Product Description: Identifying the stage as a primary site for erotic display, these essays take eroticism in Renaissance culture as a paradigm for issues of sexuality and identity in early modern culture. Contributors examine how the Renaissance stage functioned as a decoder for erotic experience, both reinforcing and subverting expected sexual behaviour...read more

Product Description: Shakespeare's tragedies--the plays which represent human experience in its starkest and most terrifying dimensions--are crucial to the postmodern study of early modern subjectivity. In this collection of ground-breaking essays, eminent Shakespearean scholars examine ten of these tragedies through a variety of postmodern frameworks: historical, linguistic and psychoanalytical...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Are you, or someone you know, grieving a significant loss? Rays of Hope in Times of Loss offers soothing guidance to help you discover the answer to many questions. It is filled with powerful therapeutic narrative, original poems, and photographs that reflect the different aspects of the emotional excursion through grief...read more

Product Description: Shakespeare Studies is an annual volume containing essays and studies by critics and cultural historians from around the world. This issue features a Forum on Early Modern Animal/Human Interfaces. In addition, there are articles on Simile, Paternity and Identity in Henry V, Shakespeare's Sleeping Workers, and Comedy and the Erotics of the Grave in The Widow's Tears, a review article, and reviews of seventeen books of current interest...read more