This book explores the legal landscape of early modern London, its legal institutions and court cases that influenced the building of the first London theaters and the creation of the early modern dra
Willa Cather and the Dance traces the writer's dance education, starting with the ten-page explication she wrote in 1913 for McClure's magazine called "Training for the Ballet." Cather's interest was
The revisions of the French Revolution by three prominent eighteenth- century writers are focused on in this book. The implication in the OtraditionO these writers rebelled against raises fundamental
Toward a Dramaturgical Sensibility explores the interplay between the known and the unknown from two perspectives—landscape and journey—in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra.
Caribbean Ghostwriting addresses a question central to the fields of postcolonial, feminist, and African diasporic studies: how are we to know the colonial past when the lives of colonized and enslave
Some of the very earliest European references to playing-cards are from Spanish sources. This book describes the playing-cards from the earliest fourteenth-century records to the present day. For much
This study analyzes British wartime cinema, offering extended examination of a wide selection of feature films and documentaries made in Britain between 1939 and 1946, and using textual analyses of th
This book studies the folk-taxonomy for English, and to some extent for the Germanic and Indo- European language families. The semantic fields studied are basic color terms, seasons of the year, geome
Oedipus borealis is a discussion of aberrance in the mythic and legendary hero as he appears in thirteenth-century Icelandic narratives, and in the quasihistorical figures in the saga literature who a
This book examines how the hierarchical structures of taste implied by the term middlebrow were negotiated by the best-selling novelist Warwick Deeping (1877?1950). Deeping is the focus for three reas
Tommasina Gabriele's critical text addresses the paucity of intertextual studies on the erotic in Calvino's work. While Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore and Le cosmicomiche have generated some at
This volume presents 15 essays by Aasand (English, Dickinson State U., North Dakota) and other scholars on the stage directions in Shakespeare's Hamlet . A sampling of topics includes the Prince of D
