Drawing upon recent scholarship in Renaissance studies regarding notions of the body, political, physical and social, this study examines how the sati..
By examining the often marginal figure of the pirate (and also the hard-to-distinguish privateer), The Culture of Piracy, 1580-1630 shows how flexibly..
Drawing on extensive archival research, Jen Boyle investigates how the use of anamorphic perspective flourished in early modern England as a technolog..
Masculinity and Marian Efficacy in Shakespeare's England offers a new approach to evaluating the psychological "loss" of the Virgin Mary in post-Refor..
Gerard Kilroy here draws on newly discovered manuscript sources to reveal Campion as a charismatic and affectionate scholar who was finding fulfilment..
Measure for Measure, Malcontent and other disguised ruler plays are typically interpreted as synchronic political commentaries about King James. Quarm..
A radical reassessment of Milton's religious identity, Milton among the Puritans challenges many received ideas about Milton's brand of Christianity, ..
Reassessing the relationship between religion and drama in early modern England, this collection explores the commercial theater's reframing of religi..
Renaissance Romance examines how and why the fears and expectations surrounding the old genre of romance resonated in early modern England. Examining..
Reading twenty printed and manuscript texts composed between 1575 and 1672, Heller defines the genre of the mother's legacy as a distinct branch of th..
Early Modern Catholics, Royalists, and Cosmopolitans looks at how the perspective of sixteenth-century English Catholic exiles and seventeenth-century..
The focus of this volume is the intersection and the cross-fertilization between the travel narrative, literary discourse and the New Philosophy in th..