Product Description: This stimulating volume brings together a team of highly regarded specialists to pay tribute to Dr. Peter Beal, the founding editor of English Manuscript Studies 1100–1700 and creator of Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450–­1700...read more

"Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England" is an international volume published annually. Each volume contains essays and studies by critics and cultural historians from both hemispheres as well as substantial reviews of books and essays dealing with medieval and early modern English drama. The journal was founded in 1984, and since then well over four hundred articles, review essays, and book reviews have appeared on its pages.The topics addressed have ranged from local drama in the Shrewsbury borough records to the Cornish Mermaid in the Ordinalia; from studies of windows and walls in the Elizabethan public playhouses to the spectators who stood within the walls of various theaters and the owners who built them; from the early and modern staging of a wide spectrum of plays to bear baiting and related entertainments during the "Jacobethan" era. The journal is committed to the publication of a wide range of views and to an equally wide range of the drama and its contexts prior to 1642.

Product Description: With Shylock's pound of flesh and Portia's golden ring,The Merchant of Venice is one of Shakespeare's most controversial, disturbing and unforgettable plays.Combining accessible commentary with a range of reprinted materials, S. P...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: With Shylock's pound of flesh and Portia's golden ring,The Merchant of Venice is one of Shakespeare's most controversial, disturbing and unforgettable plays.Combining accessible commentary with a range of reprinted materials, S. P...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: For a convenient introduction to Shakespearean topics, plays and poems, direct patrons to this authoritative resource. Beginning with Vol. 27, this illustrated series focuses on criticism published after 1960 and provides the reader with a thematic approach to Shakespeare's works...read more

Readings in Renaissance Women's Drama is the most complete sourcebook for the study of this growing area of inquiry. It brings together, for the first time, a collection of the key critical commentaries and historical essays - both classic and contemporary - on Renaissance women's drama. Specifically designed to provide a comprehensive overview for students, teachers and scholars, this collection combines: * this century's key critical essays on drama by early modern women by early critics such as Virginia Woolf and T.S. Eliot * specially-commissioned new essays by some of today's important feminist critics * a preface and introduction explaining this selection and contexts of the materials * a bibliography of secondary sources Playwrights covered include Joanna Lumley, Elizabeth Cary, Mary Sidney, Mary Wroth and the Cavendish sisters.

Product Description: This collection of original essays examines the dichotomy between the public and private worlds of women from the early Renaissance to the 1650s. The essays are arranged to highlight the movement from the private, Elizabethan woman to her more public, Carolingean counterpart...read more