Shakespeare's theater : a sourcebook /

Table of Contents: “…A treatise against dicing, dancing, plays, and interludes, with other idle pastimes (1577) / John Northbrooke -- The school of abuse (1579) / Stephen Gosson -- An Apology of the School of Abuse (1579) / Stephen Gosson -- A reply to Stephen Gosson's School of Abuse, defence of poetry, music, and stage plays (1579) / Thomas Lodge -- A Second and Third Blast of Retreat from Plays and Theaters (1580) / Anthony Munday -- Plays confuted in five actions (1582) / Stephen Gosson -- Anatomy of abuses (1583) / Philip Stubbes -- A mirror of monsters (1587) / William Rankins -- The art of English poesy (1589) / George Puttenham -- An Apology for poetry (1595) / Philip Sidney -- The theater of God's judgments (1597) / Thomas Beard -- The overthrow of stage-plays (1599) / John Rainolds -- Letter to Dr. …”

Cosmetics in Shakespearean and Renaissance drama / by Karim-Cooper, Farah

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Illustrations -- Chapter 1 Defining Beauty in Renaissance Culture -- Beautys red and virtues white58; Treatises on Beauty -- The Poetry of Love44; Beauty and Courtship -- Beauty in Pictures58; Plays and Emblem Books -- Chapter 2 Early Modern Cosmetic Culture -- The Devils craft58; The Opposition to Cosmetics -- She Shal Appeare to be the Age of Fifteene Yeares -- Painting the Queen -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Cosmetic Restoration in Jacobean Tragedy -- The artificial shine58; Painted Language -- Cosmetic Revenge Tragedy -- Dainty preserved flesh58; Fetishising the Painted Body -- Catholic Ritual and Cosmetics -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 John Webster and the Culture of Cosmetics -- Beautified and Heroic58; Websters Painted Ladies -- Rethinking Websters Imagery -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Jonsons Cosmetic Ritual -- Pieced beauty58; Cosmetics as Prosthetics -- Constructing Gender in Jonsonian Comedy -- Jonson and the Cosmetics Debate -- Ingredient Culture -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6 Cosmetics and Poetics in Shakespearean Comedy -- Painting Players -- Beautifying Poetic Drama -- Chapter 7 Deceived with ornament58; Shakespeares Venice -- Cosmetic Materials in The Merchant of Venice -- Cosmetic Symbolism and Othello -- Conclusion -- Chapter 8 Flattering Unction58; Cosmetics in Hamlet -- Appearances and Realities58; Painted Faces in Hamlet -- Mousetraps -- Cosmeticised Bodies and the Female Interior -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index -- Last Page.…”
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Shakespeare, the Queen's Men, and the Elizabethan performance of history / by Walsh, Brian

"A brief discourse of rebellion and rebels" by George North : a newly uncovered manuscript source for Shakespeare's plays / by McCarthy, Dennis, 1964-, Schlueter, June

Shakespeare, the Queen's Men, and the Elizabethan performance of history / by Walsh, Brian (Professor of English)

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Multilingualism in the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries /

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Shakespeare's England; an account of the life & manners of his age.

Shakespeare dwelling : designs for the theater of life / by Lupton, Julia Reinhard, 1963-

Distracted subjects : madness and gender in Shakespeare and early modern culture / by Neely, Carol Thomas, 1939-

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The Bible on the Shakespearean stage : cultures of interpretation in Reformation England /

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Shakespeare and laughter : a cultural history / by Ghose, Indira

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Shakespeare and the comedy of enchantment / by Cartwright, Kent, 1943-

Cures for chance : adoptive relations in Shakespeare and Middleton / by Ellerbeck, Erin

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Making the English canon : print-capitalism and the cultural past, 1700-1770 / by Kramnick, Jonathan Brody

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The Bible on the Shakespearean stage : cultures of interpretation in Reformation England /

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The Bible on the Shakespearean stage : cultures of interpretation in Reformation England /

Humoring the body : emotions and the Shakespearean stage / by Paster, Gail Kern

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