Literary Studies: c 1500 to c 1800

English Biblical drama of the sixteenth century resounds with a variety of Jewish and Christian voices. Whether embodied as characters or manifeste...

What is the relationship between Eros and music? How does the intersection of love and music contribute to define the perimeter of Early Modern lov...

First published in 1987, this 23rd volume in the Renaissance Imagination series had the objective of establishing the text of William Davenants The...

This eighth volume of The Shakespearean International Yearbook presents a special section on 'European Shakespeares', proceeding from the claim tha...

What did she say? Just what she ought, of course. A lady always does.This book explores the act of declaring love in works of literature written b...

A Handbook of Editing Early Modern Texts provides a series of answers written by more than forty editors of diverse texts addressing the 'how-to's'...

Published in 1995: The present volume contains two comparatively lengthy Latin hexameter poems that emanated from this circle. One is by Richard Ee...

In the late Renaissance and Early Modern period, mans relationship to nature changed dramatically. An important part of this change occurred in the...

This book joins a growing trend toward transnational literary studies and revives a venerable tradition of Anglo-Italian scholarship centering on J...

Investigating the interrelationships between orality and writing in elite and popular textual culture in early modern Italy, this volume shows how ...

Interpreting textual mediations of history in early modernity, this volume adds nuance to our understanding of the contributions fiction and fictio...

Although it was probably conceived as a trilogy, only the first two parts of Thomas Deloney's prose romance were completed, dealing with the origin...

Does satire have the ability to effect social reform? If so, what satiric style is most effective in bringing about reform? This book explores how ...

This title was first published in 2000: The printed writings of the most important authors of the sixteenth century are characterised by frequent r...

Penny Pritchard is a Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature, and has taught at the University of Hertfordshire since completing her PhD i...

Critical investigation into the rubric of 'Shakespeare and the visual arts' has generally focused on the influence exerted by the works of Shakespe...

This book argues that the negotiation of agency is central not only to the experience of war but also to its representation in cultural expressions...

From the exemplary to the notorious to the obscure, this comprehensive and innovative encyclopedia showcases the worthy women of early modern Engla...

Originally published in 1987, An Old-Spelling Critical Edition of James Shirley's The Example, offers a critical examination of James Shirley's 163...

Women and Epistolary Agency in Early Modern Culture, 14501690 is the first collection to examine the gendered nature of womens letter-writing in En...

Originally published in 1995, this book contains a full version of The Diary of Anne Clifford, alongisde an introduction and textual notes. Anne Cl...

Published in 1967: Accuracy and impartiality have been studied in the following Biography, more than elegance and that labored eulogy, which so oft...

This collection reconsiders Miltons engagement with Greek texts, with particular attention to the theological and theatrical meanings attached to G...

The extraordinary cultural Renaissance in the northern Italian courts of the late 15th and early 16th centuries is the subject of this volume. It s...

This title was first published in 2002: Combining the approaches of historic scholarship and post-structural, feminist psychoanalytic theory to lat...

Rhetoric and Wonder in English Travel Writing, 1560-1613, shows how rhetorical invention, elocution and ethos combined to create plausible represen...

This collection of original essays honors the groundbreaking scholarship of Jean E. Howard by exploring cultural and economic constructions of affe...

Miton and Early Modern Devotional Culture analyses the representation of public and private prayer in John Miltons poetry and prose, paying particu...

Exploring the idea of luxury in relation to a series of neighboring but distinct concepts including avarice, excess, licentiousness, indulgence, vi...

First published in 1987, this is a critical edition of the 1647 text by the Scottish author Alexander Ross which offered the Renaissance reader not...

First published in 1955, this exegesis on the writings of Alexander Pope reveals the technical felicities of his poetry, and is the first to be dev...

Published in 1985: The main plot portrays the bachelor Octavio, Marquis of Siena, and his establishment of his Bower of Fancies, something like a P...

The startling central idea behind this study is that the rediscovery of Aristotle's Poetics in the sixteenth century ultimately had a profound impa...

This title was first published in 2003. The aim of The Crisis of 1614 and The Addled Parliament is to bring literary historians together with const...

First published in 1987, this 23rd volume in the Renaissance Imagination series had the objective of establishing the text of William Davenants The...

Gallus Reborn is the first comprehensive study of the publication history and reception of the works that have been attributed to Gaius Cornelius G...