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  • DRAMA AND THE SUCCESSION TO THE CROWN, 1561-1633
    LISA HOPKINS
    The succession to the throne, Lisa Hopkins argues here, was a burning topic not only in the final years of Elizabeth but well into the 1630s, with continuing questions about how James's two kingdoms might be ruled after his death. Because the issue, with its attendant constitutional questions, was so politically sensitive, Hopkins contends that drama, with its riddled identiti...

    $1,240.00

  • MAGICAL TRANSFORMATIONS ON THE EARLY MODERN ENGLISH STAGE
    LISA HOPKINS / HELEN OSTOVICH
    Magical Transformations on the Early Modern Stage furthers the debate about the cultural work performed by representations of magic on the early modern English stage. It considers the ways in which performances of magic reflect and feed into a sense of national identity, both in the form of magic contests and in its recurrent linkage to national defence; the extent to which mag...

    $1,240.00

  • MARIAN MOMENTS IN EARLY MODERN BRITISH DRAMA
    LISA HOPKINS
    Concerning itself with the complex interplay between iconoclasm against images of the Virgin Mary in post-Reformation England and stage representations that evoke various 'Marian moments' from the medieval, Catholic past, this collection answers the call for further investigation of the complex relationship between the fraught religio-political culture of the early modern perio...

    $1,600.00

  • RENAISSANCE DRAMA ON THE EDGE
    LISA HOPKINS
    Recurring to the governing idea of her 2005 study Shakespeare on the Edge, Lisa Hopkins expands the parameters of her investigation beyond England to include the Continent, and beyond Shakespeare to include a number of dramatists ranging from Christopher Marlowe to John Ford. Hopkins also expands her notion of liminality to explore not only geographical borders, but also the in...

    $1,000.00

  • THE CULTURAL USES OF THE CAESARS ON THE ENGLISH RENAISSANCE STAGE
    LISA HOPKINS
    Caesarian power was a crucial context in the Renaissance, as rulers in Europe, Russia and Turkey all sought to appropriate Caesarian imagery and authority, but it has been surprisingly little explored in scholarship. In this study Lisa Hopkins explores the way in which the stories of the Caesars, and of the Julio-Claudians in particular, can be used to figure the stories of En...

    $1,240.00

  • WOMEN ON THE EDGE IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE
    LISA HOPKINS
    Women on the Edge in Early Modern Europe examines the lives of women whose gender impeded the exercise of their personal, political, and religious agency, with an emphasis on the conflict that occurred when they crossed the edges society placed on their gender. Many of the women featured in this collection have only been afforded cursory scholarly focus, or the focus has been i...

    $1,240.00