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1. Women, Murder, and Equity in Early Modern England

   By Randall Martin

   Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

   This book presents the first comprehensive study of over 120 printed news reports of murders and infanticides committed by early modern women. It offers an interdisciplinary analysis of female homicide in post-Reformation news formats ranging from ballads to newspapers. Individual cases are...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. Representing the Plague in Early Modern England

   Edited by Rebecca Totaro, Ernest B. Gilman

   Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

   This collection offers readers a timely encounter with the historical experience of people adapting to a pandemic emergency and the corresponding narrative representation of that crisis, as early modern writers transformed the plague into literature. The essays examine the impact of the plague on...

   Published April 19th 2012 by Routledge
3. Family and the State in Early Modern Revenge Drama

   Economies of Vengeance

   By Chris McMahon

   Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

   In this book, McMahon considers Early Modern revenge plays from a political science perspective, paying particular attention to the construction of family and state institutions. Plays set for close study are The Spanish Tragedy, Hamlet, The Revenger’s Tragedy, The Malcontent and The Duchess of...

   Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
4. Fictions of Old Age in Early Modern Literature and Culture

   By Nina Taunton

   Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

   Fiction of Old Age in Early Modern Literature and Culture is a new and timely exploration of the issues and circumstances at work in representations of old age in the early modern period. It deals with both factual and literary material drawn from a range of genres as a means of rounding out...

   Published August 14th 2011 by Routledge
5. Making Publics in Early Modern Europe

   People, Things, Forms of Knowledge

   Edited by Bronwen Wilson, Paul Yachnin

   Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

   The book looks at how people, things, and new forms of knowledge created "publics" in early modern Europe, and how publics changed the shape of early modern society. The focus is on what the authors call "making publics" — the active creation of new forms of association that allowed people to...

   Published May 15th 2011 by Routledge
6. Narrative Developments from Chaucer to Defoe

   Edited by Gerd Bayer, Ebbe Klitgard

   Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

   This collection analyzes how narrative technique developed from the late Middle Ages to the beginning of the 18th century. Taking Chaucer’s influential Middle English works as the starting point, the original essays in this volume explore diverse aspects of the formation of early modern prose...

   Published February 21st 2011 by Routledge
7. Moral Play and Counterpublic

   By Ineke Murakami

   Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

   In this study, Murakami overturns the misconception that popular English morality plays were simple medieval vehicles for disseminating conservative religious doctrine. On the contrary, Murakami finds that moral drama came into its own in the sixteenth century as a method for challenging normative...

   Published February 6th 2011 by Routledge
8. Ecocriticism and Early Modern English Literature

   Green Pastures

   By Todd A. Borlik

   Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

   In this timely new study, Todd A. Borlik reveals the surprisingly rich potential for the emergent "green" criticism to yield fresh insights into early modern English literature. Deftly avoiding the anachronistic casting of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century authors as modern environmentalists, he...

   Published November 1st 2010 by Routledge
9. Prophecy and Sibylline Imagery in the Renaissance

   Shakespeare’s Sibyls

   By Jessica L. Malay

   Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

   This book restores the rich tradition of the Sibyls to the position of prominence they once held in the culture and society of the English Renaissance. The sibyls — figures from classical antiquity — played important roles in literature, scholarship and art of the period, exerting a powerful...

   Published April 6th 2010 by Routledge
10. Staging Early Modern Romance

    Prose Fiction, Dramatic Romance, and Shakespeare

    Edited by Mary Ellen Lamb, Valerie Wayne

    Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

    This collection recovers the continuities between three forms of romance that have often been separated from one another in critical discourse: early modern prose fiction, the dramatic romances staged in England during the 1570s and 1580s, and Shakespeare’s late plays. Although Pericles, Cymbeline,...

    Published January 25th 2010 by Routledge