There has been a recent resurgence in a biographical approach to the work of Shakespeare, Marlowe and Jonson. The contributors in this volume approach the subject in a way that is both critically and historically alert, manifesting an awareness of the challenges posed by the red…
There has been a recent resurgence in a biographical approach to the work of Shakespeare, Marlowe and Jonson. The contributors in this volume approach the subject in a way that is both critically and historically alert, manifesting an awareness of the challenges posed by the red…
Leah Marcus's The Politics of Mirth: Jonson, Herrick, Milton, Marvell, and the Defense of Old Holiday Pastimes is a fascinating study of why James and Charles promoted some types of rural sport and festival and of how certain literary texts participated in promoting or critiquin…
Studies Renaissance occultism and discusses how it influenced the work of popular artists and writers from the Renaissance, including Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe, and William Shakespeare.