Misanthropoetics explores efforts by Renaissance writers to represent social flight and withdrawal as a fictional escape from the incongruous demands of culture. Through the invented term of its title, this book investigates the literary misanthrope in a number of key examples from Shakespeare, Jonson, Spenser, and the satirical milieu of Marston to exemplify the seemingly unresolvable paradoxes of social life.In Shakespeare’s England a burgeoning urban population and the ...

Selected contributions to the Ninth World Shakespeare Congress, which took place in July 2011 in Prague, represent the contemporary state of Shakespeare studies in thirty-eight countries worldwide. Apart from readings of Shakespeare’s plays and poems, more than forty chapters map Renaissance contexts of his art in politics, theater, law, or material culture and discuss numerous cases of the impact of his works in global culture from the Americas to the Far East, including stage productions...

A Reflection of MeBy: Darcy RobertsI was like a lost puppyThat couldn’t find my way home.I rose from my ashes and smiledEven laughed.You kept me down butI got up again.A Reflection of Me is a powerful expression of love, anger, sadness, loss, and hope. Enjoy these poignant words by Darcy Roberts. Perhaps you also will find a reflection of her in yourself.About the AuthorDarcy Roberts lives in Vermont. Writing is her ...