Confession and Memory in Early Modern English Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Confession and Memory in Early Modern English Literature write by Paul D. Stegner. This book was released on 2016-01-26. Confession and Memory in Early Modern English Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first study to consider the relationship between private confessional rituals and memory across a range of early modern writers, including Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, and Robert Southwell.
Early Modern Britain’s Relationship to Its Past
Early Modern Britain’s Relationship to Its Past - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Early Modern Britain’s Relationship to Its Past write by Philip Mark Robinson-Self. This book was released on 2019-01-14. Early Modern Britain’s Relationship to Its Past available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume considers the reception in the early modern period of four popular medieval myths of nationhood – the legends of Brutus, Albina, Scota and Arthur – tracing their intertwined literary and historiographical afterlives. The book thus speaks to several connected areas and is timely on a number of fronts: its dialogue with current investigations into early modern historiography and the period’s relationship to its past, its engagement with pressing issues in identity and gender studies, and its analysis of the formation of British national origin stories at a time when modern Britain is seriously considering its own future as a nation.
Lying in Early Modern English Culture
Lying in Early Modern English Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lying in Early Modern English Culture write by Andrew Hadfield. This book was released on 2017. Lying in Early Modern English Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A major study of ideas of truth and falsehood in early modern England from the advent of the Reformation to the aftermath of the failed Gunpowder Plot.
Shakespeare and the Theater of Religious Conviction in Early Modern England
Shakespeare and the Theater of Religious Conviction in Early Modern England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shakespeare and the Theater of Religious Conviction in Early Modern England write by Walter S H Lim. This book was released on 2024-01-20. Shakespeare and the Theater of Religious Conviction in Early Modern England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book analyzes Shakespeare’s use of biblical allusions and evocation of doctrinal topics in Hamlet, Measure for Measure, The Winter’s Tale, Richard II, and The Merchant of Venice. It identifies references to theological and doctrinal commonplaces such as sin, grace, confession, damnation, and the Fall in these plays, affirming that Shakespeare’s literary imagination is very much influenced by his familiarity with the Bible and also with matters of church doctrine. This theological and doctrinal subject matter also derives its significance from genres as diverse as travel narratives, sermons, political treatises, and royal proclamations. This study looks at how Shakespeare’s deployment of religious topics interacts with ideas circulating via other cultural texts and genres in society. It also analyzes how religion enables Shakespeare’s engagement with cultural debates and political developments in England: absolutism and law; radical political theory; morality and law; and conceptions of nationhood.
Civic and Medical Worlds in Early Modern England
Civic and Medical Worlds in Early Modern England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Civic and Medical Worlds in Early Modern England write by E. Decamp. This book was released on 2016-06-15. Civic and Medical Worlds in Early Modern England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Through its rich foray into popular literary culture and medical history, this book investigates representations of regular and irregular medical practice in early modern England. Focusing on the prolific figures of the barber, surgeon and barber-surgeon, the author explores what it meant to the early modern population for a group of practitioners to be associated with both the trade guilds and an emerging professional medical world. The book uncovers the differences and cross-pollinations between barbers and surgeons' practices which play out across the literature: we learn not only about their cultural, civic, medical and occupational histories but also about how we should interpret patterns in language, name choice, performance, materiality, acoustics and semiology in the period. The investigations prompt new readings of Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton and Beaumont, among others. And with chapters delving into early modern representations of medical instruments, hairiness, bloodletting procedures, waxy or infected ears, wart removals and skeletons, readers will find much of the contribution of this book is in its detail, which brings its subject to life.
