Tragicomic Redemptions : Global Economics and the Early Modern English Stage [1 ed.] 9780812201925, 9780812240962

Tragicomic Redemptions: Global Economics and the Early Modern English Stage 9780812201925

Valerie Forman contends that three seemingly unrelated domains—new economic theories and practices; the discourses of Ch

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Women and Geography on the Early Modern English Stage 9789048544226

In a late 1590s atlas proof from cartographer John Speed, Queen Elizabeth appears, crowned and brandishing a ruler as th

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Mothers and meaning on the early modern English stage 9781847792891

Examines the political rhetoric of Mary I, Elizabeth and James, reported gallows confessions of mother convicts and the

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Performing Widowhood on the Early Modern English Stage 9781501513893, 9781501520204

The deaths of husbands radically changed women’s lives in the early modern period. While losing male protection, widows

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Labors Lost: Women's Work and the Early Modern English Stage 9780812204315

Labors Lost offers a fascinating and wide-ranging account of working women's behind-the-scenes and hitherto unackno

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Greeks and Trojans on the Early Modern English Stage 9781501514623, 9781501518584

No story was more interesting to Shakespeare and his contemporaries than that of Troy, partly because the story of Troy

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Greeks and Trojans on the Early Modern English Stage 1501518585, 9781501518584

No story was more interesting to Shakespeare and his contemporaries than that of Troy, partly because the story of Troy

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Shakespearean renunciation: Asceticism and the early modern stage

This dissertation examines the representation of ascetic renunciation in early modern drama, focusing in particular on t

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The Unruly Womb in Early Modern English Drama: Plotting Women's Biology on the Stage 9783110662016, 9781580443708

This study provides an accessible, informative and entertaining introduction to women’s sexual health as presented on th

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Manly Mechanicals on the Early Modern English Stage [1 ed.] 9781575911731, 9781575911595

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