Through detailed readings of six canonical Renaissance works, this book shows the unique ability of literary criticism to describe class.

Why study Renaissance literature? Reading Class through Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton examines six canonical Renaissance works to show that reading literature

Shakespeare Studies is an annual volume containing essays and studies by critics and cultural historians from around the world. This issue features a forum on t

The Masculinites of John Milton is the first published monograph on Milton's men. Examining how Milton's fantasies of manly authority are framed in his major wo

John Donne has been one of the most controversial poets in the history of English literature, his complexity and intellectualism provoking both praise and censu