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Providing a detailed, chronological survey of some five hundred plays, Hume traces the emergence of numerous dramatic modes, studies their interaction and mutual influence, and fully explores the diversity of the plays as they reflect the fads and fashions of a small, highly competitive theater world constantly undergoing political and social change.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51518127440145,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51518127603985,"sku":"GOR005291739","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/019811799X.jpg?v=1751100695"},{"product_id":"pynchon-s-mythography-book-robert-d-hume-9780809313570","title":"Pynchon's Mythography","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe exhausting plenitude of loosely connected detail in \u003ci\u003eGravity's Rainbow\u003c\/i\u003e makes it a favorite of postmodern critics, who claim it describes a modern, random, unknowable universe. Hume expands the possibilities as she discloses a mythic structure that underlies Pynchon's work and provides easier access to his world.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Myth turns chaos into cosmos,\" Hume explains, describing how the profuse detail of Pynchon's book allows for the creation of a \"world humankind shapes out of chaos by means of ritual and myth. . . a set of interlocking stories. . . [that] fit into a narrative sequence or mythology that conveys, supports, and challenges cultural values.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePynchon's \"mythology is not rigidly consistent,\" Hume notes, but \"several strands of mythological action. . . serve a stabilizing function in this chaotic book.\" Pynchon creates his own \"unheroic\" hero to show the way for making sense of the fragmented experience of life in the postmodern world.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51797109309713,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51797109834001,"sku":"CIN080931357XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51822040613137,"sku":"NGR9780809313570","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780809313570.jpg?v=1752154283"},{"product_id":"london-theatre-world-1660-1800-book-robert-d-hume-9780809309269","title":"The London Theatre World, 1660-1800","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cp\u003eMany of the 12essays in this book in honor of Arthur H. 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He was the principal author of The Rehearsal (1671), an enormously successful burlesque play that ridiculed John Dryden and the rhymed heroic drama. Historians remember Buckingham as an opponent who helped topple Clarendon from power in 1667, as a member of the 'Cabal' government in the early 1670s, and as an ally of the Earl of Shaftesbury in the political crisis of 1678-1683. The duke was prominent among the 'court wits' (Rochester, Etherege, Sedley, Dorset, Wycherley, and their circle); he was closely associated with such writers as Butler and Cowley; he was a conspicuous champion of religious toleration and a friend of William Penn. No edition of Buckingham has been published since 1775, partly because his work presents horrendous attribution problems. He was (probably) adapter or co-author of six plays (two of them vastly successful for more than a century) including one in French that appears here in English for the first time. He is also associated with nine topical pieces (variously political, religious, and satiric) and some twenty poems of wildly varying type. The 'Buckingham' commonplace book has previously been published only in fragmentary form. Almost all of these works present major difficulties in both attribution and annotation, here seriously addressed for the first time. This edition is a companion venture to Harold Love's important edition of Rochester (OUP, 1999).","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52516156178705,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52516156440849,"sku":"NLS9780199203635","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780199203635.jpg?v=1760501075"},{"product_id":"paratext-printed-with-new-english-plays-16601700-book-robert-d-hume-9781009270519","title":"Paratext Printed with New English Plays, 1660–1700","description":"This Element Paratext printed with new English plays has a lot to tell us about what playwrights were attempting to do and how audiences responded, thereby contributing substantially to our understanding of larger patterns of generic evolution across two centuries. 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