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 …

The adventurers and merchants (as well as the poets and playwrights) of the Elizabethan
age are legendary. This work by the eminent historian AL Rowse argues that, under …

No monarch is more glamorous or more controversial than Elizabeth I. The stories by which
successive generations have sought to extol, explain, or excoriate Elizabeth supply a rich …

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 …

Combining the resources of new historicism, feminism, and postmodern textual analysis,
Eric Mallin reveals how contemporary pressures left their marks on three Shakespeare plays …

T RAGEDY has always taken the form of drama when it has been able to reach its fullest
expression and its eminently rightful manner. A preliminary word of explanation is …

This long-awaited and masterfully edited volume contains nearly all of the writings of Queen
Elizabeth I: the clumsy letters of childhood, the early speeches of a fledgling queen, and the …

This long-awaited and masterfully edited volume contains nearly all of the writings of Queen
Elizabeth I: the clumsy letters of childhood, the early speeches of a fledgling queen, and the …