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Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day: A Guide to Starting, Revising, and Finishing Your Doctoral Thesis

Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day: A Guide to Starting, Revising, and Finishing Your Doctoral Thesis

by Joan Bolker

Expert writing advice from the editor of the Boston Globe best-seller, The Writer's Home Companion Dissertation writers need strong, practical advice, as well as someone to assure them that their struggles aren't unique. Joan Bolker, midwife to more than one hundred dissertations and co-founder of the Harvard Writing Center, offers invaluable suggestions for the graduate-student writer. Using positive... (more)

The Merry Wives of Windsor (Folger Shakespeare Library)

The Merry Wives of Windsor (Folger Shakespeare Library)

by A. L. Rowse, R. S. White, Neil Freeman

Each edition includes: • Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play • Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play • Scene-by-scene plot summaries • A key to famous lines and phrases • An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language • An essay by an outstanding scholar providing a modern perspective on the play • Illustrations from... (more)

The Roaring Girl

by Thomas Middleton

This Jacobean city comedy is a curiosity in that it presents a real-life character, the notorious cross-dresser Moll Frith, who probably was among the first audiences of 'her' play before she was taken up for public misconduct. Middleton and Dekker's 'roaring girl' may outrage her society with her pipe, bluster and swagger, but she turns out to be the moral centre of the play. Her code of honour leads her to... (more)

Family, Sex and Marriage in England 1500-1800 (Abridged, no footnotes)

Family, Sex and Marriage in England 1500-1800 (Abridged, no footnotes)

by Lawrence Stone

"The best book of the history of the family in any nation or period." -- --Lawrence Stone, Chronicle of Higher Education

A Mad World, My Masters and Other Plays: A Mad World, My Masters; Michaelmas Term; A trick to Catch the Old One; No Wit, No Help Like a Woman's (Oxford World's Classics)

A Mad World, My Masters and Other Plays: A Mad World, My Masters; Michaelmas Term; A trick to Catch the Old One; No Wit, No Help Like a Woman's (Oxford World's Classics)

by Thomas Middleton

Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) was a writer of great versatility, and his career as a London dramatist spans the most productive, innovative, and exciting period of theatrical activity in the history of English drama. Best known for his tragedies, he also wrote many successful comedies of city life. This volume offers the best of these comedies: A Mad World, My Masters; Michaelmas Term; A Trick nto Catch the Old... (more)

Theater of a City: The Places of London Comedy, 1598-1642

Theater of a City: The Places of London Comedy, 1598-1642

by Jean E. Howard

Theater of a City: The Places of London Comedy, 1598-1642 explores how the public stage represented the city of London in the opening half of the seventeenth century. Arguing that the commercial stage depended on the unprecedented demographic growth and commercial vibrancy of London to fuel its own development, Jean E. Howard posits a particular synergy between the early modern stage and the city in... (more)

Early Modern English Poetry: A Critical Companion

Early Modern English Poetry: A Critical Companion

Early Modern English Drama: A Critical Companion presents twenty-seven analytical essays on individual plays from the early modern period. Each essay is written by a leading scholar and examines a play in terms of a cultural or literary topic, from London to the law, servants to sovereigns, and geography to religion. Incorporating current perspectives in critical studies, the essays address issues of race, class,... (more)

Renaissance Women Poets (Penguin Classics)

Renaissance Women Poets (Penguin Classics)

Social convention may have prevented Renaissance women writers from openly taking part in the political and religious debates of their day, but they found varied and innovative ways to intervene. Collecting the work of three great poets-Isabella Whitney, Mary Sidney, and Aemilia Lanyer-this volume repositions women writers of the Renaissance by presenting their poems in the context of their history and culture.... (more)

Domestic Dangers: Women, Words, and Sex in Early Modern London (Oxford Studies in Social History)

Domestic Dangers: Women, Words, and Sex in Early Modern London (Oxford Studies in Social History)

by Laura Gowing

`What else is woman but a foe to friendship ... a domestic danger.' These words, taken from a biblical commentary by St John Chrysostom, are frequently quoted in early modern literature, showing that sexual morality was central to the patriarchal society of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. In this fascinating and original book, Laura Gowing considers what gender difference meant in the practice of daily... (more)

Plays On Women: Anon, Arden of Faversham; Middleton and Dekker, The Roaring Girl; Middleton, A Chaste Maid in Cheapside; Heywood, A Woman Killed with Kindness (Revels Student Editions)

Plays On Women: Anon, Arden of Faversham; Middleton and Dekker, The Roaring Girl; Middleton, A Chaste Maid in Cheapside; Heywood, A Woman Killed with Kindness (Revels Student Editions)

Based on the original and authoritative Revels texts, Plays on Women brings together four plays that dramatize the lives of women in Shakespeare’s England. Presenting both domestic tragedy and city comedy, the anthology depicts women as witty tricksters and heart-breaking victims, adulteresses and faithful wives. In each play, the women break out of familiar roles, challenging both theatrical and social... (more)

A New Way to Pay Old Debts (New Mermaids)

A New Way to Pay Old Debts (New Mermaids)

by Philip Massinger

Play script, including biographical notes, textual details, and information about the staging of the play.

Methods and Methodology in Composition Research

Methods and Methodology in Composition Research

In original essays, fourteen nationally known scholars examine the practical, philosophical, and epistemological implications of a variety of research traditions. Included are discussions of historical, theoretical, and feminist scholarship; case-study and ethnographic research; text and conversation analysis; and cognitive, experimental, and descriptive research. Issues that cross methodological boundaries, such... (more)

Dangerous Familiars: Representations of Domestic Crime in England, 1550-1700

Dangerous Familiars: Representations of Domestic Crime in England, 1550-1700

by Frances E. Dolan

The Shoemaker's Holiday (Plays for Performance)

The Shoemaker's Holiday (Plays for Performance)

by Stanley W. Wells, Thomas Dekker

New Mermaids are modernized and fully-annotated editions of classic English plays. Each volume includes: • The playtext, in modern spelling, edited to the highest bibliographical and textual standards • Textual notes recording significant changes to the copytext and variant readings • Glossing notes explaining obscure words and word-play • Critical, contextual and staging notes • Photographs of productions where... (more)

Shakespeare's Domestic Economies: Gender and Property in Early Modern England (New Cultural Studies)

Shakespeare's Domestic Economies: Gender and Property in Early Modern England (New Cultural Studies)

by Natasha Korda

Shakespeare's Domestic Economies explores representations of female subjectivity in Shakespearean drama from a refreshingly new perspective, situating The Taming of the Shrew , The Merry Wives of Windsor , Othello , and Measure for Measure in relation to early modern England's nascent consumer culture and competing conceptions of property. Drawing evidence from legal documents, economic treatises, domestic... (more)

Staging Domesticity: Household Work and English Identity in Early Modern Drama (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture)

Staging Domesticity: Household Work and English Identity in Early Modern Drama (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture)

by Wendy Wall

Wendy Wall argues that representations of housework in the early modern period helped to forge conceptions of national identity. With a detailed account of household practices, this study interprets plays on the London stage in reference to the first printed cookbooks in England. Working from original historical sources, Wall reveals that domesticity was represented as "familiar" as well as "exotic". She analyzes... (more)

Eastward Ho! (RSC Classics)

by George Chapman

A major season of rarely performed Tudor and Jacobean plays at the Royal Shakespeare Company's Swan Theatre in Stratford Teeming with energy and larger than life characters, Eastward Ho! sees Touchstone, a London goldsmith, preparing to marry off his two daughters. Touchstone's two apprentices lead the wooing until the rakish fop Sir Petronel Flash arrives on the scene. A comedy of true love and virtue triumphing... (more)

Material London, Ca. 1600 (New Cultural Studies Series)

Material London, Ca. 1600 (New Cultural Studies Series)

Between 1500 and 1700, London grew from a minor national capital to the largest city in Europe. The defining period of growth was the period from 1550 to 1650, the midpoint of which coincided with the end of Elizabeth I's reign and the height of Shakespeare's theatrical career. In Material London, ca. 1600 , Lena Cowen Orlin and a distinguished group of social, intellectual, urban, architectural, and agrarian... (more)

London 1500-1700: The making of the metropolisA.L. Beier, Roger Finlay

London 1500-1700: The making of the metropolis

by A.L. Beier, Roger Finlay

Domestic Arrangements in Early Modern England (Medieval and Renaissance Literary Studies.)

Domestic Arrangements in Early Modern England (Medieval and Renaissance Literary Studies.)

This book provides a varied and rich array of perspectives on a wide range of early modern English social roles and relationships as well as cultural norms and areas of contestation. It demonstrates the many ways in which the attitudes and activities that pertain to the domestic sphere are not in any way peripheral to the study of the period -- domestic arrangements are political arrangements. This rich collection... (more)

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Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day: A Guide to Starting, Revising, and Finishing Your Doctoral Thesis

by Joan Bolker

The Merry Wives of Windsor (Folger Shakespeare Library)

by A. L. Rowse, R. S. White, Neil Freeman

The Roaring Girl

by Thomas Middleton

Family, Sex and Marriage in England 1500-1800 (Abridged, no footnotes)

by Lawrence Stone

A Mad World, My Masters and Other Plays: A Mad World, My Masters; Michaelmas Term; A trick to Catch the Old One; No Wit, No Help Like a Woman's (Oxford World's Classics)

by Thomas Middleton

Theater of a City: The Places of London Comedy, 1598-1642

by Jean E. Howard

Early Modern English Poetry: A Critical Companion

Renaissance Women Poets (Penguin Classics)

Domestic Dangers: Women, Words, and Sex in Early Modern London (Oxford Studies in Social History)

by Laura Gowing

Plays On Women: Anon, Arden of Faversham; Middleton and Dekker, The Roaring Girl; Middleton, A Chaste Maid in Cheapside; Heywood, A Woman Killed with Kindness (Revels Student Editions)

A New Way to Pay Old Debts (New Mermaids)

by Philip Massinger

Methods and Methodology in Composition Research

Dangerous Familiars: Representations of Domestic Crime in England, 1550-1700

by Frances E. Dolan

The Shoemaker's Holiday (Plays for Performance)

by Stanley W. Wells, Thomas Dekker

Shakespeare's Domestic Economies: Gender and Property in Early Modern England (New Cultural Studies)

by Natasha Korda

Staging Domesticity: Household Work and English Identity in Early Modern Drama (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture)

by Wendy Wall

Eastward Ho! (RSC Classics)

by George Chapman

Material London, Ca. 1600 (New Cultural Studies Series)

London 1500-1700: The making of the metropolis

by A.L. Beier, Roger Finlay

Domestic Arrangements in Early Modern England (Medieval and Renaissance Literary Studies.)