Pengarang: Andrew Zurcher

Edmund Spenser, Selected Letters and Other Papers provides the first published text of the diplomatic and personal papers written, copied, and handled by Spenser during his years of secretarial servi …

Introduces a Renaissance masterpiece to a modern audience.This Guide will help new readers to understand and enjoy The Faerie Queene, drawing attention to its various ironies, its self-reflexive cons …

Introduces a Renaissance masterpiece to a modern audience.This Guide will help new readers to understand and enjoy The Faerie Queene, drawing attention to its various ironies, its self-reflexive cons …

Twelve Nights is the perfect fantasy novel for fans of the magical worlds of Philip Pullman and Terry Pratchett. **********Kay felt everything change in the room around her. Everything. Kay’s father …

Readers of Shakespeare”s language, from the playhouse to the classroom, have long been aware of his peculiar interest in legal words and concepts – Richard II”s two bodies, Hamlet”s quiddities and …

Fitz thinks he is an ordinary eleven-year-old and loves to turn simple things into mini-adventures, like sneaking next door and filching books from Mr Ahmadi’s vast library of mysterious tomes, and g …

Ralph Knevet’s Supplement of the Faery Queene (1635) is a narrative and allegorical work, which weaves together a complex collection of tales and episodes, featuring knights, ladies, sorcerers, monst …

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Considerations of writing about war, in war, because of war, and against war, in a wide range of texts from the middle ages onwards. War was the first subject of literature; at times, war has been it …

Highlights Spenser’s use of legal thought and language, resulting in new insights into his work. Both English language and English political life underwent unprecedented change in the sixteenth centu …