Shakespeare, the Renaissance and Empire presents Shakespeare as both a local and global writer, investigating Shakespeare’s trans-cultural writing through the

Shakespeare, the Renaissance and Empire: Poetry, Philosophy and Politics is the second volume of this study and builds on the first, which concentrated on relat

Contributors to this collection delve into the relationship between Rome and Shakespeare. They view the presence of Rome in Shakespeare's plays not simply as an

This book, original in emphasis, daring in execution, maps out the shaping power of English Renaissance literature in creating and contesting national and colon

Early modern literature played a key role in the formation of the legal justification for imperialism. As the English colonial enterprise developed, the existin