New Interdisciplinary Approaches to Early Modern Culture: Confluences and Contexts
About the Book Series
This interdisciplinary series publishes manuscripts from a wide range of fields, including but not limited to literature, history, art history, musicology, philosophy, religion and political science, in order to cultivate a truly multifaceted understanding of the early modern period. This series offers innovative scholarship that models interdisciplinary methodologies to emerging scholars and students and publishes books that show how paradigm shifts in knowledge happen when disciplines cross-fertilize and share the fruits of their labor.
Women Talk Back to Shakespeare: Contemporary Adaptations and Appropriations
1st Edition
By Jo Eldridge Carney
October 28, 2021
This study explores more recent adaptations published in the last decade whereby women—either authors or their characters—talk back to Shakespeare in a variety of new ways. "Talking back to Shakespeare", a term common in intertextual discourse, is not a new phenomenon, particularly in literature. ...
Kingship, Madness, and Masculinity on the Early Modern Stage: Mad World, Mad Kings
1st Edition
Edited
By Christina Gutierrez-Dennehy
September 30, 2021
Kingship, Madness, and Masculinity examines representations of mad kings in early modern English theatrical texts and performance practices. Although there have been numerous volumes examining the medical and social dimensions of mental illness in the early modern period, and a few that have ...