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The Golden Keepsake Child's Bible

Children's Books

Murphy, Andrew

Religions

Golden Books

This comprehensive reference surveys the editing and publishing of Shakespeare's texts from the Renaissance through our own time. Andrew Murphy not only covers all of the major scholarly editions. He also includes mass market popular editions and ranges widely across the rich field of Shakespeare publishing. Murphy's comprehensive listing of major Shakespeare editions makes this volume an invaluable basic research resource.

Shakespeare in Print: A History and Chronology of Shakespeare Publishing

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Cambridge University Press

Beginning by mapping out an overview of the expansion of elementary education in Britain across the nineteenth century, Andrew Murphy explores the manner in which Shakespeare acquired a working-class readership. He traces developments in publishing which meant that editions of Shakespeare became ever cheaper as the century progressed. Drawing on more than a hundred published and manuscript autobiographical texts, the book examines the experiences of a wide range of working-class readers. Particular attention is focused on a set of radical readers for whom Shakespeare's work had a special political resonance. Murphy explores the reasons why the playwright's working-class readership began to fall away from the turn of the century, noting the competition he faced from professional sports, the cinema, radio and television. The book concludes by asking whether it matters that, in our own time, Shakespeare no longer commands a general popular audience.

Shakespeare for the People: Working Class Readers, 1800–1900

This comprehensive reference surveys the editing and publishing of Shakespeare's texts from the Renaissance through our own time. Andrew Murphy not only covers all of the major scholarly editions. He also includes mass market popular editions and ranges widely across the rich field of Shakespeare publishing. Murphy's comprehensive listing of major Shakespeare editions makes this volume an invaluable basic research resource.

At the rise of the Tudor age, England began to form a national identity. With that sense of self came the beginnings of the colonialist notion of the "other"" Ireland, however, proved a most difficult other because it was so closely linked, both culturally and geographically, to England. Ireland's colonial position was especially complex because of the political, religious, and ethnic heritage it shared with England. Andrew Murphy asserts that the Irish were seen not as absolute but as "proximate" others. As a result, English writing about Ireland was a problematic process, since standard colonial stereotypes never quite fit the Irish. But the Irish Sea Betwixt Us examines the English view of the "imperfect" other by looking at Ireland through works by Spenser, Jonson, and Shakespeare. Murphy also considers a broad range of materials from the Renaissance period, including journals, pamphlets, histories, and state papers.

But the Irish Sea Betwixt Us: Ireland, Colonialism, and Renaissance Literature (Irish Literature, History, and Culture)

History & Criticism

The University Press of Kentucky

At the rise of the Tudor age, England began to form a national identity. With that sense of self came the beginnings of the colonialist notion of the "other"" Ireland, however, proved a most difficult other because it was so closely linked, both culturally and geographically, to England. Ireland's colonial position was especially complex because of the political, religious, and ethnic heritage it shared with England. Andrew Murphy asserts that the Irish were seen not as absolute but as "proximate" others. As a result, English writing about Ireland was a problematic process, since standard colonial stereotypes never quite fit the Irish. But the Irish Sea Betwixt Us examines the English view of the "imperfect" other by looking at Ireland through works by Spenser, Jonson, and Shakespeare. Murphy also considers a broad range of materials from the Renaissance period, including journals, pamphlets, histories, and state papers.

But the Irish Sea Betwixt Us: Ireland, Colonialism, and Renaissance Literature (Irish Literature History Culture)

British & Irish

University Press of Kentucky

The emergence of an Irish 'common reader' in the nineteenth century had significant implications for the evolution of Irish cultural nationalism. The rise of literacy rates prompted a cultural crisis, with nationalists fearing that the beneficiaries of mass education were being drawn to populist publications emanating from London which were having the effect of eroding Irish identity and corrupting Irish morals. This fear prompted an intensification of cultural nationalist activity at the turn of the century. Andrew Murphy's study, which includes a chapter on W. B. Yeats and the Irish reader, moves freely between historical and literary analysis, and demonstrates how a developing sense of cultural crisis served as an engine for the Irish literary revival. Examining responses to Irish reading habits advanced by a wide range of cultural commentators, Murphy provides a nuanced discussion of theories of nationalism and examines attempts finally to control reading habits through the introduction of censorship.

Ireland, Reading and Cultural Nationalism, 1790–1930: Bringing the Nation to Book

Described by the TLS as 'a formidable bibliographical achievement … destined to become a key reference work for Shakespeareans', Shakespeare in Print is now issued in a revised and expanded edition offering a wealth of new material, including a chapter which maps the history of digital editions from the earliest computer-generated texts to the very latest digital resources. Murphy's narrative offers a masterful overview of the history of Shakespeare publishing and editing, teasing out the greater cultural significance of the ways in which the plays and poems have been disseminated and received over the centuries from Shakespeare's time to our own. The opening chapters have been completely rewritten to offer close engagement with the careers of the network of publishers and printers who first brought Shakespeare to print, additional material has been added to all chapters, and the chronological appendix has been updated and expanded.

A respected Politician lies murdered in the Palace of Westminster. A confidential report by the British Security Services has been leaked to a corrupt corporate interest. A young woman spies on the secretive dealings of a group of powerful executives, her motives unknown.  Benjamin 'BB' Breakspear is the man brought in to look into the work of the late James Leatherby MP, and uncover a possible link to the man’s murder. In the course of his own investigations, BB discovers a web of corruption that connects a powerful corporation, a vicious crime lord, and a stolen experimental weapon of terrifying destructive power. Yet as intrigue and betrayal turn to violence and retribution, BB and his allies come to realise that the greatest danger is one that remains unseen…

The Quicksilver Report (The House of TerraGaia)

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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The Golden Keepsake Child's Bible

Shakespeare in Print: A History and Chronology of Shakespeare Publishing

Shakespeare for the People: Working Class Readers, 1800–1900

Shakespeare in Print: A History and Chronology of Shakespeare Publishing

Shakespeare for the People: Working Class Readers, 1800–1900

But the Irish Sea Betwixt Us: Ireland, Colonialism, and Renaissance Literature (Irish Literature, History, and Culture)

But the Irish Sea Betwixt Us: Ireland, Colonialism, and Renaissance Literature (Irish Literature History Culture)

Ireland, Reading and Cultural Nationalism, 1790–1930: Bringing the Nation to Book

Shakespeare in Print: A History and Chronology of Shakespeare Publishing

The Quicksilver Report (The House of TerraGaia)