Renaissance Literature and CultureA&C Black, 16 лист. 2006 р. - 160 стор. The guide to Renaissance Literature and Culture provides students with the ideal introduction to literature and its context from 1533-1642, including: - the historical, cultural and intellectual background including religion, politics, exploration and visual culture - major writers and genres including Spenser, Sidney, Marlowe, Shakespeare and Jonson - concise explanations of key terms needed to understand the literature and criticism - key critical approaches to modernism from contemporary critics to the present - a chronology mapping historical events and literary works and further reading including websites and electronic resources. |
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... death reached Madrid, but the weather prevented it. The English anxiously awaited invasion throughout 1587 (the year ... deaths and dynastic failures had given Philip's father, the Emperor Charles V, an extraordinary collection of ...
... death reached Madrid, but the weather prevented it. The English anxiously awaited invasion throughout 1587 (the year ... deaths and dynastic failures had given Philip's father, the Emperor Charles V, an extraordinary collection of ...
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... death there. The English military presence in the Netherlands gave the Low Countries a high profile in English politics for the remainder of the queen's reign. The final arena of Elizabethan military activity was Ireland. Because this ...
... death there. The English military presence in the Netherlands gave the Low Countries a high profile in English politics for the remainder of the queen's reign. The final arena of Elizabethan military activity was Ireland. Because this ...
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... death; a much less popular move came when James also made a peace treaty with Spain. James's domestic life was less peaceful than his foreign policy. Almost certainly homosexual, he was even more susceptible to male favourites than ...
... death; a much less popular move came when James also made a peace treaty with Spain. James's domestic life was less peaceful than his foreign policy. Almost certainly homosexual, he was even more susceptible to male favourites than ...
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... death. For Catholics, the priest was an essential mediator between the word of God and the lay (i.e. non-clerical) person. Both the translation of the Bible from Latin and private study of the Bible were discouraged: the word of God was ...
... death. For Catholics, the priest was an essential mediator between the word of God and the lay (i.e. non-clerical) person. Both the translation of the Bible from Latin and private study of the Bible were discouraged: the word of God was ...
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... death in 1593, and both contain references to events which postdate his lifetime, and so must have been added by someone else.) In the 1616 B text, the Good Angel tells Faustus that it is 'Never too late, if Faustus will repent'. This ...
... death in 1593, and both contain references to events which postdate his lifetime, and so must have been added by someone else.) In the 1616 B text, the Good Angel tells Faustus that it is 'Never too late, if Faustus will repent'. This ...
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