Gordon Daviot 
Leith Sands and Other Short Plays [EPUB ebook] 

This book explores a neglected feature of intellectual history and literature in the early modern period: the ways in which the body was theorized and represented as an intelligent cognitive agent, w …

Othello“s Secret uncovers the relationship between the play and the conflicts that have torn apart its Cypriot setting, providing a new and powerfully political reading. Exploring the domestic and m …

Green in early modern England did not mean what it does today; but what did it mean? Unveiling various versions and interpretations of green, this book offers a cultural history of a color that illum …

This edition contains two of Frances Burney“s comedies: The Witlings, (1778-80) which satirizes the bluestockings; and The Woman Hater (1800-02), which explores social pretension and gender conflict …

This book seeks to invert Ben Jonson“s claim that Shakespeare had “small Latin and less Greek“ and to prove that, in fact, there is more Greek and less Latin in a significant group of Shakespeare‘ …

Touching on the work of philosophers including Richardson, Kant, Hume, Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, and Dewey, this study examines the history of what philosophers have had to say about ‚Shakespeare‘ as …

First published in 2002. This is the Volume III of the five G. Wilson Knight collected works series and focuses on Shakespeare’s tragic heroes for his early to later tragedies or Timon of Athens, Ant …

A knowledge of the history and evolution of the tales on which Shakespeare drew in the composition of his plays is essential for the understanding of his work. In re-telling a particular story, a Ren …

The Shakespearean Originals Series takes as its point of departure the question: ‚What is it that we read Shakespeare?‘ The answer may seem self-evident: we read the words that Shakespeare wrote. But …

An investigation into modes of early modern English literary “indirection, “ this study could also be considered a detective work on a pseudonym attached to some late sixteenth-century works. In th …