This book argues that the idea of a universal human nature was as important to Shakespeare as it ...

Reviews Shakespeare's view of masculinity through The Tempest, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth and others.

Human Nature: Fact and Fiction brings together a collection of inspiring, thought-provoking and o...

Shakespeares Humanism analyses a number of key Shakespeare plays, as well as works by Shakespeare...

For lovers of music and poetry the legendary figure of Orpheus probably suggests a romantic ideal...

Masculinity was a political issue in early modern England. Phrases such as 'courage-masculine' or...

Human Nature: Fact and Fiction brings together a collection of inspiring, thought-provoking and o...

Robin Headlam Wells re-examines the myth, central to the Orpheus story, of the civilising power o...

Essays on English Renaissance culture make a major contribution to the debate on historical method.

Spenser's Faerie Queene and the Cult of Elizabeth