Early Modern/Renaissance Literature

This unique volume of plays and documents demonstrates for the first time the wide range of theatrical activity in which women were involved during the Renaissance period. This is a true breakthrough for the study of women's literature...

Recurring to the governing idea of Shakespeare on the Edge, Hopkins expands the parameters of her investigation beyond England to include the Continent, and beyond Shakespeare to include dramatists ranging from Christopher Marlowe to John Ford. Hopkins also expands her notion of liminality to explor..

Recurring to the governing idea of Shakespeare on the Edge, Hopkins expands the parameters of her investigation beyond England to include the Continent, and beyond Shakespeare to include dramatists ranging from Christopher Marlowe to John Ford. Hopkins also expands her notion of liminality to explor..

In the first book-length study explicitly to connect the postcolonial trope of hybridity to Renaissance literature, Schmidt explores how early modern English authors, artists, explorers and statesmen framed questions of cultural and artistic heterogeneity. He demonstrates how 'postmodern' considerat..

In the first book-length study explicitly to connect the postcolonial trope of hybridity to Renaissance literature, Schmidt explores how early modern English authors, artists, explorers and statesmen framed questions of cultural and artistic heterogeneity. He demonstrates how 'postmodern' considerat..

Focusing on Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene and shorter poetry, George Chapman's Ovids Banquet of Sence, Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus and Hamlet, and John Donne's Elegies, this study interrogates notions of linguistic creativity as presented in English literary texts of the late sixteenth centu..

The first full length scholarly work to focus on the travel ’stunts’ that flourished in England between 1590 and the 1620s, this study shows that the phenomenon of the ’mad voyage’ had deep and diverse roots in traditional travel practices, in courtly play and mercantile custom, and in literary cult..

Renaissance Romance examines how and why the fears and expectations surrounding the old genre of romance resonated in early modern England. Examining a range of texts and the fiction of Sir Philip Sidney, Robert Greene and Lady Mary Wroth in particular, Das illustrates the sheer cultural persistenc..

Renaissance Romance examines how and why the fears and expectations surrounding the old genre of romance resonated in early modern England. Examining a range of texts and the fiction of Sir Philip Sidney, Robert Greene and Lady Mary Wroth in particular, Das illustrates the sheer cultural persistenc..

This collection offers readers a timely encounter with the historical experience of people adapting to a pandemic emergency and the corresponding narrative representation of that crisis, as early modern writers transformed the plague into literature. The essays examine the impact of the plague on he..

This collection offers readers a timely encounter with the historical experience of people adapting to a pandemic emergency and the corresponding narrative representation of that crisis, as early modern writers transformed the plague into literature. The essays examine the impact of the plague on he..

In Rethinking Feminism in Early Modern Studies, leading scholars in the field of early modern studies reflect on the history, present state, and future possibilities of feminist criticism and theory. Attending to debates that have emerged in light of scholarly work on race, affect, sexuality, and tr..