Literary Studies: c 1500 to c 1800

Shakespeare and the Italian Renaissance investigates the works of Shakespeare and his fellow dramatists from within the context of the European Ren...

At the turn of the seventeenth century, Hristomir Stanev argues, ideas about the senses became part of a dramatic and literary tradition in England...

Analyzing Elizabethan and Jacobean playtexts for their spatial implications, this innovative study discloses the extent to which the resources and ...

Drawing upon the rich heterogeneity of Denis Diderot's texts-whether scientific, aesthetic, philosophic or literary-Andrew Clark locates and examin...

Written in the midst of World War II after its author emigrated to America, "The Sea and the Mirror" is not merely a great poem but ranks as one of...

As works designed for mothers to instruct their children within the home, early modern mother-directed catechisms, like traditional catechisms, use...

Who was Xespir? Why are Catalan adaptations and performances of Shakespeare currently causing such a stir internationally? What happens to the Shak...

The seventeenth century saw the brief flowering of tragic drama in western Europe as a whole and in England in particular. It was, argues Victor Ki...

Comic elements in Shakespeare's tragedies have often been noted, but while most critics have tended to concentrate on humorous interludes or on a s...

Think you know Shakespeare? Think again . . . Was a real skull used in the first performance of Hamlet? Were Shakespeare's plays Elizabethan block...

The extensive scope of this collection means that this documentary record of the reception of German literature in England is a valuable scholarly ...

The book also includes a glossary of film and critical terminology as well as annotated selected bibliographies and filmographies.

Jane Austen and the Ethics of Description demonstrates that Elizabeth Bennet and her creator are misunderstood, and often unrecognized, geniuses of...

Participants in the current debate about the literary canon generally separate the established literary order--of which Shakespeare is the most vis...

"Post-Hamlet: Shakespeare in an Era of Textual Exhaustion" examines how postmodern audiences continue to reengage with Hamlet in spite of our cultu...

This book examines literary representations of hyperlocal spaces that subvert the idea of grounded and organic spatial identities. Figures such as ...

The collection, edited by Annalisa Castaldo and Rhonda Knight, features essays by scholars interested in exploring how the material culture of sixt...

This book explains the elimination of maternal characters in American, British, French, and German literature before 1890 by examining motherless c...

This title offers an introduction to the political and historical context to Shakespeare's tragedy and history plays, written in an accessible, jar...

Does satire have the ability to effect social reform? If so, what satiric style is most effective in bringing about reform? This book explores how ...

Originally published in 1949, this title was written in order to help establish a better understanding of the ‘stock diction’ of eighteenth-century...

This book explores how women writers create and question men and masculinity. As men have written women so have women written men. Debate about how...

Shakespeare and Superman? Shakespeare and The Twilight Zone? Shakespeare and romance novels? What is Shakespeare doing in modern popular culture? I...

Stratford made the man, but London made the phenomenon that is Shakespeare. This volume takes an historical approach to Shakespeare's connections w...

This book asks new questions about how and why Shakespeare engages with source material, and about what should be counted as sources in Shakespeare...

Stratford made the man, but London made the phenomenon that is Shakespeare. This volume takes an historical approach to Shakespeare's connections w...

In The Last of an Age, Sooyong Kim explores the relationship betweensocial change and the development of an Ottoman literary canon in thecourse of ...

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Comedy offers critical and contemporary resources for studying Shakespeare's comic enterprises. It engages wit...

Even the most explicitly political contemporary approaches to Shakespeare have been uninterested by his tyrants as such. But for Shakespeare, rathe...

Rediscovering Renaissance Witchcraft is an exploration of witchcraft in the literature of Britain and America from the 16th and 17th centuries thro...

This book joins a growing trend toward transnational literary studies and revives a venerable tradition of Anglo-Italian scholarship centering on J...

Ludvig Holberg (1684–1754) was the foremost representative of the Danish-Norwegian Enlightenment and also a European figure of note. He published s...