8 Citations
Half-Persuaded Converts and Partial Turns in Fletcher's The Island Princess
- HistoryJournal for Early Modern Cultural Studies
- 2021
Abstract:In the final act of John Fletcher's The Island Princess (c. 1619–21), the heroine Quisara takes on a familiar role: the non-Christian, foreign woman converted by her love of a Christian man.…
VII Shakespeare
- ArtThe Year's Work in English Studies
- 2019
This chapter has four sections: 1. Editions and Textual Studies; 2. Shakespeare in the Theatre; 3. Shakespeare on Screen; 4. Criticism. Section 1 is by Jennifer Young; section 2 is by Peter J.…
VI The Sixteenth Century: Excluding Drama after 1550
- Economics, HistoryThe Year's Work in English Studies
- 2019
This chapter has three sections: 1. General; 2. Sidney; 3. Spenser. Section 1 is by Harriet Archer; sections 2 and 3 are by Richard Wood.
A Cultural Median: One Thousand Nights and a Night before 1700
- Art, History
- 2018
With tales that date as far back as the ninth century, One Thousand Nights and a Night is one of the earliest seminal texts to first expose the West to Eastern life and culture. Following their…
Recent Studies in the English Renaissance
- Economics
- 2018
Abstract:An assessment of recent scholarly work treating the literature of the English Renaissance and some general observations on the state of the profession. A full bibliography and price list of…
Whither the Empire in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries? Taking Stock of a Vibrant Field in English and American S
- History, Economics
- 2017
With the advent of globalisation at the end of the twentieth century, and a rising consciousness of the long-lasting consequences of European imperial colonizations in the nineteenth and twentieth…