The players' advice to Hamlet : the rhetorical acting method from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment / by Wiles, David

Table of Contents: “…Hamlet's advice to the players -- Rhetorical performance in antiquity -- Acting, preaching and oratory in the sixteenth century -- Baroque acting -- Actors and intellectuals in the Enlightenment era -- Emotion -- Declamation -- Gesture -- Training.…”
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European Shakespeares : translating Shakespeare in the Romantic Age /

Table of Contents: “…Translation Choices in "Hamlet"; 5. Verri's Style as a Translator of "Hamlet"; 6. …”
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Fictions of embassy : literature and diplomacy in early modern Europe / by Hampton, Timothy

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : angels and pimps : toward a diplomatic poetics -- Words and deeds : diplomacy and humanist fiction -- The useful and the honorable : the ethics of mediation in the late Renaissance -- Epic and the law of nations : Tasso's Jerusalem delivered -- From Cortez to Camões : identity and authority in the discourse of discovery -- Big states and small states : sovereignty, diplomatic recognition, and the theater of Pierre Corneille -- Hamlet's diplomacy : state-building, dispatch, and revenge -- The tragedy of delegation : diplomatic action and tragic form in Racine's Andromaque -- Conclusion : in the Hôtel des Ambassadeurs.…”

Myths of Europe /

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments; Introduction: Myths of Europe, and Myths of Europe; Europa/Europe: Myths and Muddles; Electras and Hamlet; Myths of Europe: Ted Hughes's Tales from Ovid; Myths of Masculinity: Adonis and Heracles; St Nicholas, Icon of Mercantile Virtues: Transition and Continuity of a European Myth; Re-writing a Myth: Dryden's Amphitryon and its Sources; 'A Foundling at the Crossroads': Fielding, Tradition(s) and a 'Dantesque' Reading of Tom Jones; Viewing the Moon: Between Myth and Astronomy in the Age of the Enlightenment.…”
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Fictions of embassy : literature and diplomacy in early modern Europe / by Hampton, Timothy

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : angels and pimps : toward a diplomatic poetics -- Words and deeds : diplomacy and humanist fiction -- The useful and the honorable : the ethics of mediation in the late Renaissance -- Epic and the law of nations : Tasso's Jerusalem delivered -- From Cortez to Camões : identity and authority in the discourse of discovery -- Big states and small states : sovereignty, diplomatic recognition, and the theater of Pierre Corneille -- Hamlet's diplomacy : state-building, dispatch, and revenge -- The tragedy of delegation : diplomatic action and tragic form in Racine's Andromaque -- Conclusion : in the Hôtel des Ambassadeurs.…”
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Four hundred years of Shakespeare in Europe /

Table of Contents: “…White -- Shakespeare: man of the millennium / Boika Sokolova -- More alternative Shakespeares / Dirk Delabastita -- Telling what is told: original, translation, and the third text / Martin Hilský -- Royal and bourgeois translators: two late-nineteenth-century Portuguese readings of The merchant of Venice / Filomena Mesquita -- Shakespeare and the cold war / Dennis Kennedy -- Spanish productions of Hamlet in the twentieth century / Rafael Portillo and Mercedes Salvador -- Apocalyptic beginnings at the end of the millennium: Stefan Bachmann's Troilus and Cressida / Sylvia Zysset -- Shakespeare's history plays in Belgium: taken apart and reconstructed as "grand narrative" / Jozef de Vos -- Shakespeare on the French stage: a historical survey / Isabelle Schwartz-Gastine -- Bibliography: Shakespeare in European culture / Ton Hoenselaars.…”

Animal bodies, Renaissance culture / by Raber, Karen, 1961-

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Everyday life practices of Muslims in Europe /

Table of Contents: “…Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Everyday Experiences, Moral Dilemmas and the Making of Muslim Life Worlds: Introductory Reflections -- Part I: Consumption and Food Practices -- Chapter 2 Islamic Food Practices in a Migration Context: An Ethnography Among Moroccan Women in Milan (Italy) -- Chapter 3 "Tell me what you eat and I'll tell you what you are "The Literal Consumption of Identity for North African Muslims in Paris (France) -- Chapter 4 Dietary Practices and the Bargaining of an Islamic Lifestyle Among Unorganized European Muslims: Some Reflections from French Diasporic Muslims -- Chapter 5 Politics of Consumption: The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Campaign and "Being" Muslim in Tower Hamlets -- Part II: Individualization, Courtship and Leisure Practices -- Chapter 6 Individualization of Muslim Religious Practices: Contextual Creativity of Second-Generation Moroccans in Spain -- Chapter 7 The Self-Arranged Marriage: Modern Muslim Courtship Practices in the Netherlands -- Chapter 8 Sexual Subjectivities in a Transnational Social Field: The Family Visit -- Chapter 9 Halalscapes: Leisure, Fun and Aesthetic Spaces Created by Young Muslim Women of the Gülen Movement in France and Germany -- Part III: Translocal Space and Artistic Expressions -- Chapter 10 Artistic Reactions to Contemporary Controversies Related to Islam -- Chapter 11 (Dis)locating Muslims in Britain Today -- Chapter 12 Towards a German Mosque: Rethinking the Mosque's Meaning in Germany by Applying Socio-Semiotics -- Conclusion -- Chapter 13 Muslims and Everyday Life Practices in Europe -- About the Authors.…”
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Archaeology of Medieval villages currently inhabited in Europe

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