Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 books

A lively and thought-provoking study of two major icons of Anglophone culture - the Bible and the works of William...  Read More >>

First published between 1982 and 1983, this series examines the peculiarly American cultural context out of which...  Read More >>

Satoko Shimazaki revisits three centuries of kabuki theater and its representations of medieval Japanese tales and...  Read More >>

This critical edition of two early modern marriage sermons provides an important resource for students and scholars...  Read More >>

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This books chronicles the ingenious ways of dying in Shakespeare, from suicide to murder, and from workaday dagger...  Read More >>

The first comprehensive anthology of English drama in the long Tudor century, The Oxford Anthology of Tudor Drama...  Read More >>

Imagining Spectatorship is a highly innovative study in the emerging area of early spectatorship, focusing on the...  Read More >>

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Imagining Spectatorship is a highly innovative study in the emerging area of early spectatorship, focusing on the...  Read More >>

To celebrate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, this collection of the Bard's greatest plays is digested...  Read More >>

/A little water clears us of this deed /Though a large scotch might also do the trick...’ To celebrate the 400th...  Read More >>

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By 1719, the year in which Daniel Defoe published The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe,...  Read More >>

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Writers in sixteenth-century England often kept commonplace books in which to jot down notable fragments encountered...  Read More >>

In a famous episode of the eighteenth-century masterpiece The Dream of the Red Chamber, the goddess Disenchantment...  Read More >>

The eighteenth-century verse epistle, argues William Dowling, was an attempt to solve in literary terms the dilemma...  Read More >>

""It is now become so much the fashion to publish letters, that in order to avoid it, I put as little into mine...  Read More >>

Stephen Railton's study of the American Renaissance proposes a fresh way of conceiving the writer as a performing...  Read More >>

William Blake called himself a ""sublime Artist"" and acknowledged his own power to create ""the Most Sublime Poetry.""...  Read More >>

Despite its immediate popularity and its acclaim as a modern equal of the ancient epics, Ariosto's Orlando Furioso...  Read More >>

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