Positioned in terms of contemporary critical and historical theory, rich in historical details, and challenging in its implications, Politics, Plague, and Shakespeare's Theatre will be read with interest by scholars and students of ...

With sections on England at the Margins, Researching the Renaissance, The Human Figure on the Stage, and Artificial Persons, the collection makes interventions in historiography as well as history, literary interpretation, and also literary ...

But Leeds Barroll makes a well-documented case that it was Anna who, for her own purposes, developed an alternative court and sponsored many of the artistic ventures in one of the most productive and innovative periods of English cultural ...

By showing us how Shakespeare's contemporaries were likely to "read" the presentation of human nature, which they saw as inherently self-deceiving, this critical inquiry enables us to unravel the complexities of Shakespeare's ...