Literary Studies: c 1500 to c 1800

John Kerrigan is one of the foremost critics of English literature. This richly informed collection brings together his essays on such major figure...

1 Henry VI was the Rose's great draw in the Spring of 1592, and is a dramatic tale of the lives of soldiers, diplomats, kings, and insurrectionists...

This book is a concise single volume guide to studying Shakespeare, covering practical as well as theoretical issues. The text deals with the major...

New Essays on Samuel Johnson: Revaluation is a collection of essays by various hands that examines its point of focus, the inexhaustible English au...

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

In this detailed and absorbing study, Wilson McLeod challenges the familiar view that Gaelic Scotland and Gaelic Ireland formed a cultural unit dur...

Paul Hammond explores how sexual relationships between men were represented in English literature during the seventeenth century. Figuring Sex betw...

No issue in Shakespeare studies is more important than determining what he wrote. For over two centuries scholars have discussed the evidence that ...

Up until now, facts about theatrical rehearsal have been considered irrecoverable. But in this groundbreaking new study, Tiffany Stern gathers toge...

Studies of Shakespeare and politics often ask the question whether his dramas are on the side of aristocratic or monarchical sovereign authority, o...

Decadent Orientalisms presents a sustained critique of the ways Orientalism and decadence have formed a joint discursive mode of the imperial imagi...

Household Servants in Early Modern Domestic Tragedy considerably advances existing scholarship on the institution of service in early modern cultur...

Originally published in 1987, this is a thorough and lucid introduction and commentary to the whole of Goethe’s Faust. It gives the student of Germ...

This book, first published in 1929, is an assessment of Voltaire’s life and works. It contains valuable biographical details, as well as studies of...

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John Heywood was an important literary and theatrical pioneer in his own right, but he is also a revealing lens through which to view the wider tum...

The Bible was, by any measure, the most important book in early modern England. It preoccupied the scholarship of the era, and suffused the idioms ...

This book, first published in 1929, is an assessment of Voltaire’s life and works. It contains valuable biographical details, as well as studies of...

Numerological patterning in literature, where structural details of a literary work are symbolically related to its meaning on the verbal level, wa...

Every generation develops its own approach to tragedy, attitudes successively influenced by such classic works as A. C. Bradley’s Shakespearean Tra...

Challenging the triumphalist narrative of Enlightenment secularism.According to most scholars, the Enlightenment was a rational awakening, a radica...

First published in 1970. Few books on Milton have dealt with his poetry as a whole. The present study, a discussion of Milton’s major poetry, seeks...

This books attends to what in French, since the 1980s, has been called the passeur, the figure of the intellectual, mediator, translator or journal...