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| the merry blank of windsor: The Merry Wives of Windsor Evelyn Gajowski, Phyllis Rackin, 2014-09-19 The Merry Wives of Windsor has recently experienced a resurgence of critical interest. At times considered one of Shakespeare’s weaker plays, it is often dismissed or marginalized; however, developments in feminist, ecocritical and new historicist criticism have opened up new perspectives and this collection of 18 essays by top Shakespeare scholars sheds fresh light on the play. The detailed introduction by Phyllis Rackin and Evelyn Gajowski provides a historical survey of the play and ties into an evolving critical and cultural context. The book’s sections look in turn at female community/female agency; theatrical alternatives; social and theatrical contexts; desire/sexuality; nature and performance to provide a contemporary critical analysis of the play. |
| the merry blank of windsor: The Folger Library Louis B. Wright, 1968 |
| the merry blank of windsor: Error in Shakespeare Alice Leonard, 2020-01-27 The traditional view of Shakespeare’s mastery of the English language is alive and well today. This is an effect of the eighteenth-century canonisation of his works, and subsequently Shakespeare has come to be perceived as the owner of the vernacular. These entrenched attitudes prevent us from seeing the actual substance of the text, and the various types of error that it contains and even constitute it. This book argues that we need to attend to error to interpret Shakespeare’s disputed material text, political-dramatic interventions and famous literariness. The consequences of ignoring error are especially significant in the study of Shakespeare, as he mobilises the rebellious, marginal, and digressive potential of error in the creation of literary drama. |
| the merry blank of windsor: Sonnets and Poems William Shakespeare, 1905 |
| the merry blank of windsor: Shakespeare and Textual Studies Margaret Jane Kidnie, Sonia Massai, 2015-11-12 Shakespeare and Textual Studies gathers contributions from the leading specialists in the fields of manuscript and textual studies, book history, editing, and digital humanities to provide a comprehensive reassessment of how manuscript, print and digital practices have shaped the body of works that we now call 'Shakespeare'. This cutting-edge collection identifies the legacies of previous theories and places special emphasis on the most recent developments in the editing of Shakespeare since the 'turn to materialism' in the late twentieth century. Providing a wide-ranging overview of current approaches and debates, the book explores Shakespeare's poems and plays in light of new evidence, engaging scholars, editors, and book historians in conversations about the recovery of early composition and publication, and the ongoing appropriation and transmission of Shakespeare's works through new technologies. |
| the merry blank of windsor: Bring Up The Bodies Hilary Mantel, 2012-05-08 By 1535 Thomas Cromwell, the blacksmith’s son, is far from his humble origins. Chief Minister to Henry VIII, his fortunes have risen with those of Anne Boleyn, Henry’s second wife, for whose sake Henry has broken with Rome and created his own church. But Henry’s actions have forced England into dangerous isolation, and Anne has failed to do what she promised: bear a son to secure the Tudor line. When Henry visits Wolf Hall, Cromwell watches as Henry falls in love with the silent, plain Jane Seymour. The minister sees what is at stake: not just the king’s pleasure, but the safety of the nation. As he eases a way through the sexual politics of the court, and its miasma of gossip, he must negotiate a “truth” that will satisfy Henry and secure his own career. But neither minister nor king will emerge undamaged from the bloody theatre of Anne’s final days. In Bring Up the Bodies, sequel to the Man Booker Prize– winning Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel explores one of the most mystifying and frightening episodes in English history: the destruction of Anne Boleyn. |
| the merry blank of windsor: The Merry Wives of Windsor in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version) , 2012-07-02 You've probably heard of Sir John Falstaff--but you don't really quite know him until you see him comedically in Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor. He's a real comedian...that is if you can understand what he's talking about!If you have struggled in the past reading Shakespeare, then BookCaps can help you out. This book is a modern translation of The Merry Wives of Windsor.The original text is also presented in the book, along with a comparable version of both text.We all need refreshers every now and then. Whether you are a student trying to cram for that big final, or someone just trying to understand a book more, BookCaps can help. We are a small, but growing company, and are adding titles every month. |
| the merry blank of windsor: Caped Crusaders 101 Jeffrey Kahan, Stanley Stewart, 2006-01-01 This textbook inspires an appreciation for literature by studying important literary themes found in comics. Chapters discuss DC, Marvel and other comics' varied attempts at portraying race, politics, economics, business ethics and democracy; responses t |
| the merry blank of windsor: Shakespeare's Blank Verse Robert Stagg, 2022 Offers an alternative account of Shakespeare's blank verse (his unrhymed iambic pentameter) and provides a new history of the first blank verse in English and of Shakespeare's involvement in its development. |
| the merry blank of windsor: A Midsummer Night's Dream James L. Calderwood, 1992 |
| the merry blank of windsor: Shakespeare's Beehive George Koppelman, Daniel Wechsler, 2015-10-01 A study of manuscript annotations in a curious copy of John Baret's ALVEARIE, an Elizabethan dictionary published in 1580. This revised and expanded second edition presents new evidence and furthers the argument that the annotations were written by William Shakespeare. This ebook contains text in color, and images. We recommend reading it on a device that displays both. |
| the merry blank of windsor: Blanks, Print, Space, and Void in English Renaissance Literature Jonathan Sawday, 2023 This book is an inquiry into blank or empty spaces in primarily English printed books in the period c. 1500 - c. 1700, as well as in Renaissance culture more generally. The book concentrates on the substrate -- the background of any printed work - which is often held to be empty or blank space. These spaces are also considered as gaps (where text or images are constructed as missing, lost, withheld, or perhaps never devised in the first place). The topics discussed include: space and silence; emptiness and absence; the vacuum; race and racial identity; blackness and whiteness, together with lightness, darkness, and sightlessness; cartography and emptiness; the effect of typography on reading practices; the social spaces of the page; gendered surfaces; hierarchies of information; books of memory; pages constructed as waste or vacant; blank forms and bureaucracy; political and devotional spaces; censorship; endings; fragments; terminations; and mortality. The book pays close attention to the writings of many of the familiar figures in English Renaissance literary culture - Sidney, Shakespeare, Donne, Jonson, and Milton. But the book also discusses the work of numerous women writers from the period, including Aphra Behn, Ann Bradstreet, Margaret Cavendish, Lady Jane Gray, Lucy Hutchinson, Æmelia Lanyer, Arbella Stuart, Isabella Whitney, and Lady Mary Wroth, as well as introducing readers to many lesser-known figures and writings of the period |
| the merry blank of windsor: The Rhetoric of the Page Laurie Maguire, 2020-11-03 This wide-ranging and entertaining book explores blank space from incunabula to Google books. Blanks are a paradox—simultaneously nothing and something, gesturing to what was once there or might be there. They are also a creative opportunity for readers as well as writers: readers respond to what is not there and writers come to anticipate that response. Thus, blank space develops literary and ludic applications. Each chapter focuses on one typographical form of what is not there on the page: physical gaps (Chapter One), marks of incompletion such as &c (Chapter Two), and the asterisk as a stand-in for things that cannot be said (Chapter Three). By looking at the early-modern page as a visual unit as well as a verbal unit, this volume shows how the relationship between textual layout and textual content is as productive for writers as it is for readers. Mise-en-page influences readers in the same way that rhetoric influences readers. It is thus possible to speak of 'the rhetoric of the page'. |
| the merry blank of windsor: Hereditary Genius Francis Galton, 1891 |
| the merry blank of windsor: Queen Zixi of Ix L. Frank Baum, 2012-09-26 Classic of juvenile literature recounts an evil queen's attempts to steal a magic cloak and abounds in humor, inventive fantasies, and captivating characters.Includes all 90 of Frederick Richardson's original illustrations. |
| the merry blank of windsor: Will in the World Stephen Greenblatt, 2004 A portrait of Elizabethan England and how it contributed to the making of William Shakespeare discusses how he moved to London lacking money, connections, and a formal education and rose to became his age's foremost playwright. |
| the merry blank of windsor: The Ladies' Book of Etiquette Florence Hartley, 2017-03-17 This charmingly instructive 1860 guide offers timeless advice for proper behavior in every situation, from traveling abroad and hosting a dinner party to choosing clothes and attending a wedding. |
| the merry blank of windsor: Shakespeare's Englishes Margaret Tudeau-Clayton, 2020 Claims that Shakespeare resists an emergent, exclusionary post-reformation ideology of 'true' Englishness in his early plays. |
| the merry blank of windsor: The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints , 1977 |
| the merry blank of windsor: The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare Bruce R. Smith, Katherine Rowe, 2016 This transhistorical, international and interdisciplinary work will be of interest to students, theater professionals and Shakespeare scholars. |
| the merry blank of windsor: The Merry Wives of Windsor William Shakespeare, 2006 |
| the merry blank of windsor: The Book of the Courtier conte Baldassarre Castiglione, 1903 |
| the merry blank of windsor: Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel, 2020-11-05 Inglaterra, década de 1520. Henry VIII ocupa o trono, mas não tem herdeiros. O cardeal Wolsey, o seu conselheiro principal, é encarregue de garantir a consumação do divórcio que o papa recusa conceder. É neste ambiente de desconfiança e de adversidade que surge Thomas Cromwell, primeiro como funcionário de Wolsey e, mais tarde, como seu sucessor. Thomas Cromwell é um homem verdadeiramente original. Filho de um ferreiro cruel, é um político genial, intimidante e sedutor, com uma capacidade subtil e mortal para manipular os outros e as circunstâncias. Impiedoso na perseguição dos seus próprios interesses, é tão ambicioso na política quanto na vida privada. A sua agenda reformadora é executada perante um parlamento que atua em benefício próprio e um rei que flutua entre paixões românticas e acessos de raiva homicida. Escrito por uma das grandes escritoras do nosso tempo, Wolf Hall é um romance absolutamente singular. |
| the merry blank of windsor: The Book of Ghosts (Collected Horror Tales) Sabine Baring-Gould, 2021-05-07 A Book of Ghosts is a collection of occult stories and gothic tales of ghosts and other supernatural creatures that haunt minds and houses of people since the dawn of time. Table of Contents: Jean Bouchon Pomps and Vanities McAlister The Leaden Ring The Mother of Pansies The Red-haired Girl A Professional Secret H. P. Glámr Colonel Halifax's Ghost Story The Merewigs The Bold Venture Mustapha Little Joe Gander A Dead Finger Black Ram A Happy Release The 9.30 Up-train On the Leads Aunt Joanna The White Flag |
| the merry blank of windsor: A Catalogue of Books Consisting of English Literature and Miscellanea Elihu Dwight Church, 1909 |
| the merry blank of windsor: The Winter's Tale Annotated William Shakespeare, 2020-11-11 The Winter's Tale is a play by William Shakespeare, first published in the First Folio in 1623. Although it was listed as a comedy when it first appeared, some modern editors have relabeled the play a romance. Some critics, among them W. W. Lawrence (Lawrence, 9-13), consider it to be one of Shakespeare's problem plays, because the first three acts are filled with intense psychological drama, while the last two acts are comedic and supply a happy ending. |
| the merry blank of windsor: Shakespeare the Boy W. J. Rolfe, 2022-09-04 DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of Shakespeare the Boy (With Sketches of the Home and School Life, Games and Sports, Manners, Customs and Folk-lore of the Time) by W. J. Rolfe. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature. |
| the merry blank of windsor: The Anatomy of Drama (Routledge Revivals) Marjorie Boulton, 2014-06-17 This title, first published in 1960, is intended primarily to increase the understanding of drama among those who do not have easy access to the live theatre and who, therefore, study plays mainly in print. The author’s emphasis is on Shakespeare, but most forms of drama receive some attention. A lucid and lively study of the techniques of plot, dialogue and characterization will help the reader to a deeper appreciated of the problems and successes of the dramatist. |
| the merry blank of windsor: The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Chronicle , 1778 |
| the merry blank of windsor: Literary Collector Frederick C. Bursch, Annie Dennis Bursch, 1900 |
| the merry blank of windsor: Line & Form Walter Crane, 1900 |
| the merry blank of windsor: Coriolanus William Shakespeare, 1904 |
| the merry blank of windsor: A Lost Lady Willa Cather, 1923 Marian Forrester is the symbolic flower of the Old American West. She draws her strength from that solid foundation, bringing delight and beauty to her elderly husband, to the small town of Sweet Water where they live, to the prairie land itself, and to the young narrator of her story, Neil Herbert. All are bewitched by her brilliance and grace, and all are ultimately betrayed. For Marian longs for life on any terms, and in fulfilling herself, she loses all she loved and all who loved her.--From publisher's description. |
| the merry blank of windsor: Hamlet , |
| the merry blank of windsor: Fast Food Nation Eric Schlosser, 2012 An exploration of the fast food industry in the United States, from its roots to its long-term consequences. |
| the merry blank of windsor: A Midsummer Night's Dream William Shakespeare, 1877 |
| the merry blank of windsor: Luxury Arts of the Renaissance Marina Belozerskaya, 2005 Luxury Arts of the Renaissance sumptuously illustrates the stunningly beautiful objects that were the most prized artworks of their time, restoring to the mainstream materials and items long dismissed as extravagant trinkets. By re-examining the objects themselves and their uses in their day, Belozerskaya demonstrates how these glittering creations constructed both the world and the taste of the Renaissance elites. |
| the merry blank of windsor: The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature William Thomas Lowndes, 1864 |
| the merry blank of windsor: The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature William Lowndes, 2023-01-31 Reprint of the original. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost. |
| the merry blank of windsor: The Biography and Bibliography of Shakespeare Henry George Bohn, 1863 |
MERRY Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of MERRY is full of gaiety or high spirits : mirthful. How to use merry in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Merry.
Merry - definition of merry by The Free Dictionary
Full of cheerfulness, liveliness, and good feelings: merry revelers. 2. Marked by or offering fun, good feelings, and liveliness; festive: a merry evening. 3. Brisk: a merry pace. 4. Archaic …
MERRY Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com
Merry definition: full of cheerfulness or gaiety; joyous in disposition or spirit.. See examples of MERRY used in a sentence.
MERRY | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
MERRY definition: 1. happy or showing enjoyment: 2. UK polite word for slightly drunk: 3. happy or showing…. Learn more.
MERRY definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
If you describe someone's character or behaviour as merry, you mean that they are happy and cheerful. He was much loved for his merry nature. From the house come the bursts of merry …
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Definition of merry adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Merry Definition & Meaning | YourDictionary
Merry definition: Full of cheerfulness, liveliness, and good feelings.
merry, adj. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English …
There are 16 meanings listed in OED's entry for the adjective merry, 11 of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence. How common is …
Merry - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | Vocabulary.com
To be merry is to be happy, especially in a fun, festive way. Parties and celebrations are merry, and so are the fun people who attend them. This old fashioned word for “happy” is popular in …
MERRY Synonyms: 161 Similar and Opposite Words - Merriam-Webster
Some common synonyms of merry are blithe, jocund, jolly, and jovial. While all these words mean "showing high spirits or lightheartedness," merry suggests cheerful, joyous, uninhibited …
MERRY Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of MERRY is full of gaiety or high spirits : mirthful. How to use merry in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Merry.
Merry - definition of merry by The Free Dictionary
Full of cheerfulness, liveliness, and good feelings: merry revelers. 2. Marked by or offering fun, good feelings, and liveliness; festive: a merry evening. 3. Brisk: a merry pace. 4. Archaic …
MERRY Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com
Merry definition: full of cheerfulness or gaiety; joyous in disposition or spirit.. See examples of MERRY used in a sentence.
MERRY | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
MERRY definition: 1. happy or showing enjoyment: 2. UK polite word for slightly drunk: 3. happy or showing…. Learn more.
MERRY definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
If you describe someone's character or behaviour as merry, you mean that they are happy and cheerful. He was much loved for his merry nature. From the house come the bursts of merry …
merry adjective - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage …
Definition of merry adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Merry Definition & Meaning | YourDictionary
Merry definition: Full of cheerfulness, liveliness, and good feelings.
merry, adj. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English …
There are 16 meanings listed in OED's entry for the adjective merry, 11 of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence. How common is …
Merry - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | Vocabulary.com
To be merry is to be happy, especially in a fun, festive way. Parties and celebrations are merry, and so are the fun people who attend them. This old fashioned word for “happy” is popular in …
MERRY Synonyms: 161 Similar and Opposite Words - Merriam-Webster
Some common synonyms of merry are blithe, jocund, jolly, and jovial. While all these words mean "showing high spirits or lightheartedness," merry suggests cheerful, joyous, uninhibited …
