This is the first comprehensive study of early modern texts, readings, and readers of Shakespeare's poems in print and manuscript, Reading Shakespeare's Poems i

This study grows out of the intersection of two realms of scholarly investigation - the emerging public sphere in early modern England and the history of the bo

The "kissing-poem" genre was wide-spread in Renaissance literature; this book surveys its form and development.

This book is the first comprehensive examination of commercial drama as a reading genre in early modern England. Taking as its focus pre-Restoration printed dra

Reading Material in Early Modern England rediscovers the practices and representations of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English readers. By telling their s