This revisionary study of the origins of courtly poetry reveals the culture of spectatorship and voyeurism that shaped early Tudor English literary life. Through research into the reception of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, it demonstrates how Pandarus became the model of the e…
The period from the Reformation to the English Civil War saw an evolving understanding of social identity in England. This book uses four illuminating case studies to chart a discursive shift from mid-sixteenth-century notions of an individually generated, spiritually motivated …
English mercuries -- Men, money, iron, and bread -- Thomas Churchyard's "Valiant soldiers" and the "Public state"--A tale of two cities: George Gascoigne's Antwerp and Alarum for London -- John Donne's Emblem of war -- John Harington's Journey home -- Remembering soldiers: Ben J…
A soldier/scholar vividly describes the conditions for Elizabethan soldiers and how they wrote about their deployments.
A soldier/scholar vividly describes the conditions for Elizabethan soldiers and how they wrote about their deployments.
Now in paperback, this highly acclaimed volume brings together some of the world's foremost historians of ideas to consider Machiavelli's political thought in the larger context of the European republican tradition, and the image of Machiavelli held by other republicans. An inte…
John Astington brings the acting style of the Shakespearean period to life, describing and analysing the art of the player in the English professional theatre between Richard Tarlton and Thomas Betterton. The book pays close attention to the cultural context of stage playing, th…
Sixteenth-century Italian drawings in New York collections: the catalogue is published in conjunction with th…
by Exhibition, New York, Wolk-Simon, Linda, Griswold, William, Burn, Barbara, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Exhibition Sixteenth Century Italian Drawings in New York Collections, New York, NY
