Literary Studies: c 1500 to c 1800

As an aging, tenacious Elizabeth I clung to power, a talented playwright probed the social causes, the psychological roots, and the twisted consequ...

The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare is the most comprehensive reference work available on Shakespeare's life, times, works, and his 400-year global...

Did sex education actually exist in eighteenth-century France? Shaped by competing currents of religious dogma, atheist materialism and bourgeois m...

Some of the finest speeches ever made have been spoken in Ireland. This book highlights 45 eminent and influential speeches, from Robert Emmet's de...

Ossian is a collection of epic poems that bring out the figure of the hero, Fingal, which name comes from Scots Gaelic Fionnghall, meaning 'White S...

My God! Pardon me if I have dared to make sacred things serve a profane love; but it is you who have put passion into our hearts; they are not crim...

Pyramus: Now die, die, die, die, die.[Dies] A Midsummer Nights Dream 'Shakespeares Dead' reveals the unique ways in which Shakespeare brings dy...

This edited collection brings together literary scholars and art historians, and maps how satire became a less genre-driven and increasingly visual...

This is an annotated critical edition of a newly discovered life of Scott by one of his contemporaries. John Macrone, who wrote this life of Scott ...

2015 marks the four hundredth anniversary of the publication of the complete Don Quixote of La Manchaan ageless masterpiece that is unusually ferti...

The Elizabethan Club of Yale University and Its Library was first published in 1986 to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Elizab...

A masterpiece of European imagination, The Sufferings of Young Werther is the classic Sturm und Drang tale of youthful angst and tragedy. The accla...

Advertised in its Prologue as a prequel to Shakespeares Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra, Fletcher and Massingers The False One is the first ...

Explores the political meanings that Italian opera - its composers, agents and institutions - had for audiences in eighteenth-century Britain. The...

This book studies the questions of authority and authorship in William Shakespeares problematic masterpiece Hamlet. It argues that the Bard seeks t...

The Immortal Memory remains the centrepiece of the traditional Burns Supper and although that rite might be seen by some to have had its day, the '...

A collection of essays on Spanish poetry honouring a distinguished British Hispanist. Trevor J. Dadson is a British Hispanist of international dis...

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

Samuel Rogers was arguably the most widely read poet of the early nineteenth century. He was also a prominent figure in the literary and cultural l...

This Student Edition of Goldoni's classic 18th century play, A Servant to Two Masters, features expert and helpful annotation, ideal for anyone stu...

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

Este libro ofrece la primera revisión en forma de volumen monográfico de las transferencias culturales de Gran Bretaña a España en el siglo XVIII. ...

First collection devoted to the Poly-Olbion, bringing out in particular its concerns with nature and the environment. Poly-Olbion (1612-1622), the...

New edition of a collection of songs and ballads from sixteenth-century Scotland, shedding important new light on the English and Scottish Reformat...

This book is a collection of articles written for Professor Marta Gibinska by her colleagues and friends, from universities both in Poland and abro...