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Atrocity and Early Modern Drama
Extreme violence scarred the early modern period. Contemporary commentators grappled to find language to categorise the massacres, genocides, assassinations, enslavements, sacks, …
Ocular Proof and the Spectacled Detective in British Crime Fiction
From Sherlock Holmes onwards, fictional detectives use lenses: Ocular Proof and the Spectacled Detective in British Crime Fiction argues that these visual aids are metaphors for …
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 …
From the Romans to the Normans on the English Renaissance Stage
This book examines the late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century engagement with a crucial part of Britain's past, the period between the withdrawal of the Roman legions and …
Materializing the East in Early Modern English Drama
Despite the popularity of plays about the East, the representation of the East in early modern drama has been either overlooked, marginalized as footnotes or generalized into …
King Lear
King Lear is one of Shakespeare's most performed and studied plays - seen as one of the most significant and universal tragedies of all time. This guide introduces the play's …
genres of Renaissance tragedy
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 …