Focusing on works by Shakespeare and Spenser, this study shows the connection between visuality and ethical action in early modern English literature. The book

This collection of 15 essays by celebrated authors in Shakespeare studies and in continental philosophy develops different aspects of the interface between cont

This collection considers issues that have emerged in Early Modern Studies in the past fifteen years relating to understandings of mind and body in Shakespeare�

Unearthing a little-studied Reformation discourse of contentment, this book shows its surprising significance in Renaissance literature.

We have become used to looking at art from a stance of detachment. In order to be objective, we create a “mental space” between ourselves and the objects of