This is a collection of Joyce's non-fictional writing, including newspaper articles, reviews, lectures and essays. It covers 40 years of Joyce's life and maps important changes in his political and literary opinions.

After an extensive introduction that takes stock of the relevant research literature on Old Age in the Middle Ages and the early modern age, the contributors discuss the phenomenon of old age in many different fields of late antique, ...

His letters offer unique insight into the ideals and values of the monastic world at a critical turning point for western religion. This is the first translation of his correspondence and the first complete modern edition.

Presents a study of political theater in the English Renaissance, discussing the differences between a public playhouse and a private, or court theater, and looking at masques and the role of king in the Renaissance court.

Shakespeare After Theory provocatively argues that he is not, but what value he has for us must at least begin with a recognition of his distance from us.

Shakespeare and Historical Formalism is the first volume devoted exclusively to collecting and assessing work of this kind.

Analyses the different ways in which historians over the last three centuries have tried to explain the causes, course and consequences of the English Revolution

This collection of essays seeks to shed light on the politics of those people who are normally thought of as being excluded from the political nation in early modern England.