Tragedies of the english renaissance

English Renaissance Poetry

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English Renaissance Manuscript Culture

English Renaissance Manuscript Culture: The Paper Revolution shows how the advent of paper as a cheap and lasting medium of writing helped to create a

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Writing and the English Renaissance

This is a collection of essays exploring the creative richness of Renaissance culture during the 16th and 17th centuries. As well as considering major

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Linguistic Turn of the English Renaissance

The Linguistic Turn of the English Renaissance: A Lacanian Perspective examines a selection of cultural phenomena of the English Renaissance, all of w

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Oxford History of the Renaissance

The story of the 'long Renaissance' for a new generation—from Giotto and Dante in thirteenth-century Italy, to the English literary Renaissance in th

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Dictionary of Literary-Rhetorical Conventions of the English Renaissance

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Companion to Pastoral Poetry of the English Renaissance

An essential supplement to Pastoral poetry of the English Renaissance: An anthology. The full-length introduction offers a historical and critical ana

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Renaissance Magic and the Return of the Golden Age

For all their pride in seeing this world clearly, the thinkers and artists of the English Renaissance were also fascinated by magic and the occult. Th

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Oxford Illustrated History of the Renaissance

The story of the 'long Renaissance' for a new generation from Giotto and Dante in thirteenth-century Italy to the English literary Renaissance in the

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Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse

The era between the accession of Henry VIII and the crisis of the English republic in 1659 formed one of the most fertile epochs in world literature.

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Blanks, Print, Space, and Void in English Renaissance Literature

Blanks, Print, Space, and Void in English Renaissance Literature is an inquiry into the blank or empty spaces encountered not just on the pages of pri

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Sidney's 'The Defence of Poesy' and Selected Renaissance Literary Criticism

Includes George Puttenham's "Art of English Poesy", Samuel Daniel's "Defense of Rhyme", and passages by writers such as Ben Jonson, Francis Bacon and

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Art and Curiosity Cabinets of the Late Renaissance - A Contribution to the History of Collecting

Available in English for the first time, Julius von Schlosser's seminal work in the history of art and collecting was the first study to interpret six

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Renaissance Every Album, Every Song (On Track )

Renaissance, a much beloved but highly underrated English progressive rock band, began life in 1969 as an offshoot of The Yardbirds. Keith Relf and Ji

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Ideas of Authorship in the English and Scottish Dream Vision

An investigation of English and Scottish dream visions written on the cusp of the "Renaissance", teasing out distinctive ideas of authorship which inf

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The Return of Kral Majales - Prague´s International Literary Renaissance 1990-2010 : An Anthology - Louis Armand

<p>Prague with its legendary charms is, in fact, one of those cities that effectively pin down poetic thought, which is always more or less adrift in space. Andre Breton (1935) This ground-breaking anthology includes the work of over 90 writers and translators active in Prague during the two decades following the Velvet Revolution; generously illustrated with archi...

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Devotional Experience and Erotic Knowledge in the Literary Culture of the English Reformation

Discusses the ways in which post-Reformation devotional practices informed expressions of desire in the poetry of five Renaissance English writers: Sh

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English Literary Criticism

Originally published in 1951, this volume covers the transition period between the years of Renaissance influence and the dawn of 19th Century Romanti

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Studying English Literature

Offers a link between pre-degree study and undergraduate study by introducing students to: the history of English literature from the Renaissance onwa

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The English Gardener's Garden - Tania Compton

<p>The ultimate celebration of England’s most gorgeous gardens, showcasing their enduring appeal from historic masterpieces to individual creations of today</p> <p>The English Gardener’s Garden spans seven centuries to spotlight over 60 of England’s finest gardens. Adapted from Phaidon’s bestselling The Gardener’s Garden, updated, and organized geographi...

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Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1500–1600

The first comprehensive account of English Renaissance literature in the context of the culture which shaped it: the courts of Henry VIII and Elizabet

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Richard Rolle and the Invention of Authority

This 1991 book is a literary study of the career of Richard Rolle (d.1349), a Yorkshire hermit and mystic who was one of the most widely read English writers of the late Middle Ages. Nicholas Watson proposes a chronology of Rolle's writings, and offers a literary analyses of a number of his works. He shows how Rolle's career, as a writer of passionate religious works in L...

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Duchess of Malfi

The great English Renaissance tragedy—violent, powerful, unforgettable—in a freshly edited and annotated student edition.

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The Silk Roads: A New History of the World - Peter Frankopan

<p>The sun is setting on the Western world. Slowly but surely, the direction in which the world spins has reversed: where for the last five centuries the globe turned westwards on its axis, it now turns to the east. For centuries, fame and fortune was to be found in the west in the New World of the Americas. Today, it is the east which calls out to those in search o...

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Concepts of Harmony in Five Metaphysical Poets - Tomáš Jajtner

The present monograph Concepts of Harmony in Five Metaphysical Poets analyses the significance of Pythagorean cosmology for the understanding the world and man in the English Renaissance.

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Concepts of Harmony in Five Metaphysical Poets - Tomáš Jajtner

The present monograph Concepts of Harmony in Five Metaphysical Poets analyses the significance of Pythagorean cosmology for the understanding the world and man in the English Renaissance. The author p

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Concepts of Harmony in Five Metaphysical Poets

The present monograph Concepts of Harmony in Five Metaphysical Poets analyses the significance of Pythagorean cosmology for the understanding the world and man in the English Renaissance. The author perceives Pythagorean cosmology as a key concept for the arts in the Renaissance, especially music and poetry. A gradual wane in the belief of the concept of a universal cosmi...

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Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition

Celebrating its first year of delighting millions of global players, the award-winning and best-selling strategy franchise continues with Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition, putting you at the center of even more epic historical battles that shaped the world. Featuring both familiar and innovative new ways to expand your empire in vast landscapes with stunning 4K visu...

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Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition (PC)

Celebrating its first year of delighting millions of global players, the award-winning and best-selling strategy franchise continues with Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition, putting you at the center of even more epic historical battles that shaped the world.Featuring both familiar and innovative new ways to expand your empire in vast landscapes with stunning 4K visua...

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Concepts of Harmony in Five Metaphysical Poets - Tomáš Jajtner

Anotace: The present monograph Concepts of Harmony in Five Metaphysical Poets analyses the significance of Pythagorean cosmology for the understanding the world and man in the English Renaissance. The author perceives Pythagorean cosmology as a key concept for the arts in the Renaissance, especially music and poetry. A gradual wane in the belief of the concept of a unive...

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Concepts of Harmony in Five Metaphysical Poets - Tomáš Jajtner

<p>The present monograph Concepts of Harmony in Five Metaphysical Poets analyses the significance of Pythagorean cosmology for the understanding the world and man in the English Renaissance. The author perceives Pythagorean cosmology as a key concept for the arts in the Renaissance, especially music and poetry. A gradual wane in the belief of the concept of a univer...

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The Prince : (penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) - Niccolò Machiavelli

<p>A new translation of the infamous Renaissance classic, in a striking deluxe edition The original blueprint for realpolitik, The Prince shocked sixteenth-century Europe with its advocacy of ruthless tactics for gaining absolute power and its abandonment of conventional morality. For this treatise on statecraft, Machiavelli drew upon his own experience of office un...

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In Memoriam: THE TOP FIVE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - Alice Winn

<p>It was only because Gaunt knew he might die, that he could be so reckless as to kiss him.In 1914, war feels far away to Henry Gaunt and Sidney Ellwood. They're too young to enlist, and anyway, Gaunt is fighting his own private battle - an all-consuming infatuation with the dreamy, poetic Ellwood - not having a clue that his best friend is in love with him, always...

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Shakespeare's Language

The true biography of Shakespeare is in the plays. The great English tragedies were all written in the first decade of the seventeenth century. They a

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Unfortunate Traveller and Other Works

Written in the late sixteenth century, at the pinnacle of the English Renaissance, the rich and ingenious works of Thomas Nashe uniquely reveal the am

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Sidney Psalter

Philip Sidney and his sister Mary translated the biblical psalms into some of the greatest lyric poems of the English Renaissance. This is the first c

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Women's Writing

Focusing on texts written in English and emphasising writing by women from the beginning of the Renaissance period in the 1300s to the 21st century, t

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Plutarch's Prism

Explores how the work of the first-century historian and moralist Plutarch was translated into French and English during the Renaissance and read and

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Filippino Lippi

The first monograph in a generation, and the first study in English in over 70 years of Renaissance master-artist Filippino Lippi.

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Iliad - Homér

In every century since the renaissance, English speakers have felt compelled to possess a translation written especially for their own time of this great epic poem, the earliest and most central literary text of Western culture.

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Level 6: Madame Bovary

Classic / British English Emma Bovary is a dreamer. She escapes from her boring life with her father by marrying Charles, a doctor, but married life does not bring her the love and excitement she expected. She looks for love outside her marriage, and one of literature's great tragedies begins to unfold.

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Pico della Mirandola

This volume provides a comprehensive presentation of the philosophical work of the fifteenth-century Renaissance thinker Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. In essays specially commissioned for this book, a distinguished group of scholars presents the central topics and texts of Pico's literary output. Best known as the author of the celebrated 'Oration on the Dignity of Man',...

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Ilias - Homér

Anotace: In every century since the renaissance, English speakers have felt compelled to possess a translation written especially for their own time of this great epic poem, the earliest and most central literary text of Western culture. That need has been thoroughly met in our century by the distinguished poet and classicist Robert Fitzgerald, whose version of The Iliad...

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Visconti Tarot - A. A. Atanassov

<p>An absolutely stunning display of lavish gold foil and exquisite Renaissance art, this deck is pure magic and mystery! The shimmering gold reflects the light, seducing the intuition and delighting the eye. This deck is a treasure, truly a must-have for all Tarot enthusiasts. Originally commissioned in 1450 by the Duke of Milan, and attributed to Bonifacio Bembo, ...

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Inferno (anglicky) - Dan Brown

Anotace: *NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING TOM HANKS AND FELICITY JONES* Florence: Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon awakes in a hospital bed with no recollection of where he is or how he got there. Nor can he explain the origin of the macabre object found hidden in his belongings. A threat to his life will propel him and a young doctor, Sienna Brooks, into a breakneck chase a...

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Umění 6/2019

<p>Články Lukáš Reitinger Znojemský cyklus Přemyslovců a oficiální katalog českých knížat Petr Uličný The Summer Palace in the Royal Garden of Prague Castle and the First Renaissance Recreational Building in Central Europe Vilém Urban Československý nábytek z polystyrenu a jeho vazby na futurologii bydlení Zprávy Andrzej Kozieł - Arkadiusz Wojtyła Between Pra...

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