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This collection offers a groundbreaking study of Thomas Heywoods fascinatingly individual engagement with the classics across his writing career. It considers the wide diversity of genres to which he contributed, including dramas, translations, compendia, and iconographical designs, and attends to the shaping role of classics in his authorial self-fashioning and idiosyncratic aesthetic.

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This, the first modern critical study of a lyricist, humorist and social protest poet who was a household name throughout the Victorian period, explores the relationship between Thomas Hood's playfulness, his liberal politics, and contemporary cultural debate about labour and recreation, literary materiality and urban consumption. -- .

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This is the first biography of Thomas Harris: confidant of George III, 'spin doctor', philanthropist, sexual suspect, brothel owner, and the man who controlled Covent Garden theatre for nearly five decades. -- .

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Presents an account of the various editions of "Utopia", whether vernacular or Latin, printed before 1650, together with a transcription of the prefatory materials they contain. This book is suitable for specialists in early modern cultural history and history of the book, and to graduate students working in these fields.

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Thomas Nashe is typically regarded as an urban author and a University wit, but his writings are inflected and shaped by regional travel, non-literary, non-elite works, and oral culture. The essays in this collection address Nashes use of the past, his engagement with the Elizabethan present, and his textual legacy.

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Examines an anonymous manuscript play that has long been the subject of scholarly dispute regarding its relationship with Shakespeare's "Richard II". This title situates the play within its historical and political context, relating it to the genre of chronicle drama to which it belongs.

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A comprehensive study of the most influential figure in postwar American literature, Thomas Pynchon -- .

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A comprehensive study of the most influential figure in postwar American literature, Thomas Pynchon -- .

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Traces the genesis of Israeli policies and tactics of population management, surveillance and political control towards the Palestinians -- .

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Traces the genesis of Israeli policies and tactics of population management, surveillance and political control towards the Palestinians -- .

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Threads of globalization is an interdisciplinary volume that brings fashion-specific garments, motifs, materials, and methods of productioninto dialogue with gender and identity in various cultures throughout Asia during the long twentieth century.

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For Jacobean society, witchcraft was a potent force, an area of controversy in which King James 1 participated and a phenomenon that attracted many dramatists and writers. The three plays in this book "Sophonisba", "The Witch" and "The Witch of Edmonton" reflect the variety of beliefs in witches and practice of witchcraft in the Jacobean period.

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This volume brings together three plays that convey the fascination in early 17th century England with travel and exploration. They are all dramas of adventure and they explore the diversity of responses in the period to the lures of tourism and colonial expansion and to challenges posed by the encounter with exotic places and peoples.

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Binds cupid, metamorphoses, harmony, the body politic and an exploration of love, lust, chastity, food and anatomy.

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This volume brings together three late sixteenth-century popular stage romances of travel and conquest in the Muslim East. The plays are introduced, contextualised and edited for the first time in a modern-spelling edition. -- .

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A groundbreaking edition of three seventeenth-century plays that all engage in diverse and exciting ways with questions of gender and performance. The plays are John Fletcher's 'The Wild-Goose Chase', James Shirley's 'The Bird in a Cage' and Margaret Cavendish's 'The Convent of Pleasure'. -- .

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Three sixteenth century dietaries makes a significant contribution to our understanding of early modern culture. It provides the first modern edition of three of the most important dietaries of the time - with the texts offering advice on the best ways to maintain well-being. -- .

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Three sixteenth century dietaries makes a significant contribution to our understanding of early modern culture. It provides the first modern edition of three of the most important dietaries of the time - with the texts offering advice on the best ways to maintain well-being. -- .

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This interdisciplinary study of the modern formation of concepts of public decency in France proceeds through a focus on the word pudeur (modesty), following its incidence across a wide range of cultural domains. -- .

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On the basis of a body of reggae songs from the 1970s and late 1990s, the author offers a sociological analysis of memory, hope and redemption in reggae music. -- .

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How does our perception of time shape our political ideas and commitments This cutting-edge monograph makes a major contribution to the history of time by exploring how thinkers and activists of the French radical left and right conceived of the past, present and future in the period between the Dreyfus Affair and the First World War.

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Takes the reader on a study of one of the greatest television programmes of all time: "Doctor Who." This title explores the Doctor's adventures in various manifestations: on television, audio, in print and beyond.