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Engendering a Nation
Engendering a Nation adopts a sophisticated feminist analysis to examine the place of gender in contesting representations of nationhood in early modern England. Plays featured include: * King John * Henry VI, Part I * Henry VI, Part II * Henry, Part III * Richard III * Richard II * Henry V. It will be a must for students and scholars interested in the cultural and social implications of Shakespeare today.
Shakesqueer
Shakesqueer puts the most exciting queer theorists in conversation with the complete works of William Shakespeare. Exploring what is odd, eccentric, and unexpected in the Bard’s plays and poems, these theorists highlight not only the many ways that Shakespeare can be queered but also the many ways that Shakespeare can enrich queer theory. This innovative anthology reveals an early modern playwright insistently returning to questions of language, identity, and temporality, themes central to contemporary queer theory. Since many of the contributors do not study early modern literature, Shakesqueer takes queer theory back and brings Shakespeare forward, challenging the chronological confineme...
The Stage and Social Struggle in Early Modern England
A ground-breaking study of the social and cultural functions of the early modern theatre. Jean Howard looks at the effects of drama and the stage on early modern culture in an exciting and eminently readable work.
Historical Affects and the Early Modern Theater
This collection of original essays honors the groundbreaking scholarship of Jean E. Howard by exploring cultural and economic constructions of affect in the early modern theater. While historicist and materialist inquiry has dominated early modern theater studies in recent years, the historically specific dimensions of affect and emotion remain underexplored. This volume brings together these lines of inquiry for the first time, exploring the critical turn to affect in literary studies from a historicist perspective to demonstrate how the early modern theater showcased the productive interconnections between historical contingencies and affective attachments. Considering well-known plays suc...
The William Ward Genealogy; the History of the Descendants of William Ward of Sudbury, Mass., 1638-1925
William Ward (ca. 1603-1686?) married twice and was the father of thirteen children, born 1624-1658. He emigrated from England ca. 1638, with his second wife and five children, and settled at first at Boston, Massachusetts. The family helped settled Sudbury, Massachusetts, in 1639; and Marlborough, Massachusetts, in 1660. Descendants lived in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Hampshire, Vermont, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan and elsewhere.
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