Literature: history & criticism books

Shakespeare's adolescents examines the varied representation of adolescent characters in Shakespeare's plays. Using...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's liminal spaces provides a unique set of perspectives through which Shakespeare's forests, battlefields,...  Read More >>

This book studies the ways in which three fields of creative activity inspired by the medieval musical performance,...  Read More >>

Through sources from literature and film to comics, music and the built environment across the globe, this work...  Read More >>

Essays by Anne Lake Prescott on French and English early modern writers and cultures, from Du Bellay to Spenser,...  Read More >>

A significant new account of emotion in Middle English literature, proposing key methodologies for the analysis...  Read More >>

This is an edition of Sir Philip Sidney's New Arcadia in modern spelling that makes the text accessible through...  Read More >>

This books looks at Antony and Cleopatra in performance from 1606 to 2018, examining how actors, directors and designers...  Read More >>

This book offers essential reading on a wide array of theatre and film productions of Shakespeare's play The Merchant...  Read More >>

This collection of essays considers the significance of graveyards in Gothic literature, film, television and video...  Read More >>

An examination of interrelatedness, influence, and intention in the works of Martinican writer Patrick Chamoiseau...  Read More >>

This groundbreaking book explores the life of the forest in African fiction, showing how writers have used it to...  Read More >>

Documenting senses of life and practices of refusal hidden at the edges of Black literature and thought.  Read More >>

Introduces a new way of understanding influence, reception, and adaptation via the work of Italy’s most famous modern...  Read More >>

Unfolding the spiritual and mythical background of the pagan narrative, this book shows how the contest between...  Read More >>

Whether through medical encyclopedias, daily-use almanacs, or novels and anecdotes, readers pursued knowledge of...  Read More >>

First published in 1984, The Passive surveys a wide range of different constructions, which have all been termed...  Read More >>

In this uplifting picture book, a young Black girl’s identities converge at the Women’s March, helping her find...  Read More >>

The authoritative guide to the singular career and artistic legacy of one of America's most celebrated playwrights,...  Read More >>

This book investigates new ways in which writers and artists of early modern Spain conceived of space through the...  Read More >>

The long overlooked, centuries-long, culture of the book in West Africa. Printed books did not reach West Africa...  Read More >>

Introduces a new way of understanding influence, reception, and adaptation via the work of Italy’s most famous modern...  Read More >>

Documenting senses of life and practices of refusal hidden at the edges of Black literature and thought.  Read More >>

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Unfolding the spiritual and mythical background of the pagan narrative, this book shows how the contest between...  Read More >>