Following the trial and execution of Charles I in 1649, the seventeenth century witnessed an explosion of print culture ......more

The White Devil is one of the most violent and most fascinating plays in English theatrical history. It is also a notori......more

Which famous poet treasured his copy of Homer, but could never learn Greek? What prompted diplomats to circulate a speec......more

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Offering a new understanding of canonical Romanticism, Garofalo argues that Romantic writers critiqued the idea that ero......more

A meticulous study of a significant early modern manuscript....more

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These essays throw new light on the complex relations between science, literature and rhetoric as avenues to discovery i......more

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A study of European utopias in context from the early years of Henry VIII’s reign to the Restoration, this book assesses......more

The various manifestations of authority have enforced, or acted to prevent, the distribution of books, pamphlets and oth......more

The first authorized copy of this mysterious, much-speculated-upon, one-of-a-kind, centuries-old puzzle "For the first t......more

The first full-length study of the reception of John Milton s (1608-74) writings in the Arab-Muslim world, this book exa......more

When one sees the name Edward II, one also sees his same-sex loves; this correlation between Edward and sexuality has be......more

A detailed examination of the relationship between the discourses and practices of authority and diplomacy in the late m......more

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John Aubrey (1626-1697), antiquary, natural philosopher, and virtuoso, is best-remembered today for his Brief Lives, bio......more

Critical analysis of the importance and influence of Elizabethan biblical typology on Spenser and the composition of the......more

The central thesis of this book is that skepticism was instrumental to the defense of orthodox religion and the developm......more

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Framed within a wide range of ideas, including politics and religion, this volume makes new connections between embodime......more

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Dubbed ’the English Virgil’ in his own lifetime, Spenser has been compared to the Augustan laureate ever since. He invit......more

Quantifiable citizenship in the form of birth certificates, census forms, and immigration quotas is so ubiquitous that t......more

This book rethinks Montaigne’s philosophical thought in terms of transversality by investigating the essayist’s debt to ......more

Employing a variety of creative, interdisciplinary approaches, contributors examine early modern Spanish children’s live......more

Between 1660 and 1820, Great Britain experienced significant structural transformations in class, politics, economy, pri......more

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Focusing on John Foxe, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, John Webster and John Milton, David Anderson argues tha......more

Representations of Catholic women appear with surprising frequency in the literature of post-Reformation England. Playwr......more

Bringing far-removed time periods into startling conversation, this book argues that certain attitudes and practices pre......more

This study contends that folly is of fundamental importance to the implicit philosophical vision of Shakespeare s drama.......more

This book explains how Cervantes took advantage of the moral aspects of neo-stoicism and skepticism to remove the author......more

Winner of the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women s Collaborative Book Prize 2017 Rethinking Feminism in Early M......more

Women and Epistolary Agency in Early Modern Culture, 1450-1690 is the first collection to examine the gendered nature of......more

Winner of the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women’s Collaborative Book Prize 2017 Rethinking Feminism in Early M......more

The letter is a powerfully evocative form that has gained in resonance as the habits of personal letter writing have dec......more

In English, Latin, French, and Italian. This book contains twenty-one essays written by the late Professor Jozef IJsewij......more

Focusing on early Renaissance Franco-Ottoman relations, this book fills a gap in studies of Ottoman representations by e......more

Eating and drinking--vital to all human beings--were of central importance to Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Culina......more

Scandal and Reputation at the Court of Catherine de Medici explores Catherine de Medici’s ’flying squadron’, the legenda......more

A juvenile tradition of young writers flourished in Britain between 1750 and 1835. Canonical Romantic poets as well as n......more

Sir John Denham (1614/15-1669) Reassessed shines new light on a singular, colourful yet elusive figure of seventeenth-ce......more

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Building on recent Petrarch scholarship and broader studies of medieval poetics, poetic narrativity, and biblical intert......more

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The Damned Fraternitie : Constructing Gypsy Identity in Early Modern England, 1500-1700 examines the construction of gyp......more

From Shakespeare’s Hamlet to Burton’s Anatomy to Hilliard’s miniatures, melancholy has long been associated with the emo......more

The final two volumes in the CWE contain an edition and translation of Erasmus’ poetry. For scholars this work affords t......more

This sixth volume devoted to the Adages completes the translation and annotation of the more than 4000 proverbs Erasmus ......more

This collection of seventeen original essays by leading authorities offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview......more

Renaissance pastoral poetry is gaining new interest for its distinctive imaginative vein, its varied allusive content, a......more

In a fresh reading of Montaigne s Essais, David Quint portrays the great Renaissance writer as both a literary man and a......more

The Italian scholar and poet Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374) is best remembered today for vibrant and impassioned love po......more

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Tropologies is the first book-length study to elaborate the medieval and early modern theory of the tropological, or mor......more

Renaissance Literature and Linguistic Creativity interrogates notions of linguistic creativity as presented in English l......more

From the 1750s to the 1830s, numerous British intellectuals, novelists, essayists, poets, playwrights, translators, educ......more

In eighteenth-century literature, negative representations of Catholic nuns and convents were pervasive. Yet, during the......more

During Shakespeare’s lifetime, John Lyly was repeatedly described as the central figure in contemporary English literatu......more

From Theocritus’ Idylls to James Cameron’s Avatar, Arcadia remains an enduring presence in world culture and a persisten......more

Collection of new essays about the earl of Essex, one of the most important figures of the Elizabethan court...more

"Worldmaking takes many forms in early modern literature and thus challenges any single interpretive approach. The essay......more

"Worldmaking takes many forms in early modern literature and thus challenges any single interpretive approach. The essay......more

The Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century has often been called a decisive turning point in human history. It......more

This monograph studies how, across the Folio of 1681, Marvell s poems engage not merely with different kinds of loss and......more

Contending that criticism of Marlowe s plays has been limited by humanist conceptions of tragedy, this book engages with......more

In this sustained full length study of Marlowe s plays, Andrew Duxfield argues that Marlovian drama exhibits a marked in......more

Women s life writing in general has too often been ignored, dismissed, or relegated to a separate category in those few ......more

First published in 1986, this title examines a set of English Renaissance texts by Shakespeare, Spenser, Herbert, Marvel......more