Lord Henry Howard (1540-1614): An Elizabethan Life

D C Andersson

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Renaissance Literature | nr. 27
• First full biography of the Elizabethan Henry Howard, one of the most influential noblemen of his time, tracing his chequered career and placing him i... Lees meer

Staging Islam in England: Drama and Culture, 1640-1685

Matthew Birchwood

• Hardcover | Studies in Renaissance Literature
• Exploration of the ways in which Islam manifested itself in the writings of the seventeenth century. Lees meer

The English Clown Tradition from the Middle Ages to Shakespeare

Robert Hornback

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Renaissance Literature | nr. 26
• From the late-medieval period through to the seventeenth century, English theatrical clowns carried a weighty cultural significance, only to have it s... Lees meer

The Theology of John Donne

Jeffrey Johnson

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Renaissance Literature | nr. 1
• John Donne discussed as an original religious thinker, drawing on his extant sermons for evidence of his personal theology. John Donne is here treated... Lees meer

Thomas Traherne and Seventeenth-Century Thought

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Renaissance Literature | nr. 33
• Thomas Traherne has all too often been defined and studied as a solitary thinker, "out of his time," and not as a participant in the complex intellect... Lees meer

The English Clown Tradition from the Middle Ages to Shakespeare

Robert Hornback

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Renaissance Literature | nr. 26
• English theatrical clowns carried a weighty cultural significance from the late medieval period through to the seventeenth century, only to have it st... Lees meer

Early Modern Tragicomedy

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Renaissance Literature | nr. 22
• Fresh explorations of the tragicomic drama, setting the familiar plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries alongside Irish and European drama. Tragi... Lees meer

Devil Theatre: Demonic Possession and Exorcism in English Renaissance Drama, 1558-1642

Jan Frans Van Dijkhuizen

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Renaissance Literature | nr. 19
• The so-called "Devil Theatre" is here set against its context of non-dramatic texts on possession and exorcism, providing many new insights. Represent... Lees meer

Empire and Nation in Early English Renaissance Literature

Stewart Mottram

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Renaissance Literature | nr. 25
• Sensitive readings of Renaissance texts offer new insights into the perception of imperialism in the sixteenth century. The complex topics of colonial... Lees meer

The Song of Songs in English Renaissance Literature: Kisses of Their Mouths

Noam Flinker

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Renaissance Literature | nr. 3
• Many English Renaissance texts offer readings of the Song of Songs, by both well-known authors, such as Shakespeare, and the long neglected (William B... Lees meer

Picturing Divinity in John Donne's Writings

Kirsten Stirling

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Renaissance Literature | nr. 43
• A new approach to the visual arts in the work of John Donne The five known portraits of John Donne and the many artworks bequeathed in his will bear w... Lees meer

Wyatt Abroad

William Rossiter

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Renaissance Literature | nr. 32
• During the 1520s and 1530s Sir Thomas Wyatt, the poet and diplomat, composed a number of translations and adaptations of European poetry (including th... Lees meer

John Bunyan and the Language of Conviction

Beth Lynch

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Renaissance Literature | nr. 15
• Bunyan's works re-evaluated, and considered in their Restoration and non-conformist context. This book undertakes a major reassessment of the works of... Lees meer

Neo-Historicism

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Renaissance Literature | nr. 5
• For nearly two decades, Renaissance literary scholarship has been dominated by various forms of postmodern criticism which claim to expose the simplis... Lees meer

Changing Party Policy in Britain

Richard Kelly

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Renaissance Literature
• This book provides students and general readers with a crucial analysis of Britain's shifting party dilemmas at a time of blurred voter loyalty, polic... Lees meer

Doctrine and Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Poetry

R V Young

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Renaissance Literature | nr. 2
• This book offers a comprehensive account of the literary and theological background to English devotional poetry of the seventeenth century, concentra... Lees meer

John Donne's Professional Lives

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Renaissance Literature | nr. 10
• New studies offer a revisionist interpretation of Donne's career, making a polemical case for studying the full range of his writings. During his life... Lees meer

Self-Interpretation in the Faerie Queene

Paul Suttie

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Renaissance Literature | nr. 18
• A new reading of the allegorical nature of The Faerie Queene, offering radical new insights into its narrative and form. Recent Spenser criticism has ... Lees meer

George Sandys

James Ellison

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Renaissance Literature | nr. 8
• The Caroline poet George Sandys had an exceptionally interesting early career as traveller and colonist; this study of his work following his return t... Lees meer

Poly-Olbion: New Perspectives

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Renaissance Literature | nr. 38
• Poly-Olbion (1612-1622), the collaborative work of the poet Michael Drayton, the legal scholar John Selden, and the engraver William Hole, ranks among... Lees meer

The Poetry of Kissing in Early Modern Europe

Alex Wong

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Renaissance Literature | nr. 34
• There is a great deal of kissing in Renaissance poetry, but modern critics do not generally recognise (as early readers did) that the literary convent... Lees meer

John Cruso of Norwich and Anglo-Dutch Literary Identity in the Seventeenth Century

Christopher Joby

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Renaissance Literature | nr. 41
• John Cruso of Norwich (b. 1592/3), the eldest son of Flemish migrants, was a man of many parts: Dutch and English poet, translator, military author, v... Lees meer

The Heroines of English Pastoral Romance

Sue P Starke

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Renaissance Literature | nr. 20
• The figure of the woman as hero in pastoral romance is shown to grow in importance and complexity in this important new study. The genre of pastoral r... Lees meer

Renaissance Historical Fiction

Alex Davis

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Renaissance Literature | nr. 29
• Davis's study could scarcely be more timely or invigorating. SEAN KEILEN, College of William and Mary. Williamsburg VA A majority of the fiction compo... Lees meer