Literary Studies: c 1500 to c 1800

Shepard argues that the Marlowe plays wrestle with the philosophical assumptions about the nature of war and the role and status of soldiers in Eng...

Grounded in the literary history of early modern England, this study explores the intersection of cultural attitudes and material practices that sh...

Henry Fielding is most well-known for his monumental novel Tom Jones. Though not necessarily common knowledge, Henry Fielding started his literary ...

The powerful influence of Petrarch on the development of Renaissance vernacular poetry has long been recognized as one of the major factors in earl...

The current surge of interest in the Elizabethan poet, dramatist, prose-writer and critic, Thomas Nashe, follows years of neglect or undisguised ho...

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

Published in 1967: This book is a historical account of comedy during the Restoration period in England. It discusses Comedy from Jonson to Shirley...

Traditional literary criticism once treated Thomas Nashe as an Elizabethan oddity, difficult to understand or value. He was described as an unrestr...

His contemporaries recognised John Donne (1572-1631) as a completely new kind of poet. He was, wrote one enthusiast, Copernicus in Poetrie. But in ...

Singing the News is the first study to concentrate on sixteenth-century ballads, when there was no regular and reliable alternative means of findin...

Currently in its seventeenth year and formerly published by Ashgate, The Shakespearean International Yearbook surveys the present state of Shakespe...

The French revolutionary shift from monarchical to popular sovereignty came clothed in a new political language, a significant part of which was a ...

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...