Literary Studies: c 1500 to c 1800

This book takes its departure from an experiment presented by Vincenzo Galilei before his colleagues in the Florentine Camerata in about 1580. This...

The Ladys Trial, Ford's last play, encapsulates the final development of his own unique theatrical aesthetic whilst looking back to the drama of h...

In Fleshly Tabernacles, Bryan Hampton examines John Miltons imaginative engagement with, and theological passion for, the Incarnation. As aesthetic...

Sold as a multi-volume set the individual volumes are not available for purchase. Pero López de Ayalas Chronicle of King Pedro provides a compelli...

A study of the somewhat parsimonious but intentional use of multiple sonnets in Calderon''s drama.

Insdorf challenges the notion of Montaigne as an anti-feminist by exploring both the feminist and anti-feminist concepts apparent in Montaigne''s w...

Through a formalist, structuralist analysis, Rene Pedro Garay defines the Vicente comedias against their socio-historical backdrop, and the literar...

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle''s (1657-1757) Dialogues were written when he was only twenty-five and published in full in 1683. Donald Schier pro...

Focusing on the phenomenon of miniaturization in material culture, literature, and theories of cognition, this study examines the appeal and functi...

Nothing in Shakespeare's England was as important as religion. Questions of faith informed everything from history and politics to love and family,...

Opening with a look at a Cambridge play satirising Shakespeare in his own time, we follow Cambridges part in Shakespeare appreciation through the c...

Imagining women readers reassesses the cultural significance of womens reading in the period 17891820. From the turbulent years following the Frenc...

Novel horizons analyses how narrative prose fiction developed during the English Restoration. It argues that after 1660, generic changes within dra...

The 'graphosphere' is the dynamic space of visible words. Graphospheres mutate, they are reconfigured with changes in technology, in modes of produ...

In early modern Europe, international law emerged as a means of governing relations between rapidly consolidating sovereign states, purporting to e...

Newly Recovered English Classical Translations, 1600-1800 is a unique resource: a volume presenting for the first time a wide-ranging collection of...

This collection of newly commissioned essays explores the extraordinary versatility of Renaissance tragedy and shows how it enables exploration of ...

Thomas More is a complex and controversial figure who has been regarded as both saint and persecutor, leading humanist and a representative of late...

The latest volume of the Yale French Studies Series reexamines the vexed relationship between the theater and contemporary conceptions of morality ...

In Staging Harmony, Katherine Steele Brokaw reveals how the relationship between drama, music, and religious change across Englands long sixteenth ...