The Oxford Handbook of the Age of Shakespeare

Herausgeber: Smuts, R. Malcolm

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Produktbeschreibung

The Oxford Handbook of the Age of Shakespeare offers literary scholars a variety of perspectives, insights, and methodologies found in current historical work that inform the study of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 842
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 45mm
• Gewicht: 1423g
• ISBN-13: 9780198822271
• ISBN-10: 0198822278
• Artikelnr.: 49775871

Autorenporträt

R. Malcolm Smuts, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Boston, has had a lifelong interest in interdisciplinary scholarship on early modern Britain and Europe. His publications include Court Culture and the Origins of a Royalist Tradition in England (1987); Culture and Power in England 1585-1685 (1998) and several edited collections and articles on aspects of political and cultural history.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: R. Malcolm Smuts: Introduction: Reflections on Interdisciplinary
Frontiers
* Part I: Politics
* 2: Norman Jones: William Cecil Lord Burghley and the Management of
Elizabeth's England
* 3: Paul E. J. Hammer: The Earl of Essex
* 4: Pauline Croft: Robert Cecil and the Transition from Elizabeth to
James I
* 5: R. Malcolm Smuts: James I and the Consolidation of British
Monarchy?
* 6: D. J. B. Trim: War, Soldiers and High Politics under Elizabeth I
* 7: Rory Rapple: Shakespeare, the Irish, and Military Culture
* 8: Glyn Parry: Catholicism and Tyranny in Shakespeare's Warwickshire
* 9: Dan Beaver: Ancient Liberties, Royal Honour, and the Politics of
Commonweal in English Forests, 1558-1625
* Part II: Intellectual Culture and Political Thought and Imagination
* 10: Timothy Wilks: Poets, Patronage and the Prince's Court
* 11: Peter Lake: The Theatre and the 'Post-Reformation Public Sphere'
* 12: Peter Mack: Rhetorical Training and the Elizabethan Grammar
School
* 13: Daniel Woolf and Jane Wong Yeang Chui: English Vernacular
Historical Writing and Holinshed's Chronicles
* 14: Nicholas Popper: European Historiography in English Political
Culture
* 15: Paulina Kewes: Roman History, Essex, and Late Elizabethan
Political Culture
* 16: Debora Shuger: Other Republicanisms
* 17: Alexandra Gajda: The Gordian Knot of Policy: Statecraft and the
Prudent Prince
* 18: Curtis Perry: Seneca and English Political Culture
* 19: Arthur Williamson: David Hume, Richard Verstegan, and the Battle
for Britain
* 20: Brendan Kane and R. Malcolm Smuts: The Politics of Race in
England, Scotland, and Ireland
* Part III: Aspects of Religious Culture
* 21: Katy Gibbons: English Catholics and the Continent
* 22: Naomi Tadmor: The Bible in English Culture: The Age of
Shakespeare
* 23: Ethan H. Shagan: Religious Nonconformity and the Quality of
Mercy: The Merchant of Venice in Reformation Context
* 24: Tom Webster: Protestantism and the Devil
* Part IV: Social Beliefs and Practices
* 25: Linda Pollock: The Affective Life in Shakespearean England
* 26: Richard Cust: Chivalry and the English Gentleman
* 27: Alan Bryson: Elizabethan Verse Libel
* 28: James Daybell: Gender, Writing Technologies, and Early Modern
Epistolary Communications
* 29: Brian Weiser: The Shamings of Falstaff
* 30: Susan D. Amussen: Cuckold's Haven: Gender Inversion in Popular
Culture
* 31: K. J. Kesselring: 'Murder's Crimson Badge': Homicide in the Age
of Shakespeare
* 32: Alastair Bellany: Thinking with Poison
* 33: Paul Griffiths: Criminal London: Fear and Danger in Shakespeare's
City
* 34: Vanessa Harding: Families and Households in Early Modern London,
c.1550-1640
* 35: Christopher Highley: Theatre, Church, and Neighbourhood in Early
Modern Blackfriars
* 36: Roze Hentschell: The Cultural Geography of St Paul's Precinct
* Part V: Architecture, Visual Culture, and Music
* 37: Robert Tittler: Art and Architecture in Provincial England
* 38: Luke Morgan: Garden Design and Experience in Shakespeare's
England
* 39: Elizabeth Goldring: Art Collecting and Patronage in Shakespeare's
England
* 40: Helen Pierce: Graphic Satire and the Printed Image in
Shakespeare's London
* 41: Ross w. Duffin: Music and the Stage in the Time of Shakespeare
* Bibliography