This book argues that the idea of a universal human nature was as important to Shakespeare as it ...

Reviews Shakespeare's view of masculinity through The Tempest, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth and others.

Human Nature: Fact and Fiction brings together a collection of inspiring, thought-provoking and o...

Shakespeares Humanism analyses a number of key Shakespeare plays, as well as works by Shakespeare...

For nearly two decades, Renaissance literary scholarship has been dominated by various forms of p...

For lovers of music and poetry the legendary figure of Orpheus probably suggests a romantic ideal...

Shakespeare's Politics is an invaluable introduction to the political world of Shakespeare's play...

Masculinity was a political issue in early modern England. Phrases such as 'courage-masculine' or...

Human Nature: Fact and Fiction brings together a collection of inspiring, thought-provoking and o...

Robin Headlam Wells re-examines the myth, central to the Orpheus story, of the civilising power o...

First published in 1983, Spenser's Faerie Queene and the Cult of Elizabeth presents The Faerie Qu...