Literary Studies: c 1500 to c 1800

A fascinating analysis of anonymous publication centuries before the digital ageEverywhere and Nowhere considers the ubiquity of anonymity and medi...

Why did the language of contract become the dominant metaphor for the relationship between subject and sovereign in mid-seventeenth-century England...

Charles Macklin (1699?1797) was one of the most important figures in the eighteenth-century theatre. Born in Ireland, he began acting in London in ...

A fascinating account of how Shakespeare's works were understood and valued by readers and writers from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, ...

English bibles, from Tyndale's 1525 New Testament to the 1611 King James, feature calendars, woodcuts, maps, chronologies, prayers, philological gl...

This study of Dryden's poetic career addresses the nature of covert argument in an age of violently contested political and religious issues. Orig...

In a fresh reading of Montaigne's Essais, David Quint portrays the great Renaissance writer as both a literary man and a deeply engaged political t...

This volume presents a winning selection of the very best essays from the long and distinguished career of Stanley Wells, one of the most well-know...

In Subjects of Advice, Ivan Lupi uncovers the rich interconnectedness of dramatic art and the culture of counsel in the early modern period. While ...

John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester (16471680), the notorious and brilliant libertine poet of King Charles II's court, has long been considered a...

Was the experience of poetry--or a cultural practice we now call poetry--continuously available across the two-and-a-half millennia from the compos...

This volume provides the first transnational overview of the relationship between translation and the book trade in early modern Europe. Following ...

Jonathan Swift's angers were all too real, though Swift was temperamentally equivocal about their display. Even in his most brilliant satire, A Tal...

Blanks, Print, Space, and Void in English Renaissance Literature is an inquiry into the empty spaces encountered not just on the pages of printed b...

Adam Rounce presents a colourful and unusual history of eighteenth-century British literature, exploring ideas of fame through writers who failed t...

Did Shakespeare write Shakespeare? The authorship question has been much treated in works of fiction, film and television, provoking interest all o...

Did Shakespeare write Shakespeare? The authorship question has been much treated in works of fiction, film and television, provoking interest all o...

Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948, the Survey has published the best international scholarship in ...

The first study to propose a unifying logic underlying the many and varied representations of the vampire in literature and culture. For the last ...

Essays offering a gendered approach to the study of the move from manuscript to early printed book show how much women were involved in the process...

The writings of two influential Elizabethan thinkers testify to the influence of Old English law and literature on Tudor society and self-image. F...