Literary Studies: c 1500 to c 1800

This volume explores the transnationality and interculturality of early modern performance in multiple languages, cultures, countries and genres. I...

This book provides a new account of the emergence of Irish gothic fiction in the mid-18th century. This new study provides a robustly theorised and...

This new critical biography provides a complete picture of German novelist, playwright and poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The book offers fresh, ...

Written by an international group of scholars, this edited collection provides an overview of the Spanish picaresque from its origins in tales of l...

Spensers ethics offers a novel account of Edmund Spenser as a moral theorist, situating his ethics at the nexus of moral philosophys profound trans...

David and Bathsheba presents a modernised edition of George Peeles explosive biblical drama about the tangled lives, deadly liaisons, and twisted h...

This book brings together thirteen essays, by both established and emerging scholars, which examine the most influential meanings of roads in early...

To 'conceive' desire is to acknowledge the generative potential of the erotic imagination, its capacity to impart form and make meaning out of the ...

This book examines how manuscript practices interacted with an expanding print marketplace to nurture and transform the period's literary culture. ...

Loves Victory by Lady Mary Wroth (15871651) is the first romantic comedy written in English by a woman. The Revels Plays publishes for the first ti...

An exploration of Stoicisms central role in British and American writing of the Romantic periodStoic philosophers and Romantic writers might seem t...

A masterpiece of world literature, Honglou Meng (Dream of the Red Chamber) by Cao Xueqin (1715-1763) is widely considered China's greatest novel...

The correspondence of John Dryden is the definitive edition of the letters of the most important playwright and poet of the late seventeenth centur...

This volume questions and qualifies commonly accepted assumptions about the early modern English sonnet: that it was a strictly codified form, most...

Augustine, Pertile and Zwicker celebrate the work of Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) in the quatercentenary year of his birth, combining the best histor...

Shaping Shakespeare for Performance: The Bear Stage collects significant work from the 2013 Blackfriars Conference. The conference, sponsored by th...

The Rise of the Military Entrepreneur explores how a new kind of international military figure emerged from, and exploited, the seventeenth century...

From Gerald Ford's preemptive pardon of Richard Nixon and Donald Trump's claims that as president he could pardon himself to the posthumous royal p...

In The Quality of Mercy, one of the world's most revered theatre directors reflects on a fascinating variety of Shakespearean topics. In this sequ...

Is there anything new to say about Robert Burns? John Cairney says it's time to trash Burns the Brand and come on the trail of the real Robert Burn...

Hyde Park (1632) is one of the best-loved comedies of James Shirley, considered to be one of the most important Caroline dramatists. The play showc...

Pageantry and power is the first full and in-depth cultural history of the Lord Mayors Show in the early modern period. It provides new insight int...

The Family of Love charts a successful love intrigue between the cash-strapped Gerardine, and Maria, the sequestered niece of the mercenary Doctor ...

The Narrative Grotesque examines late medieval narratology in two Older Scots poems: Gavin Douglass The Palyce of Honour (c.1501) and William Dunba...

The early Stuart funeral elegy was a copious and digressive genre, and exceptional deaths pressed elegists to stretch beyond the usual rhetoric of ...

Designed to introduce the student or general reader to a largely unfamiliar area of Elizabethan theatrical activity, Five Elizabethan progress ente...

John Fletchers Rome is the first book to explore John Fletchers engagement with classical antiquity. Like Shakespeare and Jonson, Fletcher wrote, a...

This collection of essays offers a major reassessment of the meaning and significance of emotional experience in the work of Shakespeare and his co...

For educated poets and readers in the Renaissance, classical literature was as familiar and accessible as the work of their compatriots and contemp...

Brinks provocative biography shows that Spenser was not the would-be court poet whom Karl Marxs described as Elizabeths arse-kissing poet. In this ...

Unfelt offers a new account of feeling during the British Enlightenment, finding that the passions and sentiments long considered as preoccupations...