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Staging Britain's Past
Staging Britain's Past is the first study of the early modern performance of Britain's pre-Roman history. The mythic history of the founding of Britain by the Trojan exile Brute …
Magical Transformations on the Early Modern English Stage
Magical Transformations on the Early Modern Stage furthers the debate about the cultural work performed by representations of magic on the early modern English stage. It considers …
Marian Moments in Early Modern British Drama
Concerning itself with the complex interplay between iconoclasm against images of the Virgin Mary in post-Reformation England and stage representations that evoke various 'Marian …
Greeks and Trojans on the Early Modern English Stage
No story was more interesting to Shakespeare and his contemporaries than that of Troy, partly because the story of Troy was in a sense the story of England, since the Trojan …
A Companion to the Cavendishes
The Cultural Uses of the Caesars on the English Renaissance Stage
Caesarian power was a crucial context in the Renaissance, as rulers in Europe, Russia and Turkey all sought to appropriate Caesarian imagery and authority, but it has been …
Troilus and Cressida: A Critical Reader
Troilus and Cressida: A Critical Reader offers an accessible and thought-provoking guide to this complex problem play, surveying its key themes and evolving critical …
The Genres of Renaissance Tragedy
This collection of newly commissioned essays explores the extraordinary versatility of Renaissance tragedy and shows how it enables exploration of issues ranging from gender to …
Coriolanus: A Critical Reader
Coriolanus is the last and most intriguing of Shakespeare's Roman tragedies. Critics, directors and actors have long been bewitched by this gripping character study of a warrior …
Jane Austen and Masculinity
Jane Austen and Masculinity is an eclectic collection of contemporary scholarship addressing the representation of men and masculinity in the fiction and popular adaptations of …
Reading the Road from Shakespeare to Bunyan
Explores how cultural conceptions of mobility and the road contribute to identity and culture in early modern Britain Opens new windows on early modern culture, subjectivity and …
The Merchant of Venice: A Critical Reader
Arden Early Modern Drama Guides offer students and academics practical and accessible introductions to the critical and performance contexts of key Elizabethan and Jacobean plays. …