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English literature – Renaissance and early modern to 1700 English as it was studied in the period radically underpins the writing of its greatest poets. ‘… what [Crawforth] delivers most of all is an intriguing, compelling, wonderfully considered account of the linguistic worlds of early modern writers, with their special awareness of the soft and hard landings words have in the world.’ Raphael Lyne, The Cambridge Quarterly 2017 229 x 152 mm 232pp 978-1-107-61455-0 Paperback £19.99 / US$29.99 Also available 978-1-107-04176-9 Hardback £67.00 / US$103.00 Publication January 2017 For all formats available, see
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Shakespeare, Popularity and the Public Sphere Jeffrey S. Doty West Texas A&M University
When Shakespeare emphasized the importance of winning popular opinion, he offered ordinary playgoers a new understanding of power: to succeed, politicians needed the assent of the people. This book argues that Shakespeare’s dramatization of ‘popularity’ encouraged playgoers to understand public relations tactics and that it underlined their role in a critical public sphere. 2016 228 x 152 mm 220pp 978-1-107-16337-9 Hardback £64.99 / US$99.99
A Mirror for Magistrates in Context Literature, History, and Politics in Early Modern England Edited by Harriet Archer University of Newcastle upon Tyne
and Andrew Hadfield University of Sussex
This is the first essay collection on A Mirror for Magistrates, the most popular work of English literature in the age of Shakespeare. The Mirror is here analysed by major scholars who discuss its meaning and significance, and assess the extent of its influence. ‘This volume has the comprehensive quality of a handbook, with wideranging and thorough contributions on the Mirror’s bibliographic history; its sources, influences, and analogues; on genre, rhetoric, the writing of history, Elizabethan politics and literature. But it’s also imaginative, full of new critical approaches, multivocal and pleasingly readable in its concise chapters. Like the Mirror itself – whose authors are represented in conversation as they write – this collection has the feeling of scholars talking productively to one another: interacting with and sometimes disagreeing with one another’s views, they are alive to the mercurial qualities of the text, its ‘vanishing acts’ and temporal twists and turns.’ Mary Ann Lund, University of Leicester 2016 228 x 152 mm 272pp 978-1-107-10435-8 Hardback £64.99 / US$99.99 For all formats available, see
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Publication December 2016 For all formats available, see
www.cambridge.org/9781107163379
Writing the History of the British Stage, 1660–1900 Richard Schoch Queen’s University Belfast
This book-length study of British theatre historiography will interest all scholars of British theatre – not just historians – because of its emphasis on debates about disciplinary practice. The book’s wide scope and deep archival research means that it will remain the standard work in the field for many years. It will become an essential point of reference for theatre scholars generally. 2016 228 x 152 mm 404pp 28 b/w illus. 978-1-107-16692-9 Hardback £74.99 / US$120.00 For all formats available, see
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The Memory Arts in Renaissance England A Critical Anthology Edited by William E. Engel University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee
Rory Loughnane Indiana University–Purdue University, Indianapolis
and Grant Williams
a bold, interdisciplinary attempt to suggest the complexity of what the authors call ‘English mnemonic culture’. Stretching from early sixteenth-century humanism to the Royal Society, this collection traces the ‘mnemonic episteme’ through works of literature, poetics, rhetoric, philosophy, medicine, history, religion, and the visual arts. From emblems to architecture, poetry to universal language projects, The Memory Arts in Renaissance England shows that the culture of early modern England was profoundly shaped by memory and mnemonic practices.’ Stephen Clucas, Birkbeck, University of London 2016 228 x 152 mm 392pp 24 b/w illus. 978-1-107-08681-4 Hardback £64.99 / US$99.99 978-1-107-45167-4 Paperback £18.99 / US$28.99 For all formats available, see
www.cambridge.org/9781107086814
Editing Early Modern Women Edited by Sarah C. E. Ross Victoria University of Wellington
and Paul Salzman La Trobe University, Victoria
This volume considers the latest developments in the editing of early modern women’s writing. Exploring the theoretical and practical issues relevant to editing and early modern literature in general, it will interest scholars and students of early modern literature and drama, textual studies, the history of editing, and book history. ‘… this collection is timely and important, filling a crucial gap in assessing the editorial strategies, unique and shared, assumed and explicit, used in making women’s texts available for teaching and scholarly use.’ Laura Knoppers, University of Notre Dame 2016 228 x 152 mm 310pp 7 b/w illus. 978-1-107-12995-5 Hardback £64.99 / US$99.99 For all formats available, see
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Carleton University, Ottawa
This volume is the first critical anthology of contemporary writings and illustrations about memory in Renaissance England, featuring over seventy texts and over twenty illustrations. It is a valuable resource for students of the memory arts, Renaissance literature, the history of ideas, book history, and art history. ‘This admirable anthology of vernacular sources is far more than a compilation of technical treatises on the ‘art of memory’, but is rather
The Elizabethan Country House Entertainment Print, Performance, and Gender Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich Ohio State University
This book offers scholars and students of literary, theatrical, and women’s history the first full-length critical study of an important Renaissance genre. Country house entertainments, short plays staged for the Queen at country estates (1571–1602), enabled men and women