Literary Studies: c 1500 to c 1800

A survey, within one volume, of the history of critical responses to LGBTQ literature from the beginning to the present day, this book explores ch...

This study contends that folly is of fundamental importance to the implicit philosophical vision of Shakespeare’s drama. The discourse of folly’s w...

'The Damned Fraternitie': Constructing Gypsy Identity in Early Modern England, 1500–1700 examines the construction of gypsy identity in England bet...

Traces the ways in which changing ideas about criminal sanction were reflected in and engaged with in early modern English society Broadens the sc...

Before William Shakespeare wrote world-famous plays on the themes of power and political turmoil, the Shakespeare family of Stratford-upon-Avon and...

Battista Guarini’s pastoral tragicomedy Il pastor fido (1589) began its life as a play, but soon was transformed through numerous musical settings ...

Alongside the other volumes in this new Collected Works, The Ever Green will transform academic and popular understanding of this pivotal but, unti...

Studies how women writers shaped long-eighteenth-century educational discourse through literature Brings together researchers from a range of disc...

Original and thought-provoking, this collection sheds new light on an important yet understudied feature of seventeenth-century England's political...

In this daring study of queer life and the public sphere, Eric O. Clarke examines the effects of inclusion within public culture. Departing from st...

How do literary illustrations affect the way we read—or more subtly, what we read? Through a critical investigation of the role of engraving played...

This book explores perceptions of toleration and self-identity through an analysis of otherness’ real experience of Italian travellers, Catholic mi...

While recent scholarship has usefully positioned Burns within the context of British Romanticism as a spokesperson of Scottish national identity, R...

Ground-breaking essays comparing Shakespeare and Montaigne Introduces and explores a wide range of fresh approaches to comparative study of Shakes...

Examining literary discourses on female friendship and intimacy in seventeenth-century France, this study takes as its premise the view that, unlik...

Comprehensively sets out the cross-regional and transnational dimension of press history in early-modern Britain and Ireland Provides an exhaustiv...

This first book-length study to trace the evolution of the comic old man in Italian and English Renaissance comedy shows how English dramatists ado...

Battista Guarini’s pastoral tragicomedy Il pastor fido (1589) began its life as a play, but soon was transformed through numerous musical settings ...

Massinger’s Italy: Re-Imagining Italian Culture in the Plays of Philip Massinger offers the first book-length account of the pervasive influence of...

Through its many and varied manifestations, authority has frequently played a role in the communication process in both manuscript and print. This ...

A detailed examination of the relationship between the discourses and practices of authority and diplomacy in the late medieval and early modern pe...

First published in 1973, this book is about Shakespeare, language and drama. The first part introduces some common ideas of anthropology and lingui...

Historian Tom Holland, actor Simon Callow, Brazil′s controversial director Roberto Alvim and Bollywood′s Aparna Sen all talk Shakespeare, protest a...

This study contends that folly is of fundamental importance to the implicit philosophical vision of Shakespeare’s drama. The discourse of folly’s w...

What skills did Shakespeare’s actors bring to their craft? How do these skills differ from those of contemporary actors? Early Modern Actors and Sh...

Engaging with fiction and history-and reading both genres as texts permeated with early modern anxieties, desires, and apprehensions-this collectio...

A study of European utopias in context from the early years of Henry VIII’s reign to the Restoration, this book is the first comprehensive attempt ...

Shakespeare: A Life in Art brings together in a single volume Fraser's previously published two-volume biography (Young Shakespeare, 1988, and Shak...

The Popish plot was an alleged Catholic conspiracy to assassinate Charles II and re-introduce the Catholic faith to England. Despite it being a fic...

Establishes Shakespeare's plays as some of the period's most speculative political literature 'Shakespeare's Fugitive Politics' makes the case that...

Exploring how readers received and responded to literary works in the long eighteenth century, M-C. Newbould focuses on the role played by Laurence...

Interest in the work of Eliza Haywood has increased greatly over the last two decades. Though much scholarship is focused on her ‘scandalous’ early...

First published in 1989, this title explores the relationship between theater and power in the English Renaissance. Shakespeare’s Henry V, Richard ...

The Oxford Shakespeare General Editor: Stanley Wells The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed t...

Exploring individual and collective formation of gender identities, this book contributes to current scholarly discourses by examining plays in the...