Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
About the Book Series
From Shakespeare to Jonson, Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture looks at both the literature and culture of the early modern period. This series is our home for cutting-edge, upper-level scholarly studies and edited collections. Considering literature alongside theatre, popular culture, race, gender, ecology, space, and other subjects, titles are characterized by dynamic interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics.
Fictions of Old Age in Early Modern Literature and Culture
1st Edition
By Nina Taunton
August 15, 2011
Fiction of Old Age in Early Modern Literature and Culture is a new and timely exploration of the issues and circumstances at work in representations of old age in the early modern period. It deals with both factual and literary material drawn from a range of genres as a means of rounding out ...
Making Publics in Early Modern Europe: People, Things, Forms of Knowledge
1st Edition
Edited
By Bronwen Wilson, Paul Yachnin
May 16, 2011
The book looks at how people, things, and new forms of knowledge created "publics" in early modern Europe, and how publics changed the shape of early modern society. The focus is on what the authors call "making publics" — the active creation of new forms of association that allowed people to ...
Staging Early Modern Romance: Prose Fiction, Dramatic Romance, and Shakespeare
1st Edition
Edited
By Mary Ellen Lamb, Valerie Wayne
January 26, 2010
This collection recovers the continuities between three forms of romance that have often been separated from one another in critical discourse: early modern prose fiction, the dramatic romances staged in England during the 1570s and 1580s, and Shakespeare’s late plays. Although Pericles, Cymbeline,...
Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage
1st Edition
By Ayanna Thompson
January 10, 2009
Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage provides the first sustained reading of Restoration plays through a performance theory lens. This approach shows that an analysis of the conjoined performances of torture and race not only reveals the early modern interest in the nature of ...
The Popular Culture of Shakespeare, Spenser and Jonson
1st Edition
By Mary Ellen Lamb
June 15, 2008
Breaking new ground by considering productions of popular culture from above, rather than from below, this book draws on theorists of cultural studies, such as Pierre Bourdieu, Roger Chartier and John Fiske to synthesize work from disparate fields and present new readings of well-known literary ...
Stillness in Motion in the Seventeenth-Century Theatre
1st Edition
By P.A. Skantze
December 30, 2007
Stillness in Motion in the Seventeenth Century Theatre provides a comprehensive examination of this aesthetic theory. The author investigates this aesthetic history as a form of artistic creation, philosophical investigation, a way of representing and manipulating ideas about gender and a way of ...