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Michael Andrews
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Michael Andrews
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Michael Andrews
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Living Death in Early Modern Drama
This book explores historical, socio-political, and metatheatrical readings of a whole host of dying bodies and risen corpses, each part of a long tradition of living death on stage. Just as zombies, ghouls, and the undead in modern media often stand in for present-day concerns, early modern writers frequently imagined living death in complex ways that allowed them to address contemporary anxieties. These include fresh bleeding bodies (and body parts), ghostly Lord Mayors, and dying characters who must carefully choose their last words – or have those words chosen for them by the living. As well as offering fresh interpretations of well-known plays such as Middleton’s The Lady’s Traged...
Rule Number One
Decorated Baltimore police detective, Cameron Andrews played rogue cop so she could legally be sent to prison to work undercover to solve a case the DEA hadn't been able to crack. Now that she's out she's assigned to investigate a designer drug that's on the streets of Baltimore. It has already taken the lives of nine young people and no one knows where it's coming from or who's making it. After fighting to protect a young woman in an alley, she's hired to work for one of the men her superior thinks may be close to the drug ring. But when a very alluring woman is determined to seduce her, Cam finds she may hold the key to it all. Can Cam evade her advances and find the drug manufacturer before her cover is blown? She's evaded death on three occasions in two days. Now... where are Pauly and Michael when she really needs them?"
Shakespeare and the Power of the Face
Throughout his plays, Shakespeare placed an extraordinary emphasis on the power of the face to reveal or conceal moral character and emotion, repeatedly inviting the audience to attend carefully to facial features and expressions. The essays collected here disclose that an attention to the power of the face in Shakespeare’s England helps explain moments when Shakespeare’s language of the self becomes intertwined with his language of the face. As the range of these essays demonstrates, an attention to Shakespeare’s treatment of faces has implications for our understanding of the historical and cultural context in which he wrote, as well as the significance of the face for the ongoing in...
