Early Modern/Renaissance Literature

This volume is a broad-ranging guide to Othello, providing an introduction to the contexts of the play, the range of critical responses to the play and the play in performance...

This student friendly book draws together text, context, criticism and performance history to provide an integrated view of one of the most dazzling works of the early modern theatre...

This student friendly book draws together text, context, criticism and performance history to provide an integrated view of one of the most dazzling works of the early modern theatre...

William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (c.1600) is one of his most captivating plays. A comedy of mistaken identities, it has given rise to thought-provoking debates around such issues as gender identity and role-playing, manipulation and deception. _x000D_ Including introductions to the contexts, crit..

William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (c.1600) is one of his most captivating plays. A comedy of mistaken identities, it has given rise to thought-provoking debates around such issues as gender identity and role-playing, manipulation and deception. _x005F_x000D_ Including introductions to the contexts..

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

The first collection to examine the gendered nature of women’s letter-writing in England and Ireland from the late-Elizabethan period through to the Restoration, this book reorients the study of women’s letters in the contexts of early modern culture. The volume builds upon recent approaches to the ..

As voyeuristic and prurient as today's tabloid newspapers, early modern crime pamphlets and broadside ballads about women murderers tell of furtive love affairs and domestic poisonings, of battered wives who kill their abusive husbands, and of troubled mothers who murder their children. On first acq..

Focusing on six plays by William Shakespeare, early modern English court records, marital complaints and private letters, Cristina Leon Alfar identifies a series of cultural narratives that disclose the various motives for and strategies of men’s accusations of adultery and women’s practical and cog..

Women in Service in Early Modern England..

Focusing on Quaker pamphlet literature of the commonwealth and restoration period, Catie Gill seeks to explore and explain women’s presence as activists, writers, and subjects within the early Quaker movement. Women in the Seventeenth-Century Quaker Community draws on contemporary resources such as ..