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The English Art of Love
Author : Ovid
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 30,48 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472109135
The English Art of Love
Author : Tania Demetriou
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 28,51 MB
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 152614025X
This volume offers the first in-depth investigation of Thomas Heywood’s engagement with the classics. Its introduction and twelve essays trace how the classics shaped Heywood’s work in a variety of genres across a writing career of over forty years, ranging from drama, epic and epyllion, to translations, compendia and the design of a warship for Charles I. Close readings demonstrate the influence of a capaciously conceived classical tradition that included continental editions and translations of Latin and Greek texts, early modern mythographies and the medieval tradition of Troy. They attend to Heywood’s thought-provoking imitations and juxtapositions of these sources, his use of myth to interrogate gender and heroism, and his turn to antiquity to celebrate and defamiliarise the theatrical or political present. Heywood’s better-known works are discussed alongside critically neglected ones, making the collection valuable for undergraduates and researchers alike.
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Page : pages
File Size : 42,11 MB
Release : 1625
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Author : Sydney Musgrove
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Page : 7 pages
File Size : 24,94 MB
Release : 1946
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Author : Richard Rowland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 20,90 MB
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1351879162
In this major reassessment of his subject, Richard Rowland restores Thomas Heywood-playwright, miscellanist and translator-to his rightful place in early modern theatre history. Rowland contextualizes and historicizes this important contemporary of Shakespeare, locating him on the geographic and cultural map of London through the business Heywood conducts in his writing. Arguing that Heywood's theatrical output deserves the same attention and study that has been directed towards Shakespeare, Jonson, and more recently Middleton, this book looks at three periods of Heywood's creativity: the end of the Elizabethan era and the beginning of the Jacobean, the mid 1620s, and the mid to late 1630s. By locating the works of those years precisely in the political and cultural conflicts to which they respond, Rowland initiates a major reassessment of the remarkable achievements of this playwright. Rowland also pays attention to Heywood in performance, seeing this writer as a jobbing playwright working in an industry that depended on making writing work. Finally, the author explores how Heywood participated in the civic life of London in his writings beyond the playhouse. Here Rowland examines pamphlets, translations, and the sequence of lord mayor's pageants that Heywood produced as the political crisis deepened. Offering close readings of Heywood that establish the range, quality and theatrical significance of the writing, Thomas Heywood's Theatre, 1599-1639 fits a fascinating piece into the emerging picture of the 'complete' early modern English theatre.
Author : Pickering & Chatto
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Page : 104 pages
File Size : 32,82 MB
Release : 1659
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Author : Sir John Young Walker MacAlister
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Page : 730 pages
File Size : 37,3 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Bibliography
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Author : Thomas Heywood (d. 1641)
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Page : pages
File Size : 34,90 MB
Release : 1612
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Author : Thomas Heywood
Publisher :
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 49,62 MB
Release : 1874
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Author : Friedrich Mowbray Velte
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 28,59 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Middle class in literature
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