Author: Benedict S. Robinson

”Conversation is the beginning and end of knowledge”, wrote Stephano Guazzo in his Civil Conversation. Like Guazzo”s, this is a book dedicated to the Renaissance concept of conversation, a concept …

”Conversation is the beginning and end of knowledge”, wrote Stephano Guazzo in his Civil Conversation. Like Guazzo”s, this is a book dedicated to the Renaissance concept of conversation, a concept …

This book traces the process through which authors like Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton adapted, rewrote, or resisted romance, mapping a world in which new cross-cultural contacts and religious …

Passion’s Fictions traces the intimate links between literature and the sciences of mind and soul from the age of Shakespeare to the rise of the novel. It chronicles the emergence of new sciences of …

Passion’s Fictions traces the intimate links between literature and the sciences of mind and soul from the age of Shakespeare to the rise of the novel. It chronicles the emergence of new sciences of …

Adultery, intrigue, murder, revenge: the densely-packed plot of The White Devil touches on topics that are representative of the atmosphere of Jacobean tragedy. Part tragedy, part satire of a corrupt …

Adultery, intrigue, murder, revenge: the densely-packed plot of The White Devil touches on topics that are representative of the atmosphere of Jacobean tragedy. Part tragedy, part satire of a corrupt …