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Sport, politics, and literature in the English Renaissance
Title
Sport, politics, and literature in the English Renaissance [electronic resource] / Gregory M. Colón Semenza.
ISBN
9780845345962 (electronic bk.)
0845345966 (electronic bk.)
0874138442
9780874138443
Published
Newark : University of Delaware Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, ©2003.
Physical Description
1 online resource (239 pages.)
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
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Online version: Semenza, Gregory M. Colón, 1972- Sport, politics, and literature in the English Renaissance. Newark : University of Delaware Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, ©2003
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 13, 2019
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-228) and index.
Contents
Introduction: "A treatise of sport"
The legacy of the anti-sport polemic
Sport and the idle nobility in Shakespeare's Henry VI
Performative interpretations: the literacy context of the Book of sports controversy
The burden of the present: athletic and poetic competition in the Annalia Dubrensia
The danger of "innocent, harmless mirth": Walton's Compleat angler in the interregnum
"When to thir sports they [re]turn'd": Samson Agonistes and the politics of restoration sport.
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