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The Politics of Performance in Early Renaissance Drama
Cambridge University Press 1998; US$ 46.00Analyses the role of drama in English and Scottish court politics during the sixteenth century. more...
The Private Life of Henry VIII
I.B.Tauris 2003; US$ 24.00Alexander Korda's masterpiece "The Private Life of Henry VIII" was arguably the most important British film of the pre-war period and a phenomenal, critical and box-office success. Greg Walker's accessible and thoroughly researched book examines the film itself, its makers and its place in the cinematic and cultural history of the... more...
Writing Under Tyranny
OUP Oxford 2005; US$ 54.99Writing Under Tyranny: English Literature and the Henrician Reformation spans the boundaries between literary studies and history. It looks at the impact of tyrannical government on the work of poets, playwrights, and prose writers of the early English Renaissance. It shows the profound effects that political oppression had on the literary production... more...
Reading Literature Historically
Edinburgh University Press 2013; US$ 112.00Pioneer of early-modern literary historicism reads Medieval & early Tudor drama & poetry historically. How far should we try to read medieval and early modern texts historically? Does the attempt to uncover how such texts might have been received by their original readers and audiences uncover new, hitherto unexpected contemporary resonances in them?... more...
The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English
OUP Oxford 2010; US$ 149.99The study of medieval literature has experienced a revolution in the last two decades, which has reinvigorated many parts of the discipline and changed the shape of the subject in relation to the scholarship of the previous generation. 'New' texts (laws and penitentials, women's writing, drama records), innovative fields and objects of... more...
The Rough Guide to Provence & the Côte d'Azur
Rough Guides Ltd 2010; Not AvailableThe Rough Guide to Provence & The C?te d'Azur is the ideal travel guide to this magical region of southern France. It provides full practical details, with up-to-the-minute listings of hotels, restaurants, bars and clubs, for fascinating towns such as Roman Arles, medieval Avignon, and laidback Aix; the vibrant cosmopolitan port of Marseilles; dynamic... more...
The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Drama
OUP Oxford 2012; US$ 149.99The Oxford Handbook to Tudor Drama is the authoritative secondary text on Tudor drama. It both integrates recent important research across different disciplines and periods and sets a new agenda for the future study of Tudor drama, questioning a number of the central assumptions of previous studies. Balancing the interests and concerns of scholars... more...
Sports Fans, Identity, and Socialization
Lexington Books 2011; US$ 43.99Once deemed an unworthy research endeavor, the study of sports fandom has garnered the attention of seasoned scholars from a variety of academic disciplines. Identity and socialization among sports fans are particular burgeoning areas of study among a growing cadre of specialists in the social sciences. Sports Fans, Identity, and Socialization... more...
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