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  1. Erotic Politics

    The Dynamics of Desire in the Renaissance Theatre

    Edited by Susan Zimmerman

    Identifying the stage as a primary site for erotic display, these essays take eroticism in Renaissance culture as a paradigm for issues of sexuality and identity in early modern culture. Contributors examine how the Renaissance stage functioned as a decoder for erotic experience, both reinforcing...

    Published December 16th 1992 by Routledge

  2. Staging The Renaissance

    Edited by David Scott Kastan, Peter Stallybrass

    Published September 16th 1992 by Routledge

  3. Hamlet In The 1960'S

    Series: Garland Shakespeare Bibliographies

    Published November 30th 1991 by Routledge

  4. Staging the Renaissance

    Edited by David Scott Kastan, Peter Stallybrass

    The essays in Staging the Renaissance show the theatre to be the site of a rich confluence of cultural forces, the place where social meanings are both formed and transformed. The volume unites some of the most challenging issues in contemporary Renaissance studies and some of our best-known...

    Published October 9th 1991 by Routledge

  5. The Spenser Encyclopedia

    Edited by A.C. Hamilton

    'This masterly work ought to be The Elizabethan Encyclopedia, and no less.' - Cahiers ElizabethainsEdmund Spenser remains one of Britain's most famous poets. With nearly 700 entries this Encyclopedia provides a comprehensive one-stop reference tool for:* appreciating Spenser's poetry in the context...

    Published February 6th 1991 by Routledge

  6. Shakespeare and the Rival Playwrights, 1600-1606

    By David Farley-Hills

    David Farley-Hills argues that Shakespeare did not work in splendid isolation, but responded as any other playwright to the commercial and artistic pressures of his time. In this book he offers an interpretation of seven of Shakespeare's plays in the light of pressures exerted by his major...

    Published July 4th 1990 by Routledge

  7. Shakespeare's Political Drama

    The History Plays and the Roman Plays

    By Alexander Leggatt

    Shakespeare is consistently interested in rulers, law, questions of authority and obedience. In this study, Alexander Leggatt examines the depiction of state and public power in the English and Roman histories....

    Published November 8th 1989 by Routledge

  8. Pericles An Annot Biblio

    Series: Garland Shakespeare Bibliographies

    Published September 30th 1987 by Routledge

  9. Henry V Bib

    Series: Garland Shakespeare Bibliographies

    Published September 30th 1983 by Routledge

Forthcoming Books

  1. Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage
    By Ayanna Thompson
    To Be Published May 30th 2013
  2. Milton's Uncertain Eden: Understanding Place in Paradise Lost
    By Andrew Mattison
    To Be Published May 30th 2013
  3. Reading the Early Modern Dream: The Terrors of the Night
    Edited by Sue Wiseman, Katharine Hodgkin, Michelle O'Callaghan
    To Be Published June 19th 2013
  4. Were Early Modern Lives Different?: Writing the Self in the Renaissance
    Edited by Andrew Hadfield
    To Be Published July 15th 2013
  5. Beauty, Violence, Representation
    Edited by Lisa Dickson, Maryna Romanets
    To Be Published July 24th 2013

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