Literary Studies: c 1500 to c 1800

Examining writing for and about education in the period from 1740 to 1820, Rebecca Daviess book plots the formation of a written paradigm of matern...

The now-forgotten genre of the bellum grammaticale flourished in the sixteenth- and seventeenth centuries as a means of satirizing outmoded cultura...

The essays in Word and Self Estranged in English Texts, 1550-1660, consider diverse historical contexts for writing about 'strangeness'. They draw ...

Originally published in 1990 by Routledge, Dictionary of Riddles is a collection of nearly 1500 of the most cryptic and entertaining riddles from h...

Memory and Community in Sixteenth-Century France engages the question of remembering from a number of different perspectives. It examines the forma...

On the basis of a close reading of Milton's major published political prose works from 1644 through to the Restoration, William Walker presents the...

In this wide-ranging and ambitiously conceived Research Companion, contributors explore Shakespeares relationship to the classic in two broad sense...

Reading Drama in Tudor England is about the print invention of drama as a category of text designed for readerly consumption. Arguing that plays we...

This book focuses on three undertakings at Nova Scotia (1620s), East New Jersey (1680s) and the Isthmus of Panama, then known as Darien (1690s). An...

Volume 25 of 16501850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era investigates the local textures that make up the whole cloth of the...

Shakespeare and Latinidad is a collection of scholarly and practitioner essays in the field of Latinx theatre that specifically focuses on Latinx p...

This book focuses particular attention on the six-month interrogation of the doomed poet, and it provides a critical evaluation of Soviet interpret...

Four years on from George Floyds murder, this volume asks if and how Shakespeare might be relevantwhether in performance, in the classroom, or in s...

The first comprehensive and fully systematic study of all soliloquies and solo asides in Shakespeare's plays'The Shakespearean Inside' is a study o...

The first monograph study of legal reform and literature in early modern EnglandThis book investigates rhetorical and representational practices th...

Explores intrinsic connections between early modern intelligencers and metadrama in the plays of Shakespeare's contemporariesIntelligence and Metad...

Uncovers the workings of sovereign power in Shakespeare's history plays Presents a sustained, formalist reading of Shakespeare's history playsReads...

Explores the entwinement of early modern text, knowledge and wonder, and their connections in FranceA triple nexus of text, knowledge, and wonder p...

This book examines how Methodism and popular review criticism intersected with and informed each other in the eighteenth century. Methodism emerged...

Printed Drama and Political Instability in Mid-Seventeenth-Century Britain: The Literary Politics of Resistance and Distraction in Plays and Entert...

'I liv'd indeed like a Queen; or if you will have me confess, that my Condition had still the Reproach of a Whore, I may say, I was sure, the Queen...

An Open Access edition of this book will be available on publication on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. Engaging with...

This collection explores the multifaceted relationship between letters and bodies in the long eighteenth century, featuring a broad selection of wo...