Literary Studies: c 1500 to c 1800

This text traces the changing theatrical and cultural identity of the History plays in the context of postwar social and political conflict, crisis...

Shakespearean performance criticism has undergone a sea change in recent years, and strong tides of discovery are continuing to shift the contours ...

The question of who wrote Shakespeare’s plays has been the subject of furious debate among scholars for over 150 years. Everything known about the ...

Inspiration in the Age of Enlightenment reconsiders theories of apostrophe and poetic authority to argue that the Augustan age created a new form o...

Writing and the English Renaissance is a collection of essays exploring the full creative richness of Renaissance culture during the sixteenth and ...

Taking cross-disciplinary and comparative approaches to the volume’s subject, this exciting collection of essays offers a reassessment of Shakespea...

Miton and Early Modern Devotional Culture analyses the representation of public and private prayer in John Milton’s poetry and prose, paying partic...

Marvell: The Writer in Public Life is substantially revised from Professor Patterson's well received 1978 study, including a new introduction and n...

This anthology of 18th-century English poetry is extensively annotated for a new generation of readers. It combines the scope of a period anthology...

The work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries has often been the testing-ground for innovations in literary studies, but this has not been true of...

In Shakespeare in Three Dimensions, Robert Blacker asks us to set aside what we think we know about Shakespeare and rediscover his plays on the pag...

Shakespeare and Commedia dell’Arte examines the ongoing influence of commedia dell’arte on Shakespeare’s plays. Exploring the influence of commedia...

Spanning the period from Elizabeth I's reign to Charles II's restoration, this study argues the garden is a primary site evincing a progressive nar...

Early modern printed books are copiously illustrated with charts, diagrams, and other kinds of images that represent systems of thought and ways of...

Combining historical and interpretive work, this collection examines changing perceptions of and relations between human and nonhuman animals in Br...

Focusing on team translation and the production of multilingual editions, and on the difficulties these techniques created for Renaissance translat...

By taking account of the ways in which early modern women made use of formal and generic structures to constitute themselves in writing, the essays...

Performing the work of William Shakespeare can be daunting to new actors. Author Herb Parker posits that his work is played easier if actors think ...

Performing the work of William Shakespeare can be daunting to new actors. Author Herb Parker posits that his work is played easier if actors think ...

This volume gives Asia’s Shakespeares the critical, theoretical, and political space they demand, offering rich, alternative ways of thinking about...

Originally published in 1995. Providing the most influential historical criticism, but also some contemporary pieces written for the volume, this c...

Taking into consideration the political and literary issues hanging upon the circulation of Machiavelli's works in England, this volume highlights ...

Bringing together diverse scholars to represent the full historical breadth of the early modern period, and a wide range of disciplines (literature...

Impressive Shakespeare reassesses Shakespeare’s relationship with "print culture" in light of his plays’ engagement with the language and material ...

Using printed and manuscript texts composed between 1575 and 1672, Jennifer Heller defines the genre of the mother's legacy as a distinct branch of...

Originally published in 1984. The four parts of this collection of articles, from 1601 to the 1970s, look at the historical and political dynamics ...

Playing Bit Parts in Shakespeare is a unique survey of the small supporting roles - such as foils, feeds, attendants and messengers - that feature ...

The problem of justice seems to have haunted Shakespeare as it haunted Renaissance Christendom. In this book, first published in 1963, four aspects...

Originally published in 1988. Arranged by play, the essays presented here focus first on production and then on a range of other issues such as cha...

Shakespeare's potent use of garden imagery has captivated successive generations of readers and inspired the making of gardens across the globe. La...

Originally published in 1993. Presenting excerpts and articles on the themes and characters from the most famous story of young lovers, this collec...

During the eighteenth century, treatises on the science of elocution, gesture and naturalness abounded. This title draws together a representative ...

This is an impressive and lucid survey of eighteenth-century intellectual life, providing a real sense of the complexity of the age and of the cult...