Broadening the notion of censorship, this volume explores the transformative role played by early modern censors in the fashioning of a distinct English literat

This book addresses the concept of ‘disaster’ through a variety of literary texts dating back to the early modern period. While Shakespeare’s age, which w

This volume updates current assumptions about the early modern English sonnet and its reception and inclusion in poetic collections. It deals both with major (S

Censorship profoundly affected early modern writing. Censorship and Conflict in Seventeenth-Century England offers a detailed picture of early modern censorship

Dryden at the end of his life was admired, perhaps even beloved, by many in England, and his greatest skill over his long career—his controlled detachment—u