Author: Robert D. Fulk File Type: pdf This revised edition of A History of Old English Literature draws extensively on the latest scholarship to have evolved over the last decade. The text incorporates additional material throughout, including two new chapters on Anglo-Saxon manuscripts and incidental and marginal texts.This revised edition responds to the renewed historicism in medieval studiesProvides wide-ranging coverage, including Anglo-Latin literature as well as non-canonical writingsIncludes new chapters on manuscripts and on marginal and incidental textsIncorporates expanded coverage of legal texts and scientific and scholastic texts, now treated in separate chaptersDemonstrates that the field of Anglo-Saxon studies is uniquely placed to contribute to current literary debates

Author: Angela Thirlwell File Type: epub A unique biography exploring Shakespeares iconic Rosalind, heroine of As You Like It, seen through the eyes of the artists who have brought her to life.Into the spotlight steps Rosalind, from As You Like It. Shes alive. Shes modern. Shes also a fiction. Played by a boy actor in 1599, Rosalind is a girl who gets into mens clothes so that she can investigate the truth about love. Both male and female, imaginary and real, her intriguing duality gives her a special role. This book is for everyone who has ever loved Shakespeare. Rosalind, his most innovative heroine, can never die. There is no clock in the Forest of Arden where Rosalind finds herself and applies her mercurial wit to teach her lover, Orlando, how to become her perfect partner, issues which consume men and women today. This highly original biography of Rosalind contains exclusive new interviews with Juliet Rylance, Sally Scott, Janet Suzman, Juliet Stevenson, Michelle Terry, award-winning director Blanche McIntyre, as well as insights from Michael Attenborough, Kenneth Branagh, Greg Doran, Rebecca Hall, Adrian Lester, Pippa Nixon, Vanessa Redgrave, and Fiona Shaw. Exploring the fictitious life and the many after-lives of Rosalind, Angela Thirwell delves into the characters perennial influence on drama, fiction and art. For any fan of the theater, this book ranges far and wide across the Elizabethan world, sexual politics, autobiography, and filmography, bringing Shakespeares immortal heroine to new and vivid life.**ReviewThirlwell writes with authority about 16th-century theater tradition and about Queen Elizabeth Is place as the most powerful woman in that world and of Rosalind as her avatar. Best of all is Thirlwells careful analysis of As You Like It as a whole, a handy and readable piece of lit crit that theatergoers and acting professionals alike will clearly find useful. Rosalind is indeed an unusual biography, but one that delivers an A-to-Z discussion of a truly immortal character. - Providence Journal An enthusiastic homage to a character with more lines than any other female character in Shakespeare. - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel In this animated hybrid of scholarship and creative nonfiction, Thirwell offers a sensitive portrait of one of Shakespeares most complex female characters, and a sweeping assessment of her cultural legacy. Just as this book ends with an injunction to prize questions over answers, so too will Thirwells expansive discussion lead curious minds toward creative, boundary-blasting inquiry. - Publishers Weekly A charming appraisal of the gender-bending protagonist of As You Like It. A model of popular Shakespearean scholarship engagingly accessible and contagiously enthusiastic. - Kirkus Reviews All Shakespeare fans will be eager to see what actors and directors have to say about Shakespeares greatest female character in this novel biography. - Library JournalAbout the Author Angela Thirlwell likes to push the boundaries of biography. She used a thematic spots of time approach in William and Lucy, and interpreted Ford Madox Brown through the lenses of the 4 women in his life in Into the Frame. This time shes chosen Shakespeares inspirational heroine, Rosalind, a character who has never lived and therefore can never die. No need for the biographers usual death bed scene.

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Author: Jeffrey A. Hammond File Type: pdf ReviewAlthough one scarcely expects contemporary readers to show much interest in the multitude of formulaic death poems left behind by dead white (and mostly male) Puritans, Jeffery A. Hammonds study offers an impressively innovate approach to this subject matter. John Gatta Christianity and LiteratureNever has thid body of peoms read so intensely and so well. Early American Literature Volume 36Hammonds rich, erudite text is clearly addressed to academic peers...Hammonds achievement is considerable. American Literature Book DescriptionJeffrey Hammonds study of the funeral elegies of early New England reassesses a body of poems whose importance in their own time has been obscured by almost total neglect in ours. Hammond reconstructs the historical, theological and cultural contexts of these poems to demonstrate how they responded to Puritan views on a specific process of mourning. The elegies emerge, he argues, as performative scripts that consoled readers by shaping their experience and shed new light on the emotional dimension of Puritanism and the important role of ritual in Puritan culture.