Literary Studies: c 1500 to c 1800

The eponymous alchemist of Ben Jonsons quick-fire comedy is a fraud: he cannot make gold, but he does make brilliant theatre. The Alchemist is a ma...

Sold as a multi-volume set the individual volumes are also available for purchase. This two-volume edited collection illuminates the valuable coun...

Sold as a multi-volume set the individual volumes are also available for purchase. This two-volume edited collection illuminates the valuable coun...

Ever since Timon of Athens shunned his fellow-countrymen and went to live out in the wilderness, the misanthrope has proved to be a fascinating but...

Long before Shakespeares name was synonymous with the stage he built a name as a poet, and Venus and Adonis was likely the first work to be publish...

Long before Shakespeares name was synonymous with the stage he built a name as a poet, and Venus and Adonis was likely the first work to be publish...

Across the humanities and social sciences, scholars increasingly use quantitative methods to study textual data. Considered together, this research...

Across the humanities and social sciences, scholars increasingly use quantitative methods to study textual data. Considered together, this research...

Titian, Colonna and the Renaissance Science of Procreation demonstrates that two major monuments of Italian Renaissance culture - Bellini's and Tit...

Lady Anne Bacon Drury (1572-1624) was the granddaughter and niece of two of England's Lord Keepers of the Great Seal, Sir Nicholas Bacon and Sir Fr...

This book is about a mad king and a mad duke. With original and iconoclastic readings, Richard van Oort pioneers the reading of Shakespeare as an e...

Francisco de Quevedo (Madrid, 1580-1645) was well known for his rich and dynamic style, achieved through an ingenious and complex manipulation of l...

Across Europe, from the dawn of print until the early twentieth century, the news of crime and criminals' public executions was printed in song for...

How have fairy tales from around the world changed over the centuries? What do they tell us about different cultures and societies?Drawing on the c...

This volume contains a selection of the major essays written over a period of three decades by a distinguished scholar of eighteenth-century Englis...

The first-ever print edition of a play by one of the first women playwrights in England. E. Polwhele (c. 1651-c. 1691) was one of the first women t...

This study of ludic literary society in sixteenth-century France addresses Italianate practices of philosophical and literary sociability as they t...

This study of ludic literary society in sixteenth-century France addresses Italianate practices of philosophical and literary sociability as they t...

This book brings together ten essays on John Donne and George Herbert composed by an international group of scholars. The volume represents the fir...

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.This book offers the first full-le...

More than five hundred years after the fact, present-day writers still use hyperbolic adjectives to describe the discovery of the Americas. Columbu...

In The Drama of Serial Conversion in Early Modern England, Holly Crawford Pickett reconceptualizes early modern religious identity by exploring the...

'A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life' This edition provides a clear and accessible introduction to Shakespeare's enduring tale of ill-fa...