Related Books

Pirates, Traitors, and Apostates
Language: en
Pages: 193
Authors: Laurie Ellinghausen
Categories: Drama
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-01-01 - Publisher: University of Toronto Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

"This study examines representations of English renegades - defined as commoners who consciously adopt outsider status for the sake of personal gain - in early
Criminals as Heroes in Popular Culture
Language: en
Pages: 183
Authors: Roxie J. James
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-03-07 - Publisher: Springer Nature

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book delves into humanity’s compulsive need to valorize criminals. The criminal hero is a seductive figure, and audiences get a rather scopophilic pleasu
Intersectionalities of Class in Early Modern English Drama
Language: en
Pages: 279
Authors: Ronda Arab
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-08-26 - Publisher: Springer Nature

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Defining class broadly as an identity categorization based on status, wealth, family, bloodlines, and occupation, Intersectionalities of Class in Early Modern E
Ships of State
Language: en
Pages: 147
Authors: Laurie Ellinghausen
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-03-01 - Publisher: University of Toronto Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The ideological roots of the British Empire have been widely discussed in early modern studies, as have maritime settings in the period’s imaginative writing.
Agents beyond the State
Language: en
Pages: 280
Authors: Mark Netzloff
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-11-19 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The early modern period is often seen as a pivotal stage in the emergence of a recognizably modern form of the state. Agents beyond the State returns to this co