Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600

Tom Lockwood's study is the first examination of Jonson's place in the texts and culture of the Romantic age.

The names Edmund Spenser and John Donne are typically associated with different ages in English poetry, the former with the sixteenth century and the Elizabethan Golden Age, the latter with the 'metaphysical' poets of the seventeenth century.

How grace shaped the Renaissance in Italy"e;Grace"e; emerges as a keyword in the culture and society of sixteenth-century Italy.

This book is about reading practice and experience in late medieval and early modern England.

In this study, Kathryn Walls challenges the standard identification of Una with the post-Reformation English Church, arguing that she is, rather, Augustine's City of God - the invisible Church, whose membership is known only to God.

Dubbed 'the English Virgil' in his own lifetime, Spenser has been compared to the Augustan laureate ever since.

The four-hundred-year story of readers' struggles with a famously unreadable poem-and what they reveal about the history of reading and the future of literary studies"e;I am now in the country, and reading in Spencer's fairy-queen.

Edmund Spenser famously conceded to his friend Walter Raleigh that his method in The Faerie Queene 'will seeme displeasaunt' to those who would 'rather have good discipline delivered plainly in way of precepts, or sermoned at large.

The Elizabethans took from the Middle Ages the modified view of the universe which, Platonic and biblical in origin, radically differed from our own.

Historical literatures recovers a rich, vibrant and complex tradition of Restoration and early eighteenth century English historical writing.

This volume offers the first in-depth investigation of Thomas Heywood's engagement with the classics.

Versions of Hamlet: Poetic Economy on Page and Stage takes a fresh look at an old textual problem: Instead of arguing the case for one of the three early Hamlet texts as the one , the book presents a new analytical approach which allows us to see different Hamlet versions and the interpretations emerging from them side by side.

The correspondence of John Dryden is the definitive edition of the letters of the most important playwright and poet of the late seventeenth century.

Shakespeare's Nature offers the first sustained account of the impact of the language and practice of husbandry on Shakespeare's work.

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Ralph Knevet's Supplement of the Faery Queene (1635) is a narrative and allegorical work, which weaves together a complex collection of tales and episodes, featuring knights, ladies, sorcerers, monsters, vertiginous fortresses and deadly battles - a chivalric romp in Spenser's cod medieval style.

Dublin: Renaissance city of literature interrogates the notion of a literary 'renaissance' in Dublin.

Dubbed 'the English Virgil' in his own lifetime, Spenser has been compared to the Augustan laureate ever since.

Balancing long-overlooked and well-known works from early modern England, Same-sex desire in early modern England, 1550-1735: An anthology of literary texts and contexts is a collection of English texts about homoerotic love, relationships, desires, and sexual acts.

This book writes a performance history of Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare's most ambiguous play, from 1606 to the present.

This volume is an essential supplement to Pastoral poetry of the English Renaissance: An anthology (2016).

In Renaissance England and Scotland, verse libel was no mere sub-division of verse satire but a fully-developed, widely-read poetic genre in its own right.

Greco-Roman mythology and its reception are at the heart of the European Renaissance, and mythographies-texts that collected and explained ancient myths-were considered indispensable companions to any reader of literature.

This volume questions and qualifies commonly accepted assumptions about the early modern English sonnet: that it was a strictly codified form, most often organised in sequences, which only emerged at the very end of the sixteenth century and declined as fast as it had bloomed, and that minor poets merely participated in the sonnet fashion by replicating established conventions.

In this study, Kathryn Walls challenges the standard identification of Una with the post-Reformation English Church, arguing that she is, rather, Augustine's City of God - the invisible Church, whose membership is known only to God.

An examination of sixteenth-century quest narratives, focussing on their conscious use of a medieval tradition to hold a mirror up to contemporary culture.

Der Mythos von Orpheus, dem legendären Sänger, der mit seiner Musik die Grenzen zwischen Leben und Tod überwand, hat über Jahrtausende hinweg Künstler und Denker inspiriert.

This collection of new essays about the earl of Essex, one of the most important figures of the Elizabethan court, resituates his life and career within the richly diverse contours of his cultural and political milieu.

Greek and Roman epic poetry has always provided creative artists in the modern world with a rich storehouse of themes.

A collection of essays which show how early drama traditions were transformed, recycled, re-used and reformed across time to form new relationships with their audiences.

The Literary Culture of the Reformation examines the place of literature in the Reformation, considering both how arguments about biblical meaning and literary interpretation influenced the new theology, and how developments in theology in turn influenced literary practices.

Sixty-sixth annual volume, taking in a range of topics relating to the literature of the period, from the power of naming to Shakespeare and Spenser, Herbert, Margaret Tyler and Margaret Cavendish, and Ben Jonson.

Annual volume of the best essays submitted to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference, this year with an emphasis on English drama and the cultural anxieties it expresses.

This collection of new essays about the earl of Essex, one of the most important figures of the Elizabethan court, resituates his life and career within the richly diverse contours of his cultural and political milieu.

Women and the Bible in Early Modern England provides an account of the uniquely important role of the Bible in the development of female interpretative and literary agency, as well as in the expression of female subjectivity in early modern England.

The correspondence of John Dryden is the definitive edition of the letters of the most important playwright and poet of the late seventeenth century.

This is the first biography of Thomas Harris.