Living in Elizabethan England by
The long reign of Elizabeth I stands out as an invigorating and creative period in English history. This volume of edited essays explores the living environment, the role of society, and the arts and leisurely pursuits of the age.
Women in the Age of Shakespeare by
This book offers a look at the lives of Elizabethan era women in the context of the great female characters in the works of William Shakespeare.
Bedside, Bathtub and Armchair Companion to Shakespeare by 
The Yale Edition of the Shorter Poems of Edmund Spenser by 
Dramatists and Drama by
- Each volume's introduction presents Bloom's general overview of the genre and his thoughts on its development - Each volume's bibliographic information is genre specific and directs the reader to additional resources for further study - All essays are written by Harold Bloom
Spectacles of Strangeness by
"Oriental barbarians, black magicians, homosexuals, African queens and kings, Machiavellian Christians, Turks, and Jews - for an English audience of the sixteenth century, these are marginal, unorthodox, and strange figures. They are also the central figures in the plays of Christopher Marlowe."
101 Amazing Facts about William Shakespeare by
Did you know Shakespeare introduced thousands of words into the English language, amongst them alligator, eyeball and swagger? Do you know what unusual item he left to his wife in his will? Have you heard of the conspiracy theory that suggests Sh...
Rhetoric and the Familiar in Francis Bacon and John Donne by
Rhetoric and the Familiar examines the writing and oratory of Francis Bacon and John Donne from the perspective of the faculty psychology they both inherited. Both writers inherited the resources of the classical rhetorical tradition through their university education. The book traces, from within that tradition, the sources of Bacon and Donne's ideas about the processes of mental image making, reasoning, and passionate feeling. It analyzes how knowledge about those mental processes underlies the rhetorical planning of texts by Bacon, such as New Atlantis, Essayes or Counsels, Novum Organum, and the parliamentary speeches, and of texts by Donne such as the Verse Letters, Essayes in Divinity, Holy Sonnets, and the sermons. The book argues that their rhetorical practices reflect a common appropriation of ideas about mental process from faculty psychology, and that they deploy it in divergent ways depending on their rhetorical contexts. It demonstrates the vital importance, in early modern thinking about rhetoric, of considering what familiar remembered material will occur to a given audience, how that differs according to context, as well as the problems the familiar entails.
Critical Survey of Shakespeare's Plays by
EBOOK AND PRINT. Critical Survey of Shakespeare's Plays, Salem Press' newest Shakespearean study guide, closely examines all 38 of Shakespeare's plays, as well as Shakespeare's life, style, technique, and influences.
Critical Survey of Shakespeare's Sonnets by
EBOOK AND PRINT. The Critical Survey of Shakespeare's Sonnets offers a collection of new essays on the Sonnets written by William Shakespeare, the most famous English playwright of all time. A basic part of the literature curriculum, Shakespeare's works-still being introduced to students, from high school through college, four centuries after their composition-have never lost their popularity.
