This edited collection of essays, part of The Manchester Spenser series, brings together leading Spenser and Donne scholars to challenge the traditionally dicho

First published in 1971. This collection of essays discusses some of the central works and areas of literature in the Renaissance period of cultural history. Co

"Death, light, figuration and, especially, analogical expressions of figuration, are the primary subjects of this book. They generate associated interests: the

William Shakespeare’s The Rape of Lucrece and John Donne’s Holy Sonnets are read against the background of concepts of the soul during the early modern peri

Becoming a father was the main way that an individual in the English Renaissance could be treated as a full member of the community. Yet patriarchal identity wa