This illuminating account of ideas of world order prevalent in the Elizabethan Age and later
is an indispensable companion for readers of the great writers of the sixteenth and …

Thanks to Shakespeare, Hollywood, and the formidable Elizabeth I herself, Elizabethan
England remains a place and time that fascinates us. Modern England still has visible …

THE object which the editor of the following letters has had in view, was to do for English
history, what Bishop Percy did for old English poetry-to give its documents to the public in a …

Sarah Bradford's Elizabeth is the definitive biography of the Queen, revealing the real
woman behind the public figure-now celebrating the Platinum Jubilee, her 70th year on the …

To Generalize is to be an Idiot. To Particularize is the Alone Distinction of Merit Those words
by William Blake, the author takes to his heart. It might not be true in mathematics and …

(Hambledon Press, 1983) I was foolish enough to try to exorcise the ghost of my sometime
supervisor, Sir John Neale, who thirty years before had said:'Collinson, I like to think of you …

SHAKESPEARE'S Duke Theseus formulates policy when he proclaims that" The lunatic, the
lover, and the poet/Are of imagination all compact"; that" Lovers and madmen have such …

The conversation suggests that Queen Elizabeth as a symbol, as a celestial object of
worship, appears under various aspects to different worshippers and yet is not herself …

THIS book is neither a systematic chronological survey of Elizabethan nondramatic poetry
nor a purely critical and evaluative judgment of it. I have included some historical narrative …

The first edition of this book formed the basis of the modern approach to Elizabethan poetic
drama as a performing art, an approach pursued in subsequent volumes by Professor …