Wax impressions, figures, and forms in early modern literature wax works Maxwell, Lynn M. creator author. text bibliography Criticism, interpretation, etc. sz 2019 monographic eng print viii, 224 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. Introduction: Wax concepts -- Wax seals : gendered relations in Shakespeare -- Wax minds : writing subjectivity and agency in hamlet and the atheist's tragedy -- Wax patterning : Cavendish and the physics of wax -- Wax arts : projects of transformation in Webster's The Duchess of Malfi and Donne's Sappho to Philaenis -- Wax hybrids : re-thinking subjects and objects in Ovid, Paré, Descartes, and Spenser -- Epilogue: A figure of wax. Lynn M. Maxwell. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1500-1700 fast English literature Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism Wax figures in literature English literature Early modern PR421 .M39 2019 820.9/003 Early modern cultural studies 3030169316 9783030169312 9783030169329 pda,print UKMGB 190528 20250318214328.4 in00004172337 eng