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Plato’s Natural Philosophy
Plato’s dialogue the Timaeus-Critias presents two connected accounts, that of the story of Atlantis and its defeat by ancient Athens and that of...
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Literature, Technology, and Modernity, 1860–2000
Industrial modernity takes it as self-evident that there is a difference between people and machines, but the corollary of this has been a recurring...
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Playgoing in Shakespeare’s London
This is a newly revised edition of Andrew Gurr’s classic account of the people for whom Shakespeare wrote his plays. Gurr assembles evidence from...
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Leibniz and his Correspondents
Unlike most of the other great philosophers Leibniz never wrote a magnum opus, so his philosophical correspondence is essential for an understanding...
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The Victorian Supernatural
The Victorians were haunted by the supernatural, by ghosts and fairies, table-rappings and telepathic encounters, occult religions and the idea of...
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Hamlet versus Lear
This book focuses on the two plays of Shakespeare that have generally contended for the title of greatest among his works. Hamlet remained a focal...
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Our Knowledge of the Past
How do historians, comparative linguists, biblical and textual critics and evolutionary biologists establish beliefs about the past? How do they know...
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Domesticity and Dissent in the Seventeenth Century
In Domesticity and Dissent Katharine Gillespie examines writings by seventeenth-century English Puritan women who fought for religious freedom....
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Shakespeare: Hamlet
In this useful guide, Paul Cantor provides a clearly structured introduction to Shakespeare’s most famous tragedy. Cantor examines Hamlet’s...
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Literature, Satire and the Early Stuart State
Andrew McRae examines the relation between literature and politics at a pivotal moment in English history. He argues that the most influential and...
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Textual Performances
This important collection brings together leading scholars to examine crucial questions regarding the theory and practice of editing Shakespeare’s...
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Cambridge Student Guide to King Richard II
Explanatory notes and guidance to help students understand Shakespeare’s plays. What is King Richard II about? This Cambridge Student Guide will...
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Shakespeare: Hamlet
In this useful guide, Paul Cantor provides a clearly structured introduction to Shakespeare’s most famous tragedy. Cantor examines Hamlet’s...
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Classical Humanism and Republicanism in English Political Thought, 1570–1640
Markku Peltonen examines humanist and republican themes in English political thinking between the mid-sixteenth century and the Civil War. He...
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Shakespeare’s Violated Bodies
This timely study looks at the violation of bodies in Shakespeare’s tragedies, especially as revealed (or concealed) in performance on stage and...
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Defining the Common Good
The theme of this book is the crisis of the early modern state in eighteenth-century Britain. The revolt of the North American colonies and the...
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The American Language of Rights
Richard A. Primus examines three crucial periods in American history (the late eighteenth century, the civil war and the 1950s and 1960s) in order to...
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Cambridge Student Guide to Measure for Measure
Explanatory notes and guidance to help students understand Shakespeare’s plays. What is Measure for Measure about? This Cambridge Student Guide...
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Machiavelli and Empire
Mikael Hörnqvist challenges us to rethink the overall meaning and importance of Machiavelli’s political thinking. Machiavelli and Empire combines...
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The Shakespeare Company, 1594–1642
This is the first complete history of the theatre company, created in 1594, which in 1603 became the King’s Men. Shakespeare was at the heart of...
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Jesuit Political Thought
Harro Höpfl presents here the first full-length study of the single most influential organised group of scholars and pamphleteers in early modern...
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Renaissance Civic Humanism
Civic humanism has been one of the most influential of all concepts in the history of ideas. In this volume, an eminent team of political theorists...
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Shakespeare and Domestic Loss
This book re-examines some of Shakespeare’s best-known texts in the light of their engagement with the forms of deprivation which threatened...
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Cambridge Student Guide to Coriolanus
Explanatory notes and guidance to help students understand Shakespeare’s plays. What is Coriolanus about? This Cambridge Student Guide will help...
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