This Concise Companion launches students into the study of English Renaissance literature through the central contexts that informed it. Places the poetry withi
"This collection of original essays examines the publication and reception history of sixteenth-century Iberian books of chivalry in English translation and exp
Whereas traditional scholarship assumed that William Shakespeare used the medieval past as a negative foil to legitimate the present, Shakespeare, Catholicism,
Most contemporary critics characterize Shakespeare and his tribe of fellow playwrights and players as resolutely secular, interested in religion only as a matte
Staging Power in Tudor and Stuart English History Plays examines the changing ideological conceptions of sovereignty and their on-stage representations in the p
