Solo performances : staging the early modern self in England /

Table of Contents: “…Of Idiocy, Moroseness, and Vitriol Soloists of Rage in Ben Jonson's Satire /…”
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Roman Women in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Roman Women in Early Modern English Drama -- "Rome's Rich Ornament": Lavinia, Commoditization, and the Senses in William Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus -- Blending Motherhoods: Volumnia and the Representation of Maternity in William Shakespeare's Coriolanus -- "Silent, Not as a Foole": William Shakespeare's Roman Women and Early Modern Tropes of Feminine Silence -- "Timidae obsequantur": Mothers and Wives in Matthew Gwinne's Nero -- "Let Me Use All My Pleasures": The Ovidian Courtship of the Emperor's Daughter in Ben Jonson's Poetaster -- "Few Wise Women's Honesties": Dialoguing with Roman Women in Ben Jonson's Roman Plays -- Ben Jonson's and Thomas May's "Political Ladies": Forms of Female Political Agency -- Bawds, Wives, and Foreigners: The Question of Female Agency in the Roman Plays of the Fletcher Canon -- "The Beauties of the Time": Roman Women in Philip Massinger's The Roman Actor -- "Poison on, Monsters": Female Poisoners in Early Modern Roman Tragedies -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.…”
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Religious dissimulation and early modern drama : the limits of toleration / by Schindler, Kilian

Table of Contents: “…Religious dissimulation and toleration in early modern England -- From Oldcastle to Falstaff : the politics of martyrdom and conformity in 1 and 2 Henry IV -- Falstaff revisited : Puritan nonconformity and loyal dissent in 1 Sir John Oldcastle -- Silence denied : Sir Thomas More and the incrimination of inward dissent -- Free speech and neo-stoicist inwardness : the divided self in Ben Jonson's Sejanus his fall -- Exposing religious dissimulation : the stage Machiavel in Christopher Marlowe's The Jew of Malta -- Semi-conformity, idolatrous pollution, and conversion : the permeable self in Ben Jonson's Bartholomew Fair.…”
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Poets and playwrights : Shakespeare, Jonson, Spenser, Milton / by Stoll, Elmer Edgar, 1874-1959

Table of Contents: “…Cleopatra -- Henry V -- Shakespeare and the moderns : Corneille, Racine, Ibsen -- The old drama and the new : Ben Jonson -- The stage and the house, then and now -- Spenser -- Was paradise well lost? …”
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Magic and masculinity in early modern English drama / by McAdam, Ian, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Sex and magic in Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay -- Puritan magic in Doctor Faustus -- Ambiguous magic in Shakespeare's first and second tetralogies -- Shakespeare's comic actaeon and the turn to tragedy -- Magic and nature in the later Shakespeare -- Macbeth and the Jacobean witchcraft plays -- Magic as emasculation in George Champman and Ben Jonson -- The magician's garden: The tempest and Comus.…”
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Shakespeare & the universities, and other studies in Elizabethan drama. by Boas, Frederick S. 1862-1957

Table of Contents: “…The date of Hamlet and Gabriel Harvey's "Marginalia." II. Ben Jonson's Volpone at the universities.…”