"Everything you need to know about the cultural contexts of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'. Is this just a light-hearted romp or is Shakespeare trying to make serious points about courtship, love, marria
Everything you need to know about the cultural contexts of 'Volpone'. The unremitting exposure of human vileness is black and bleak, redeemed perhaps by the eventual punishment of the wrongdoers in an
This engaging book provides in-depth discussion of the various influences that an audience in 1606 would have brought to interpreting ‘King Lear’. How did people think about the world, about God, abou
This engaging book provides detailed in-depth discussion of the various influences that an audience in 1611 would have brought to interpreting ‘The Tempest’. How did people think about the world, abou
This engaging book provides in-depth discussion of the various influences that an audience in 1607 would have brought to interpreting ‘Antony and Cleopatra’. How did people think about the world, abou
For more than forty years Linley Sambourne was a draftsman for the comic magazine Punch, rising to the position of ‘First Cartoonist’ in his final decade and thereby a significant contributor to late
Editors Colette Colligan and Margaret Linley (both: English and print culture, Simon Fraser U., Canada) provide an introductory essay in which they explain the scope of the volume and state: "Our brin
