Richard Schoch 
Short History of Shakespeare in Performance [PDF ebook] 
From the Restoration to the Twenty-First Century

Edmund Spenser famously conceded to his friend Walter Raleigh that his method in The Faerie Queene ‘will seeme displeasaunt’ to those who would ‘rather have good discipline delivered plainly in way …

In dialogue with groundbreaking technologies and scientific models, twentieth century fiction presents readers with a vast mosaic of perspectives on the cosmos. The literary imagination of the world …

Shedding fresh light on Wordsworth »s contested relationship with an England that changed dramatically over the course of his career, James Garrett places the poet »s lifelong attempt to control his …

The Spanish mystic Teresa of Avila (1515-82), author of one of the most acclaimed early modern autobiographies (Vida, 1565), has generated a wealth of literary, historical and theological studies, …

With his richly detailed world of Middle Earth and the epic tales he told around it, J.R.R. Tolkien invented the modern fantasy novel. For readers and students getting to grips with this world for …

This book studies how the rhetoric of travel introduces different conceptualizations of space and time in scenarios of war during the last decades of the 19th century, in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, …

From fantasy and sci-fi to graphic novels, from boy scouts to board games, from blockbuster films to the cult of theatre, Shakespeare is everywhere in popular culture. Where there is popular culture …

Coriolanus is the last and most intriguing of Shakespeare »s Roman tragedies. Critics, directors and actors have long been bewitched by this gripping character study of a warrior that Rome can …

Looks at the lives and politics of four of the key players in the independence and labour movements of the 19th century: Daniel O »Connell (1775-1847); Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-91); Michael Davi …

Following the publication of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, Victorian anthropology made two apparently contradictory claims: it distinguished ‘civilized man’ from animals and ‘primitive’ humans a …