(Paperback)

Examines the political rhetoric of Mary I, Elizabeth and James, reported gallows confessions of mother convicts and the increasingly popular Puritan conduct books

(Hardback)

Studies the mother figure in English drama from the mid-sixteenth to the early seventeenth centuries. This book explores a range of genres from popular mystery and moral plays to drama written for the court and universities and for the commercial theatres, including history plays, comedies, tragedies, romances and melodrama.