“…Michelangelo was raised in a rustic village by a family of modest means. Shakespeare's father was a middle-class businessman. …”

“…Drawing upon poetry, plays, and prose by writers such as Shakespeare, Scudery, Boileau, and Donne, as well as popular materials including pamphlets, ballads, and broadsides, she examines the impact of rapid urbanization on cultural production. …”
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“…En ellos Joyce aborda temas o motivos históricos, literarios, culturales, sociales, filosóficos, políticos que luego reaparecen en sus obras centrales, como el Ulises y Dublineses, o expone sus ideas acerca de autores notables como Ibsen, o la teoría sobre Shakespeare a la que asigna un lugar tan destacado en el Ulises, o sentencias y pensamientos que revelan un programa propio de escritura y de crítica…”

“…The authors offer new perspectives on the agency and cultural influence of queens consort (Isabella of England, Philippa of Lancaster, Elizabeth Woodville, Elizabeth of York and Anne Boleyn) and queens regnant (Mary I, Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots), as well as critical commentaries on queens within contemporary drama (for example, Shakespeare's Tamora, queen of the Goths)."…”

“…This ambitious work appraises a broad trajectory of influences—including Shakespeare’s plays, John Locke’s theories of education, Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, and the Puritan tradition—which have each shaped children’s literature through the ages as well. …”
Sumario

“…More listeners have heard these prayers, it is said, than the soliloquies of Shakespeare. As British imperial ambitions spread, the Book of Common Prayer became the primary instrument (at least as much as the King James Bible) of English culture, firstly in Ireland in 1551. …”

“…The intersecting ideas of literature and consolation in Homer, Dante, Shakespeare and Flaubert through to Roland Barthes, Denise Riley and Julian Barnes, guide today's readers on how literature provides examples, food for thought and good companionship in times of grief and pain. …”

“…En la gran literatura hay momentos mágicos que guardamos en la memoria del corazón: fragmentos inolvidables de Proust, de Antonio Machado, de Stendhal, de Cervantes, de Shakespeare, de García Lorca, de Julio Cortázar... En este libro, Andrés Amorós comenta algunos de esos momentos, con sabiduría y sencillez, comosi hablara con un amigo. …”

“…Thompson has combined the photographs with quotations, each pertaining to the subject, from sources as diverse as Shakespeare and Stendhal, Aristotle and Heidegger, Walker Evans and Lincoln Kirstein. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Half-title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Editorial Board -- Notes on the Contributors -- Editor's Introduction -- Acknowledgements and Editorial Information -- Essays in Memory of A Norman Jeffares -- Professor Alexander Norman Jeffares 11 August 1920-1 June 2005 -- From the Window of the House -- Lips and Ships, Peers and Tears: Lacrimae Rerum and Tragic Joy -- Yeats and the Colours of Poetry -- Yeat's Shakespeare: 'There is a Good Deal of my Father in it' -- What Raftery Built -- A Portrait of George Yeats -- The Tower: Yeats's Anti-Modernist Monument -- Vacillation: Between What and What? …”

“…Title in English: Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck: Students' analytical papers on intermediality The volume consists of two parts, one of which comprises analyses of filmic transmediations of Shakespeare's sonnets (The Sonnetproject, New York Shakespeare Exchange 2013), the other analyses of literary ekphrases (by W. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…"A Higher Audacity": How to Read Pushkin's Dialogue with Shakespeare in The Stone Guest -- 11. Stabat Pater: Revisiting the "Monumental" in Peter, Petersburg, and Pushkin -- 12. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…La tragedia de Macbeth / W. Shakespeare. Británico / Juan Racine. El nuevo rco en la corte / Molière. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Elementargeister ; Die Götter im Exil ; Shakespeares Mädchen und Frauen -- T. 11. Französische Maler ; Über die französische Bühne ; Vorreden und Einleitungen ; Rezensionen -- T. 12. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…La tragedia de Macbeth / W. Shakespeare. Británico / Juan Racine. El nuevo rco en la corte / Molière. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Knox -- Ovidian intertextuality / Sergio Casali -- Sexuality and gender / Alison Keith -- Ovid's generic transformations / Joseph Farrell -- Theorizing Ovid / Efrossini Spentzou -- Ovidian strategies in early Imperial literature / Charles McNelis -- The medieval Ovid / John Fyler -- Ovid in Renaissance English literature / Heather James -- Shakespeare and ovid / Gordon Braden -- Ovid in the twentieth century / Theodore Ziolkowski -- Translating Ovid / Christopher Martin…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Social Contexts for Writing -- Chapter 1: Plays into Print: Shakespeare to His Earliest Readers 23 -- DAVID SCOTT KASTAN -- Chapter 2: Books and Scrolls: Navigating the Bible 42 -- PETER STALLYBRASS -- Chapter 3: Theatrum Libri: Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy and the Failure of Encyclopedic Form 80 -- CHRISTOPHER GROSE -- Chapter 4: Approaches to Presbyterian Print Culture: Thomas Edwards's Gangraena as Source and Text 97 -- ANN HUGHES --II. …”