Literary Studies: c 1500 to c 1800

Thirteen leading actors take us behind the scenes, each recreating in detail a memorable performance in one of Shakespeare's major roles. * Brian ...

Objects we traditionally regard as "mere" imitations of the human—dolls, automata, puppets—proliferated in eighteenth-century England's rapidly exp...

The International Shakespeare Association meeting, held in Tokyo in August of 1991, was regarded by many of the participating academics as a milest...

The first book of its kind, Marlowe's Ovid explores and analyzes in depth the relationship between the Elegies-Marlowe's translation of Ovid's Amor...

In this revisionist study, Peter G. Platt provides a detailed history of the literary-critical interest in the Montaigne Shakespeare connection fro...

Women as Translators in Early Modern England offers a feminist theory of translation that considers both the practice and representation of transla...

Romantic Capabilities discusses the relationship between popular new media uses of literary texts. Devising and modelling an original critical meth...

Scandal and Reputation at the Court of Catherine de Medici explores Catherine de Medici's 'flying squadron', the legendary ladies-in-waiting of the...

The sea for Shakespeare is both a location and a metaphor; and either way it affords him an extraordinary freedom of invention, releasing whatever ...

This book investigates generic change in early modern theatre across multiple genres, unlike much other scholarship, attempting to understand chang...

The first biography of Henry and Emily Folger, who acquired the largest and finest collection of Shakespeare in the world.In Collecting Shakespeare...

Provides new perspectives on women's print media in the long eighteenth centuryThis innovative volume presents for the first time collective expert...

How did ideas about the poet's art surface in early modern texts? By looking into the intersections between poetry, poetics and other discourses l...

Although Gothicism remains a popular subject of scholarly investigation, little attention has been paid to the figure of the Gothic female tyrant. ...

Women’s Deliberation: The Heroine in Early Modern French Women’s Theater (1650–1750) argues that women playwrights question traditional views on wo...

Sarah Fyge Egerton (1668-1723) is an intriguing poet who wrote a great deal of poetry during a period when women poets were relatively rare. Her ca...

Logomotives are words that change worlds past, present, and future. Bearing a wide range of linguistic, regional and disciplinary expertise, the v...

Religious conflict has existed for as long as humanity has been capable of articulating the experience of faith. Belief in a higher power – whateve...

Typographies of Performance in Early Modern England is the first book-length study of early modern English playbook typography. It tells a new hist...

Unpicking the ecopolitics of Shakespeare's plays at the Stuart court, Shakespeare Beyond the Green World establishes that the playwright was remark...

While the baroque remains a foundational concept for other European literary and aesthetic traditions, scholars have largely elided the word from B...

John Wesley (1703–1791), leader of British Methodism, was one of the most prolific literary figures of the eighteenth century, responsible for crea...

This book argues that Shakespeare turned staging problems into opportunities for complex characterization by mobilizing the semiotic potential of p...

It is easy to forget how deeply embedded in social hierarchy was the literature and learning that has come down to us from the early modern Europea...