The long battle between exclusionary and inclusive versions of the American story Was
America founded as a Christian nation or a secular democracy? Neither, argues Philip …

A highly original history of the least understood and most intractable form of organised
human aggression, from ancient Rome to our present conflict-ridden world We think we …

Related to ideas of the great, the awe-inspiring and the overpowering, the sublime has been
debated for centuries amongst writers, artists, philosophers and theorists and has become a …

Most modern democracies punish hate speech. Less freedom for some, they claim,
guarantees greater freedom for others. Heinze rejects that approach, arguing that …

Forensic Shakespeare illustrates Shakespeare's creative processes by revealing the
intellectual materials out of which some of his most famous works were composed. Focusing …

In sixteenth-century England Robert Devereux, 2nd earl of Essex, enjoyed great domestic
and international renown as a favourite of Elizabeth I. He was a soldier and a statesman of …

Vengeance permeates English Renaissance drama-for example, it crops up in all but two of
Shakespeare's plays. This book explores why a supposedly forgiving Christian culture …

Shakespeare, Authority, Sexuality is a powerful reassessment of cultural materialism as a
way of understanding textuality, history and culture, by one of the founding figures of this …

When Cleopatra expresses a desire to die'after the high Roman fashion', acting in
accordance with'what's brave, what's noble', Shakespeare is suggesting that there are …

Listening to what she terms' unruly pirate voices' in early modern English literature, in this
study Claire Jowitt offers an original and compelling analysis of the cultural meanings …