A study of how audiences of Shakespeare's time understood the sensual world of his plays.

A scandal in its time and a revelation today, this fearless satire blends courtly decadence with ...

A study of how audiences of Shakespeare's time understood the sensual world of his plays.

Marsilio Ficino, Three Books on Life

The first romance written by an Englishwoman, Mary Wroth's Countess of Montgomery's Urania is a l...

The Poetry of Burchiello: Deep-fried Nouns, Hunchbacked Pumpkins, and Other Nonsense is the first...

ACTA Volume #4

Private Libraries in Renaissance England: A Collection and Catalogue of Tudor and Early Stuart Bo...

ACTA Volume #9

Traces the importance and influence, in the wake of Tiberius Claudius Donatus, of Servius' Commen...

Beginning with Diodorus Siculus's first-century BCE account and extending to early modern German ...

'This translation takes a deep dive into the language of Shakespeare and updates passages that ar...

This interdisciplinary project offers a rereading of the 1590 Arcadia as an apocalyptic allegory,...

Considered by most scholars to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote, The Tempest is a stormy t...

Sir Paul Rycaut (1629-1700) was a diplomat, poet, translator and administrator. His Present State...

ACTA Volume #1

The Decameron: A Critical Lexicon (Lessico Critico Decameroniano)

ACTA Volume #17

Argues that critical comments appended to early printed editions of Petrarch's Rime sparse inflec...

Volume 9 continues to expand the range of early modern book owners represented in PLRE. The libra...

Examines the interplay between reading and writing in the works of Petrarch and Dante.

ACTA Volume #12

In Boccacio's Decameron, Cervigni sees a parodic echo of the circles of Dante's Divine Comedy, an...

Ogier's Youth (Les Enfances Ogier)

The Grinnell Beowulf is a translation and teaching edition of the Old English poem. Six students ...

Introduction1. Mixing it up in the Medieval Kingdom Terence Scully, Wilfred Laurier University2. ...

ACTA Volume #15

Addresses Jacoff's own discomfort with Dante's reiteration of the deicide charge against the Jews...

Changes in words, changes in the world, and changes in minds: transitions between states of speak...

'This translation takes a deep dive into the language of Shakespeare and updates passages that ar...

Formerly published by AMS Press, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History continues with an an...

In Migdalia Cruz's Macbeth, the Witches run the world. The Macbeths live out a dark cautionary ta...

Explores the nature and significance of Petrarch's indebtedness to Dante in the Rime sparse.

Literary Speech Acts of the Medieval North

ACTA Volume #7

Shakespeare's most spirited play, adapted for new audiences by Jeffrey Whitty.

Celebrated Argentine author Jorge Luís Borges found Shakespeare's work so compelling that he not ...

'This translation takes a deep dive into the language of Shakespeare and updates passages that ar...

ACTA Volume #2

Paul Jodrell's Chancery Reports (1737 to 1751)

Examines the preservation of the integrity of humanity through literature in the hells described ...

ACTA Volume #18

Folgore Da San Gimignano and His Followers: The Complete Poems

ACTA Volume #5

ACTA Volume #10

Argues that academics' intellectual engagement with a public beyond the walls of their own specia...

Richard III

Rhetoric in the Middle Ages (1974): A Bibliographic Supplement to 2016