers the ways in which performances of magic reflect and feed into a sense of national identity, both in the form of magic contests and in its recurrent linkage to national defence; the extent to which mag...
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    267,88 €

  • Renaissance Drama on the Edge
    Lisa Hopkins
    Recurring to the governing idea of Shakespeare on the Edge, Hopkins expands the parameters of her investigation beyond England to include the Continent, and beyond Shakespeare to include dramatists ranging from Christopher Marlowe to John Ford. Hopkins also expands her notion of liminality to explore not only geographical borders, but also the intersection of the material and t...
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    169,50 €

  • Drama and the Succession to the Crown, 1561-1633
    Lisa Hopkins
    Hopkins argues the succession to the throne was a burning topic not only in the final years of Elizabeth but well into the 1630s, and drama, with its disguised identities and oblique relationship to reality, was a safe way to air it. Hopkins analyzes some of the ways in which plays-from Marlowe’s and Shakespeare’s to Webster’s and Ford’s-reflect, negotiate and dream the issue ...
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    302,13 €

  • ’Tis Pity She’s A Whore
    Lisa Hopkins
    John Ford’s tragedy ’Tis Pity She’s A Whore was first performed between 1629 and 1633 and since then its themes of incest, love versus duty and forbidden passion have made it a widely studied and performed, if controversial, play. This guide offers students an introduction to its critical and performance history, including TV and film adaptations. It includes a keynote chapter ...
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    55,19 €

  • ’Tis Pity She’s A Whore
    Lisa Hopkins
    John Ford’s tragedy ’Tis Pity She’s A Whore was first performed between 1629 and 1633 and since then its themes of incest, love versus duty and forbidden passion have made it a widely studied and performed, if controversial, play. This guide offers students an introduction to its critical and performance history, including TV and film adaptations. It includes a keynote chapter ...
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    102,24 €

  • Relocating Shakespeare and Austen on Screen
    Lisa Hopkins
    Lisa Hopkins analyzes eight film adaptations which have taken either Shakespeare or Jane Austen - icons of Englishness - out of their original geographical or cultural context and transposed them to a new location, allowing for a powerful interrogation both of what these texts mean in the modern world, and of Englishness itself. ...
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    65,54 €

  • Screen Adaptations
    Lisa Hopkins
    Literature and film studies students will find plenty of materialto support their courses and essay writing on how the film versionsprovide different readings of the original text.Focussing on numerous film versions, from Percy Stow’s 1908 adaptation to Peter Greenaway’s Prospero’s Books,the book discusses: the literary text in its historical context, keythemes and dominant rea...
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    44,72 €

  • The Cultural Uses of the Caesars on the English Renaissance Stage
    Lisa Hopkins
    Caesarian power was a crucial context in the Renaissance, as rulers in Europe, Russia and Turkey all sought to appropriate Caesarian imagery and authority, but it has been surprisingly little explored in scholarship. Analyzing plays by Shakespeare as well as other early modern dramatists, Lisa Hopkins explores the way in which the stories of the Caesars can be used to figure t...
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    302,23 €

  • Bram Stoker
    Lisa Hopkins
    This book charts the major events of Stoker’s life, which included friendships with many of the major figures of the age and a high public profile as manager of Henry Irving’s Lyceum, and maps them onto the contours of his literary career. It offers sustained critical evaluation both of Dracula and also of Stoker’s lesser-known works, which prove to yield much interest when rei...
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    65,44 €

  • Renaissance Literature and Culture
    Lisa Hopkins
    The guide to Renaissance Literature and Culture provides students with the ideal introduction to literature and its context from 1533-1642, including: - the historical, cultural and intellectual background including religion, politics, exploration and visual culture - major writers and genres including Spenser, Sidney, Marlowe, Shakespeare and Jonson - concise explanations of k...
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    38,45 €

  • Renaissance Literature and Culture
    Lisa Hopkins / Matthew Steggle
    The guide to Renaissance Literature and Culture provides students with the ideal introduction to literature and its context from 1533-1642, including: - the historical, cultural and intellectual background including religion, politics, exploration and visual culture - major writers and genres including Spenser, Sidney, Marlowe, Shakespeare and Jonson - concise explanations of k...
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    174,35 €

  • A Christopher Marlowe Chronology
    Lisa Hopkins
    This new Chronology allows for quick and easy retrieval of all the major dates pertaining to Christopher Marlowe’s life and career. It also helpfully gives dates relevant to the real people and historical events dramatized in his plays and to those who acted in, produced them, the dates of publication of the works which he used as sources, the dates of principal revivals of his...
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    65,40 €

  • Screening the Gothic
    Lisa Hopkins
    Filmmakers have long been drawn to the Gothic with its eerie settings and promise of horror lurking beneath the surface. Moreover, the Gothic allows filmmakers to hold a mirror up to their own age and reveal society’s deepest fears. Franco Zeffirelli’s Jane Eyre, Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and Kenneth Branagh’s Hamlet are just a few examples of film adaptatio...
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    26,74 €


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