Examines the painted body of the actor on the early modern stage Inventions of the Skin illuminates a history of the stage technology of paint that extends backward to the 1460s York cycle and forwa
The first sustained investigation of early modern women's friendship Penelope Anderson's original study changes our understanding both of the masculine Renaissance friendship tradition and of the priv
A critical reassessment of the concepts of the state and sovereignty in international relations theoryThe concept of the state plays a central role in international relations, particularly in realist
This book investigates rhetorical and representational practices that were used to monitor English law at the turn of the seventeenth century. The late-Elizabethan and early-Jacobean surge in the poli
In this compelling interdisciplinary study, William Weaver reclaims the symbolic significance of rhetoric in the foundational epyllia of Marlowe and Shakespeare and their earliest imitators. Untutored
Dale Shuger discovers an intimate connection between Cervantes's integration of the discourse of madness and his part in forging the new genre of the European novel. Drawing on insanity defence statem
The first sustained study of girls and girlhood in early modern literature and culture. Jennifer Higginbotham makes a persuasive case for a paradigm shift in our current conceptions of the early moder
James Kuzner's original new study of writing by Spenser, Shakespeare, Marvell, and Milton presents a geneaology for the modern self that understands its republican origins far more radically than prev
Theatrical Milton brings coherence to the presence of theatre in John Milton through the concept of theatricality. In this book, 'theatricality' identifies a discursive field entailing the rhetorical
This study argues that the political and legislative process of forgetting internal differences, undertaken in France after the civil wars of the sixteenth century, leads to subtle yet fundamental shi
Theatrical Milton brings coherence to the presence of theatre in John Milton through the concept of theatricality. In this book, 'theatricality' identifies a discursive field entailing the rhetorical
This study examines the structural similarities between English mercantile treatises and drama c1600-1642. Bradley D. Ryner analyses the representational conventions of plays and mercantile treatises
Early modern drama was in fundamental ways an aural art form. How plays should sound, and how they should be heard, were vital questions to the formal development of early modern drama. Ultimately, th
