When it was first published, Radical Tragedy was hailed as a groundbreaking reassessment
of the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. An engaged reading of the past with …

English has been spoken in Ireland for over 800 years, making Irish English the oldest
variety of the language outside Britain. This 2007 book traces the development of English in …

The third edition of A BIOGRAPHY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE continues to examine the
structure of English, from its Indo-European pre-history, through the invasions that shaped …

In the recent rise of Translation Studies, an enabling development has been" The Cultural
Turn in Translation Studies", from about 1990 onwards. But no less significant is the …

Seventeenth-century'English Literature'has long been thought about in narrowly English
terms. Archipelagic English corrects this by devolving anglophone writing, showing how …

The present book describes the English language in all its facets as spoken in present-day
Dublin, the capital of the Republic of Ireland. It covers the entire range of its history since the …

Rhetoric and Courtliness in Early Modern Literature explores the early modern interest in
conversation as a newly identified art. Conversation was widely accepted to have been …

This volume is the first full-length publication to systematically unpack and analyze the
linguistic practices and ideologies of" new speakers" specifically in an Irish language …

Ranging from the works of Shakespeare, Spenser, Jonson and Milton to those of Robert
Southwell and Anna Trapnel, this groundbreaking study explores the conscious use of …

This book examines writing in English, Irish, and Spanish by women living in Ireland and by
Irish women living on the continent between the years 1574 and 1676. This was a …