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.
Reading the Early Modern Dream: The Terrors of the Night
1st Edition
Edited
By Sue Wiseman, Katharine Hodgkin, Michelle O'Callaghan
September 11, 2014
Dreams have been significant in many different cultures, carrying messages about this world and others, posing problems about knowledge, truth, and what it means to be human. This thought-provoking collection of essays explores dreams and visions in early modern Europe, canvassing the place of the ...
Forgetting in Early Modern English Literature and Culture: Lethe's Legacy
1st Edition
Edited
By Christopher Ivic, Grant Williams
April 09, 2014
This collection of essays historicizes and theorizes forgetting in English Renaissance literary texts and their cultural contexts. Its essays open up an area of study overlooked by contemporary Renaissance scholarship, which is too often swayed by a critical paradigm devoted to the "art of memory."...
Luce Irigaray and Premodern Culture: Thresholds of History
1st Edition
Edited
By Elizabeth D. Harvey, Theresa Krier
April 09, 2014
The essays in this groundbreaking collection stage conversations between the thought of the controversial feminist philosopher, linguist and psychoanalyst Luce Irigaray and premodern writers, ranging from Empedocles and Homer, to Shakespeare, Spenser and Donne. They explore both the ...
Women, Murder, and Equity in Early Modern England
1st Edition
By Randall Martin
October 10, 2012
This book presents the first comprehensive study of over 120 printed news reports of murders and infanticides committed by early modern women. It offers an interdisciplinary analysis of female homicide in post-Reformation news formats ranging from ballads to newspapers. Individual cases are ...
Ecocriticism and Early Modern English Literature: Green Pastures
1st Edition
By Todd A. Borlik
May 30, 2012
In this timely new study, Todd A. Borlik reveals the surprisingly rich potential for the emergent "green" criticism to yield fresh insights into early modern English literature. Deftly avoiding the anachronistic casting of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century authors as modern environmentalists, he ...
Representing the Plague in Early Modern England
1st Edition
Edited
By Rebecca Totaro, Ernest B. Gilman
April 20, 2012
This collection offers readers a timely encounter with the historical experience of people adapting to a pandemic emergency and the corresponding narrative representation of that crisis, as early modern writers transformed the plague into literature. The essays examine the impact of the plague on ...
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
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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 ...
Dramatists and their Manuscripts in the Age of Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton and Heywood: Authorship, Authority and the Playhouse
1st Edition
By Grace Ioppolo
May 28, 2008
This book presents new evidence about the ways in which English Renaissance dramatists such as William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Thomas Heywood, John Fletcher and Thomas Middleton composed their plays and the degree to which they participated in the dissemination of their texts to theatrical ...