Elizabeth I was the last English monarch truly to rule the nation; she inherited a weak and divided kingdom yet relentlessly fashioned it into a major world power, and decisively defeated the mightiest invasion fleet ever to approach our shores. Her relationships with the key me…
Grunt's-eye report from the battlefield in the spirit of The Red Badge of Courage and All Quiet on the Western Front'the only known account by a common soldier of the campaigns of Napoleon's Grand Army between 1806 and 1813. When eighteen-year-old German stonemason Jakob Walter …
The only known memoir by a draftee of the campaigns of Napoleon's Grand Army between 1806 and 1813.
'A Will to Believe' is a revised version of Kastan's 2008 'Oxford Wells Shakespeare Lectures', providing a provocative account of the ways in which religion animates Shakespeare's plays.
This text is the first to examine the influence of William Morris on the artistic, literary, and ideological styles of Tennyson, Swinburne, Gissing, and Yeats. This book focuses on a selection of Morris? writings and situates them in the fields of art, culture, and society. Thro…
This book explores the history of invented encounters between Shakespeare and the Queen Elizabeth I, and examines how and why the mythology of these two cultural icons has been intertwined in British and American culture. It follows the history of meetings between the poet and t…
This book explores the history of invented encounters between Shakespeare and the Queen Elizabeth I, and examines how and why the mythology of these two cultural icons has been intertwined in British and American culture. It follows the history of meetings between the poet and t…
Offers biographical information about the more than 1900 people mentioned in the correspondence and works of Erasmus who died after 1450 and were thus approximately his contemporaries.