The last two decades have transformed the field of Renaissance studies, and Reconceiving the Renaissance: A Critical Reader maps this difficult terrain. Attending to the breadth of fresh approaches, the volume offers a theoretical overview of current thinking about the period. Collecting in one volume the classic and cutting-edge statements which define early modern scholarship as it is now practiced, this book is a one-stop indispensable resource for undergraduates and beginning postgraduates alike. Through a rich array of arguments by the world's leading experts, the Renaissance emerges wonderfully invigorated, while the suggestive shorter extracts, boxed questions and engaged editorial introductions give students the wherewithal and encouragement to do some reconceiving themselves.

Reconceiving the Renaissance

Literature & Fiction

Thornton Burnett, Mark

Fernie, Ewan

Wray, Ramona

McManus, Clare

British & Irish

Oxford University Press

Women Writers of the 17th Century (Writers and Their Work)

A volume in the Writers and Their Work series, which draws upon recent thinking in English studies to introduce writers and their contexts. Each volume includes biographical material, an examination of recent criticism, a bibliography and a reappraisal of a major work by the writer.

History & Criticism

Liverpool University Press

Wray argues that women participated in many kinds of literary discourse, such as poetry, drama, fiction, autobiography, advice books and religio-politico treatises. Covering the work of all the important women writers of the period it introduces readers to a range of women's writing across the breadth of the 17th century.

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally.
In this volume, leading scholars assess the contribution of Orson Welles, Akira Kurosawa, Grigori Kozintsev and Franco Zeffirelli to the afterlife and reception of Shakespeare and his plays. Each substantial contribution assesses the double impact of Shakespeare on the figure covered and of the figure on the understanding, interpretation and appreciation of Shakespeare, provide a sketch of their subject's intellectual and professional biography and an account of the wider cultural context, including comparison with other figures or works within the same field.

Welles, Kurosawa, Kozintsev, Zeffirelli: Great Shakespeareans: Volume XVII

Lehmann, Courtney

Burnett, Mark Thornton

Rippy, Marguerite

Dramas & Plays

The Arden Shakespeare

In this volume, leading scholars assess the contribution of four major film directors to the afterlife and reception of Shakespeare and his plays. Focusing on the work of Orson Welles, Akira Kurosawa, Grigori Kozintsev and Franco Zeffirelli, each essay assesses the double impact of Shakespeare on the film director covered and of the film director on the understanding, interpretation and appreciation of Shakespeare.

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