The Soldier-Citizen

• Hardcover | Engels | Early Modern Literature in History
• Since the collapse of communism, the relationship between the Polish armed forces and the Polish government and society has been undergoing a transfor... Lees meer

Eros and the Poetry at the Courts of Mary Queen of Scots and James VI

S Dunnigan

• Paperback | Engels | Early Modern Literature in History
• Eros and Poetry examines the erotics of literary desire at the Stewart court in Scotland during the reigns of Mary, Queen of Scots and James VI. Encom... Lees meer

Women Writers and Familial Discourse in the English Renaissance

M Wynne-Davies

• Paperback | Engels | Early Modern Literature in History
• This book explores the development of familial discourse within a chronological frame, commencing with the More family and concluding with the Cavendi... Lees meer

The Intellectual Culture of Puritan Women, 1558-1680

• Paperback | Engels | Early Modern Literature in History
• This collection of essays by leading scholars in the field reveals the major contribution of puritan women to the intellectual culture of the early mo... Lees meer

Royalist Identities

Kenneth A Loparo

• Paperback | Engels | Early Modern Literature in History
• Royalist Identities shifts the emphasis from the question 'What is Royalism?' to 'What did Royalism want to be?' The texts analyzed show how Royalism ... Lees meer

Editors Construct the Renaissance Canon, 1825-1915

Paul Salzman

• Hardcover | Engels | Early Modern Literature in History
• This book argues that nineteenth-century editors created the modern idea of English Renaissance literature. The book analyses the theories and practic... Lees meer

Spa Culture and Literature in England, 1500-1800

• Hardcover | Engels | Early Modern Literature in History
• This edited collection aims at highlighting the various uses of water in sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth-century England, while exploring the t... Lees meer

Shakespeare's Hybrid Faith

J Mayer

• Hardcover | Engels | Early Modern Literature in History
• This book throws new light on the issue of the dramatist's religious orientation by dismissing sectarian and one-sided theories, tackling the problem ... Lees meer

Pirates? the Politics of Plunder, 1550-1650

Claire Jowitt

• Hardcover | Engels | Early Modern Literature in History
• This inter-disciplinary study is the first to consider how representations of pirates addressed both national political issues and the agenda of parti... Lees meer

Metaphor and Shakespearean Drama

M Fahey

• Hardcover | Engels | Early Modern Literature in History
• Metaphor and Shakespearean Drama explores the fruitful and potentially disorderly nature of metaphorical utterances in Shakespearean drama. Borrowing ... Lees meer

Shakespeare and Carnival

• Hardcover | Engels | Early Modern Literature in History
• This collection of essays is the first to reassess a range of Shakespeare's plays in relation to carnivalesque theory. Contributors re-historicize the... Lees meer

Sir Walter Ralegh and His Readers in the Seventeenth Century

A Beer

• Hardcover | Engels | Early Modern Literature in History
• Sir Walter Ralegh created a powerful public identity by means of the prose texts he wrote from prison. This new study not only offers a much-needed an... Lees meer

Sonnets and the English Woman Writer, 1560-1621

R Smith

• Paperback | Engels | Early Modern Literature in History
• This study explores why women in the English Renaissance wrote so few sonnet sequences, in comparison with the traditions of Continental women writers... Lees meer

Imagining the Soul in Premodern Literature

Abe Davies

• Hardcover | Engels | Early Modern Literature in History
• This book is a study of ghostly matters - of the soul - in literature spanning the tenth century and the age of Shakespeare. All people, according to ... Lees meer

This Double Voice

• Hardcover | Engels | Early Modern Literature in History
• "The Double Voice" reassesses the notions of gender which have been used to analyze Renaissance literature. Rather than assuming that men and women wr... Lees meer

The Law in Shakespeare

• Hardcover | Engels | Early Modern Literature in History
• Leading scholars in the field analyze Shakespeare's plays to show how their dramatic content shapes issues debated in conflicts arising from the creat... Lees meer

English Historical Drama, 1500-1660

Barbara Ravelhofer

• Paperback | Engels | Early Modern Literature in History
• Many readers today associate the early modern history play with Shakespeare. While not wishing to ignore the influence of Shakespeare, this collection... Lees meer

Performing Privacy and Gender in Early Modern Literature

M Trull

• Paperback | Engels | Early Modern Literature in History
• This book argues that the early modern public/private boundary was surprisingly dynamic and flexible in early modern literature, drawing upon authors ... Lees meer

The Religions of the Book

• Paperback | Engels | Early Modern Literature in History
• This is the first study to explore the relationship between Christianity, Judaism and Islam in the Early Modern period. Contributors debate the compli... Lees meer

Writing Rape, Writing Women in Early Modern England

J Catty

• Paperback | Engels | Early Modern Literature in History
• The word 'rape' today denotes sexual appropriation; yet it originally signified the theft of a woman from her father or husband by abduction or elopem... Lees meer

The Law in Shakespeare

• Paperback | Engels | Early Modern Literature in History
• Leading scholars in the field analyze Shakespeare's plays to show how their dramatic content shapes issues debated in conflicts arising from the creat... Lees meer

The Literary Culture of Plague in Early Modern England

Kathleen Miller

• Hardcover | Engels | Early Modern Literature in History
• This book is about the literary culture that emerged during and in the aftermath of the Great Plague of London (1665). Textual transmission impacted u... Lees meer

English Historical Drama, 1500-1660

Barbara Ravelhofer

• Hardcover | Engels | Early Modern Literature in History
• Many readers today associate the early modern history play with Shakespeare. While not wishing to ignore the influence of Shakespeare, this collection... Lees meer

Staging Shakespeare at the New Globe

P Kiernan

• Paperback | Engels | Early Modern Literature in History
• What have we learned from the first experiments performed at the reconstructed Globe on Bankside? What light have recent productions shed on the way S... Lees meer