Laurie Johnson 
Leicester’s Men and their Plays [PDF ebook] 
An Early Elizabethan Playing Company and its Legacy

Roland Barthes’s 1967 essay, ‘The Death of the Author, ‘ argues against the traditional practice of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author into textual interpretation beca …

Romantic Border Crossings participates in the important movement towards ”otherness” in Romanticism, by uncovering the intellectual and disciplinary anxieties that surround comparative studies of B …

Using the example of The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter to explore the impact of new media and technologies on how children learn about stories and reading, this book investigates nearly 100 …

‘If the past is indeed a foreign country, then how can we make sense of its richness and difference, without approaching it on our terms alone? ”Pre-histories” and ”afterlives”, methods that have …

Saints are currently undergoing a resurrection in middle grade and young adult fiction, as recent prominent novels by Socorro Acioli, Julie Berry, Adam Gidwitz, Rachel Hartman, Merrie Haskell, Gene L …

Doctor Faustus, is Christopher Marlowe”s most popular play and is often seen as one of the overwhelming triumphs of the English Renaissance. It has had a rich and varied critical history often arous …

Women”s Experimental Writing considers six contemporary authors who use experimental methods and negative modes of critique in their fiction and feminism. The authors covered are Valerie Solanas, Ka …

Crime Fiction provides a lively introduction to what is both a wide-ranging and hugely popular literary genre. Using examples from a variety of novels, short stories, films and televisions series, Jo …

This book tells the forgotten story of the Shakespeare Hut, a vast, mock-Tudor building for New Zealand Anzac soldiers visiting London on leave from the front lines. Constructed in Bloomsbury in 1916 …

Contemporary Native Fiction: Toward a Narrative Poetics of Survivance analyzes paradigmatic works of contemporary Native American/First Nations literary fiction using the tools of narrative theory. E …