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A Christopher Marlowe Chronology
Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 115.00This new Chronology offers a unique and accessible overview of key dates relevant to Christopher Marlowe's life and works, and enables readers to navigate their way through the various pieces of evidence for the hotly contested dating of his plays and poems. Since Marlowe's plays often focus on real historical figures, details of their lives are also... more...
The Female Hero in English Renaissance Tragedy
Palgrave Macmillan 2002; US$ 155.00This book focuses on female tragic heroes in England from c.1610 to c.1645. Their sudden appearance can be linked to changing ideas about the relationships between bodies and souls; men's bodies and women's; marriage and mothering; the law; and religion. Though the vast majority of these characters are closer to villainesses than heroines, these plays,... more...
Christopher Marlowe, Renaissance Dramatist
Edinburgh University Press 2008; US$ 99.99This book offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to all of the plays of Christopher Marlowe. Marlowe is a playwright whose work taps into the central concerns of his age, many of which are still important to us - religious uncertainty, the clash between Islam and Christianity, the discovery of America, ideas of sexuality and gender identity,... more...
Shakespeare on the Edge
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2007; US$ 110.00England's land borders with Scotland and Wales, together with the narrow channels separating the British mainland from Ireland and the Continent, were the focus of acute, if intermittent, unease during the early modern period. This book analyses works by not only Shakespeare but also his contemporaries to argue that many of the plays of Shakespeare's... more...
The Cultural Uses of the Caesars on the English Renaissance Stage
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2008; US$ 99.95Caesarian power was a crucial context in the Renaissance, as rulers in Europe, Russia and Turkey all sought to appropriate Caesarian imagery and authority, but it has been surprisingly little explored in scholarship. Analyzing plays by Shakespeare as well as other early modern dramatists, Lisa Hopkins explores the way in which the stories of the Caesars... more...
Tis Pity She's A Whore
Continuum International Publishing 2009; US$ 90.00John Ford's tragedy 'Tis Pity She's A Whore was first performed between 1629 and 1633 and since then its themes of incest, love versus duty and forbidden passion have made it a widely studied and performed, if controversial, play. This guide offers students an introduction to its critical and performance history, including TV and film adaptations.... more...
Drama and the Succession to the Crown, 1561-1633
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 99.95Hopkins argues the succession to the throne was a burning topic not only in the final years of Elizabeth but well into the 1630s, and drama, with its disguised identities and oblique relationship to reality, was a safe way to air it. Hopkins analyzes some of the ways in which plays-from Marlowe's and Shakespeare's to Webster's and Ford's-reflect,... more...
Screen Adaptations: The Tempest
A&C Black 2008; US$ 16.89Literature and film studies students will find plenty of materialto support their courses and essay writing on how the film versionsprovide different readings of the original text.Focussing on numerous film versions, from Percy Stow's 1908 adaptation to Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books,the book discusses: the literary text in its historical... more...
The Shakespearean Marriage
Palgrave Macmillan 1997; US$ 195.00Marriage features to a greater or lesser extent in virtually every play Shakespeare wrote - as the festive end of comedy, as the link across the cycles of the history plays, as a marker of the difference between his own society and that depicted in the Roman plays, and, all too often, as the starting-point for the tragedies. Situating his representations... more...
Bram Stoker
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 90.00This book charts the major events of Stoker's life, including friendships with many of the major figures of the age and as manager of Henry Irving's Lyceum, with his literary career. It offers critical evaluation of Dracula and of Stoker's lesser-known works, yielding much interest when reinserted into their original cultural contexts. more...









