The Life of William Shakespeare is a fascinating and wide-ranging exploration of
Shakespeare's life and works focusing on oftern neglected literary and historical contexts …

The seventeenth-century French diplomat François de Callières once wrote that" an
ambassador resembles in some way an actor exposed on the stage to the eyes of the public …

I would like to thank Robert Eaglestone, for his help and advice; Kiernan Ryan, my mentor,
for his continued support; my friends who read drafts of chapters and sent me some useful …

The dazzling new biography of one of history's most misunderstood queens Elizabeth Stuart
is one the most misrepresented-and underestimated-figures of the seventeenth century …

This is the first scholarly study devoted to Shakespeare's girl characters and conceptions of
girlhood. It charts the development of Shakespeare's treatment of the girl as a dramatic and …

This volume examines early modern representations of women's reproductive knowledge
through new readings of plays, monstrous birth pamphlets, medical treatises, court records …

Shakespeare's Legal Ecologies offers the first sustained examination of the relationship
between law and selfhood in Shakespeare's work. Curran argues that law provided …

Phenomenology is the science of appearances. 1 The appearance, howe of what? On the
one hand, phenomenology attends to how the world things manifests itself in a single flow of …

While there is no shortage of studies addressing the state's regulation of the sexual,
research into the ways in which the sexual governs the state and its attributes is still in its …

Costume design can be a site of experimentation, playfulness and transgression in the
theatre; it can also follow convention and reiterate cliché. Theatrical costume can trap the …