Product Description: Each volume of EVANS SHAKESPEARE is edited by a Shakespearean scholar. The pedagogy is designed to help students contextualize Renaissance drama, while providing explanatory notes to the play.

Product Description: What happened to the English pilgrimage tradition after the Protestant Reformation dispensed with saints' shrines? In Love's Pilgrimage, Grace Tiffany explores literary adaptations of the Catholic pilgrimage in the Protestant poetry and prose of Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, John Donne, John Milton, and John Bunyan...read more

The author of Will and My Father Had a Daughter revisits Shakespeare's controversial play, The Merchant of Venice, in the story of a young Jew, Shiloh ben Gozán, who flees the Spanish Inquisition with his infant daughter and a valuable turquoise ring that has a profound influence on his life and those of five remarkable women. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

When Prospero, a lost Italian mariner, and his daughter, Miranda, appear on the beach of the magical Ariel, she encourages Prospero to work with her to defeat the evil tribe that lives within the island's rain forest, but when Prospero speaks of his desire to go home, an angered Ariel seeks her revenge by summoning a tempest that will change everyone's plans for good.

Leaving Stratford for the theatrical world of sixteenth-century London, William Shakespeare uses his ambition, determination, and talent for writing to find success as a master playwright, but he soon discovers that his achievements have earned him the jealous enmity of a vengeful Christopher Marlowe. Reprint.

The life and times of England's greatest dramatist vividly come to life from the perspective of his spirited daughter, Judith, who, angered over her father's apparent callousness regarding a family tragedy and her own grief, heads for London, intent on sabotaging his new play, only to discover that she and her father have more in common than she had ever imagined. A first novel. Reprint.

Product Description: Introduction, by Grace Tiffany. Essays: "Garbled Martyrdom in Christopher Marlowe's THE MASSACRE AT PARIS," by Kristen Elizabeth Poole. "Lyly's ENDYMION and MIDAS: The Catholic Question in England," by David Bevington. "Painted Women: Annunciation Motifs in HAMLET," by R...read more

Product Description: The voluminous contemporary critical work on English Renaissance androgyny/transvestism has not fully uncovered the ancient Greek and Roman roots of the gender controversy. This work argues that the variant Renaissance views on the androgyne's symbolism are, in fact, best understood with reference to classical representations of the double-sexed or gender-baffled figures, and with the classical merging of the figure with images of beasts and monsters...read more