Literary Studies: c 1500 to c 1800

Romantic Capabilities discusses the relationship between popular new media uses of literary texts. Devising and modelling an original critical meth...

Scandal and Reputation at the Court of Catherine de Medici explores Catherine de Medici's 'flying squadron', the legendary ladies-in-waiting of the...

The sea for Shakespeare is both a location and a metaphor; and either way it affords him an extraordinary freedom of invention, releasing whatever ...

This book investigates generic change in early modern theatre across multiple genres, unlike much other scholarship, attempting to understand chang...

The first biography of Henry and Emily Folger, who acquired the largest and finest collection of Shakespeare in the world.In Collecting Shakespeare...

Provides new perspectives on women's print media in the long eighteenth centuryThis innovative volume presents for the first time collective expert...

How did ideas about the poet's art surface in early modern texts? By looking into the intersections between poetry, poetics and other discourses l...

Although Gothicism remains a popular subject of scholarly investigation, little attention has been paid to the figure of the Gothic female tyrant. ...

Women’s Deliberation: The Heroine in Early Modern French Women’s Theater (1650–1750) argues that women playwrights question traditional views on wo...

Sarah Fyge Egerton (1668-1723) is an intriguing poet who wrote a great deal of poetry during a period when women poets were relatively rare. Her ca...

Logomotives are words that change worlds past, present, and future. Bearing a wide range of linguistic, regional and disciplinary expertise, the v...

Religious conflict has existed for as long as humanity has been capable of articulating the experience of faith. Belief in a higher power – whateve...

Typographies of Performance in Early Modern England is the first book-length study of early modern English playbook typography. It tells a new hist...

Unpicking the ecopolitics of Shakespeare's plays at the Stuart court, Shakespeare Beyond the Green World establishes that the playwright was remark...

While the baroque remains a foundational concept for other European literary and aesthetic traditions, scholars have largely elided the word from B...

John Wesley (1703–1791), leader of British Methodism, was one of the most prolific literary figures of the eighteenth century, responsible for crea...

This book argues that Shakespeare turned staging problems into opportunities for complex characterization by mobilizing the semiotic potential of p...

It is easy to forget how deeply embedded in social hierarchy was the literature and learning that has come down to us from the early modern Europea...

A survey, within one volume, of the history of critical responses to LGBTQ literature from the beginning to the present day, this book explores ch...

This study contends that folly is of fundamental importance to the implicit philosophical vision of Shakespeare’s drama. The discourse of folly’s w...

'The Damned Fraternitie': Constructing Gypsy Identity in Early Modern England, 1500–1700 examines the construction of gypsy identity in England bet...

Traces the ways in which changing ideas about criminal sanction were reflected in and engaged with in early modern English society Broadens the sc...

Before William Shakespeare wrote world-famous plays on the themes of power and political turmoil, the Shakespeare family of Stratford-upon-Avon and...

Battista Guarini’s pastoral tragicomedy Il pastor fido (1589) began its life as a play, but soon was transformed through numerous musical settings ...