Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 books

A pioneering exploration of how differences in production and circulation of texts conveyed ideas around the world...  Read More >>

The Private Life of William Shakespeare breathes new life into Shakespeare's story by establishing fresh, historical,...  Read More >>

A new approach to the visual arts in the work of John Donne  Read More >>

The Clementine affair resulted from the publication of the Lettres du pape Clement XIV by the audacious Louis-Antoine...  Read More >>

First published in 1984, Sir Philip Sidney and the Interpretation of Renaissance Culture is a collection of essays...  Read More >>

Each of the chapters is self-contained and places its topic in relation to past and current critical debates, but...  Read More >>

Redefines the ways in which performance studies and appropriation theory can be used to approach Shakespeare  Read More >>

First published in 1970, The Unfolding of The Seasons provides an interpretation of James Thomson’s poem The Seasons....  Read More >>

First published in 1978, Alexander Pope is an introduction to Pope’s life and work, which sets the poet solidly...  Read More >>

For scholars and students of Shakespeare Studies, Book History and Early Modern Drama, this book overturns how we...  Read More >>

This study argues that the female voice occupied a key role in the early Stuart political imaginary as a means of...  Read More >>

This Element turns to the stage to ask a simple question about gender and affect: what causes the shame of the early...  Read More >>

First published in 1953, Tragedy and the Paradox of the Fortunate Fall argues that our response to tragedy is made...  Read More >>

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This volume brings together new work on the image of the nation and the construction of national identity in English...  Read More >>

Shakespeare through Islamic Worlds investigates the peculiar absence of Islam and Muslims from Shakespeare’s corpus....  Read More >>

"In Fictions of Consent Urvashi Chakravarty excavates the ideologies of slavery that took root in early modern England...  Read More >>

Scripts of Blackness shows how the early modern mass media of theatre and performance culture at-large helped turn...  Read More >>

Long before Shakespeare’s name was synonymous with the stage he built a name as a poet, and Venus and Adonis was...  Read More >>

Waste Paper in Early Modern England argues that rhetorical commonplaces referring to waste paper are indicative...  Read More >>

"""The first book to examine the curious and often overlooked ways in which the lives, interests, work and sense...  Read More >>

"""The first book to examine the curious and often overlooked ways in which the lives, interests, work and sense...  Read More >>

A collection of essays on early modern digital humanities by leading scholars in the field.   This collection...  Read More >>

Reevaluates early modern poems of praise as, paradoxically, challenging an artistic economy that values exchange...  Read More >>