This volume is a broad-ranging guide to Othello, providing an introduction to the contexts of the play, the range of critical responses to the play and the play in performance.

A broad-based and accessible anthology of travel and colonial writing in the English Renaissance, ranging from the Americas to the Far East, from Ireland to Russia, and selected to represent…

The Cambridge Companion to Spenser provides an accessible and rigorous introduction to Spenser. Fourteen specially-commissioned essays provide all the essential information required to appreciate and understand Spenser’s rewarding and challenging…

This highly praised book, first published in 2005, reveals in a series of powerful readings how political thought critical of the government underpins Shakespeare’s writing. Anyone interested in Shakespeare and…

Mendacity in Early Modern Literature and Culture examines the historical, cultural, and epistemological underpinnings of lying and deception in early modern England, including the political, religious, aesthetic, and philosophical discourses…

Essays in this volume offer interdisciplinary studies of a county that was at the forefront of religious, political and artistic developments in early-modern England. Ranging from the schism of Reformation…

Presents a survey of the field of popular culture in early modern England. This book explores the meaning and significance of the term ‘popular culture’ when applied to the early…

This comprehensive, interdisciplinary research companion is an essential resource for scholars of early modern history and culture. For the first time a detailed consideration of the scope of early modern…