Employing psychoanalysis, trauma theory, and materialist perspectives, this book examines
Shakespeare's appropriations of Ovid's poetry in his Roman poems and plays. It argues that …

This is the first comprehensive study of sympathy in the early modern period, providing a
deeply researched and interdisciplinary examination of its development in Anglophone …

This book explores how humans in the Renaissance lived with, attended to, and considered
the minds, feelings, and sociality of other creatures. It examines how Renaissance literature …

This essay provides an overview of the central concerns of the emerging field of historical
phenomenology in Renaissance/Early Modern studies. It compares this new scholarship …

This article examines recent critical approaches to Shakespeare and the senses.
Historicizing the senses has posed certain methodological challenges: what is the …

In Thomas Middletons The Maidens Tragedy; the Lady, object of interest for Govianus and
the Tyrant, appears on stage as a ghost together with her corpse. 1 Indeed, the Lady …

Why does Shakespeare's Bottom paraphrase Pauls first epistle to t Corinthians (2: 9) when
he awakens from his dream:" The eye of m hath not heard, the ear or man hath not seen …

This introduction places the contents of this special issue in the context of recent
developments in Shakespeare studies and the cultural history of emotion. Several recent …

Shakespeare's characters knew well the dangers and causes of an overcharged heart. This
article places representations of heartbreak in Shakespeare's canon in dialogue with twenty …