Book Series in Literature

Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

New & Published Titles:

Representing the Plague in Early Modern England

Edited by Rebecca Totaro, Ernest B. Gilman

This collection offers readers a timely encounter with the historical experience of people adapting to a pandemic emergency and the corresponding narrative representation of that…

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June 2010 | Hardback: 978-0-415-87797-8 (Routledge)

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Prophecy and Sibylline Imagery in the Renaissance

Shakespeare’s Sibyls

By Jessica L. Malay

This book restores the rich tradition of the Sibyls to the position of prominence they once held in the culture and society of the English…

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April 2010 | Hardback: 978-0-415-87792-3 (Routledge)

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Staging Early Modern Romance

Prose Fiction, Dramatic Romance, and Shakespeare

Edited by Mary Ellen Lamb, Valerie Wayne

This collection recovers the continuities between three forms of romance that have often been separated from one another in critical discourse: early modern prose fiction,…

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January 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-87938-5 (Routledge)

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Making Publics in Early Modern Europe

People, Things, Forms of Knowledge

Edited by Bronwen Wilson, Paul Yachnin

The book looks at how people, things, and new forms of knowledge created "publics" in early modern Europe, and how publics changed the shape of…

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2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-80589-6 (Routledge)

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The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe

Edited by Andrea Brady, Emily Butterworth

Is modernity synonymous with progress? Did the Renaissance really break with the cyclical, agrarian time of the Middle Ages, inaugurating a new concept of irreversible…

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2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-99540-5 (Routledge)

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Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage

By Ayanna Thompson

Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage provides the first sustained reading of Restoration plays through a performance theory lens. This approach shows…

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2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-87568-4 (Routledge)

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The Popular Culture of Shakespeare, Spenser and Jonson

By Mary Ellen Lamb

Breaking new ground by considering productions of popular culture from above, rather than from below, this book draws on theorists of cultural studies, such as…

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2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-47743-7 (Routledge)

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Stillness in Motion in the Seventeenth-Century Theatre

By P.A. Skantze

Stillness in Motion in the Seventeenth Century Theatre provides a comprehensive examination of this aesthetic theory. The author investigates this aesthetic history as a form…

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2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46013-2 (Routledge)

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Women, Murder, and Equity in Early Modern England

By Randall Martin

This book presents the first comprehensive study of over 120 printed news reports of murders and infanticides committed by early modern women. It offers an…

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2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96115-8 (Routledge)

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Reading the Early Modern Dream

The Terrors of the Night

Edited by Sue Wiseman, Katharine Hodgkin, Michelle O'Callaghan

Dreams have been significant in many different cultures, carrying messages about this world and others, posing problems about knowledge, truth, and what it means to…

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2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-38601-2 (Routledge)

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Forthcoming Titles:

Moral Play and Counterpublic
By Ineke Murakami
To be published January 31st 2011

Shakespeare, Jonson, and the Claims of the Performative
By James Loxley, Mark Robson
To be published December 1st 2010

Ecocriticism and Early Modern English Literature: Green Pastures
By Todd A. Borlik
To be published October 29th 2010