Literary Studies: c 1500 to c 1800

Lyrical Ballads (1798) is a work of huge cultural and literary significance. The volume of poetry, in which Coleridge's Rime of the Ancyent Mariner...

How did Latin erotic elegy influence and shape sixteenth-century English love poetry? Using an interdisciplinary approach, this book offers detaile...

In the course of 750 years, Dante Alighieri has been made into a universally important icon deeply engrained in the worlds cultural memory. This bo...

A footprint materializes mysteriously on a deserted shore; a giant helmet falls from the sky; a traveler awakens to find his horse dangling from a ...

René-Louis de Voyer de Paulmy, marquis dArgenson (1694-1757), minister of state and author, was one of the boldest critics of the social and politi...

Li Mengyang (14731530) was a scholar-official and man of letters who initiated the literary archaist movement that sought to restore ancient styles...

Catechisms and Women's Writing in Seventeenth-Century England is a study of early modern women's literary use of catechizing. Paula McQuade examine...

The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare aims to replicate the expansive reach of Shakespeare's global reputation. In pursuit of that visio...

Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), renowned English novelist and master printer, was also a prolific letter writer. The Cambridge Edition of the Corres...

Gothic Britain is the first collection of essays to consider how the Gothic responds to, and is informed by, the British regional experience. Ackno...

The Samuel Johnson volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers a generous selection of Johnson's most important writings, drawn from al...

Over the course of the long eighteenth century (1700-1850), Britain's ruined medieval or 'Gothic' abbeys, castles and towers became the objects of ...

This is the ninth volume of a detailed play-by-play catalogue of drama written by English, Welsh, Irish, and Scottish authors during the 110 years ...

Fulke Greville's reputation has always been overshadowed by that of his more famous friend, Philip Sidney, a legacy due in part to Greville's compl...

Shakespeare, Court Dramatist centres around the contention that the courts of both Elizabeth I and James I loomed much larger in Shakespeare's crea...

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions ...

Introduces a Renaissance masterpiece to a modern audience. This Guide will help new readers to understand and enjoy The Faerie Queene, drawing atte...

This Norton Critical Edition of Miltons Selected Poetry and Prose includes Lycidaswidely considered the greatest short poem in Englishthe great tra...

Can Shakespeare help us with the question of how to live? Re Humanising Shakespeare argues that although Shakespeare strikingly dramatizes various ...

This book presents new and overarching perspectives on the relationship between theatre and public from the Henrician Reformation through the inter...

Based on the true story of the murder of Thomas Arden by his wife, her lover and accomplices in 1551, Arden of Faversham is one of the earliest dom...

Exploring the nature of utilitarian texts in English transmitted from the later Middle Ages to c. 1650, this volume considers textual and material ...

Hugh Craig and Brett Greatley-Hirsch extend the computational analysis introduced in Shakespeare, Computers, and the Mystery of Authorship (edited ...

Carnival time in The Rover is a period when prohibitions are temporarily removed, privileges and rank suspended, and women - from convent girls to ...

Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture is not only a companion to The Collected Works of Thomas Middleton, which every scholar of Renais...

Oxford Student Texts offer an accessible route into the study of texts for A Level including line-by-line notes, and detailed sections covering key...

Carnival time in The Rover is a period when prohibitions are temporarily removed, privileges and rank suspended, and women - from convent girls to ...

Ann Gomersalls The Citizen (1790) is an epistolary novel, written over two volumes. Gomersall came out of the merchant class in Leeds and little el...

The story of Americas earliest extant play begins with a petty crimea crime that would have passed largely unnoticed had it not been for one fact: ...

In 1605 a crippled, greying, almost toothless veteran of Spains wars against the Ottoman Empire published a book. That book, Don Quixote, went on t...

One of a series designed to provide a new, accessible approach to the works of great poets and playwrights. Each text includes general notes on the...