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Sir William Davenant, the Court Masque, and the English Seventeenth Century Scenic Stage, c1605 –c1700

Dawn Lewcock
ISBN13: 9781604975789
Date: 18-Dec-08

This is new work which uses dramaturgical and scenographical analysis of selected plays and masques, against known theatrical history, to discover how the staging of painted settings was organised from c1605 to c1700. This kind of investigation into the links between masque staging and the staging of plays has not been done in quite this manner before. Read More..

Situational Poetics in Robert Henryson’s The Testament of Cresseid

Nickolas A. Haydock
ISBN13: 9781604977660
Date: 08-Jul-11

Robert Henryson (considered “the last medieval poet”) is widely deemed the most accomplished poet writing in the British Isles between the death of Chaucer and the flowering of English poetry in the early-modern period. However, A generation has passed without a full-length study on him until now. Read More..

Spatial Imaginaries in Mid-Tang China:

Geography, Cartography, and Literature
Ao Wang
ISBN13: 9781604979411
Date: 01-Aug-18

"Ao Wang’s new book, executed with critical insight and poetic sensitivity, encompasses diverse literary forms and lends new nuances to our understanding of mid-Tang literature. Imaginative and inspiring, it is a significant contribution to the study of medieval Chinese literature and cultural history." —Xiaofei Tian, Harvard University Read More..

Styling Texts:

Dress and Fashion in Literature
Cynthia Kuhn and Cindy Carlson
ISBN13: 9781934043837
Date: 28-Nov-07

The first academic volume to address such an extensive range of texts. An essential resource for anyone interested in the history of dress and its artistic representations and significations. Read More..