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The Queen of Scots
La reina di Scotia
Price:
$65.00
ISBN: 9781487544812
Pub Date: February 2023
This is the first English-language annotated edition of La reina di Scotia, one of the earliest dramatic works depicting the tragic end of Mary Queen of Scots.
Shakespeare’s Guide to Hope, Life, and Learning
Price:
$29.95
ISBN: 9781487570514
Pub Date: December 2022
Taking cues from the energy of the stage, this book harnesses lessons from some of Shakespeare’s most popular plays to help cultivate critical hope and empathy.
Communal Justice in Shakespeare’s England
Drama, Law, and Emotion
Price:
$79.00
ISBN: 9781487508043
Pub Date: April 2021
Providing a fresh examination of the relationship between literary and legal communities, Communal Justice in Shakespeare’s England examines the literature of the communal justice in early modern England.
On the Queerness of Early English Drama
Sex in the Subjunctive
Price:
$68.00
ISBN: 9781487508746
Pub Date: February 2021
This book probes occluded depictions of queerness in early English drama, ranging from medieval morality plays to Reformation interludes and beyond.
Social Justice in Spanish Golden Age Theatre
Price:
$37.95
ISBN: 9781487525286
Pub Date: February 2021
This book explores early modern Spanish plays through the lens of social justice, extending its analysis to contemporary adaptations and how they can be used as a tool for achieving social justice today.
The Italian Novella and Shakespeare’s Comic Heroines
Price:
$74.00
ISBN: 9781487503642
Pub Date: August 2019
This is the first book to provide a full treatment of Shakespeare’s literary and theatrical engagement with the Italian novella and female agency.
Flaunting
Price:
$32.95
ISBN: 9781487524227
Pub Date: January 2019
A glimpse into both the celebration of and opposition to social irreverence in the early modern period, Flaunting is a fascinating historical account of drama, fashion, and rebellion with surprisingly close parallels to the contemporary world.
Pirates, Traitors, and Apostates
Renegade Identities in Early Modern English Writing
Price:
$65.00
ISBN: 9781487502683
Pub Date: January 2018
Examining tales of notorious figures in Renaissance England, Laurie Ellinghausen sheds new light on the construction of the early modern renegade and its depiction in English prose, poetry, and drama during a period of capitalist expansion.
Privacy in the Age of Shakespeare
Price:
$78.00
ISBN: 9781442647916
Pub Date: March 2016
In Privacy in the Age of Shakespeare, Ronald Huebert challenges these assumptions by marshalling evidence that it was in Shakespeare’s time that the idea of privacy went from a marginal notion to a desirable quality.
Unruly Women
Performance, Penitence, and Punishment in Early Modern Spain
Price:
$39.95
ISBN: 9781487520267
Pub Date: December 2015
In the first in-depth study of the interconnected relationships among public theatre, custodial institutions, and women in early modern Spain, Margaret E. Boyle explores the contradictory practices of rehabilitation enacted by women both on and off stage.
Metropolitan Tragedy
Genre, Justice, and the City in Early Modern England
Price:
$81.00
ISBN: 9781442648807
Pub Date: April 2015
Breaking new ground in the study of tragedy, early modern theatre, and literary London, Metropolitan Tragedy demonstrates that early modern tragedy emerged from the juncture of radical changes in London’s urban fabric and the city’s judicial procedures.
The Rise of the Diva on the Sixteenth-Century Commedia dell'Arte Stage
Price:
$81.00
ISBN: 9781442649118
Pub Date: March 2015
The Rise of the Diva on the Sixteenth-Century Commedia dell’Arte Stage examines the emergence of the professional actress from the 1560s onwards in Italy.
Taking Exception to the Law
Materializing Injustice in Early Modern English Literature
Price:
$86.00
ISBN: 9781442642010
Pub Date: January 2015
Taking Exception to the Law explores how a range of early modern English writings responded to injustices perpetrated by legal procedures, discourses, and institutions.
Befriending the Commedia dell'Arte of Flaminio Scala
The Comic Scenarios
Price:
$100.00
ISBN: 9781442648999
Pub Date: October 2014
Schmitt demonstrates that the commedia dell’arte relied as much on craftsmanship as on improvisation and that Scala’s scenarios are a treasure trove of social commentary on early modern daily life in Italy.
The Poetics of Imitation in the Italian Theatre of the Renaissance
Price:
$88.00
ISBN: 9781442647121
Pub Date: June 2013
DiMaria delves into how playwrights not only brought inventive new dramaturgical methods to the genre, but also incorporated significant aspects of the morals and aesthetic preferences familiar to contemporary spectators into their works.
Shakespeare in the World of Communism and Socialism
Price:
$54.00
ISBN: 9781442626034
Pub Date: June 2013
The general theme that emerges from this study is the deeply ambivalent nature of communist Shakespeare who, like Feste's 'chev'ril glove,' often simultaneously served and subverted the official ideology.

The Queen of Scots
La reina di Scotia
$65.00
ISBN: 9781487544812
Pub Date: February 2023
This is the first English-language annotated edition of La reina di Scotia, one of the earliest dramatic works depicting the tragic end of Mary Queen of Scots.
Shakespeare’s Guide to Hope, Life, and Learning
$29.95
ISBN: 9781487570514
Pub Date: December 2022
Taking cues from the energy of the stage, this book harnesses lessons from some of Shakespeare’s most popular plays to help cultivate critical hope and empathy.
Communal Justice in Shakespeare’s England
Drama, Law, and Emotion
$79.00
ISBN: 9781487508043
Pub Date: April 2021
Providing a fresh examination of the relationship between literary and legal communities, Communal Justice in Shakespeare’s England examines the literature of the communal justice in early modern England.
On the Queerness of Early English Drama
Sex in the Subjunctive
$68.00
ISBN: 9781487508746
Pub Date: February 2021
This book probes occluded depictions of queerness in early English drama, ranging from medieval morality plays to Reformation interludes and beyond.
Social Justice in Spanish Golden Age Theatre
$37.95
ISBN: 9781487525286
Pub Date: February 2021
This book explores early modern Spanish plays through the lens of social justice, extending its analysis to contemporary adaptations and how they can be used as a tool for achieving social justice today.
The Italian Novella and Shakespeare’s Comic Heroines
$74.00
ISBN: 9781487503642
Pub Date: August 2019
This is the first book to provide a full treatment of Shakespeare’s literary and theatrical engagement with the Italian novella and female agency.
Flaunting
$32.95
ISBN: 9781487524227
Pub Date: January 2019
A glimpse into both the celebration of and opposition to social irreverence in the early modern period, Flaunting is a fascinating historical account of drama, fashion, and rebellion with surprisingly close parallels to the contemporary world.
Pirates, Traitors, and Apostates
Renegade Identities in Early Modern English Writing
$65.00
ISBN: 9781487502683
Pub Date: January 2018
Examining tales of notorious figures in Renaissance England, Laurie Ellinghausen sheds new light on the construction of the early modern renegade and its depiction in English prose, poetry, and drama during a period of capitalist expansion.
Privacy in the Age of Shakespeare
$78.00
ISBN: 9781442647916
Pub Date: March 2016
In Privacy in the Age of Shakespeare, Ronald Huebert challenges these assumptions by marshalling evidence that it was in Shakespeare’s time that the idea of privacy went from a marginal notion to a desirable quality.
Unruly Women
Performance, Penitence, and Punishment in Early Modern Spain
$39.95
ISBN: 9781487520267
Pub Date: December 2015
In the first in-depth study of the interconnected relationships among public theatre, custodial institutions, and women in early modern Spain, Margaret E. Boyle explores the contradictory practices of rehabilitation enacted by women both on and off stage.
Metropolitan Tragedy
Genre, Justice, and the City in Early Modern England
$81.00
ISBN: 9781442648807
Pub Date: April 2015
Breaking new ground in the study of tragedy, early modern theatre, and literary London, Metropolitan Tragedy demonstrates that early modern tragedy emerged from the juncture of radical changes in London’s urban fabric and the city’s judicial procedures.
The Rise of the Diva on the Sixteenth-Century Commedia dell'Arte Stage
$81.00
ISBN: 9781442649118
Pub Date: March 2015
The Rise of the Diva on the Sixteenth-Century Commedia dell’Arte Stage examines the emergence of the professional actress from the 1560s onwards in Italy.
Taking Exception to the Law
Materializing Injustice in Early Modern English Literature
$86.00
ISBN: 9781442642010
Pub Date: January 2015
Taking Exception to the Law explores how a range of early modern English writings responded to injustices perpetrated by legal procedures, discourses, and institutions.
Befriending the Commedia dell'Arte of Flaminio Scala
The Comic Scenarios
$100.00
ISBN: 9781442648999
Pub Date: October 2014
Schmitt demonstrates that the commedia dell’arte relied as much on craftsmanship as on improvisation and that Scala’s scenarios are a treasure trove of social commentary on early modern daily life in Italy.
The Poetics of Imitation in the Italian Theatre of the Renaissance
$88.00
ISBN: 9781442647121
Pub Date: June 2013
DiMaria delves into how playwrights not only brought inventive new dramaturgical methods to the genre, but also incorporated significant aspects of the morals and aesthetic preferences familiar to contemporary spectators into their works.
Shakespeare in the World of Communism and Socialism
$54.00
ISBN: 9781442626034
Pub Date: June 2013
The general theme that emerges from this study is the deeply ambivalent nature of communist Shakespeare who, like Feste's 'chev'ril glove,' often simultaneously served and subverted the official ideology.