Thomas Heywood (1574?-1641), a professional English actor and one of the most prolific playwrights of the seventeenth century, is most famous for his plays written about contemporary English life. "The Fair Maid of the West" recalls typical Elizabethan bourgeois literature, but its primary relationship is with all adventure narratives regardless ...
Arden of Faversham * A Woman Killed with Kindness * The Witch of Edmonton * The English Traveller In about 1590, an unknown dramatist had the idea of writing a tragedy about the lives of ordinary people, instead of the genre's usual complement of kings and queens and politicians. His play, Arden of Faversham, inaugurated a new genre of 'domestic' ...
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This is the first new edition of" Edward IV" to be issued since the 1870s. The text of this edition was used by the actors at The Globe when they gave the first London performance of the play in more than four centuries. By demonstrating the playwright's dextrous marshalling of a remarkable range of sources, and by examining afresh the dramatist's ...
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A main theme in early modern domestic tragedy was not marital discord as such but violent - usually unreasonably violent - behaviour on the husband's part. At a time when husbands were not only allowed but obliged to rule their families, including their wives, the definition of 'lawful and reasonable' measures of punishment were opened to ...
Thomas Heywood was a major Renaissance playwright who wrote or collaborated on over 200 plays. Loues Schoole was one of his many nondramatic works that shows his fascination with antiquity'
Four more 'never-published-before' Globe Quartos, including a pre-Shakespearean Lear The Wise Woman of Hoxton (1605?) The 'Wise Woman', alternatively dismissed as a charlatan or cursed as a 'she-devil', outsmarts gullible citizens and rakish gentlemen alike as the action moves through the colourful 'variety and rarity' of Cheapside and the ...
This volume emphasizes the unity of philosophical outlook and coherence of thought in Soren Kierkegaard's writings. It sketches the development of his thinking on the nature of faith, and identifies the decisive influences on him. Linguistic analysis seeks to clarify his paradoxical theses concerning faith and uncertainty, and his importance, ...
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The author reviews the background to Tillich's theology including his debts to Schelling, Kant and Husserl. He surveys Tillich's achievement as a philosophical theologian, examining his ontological approach to christology, and his understanding of the church as a spiritual community.
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Three Turk Plays from Early Modern England: Selimus, Emperor of the Turks; A Christian Turned Turk; And the Renegado
