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Global Renaissance: Alexander the Great and Early Modern Classicism from the British Isles to the Malay Archipelago1
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Southeast Asia in Global History
While Alexander the Great's famous conquest brought Hellenistic influences as far as northern India, his legend spread over even vaster territories, stretching from Britain to Southeast Asia. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, various Malay courts in the Southeast Asian archipelago appropriated the legends of Alexander for their own histories and traced their royal genealogies back to him. A recovery of this little-known history of Alexander in...
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The turn to religion in Early Modern English studies.
Criticism
; When the New Historicist scholar Stephen Greenblatt recently published a book on Purgatory as well as an essay and two book chapters on the Eucharist, (1) clearly something new was afoot in early modern English studies. Religion was once again at the center in interpretations of early modern
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Shakespeare: philosopher, scientist, ecologist.(Time, Space, and Motion in the Age of Shakespeare, Environment and Embodiment in Early Modern England, Shakespeare the Thinker)(Book review)
College Literature
; The emotions are greatly alterative with respect to the body. Therefore, through them the imagination is able to transform the body. (Dr. Thomas Fienus, early modern physician, qtd. in Floyd- Wilson and Sullivan 2007, 177) What to ourselves in passion we propose, The passion ending, doth the
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Interpreting communities: private acts and public culture in early modern England.(Increase and Multiply: Governing Cultural Reproduction in Early Modern England)(Better a Shrew Than a Sheep: Women, Drama and the Culture of Jest in Early Modern England)(Common Bodies: Women, Touch, and Power in Seventeenth-Century England)(Individuals, Families, and Communities in Europe, 1200-1800: The Urban Foundations of Western Society)(Book Review)
Criticism
; ... Why; is it not arrived there yet, the news? A new foundation, sir, here i' the town ... she will be a stateswoman, know all the news: what was done at Salisbury, what at the ... literature in its broadest sense: the matter of news, pamphlets, and ballads. Yet the testimonies ...
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Jonathan Gil Harris and Natasha Korda, eds. Staged Properties in Early Modern Drama.(Book Review)
Comparative Drama
; Jonathan Gil Harris and Natasha Korda, eds. Staged Properties in Early Modern Drama,. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. 358. $75.00 casebound. This fascinating anthology represents the confluence of two developments, one acknowledged, the other implicit, but still a significant
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The trauma of empire in Shakespeare and early modern culture.(Book review)
College Literature
; When she did well, what did ther elce amiss? When she did ill what empires could have pleased? (Sir Walter Ralegh, The Ocean to Cynthia (qtd. by Montrose 2006, 91) I press'd me none but good householders, yeoman's sons Such a commodity of warm slaves. (Falstaff, Henry IV, Part One, 4.2.14- 17)
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Global Renaissance: Alexander the Great and Early Modern Classicism from the British Isles to the Malay Archipelago1
Comparative Literature
; ... their country" (3:162). Jane Drakard comments: "News of Alexander the Great (or Iskandar Zulkarnain ... defeat of the Spanish Armada may have been old news by then, it is significant that the news traveled as far as it did. Instead of a first ...
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Religion and the Early Modern State: Views from China, Russia, and the West.(Book review)
Church History
; Religion and the Early Modern State: Views from China, Russia, and the West. Edited by James D. Tracy and Marguerite Ragnow. Studies in Comparative Early Modern History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xviii + 418 pp. $80.00 cloth. Publishers dislike the festschrift. Collected volumes
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Queer/Early/Modern.(Book review)
Renaissance Quarterly
; Carla Freccero. Queer/Early/Modern. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. x + 182 pp. index. bibl. $74.95. (cl), $21.95 (pbk). ISBN: 0-8223-3678-2 (cl), 0-8223-3690-1 (pbk). For scholars working on gender in early modern texts, this book is both a useful synthesis of some of the most significant
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Sarah Ferber. Demonic Possession and Exorcism in Early Modern France.(Book review)
Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft
; SARAH FERBER. Demonic Possession and Exorcism in Early Modern France. London and New York: Routledge, 2004. Pp. ix + 227. Sarah Ferber's incisive, well-written, and exhaustively researched monograph is a fascinating addition to the field of early modern history. It appears at a time when the
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"Monstrous manner": style and the early modern theater.
Criticism
; Oh beware therefore both what you wear, and how you wear it. Thomas Dekker, The Gull's Horn-Book (1609) 1. Sumptuousness ELIZABETH I'S WARDROBE INVENTORY for the year 1600 lists 99 robes, 102 French gowns, 67 round gowns, 100 loose gowns, 126 kirtles, 96 cloaks, and 26 fans, in addition to her
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