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This important collection of essays focuses on the place of Roman Catholicism in early modern Eng...

This book offers a critical assessment of the career of one of the most formidable figures of Eng...

Interest in Ben Jonson is higher today than at any time since his death and there has been a shif...

Explores the network of social, political and spiritual connections in north west England as a si...

Ben Jonson's Volpone is the most widely taught and commonly performed English Renaissance play ou...

This new casebook on A Midsummer Night's Dream traces the response of critical theory to a play p...

Epicene is now one of the most widely-studied of Johnson's plays. Brilliantly exploiting the Jaco...

New Historicism has been one of the major developments in literary theory over the last decade, b...

With the inaugural edition of the Early Modern Drama Texts series, Richard Dutton and Steven K. G...

A new series of bespoke, full-coverage resources developed for the AQA 2015 A AS Level History....

This authoritative and comprehensive collection of new essays explores the social, political, and...