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Explores how perceptions of rivers shaped identity and culture in Shakespeare's Britain
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Money, magic and the theatre were powerful forces in early modern England. Money was acquiring an independent, efficacious agency, as the growth of usury allowed financial signs to reproduce without…
Michael M. Wagoner
To interrupt, both on stage and off, is to wrest power. From the Ghost's appearance in Hamlet to Celia's frightful speech in Volpone, interruptions are an overlooked linguistic and dramatic…
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Despite the popularity of plays about the East, the representation of the East in early modern drama has been either overlooked, marginalized as footnotes or generalized into stereotypes. Materializing the…
Extreme violence scarred the early modern period. Contemporary commentators grappled to find language to categorise the massacres, genocides, assassinations, enslavements, sacks, rapes, riots, and regicides that informed the times. Some…
Professor Lisa Hopkins
A close study of the relationship between text and film versions of The Tempest. Literature and film studies students will find plenty of material to support their courses and essay…
John Ford’s tragedy Tis Pity She’s A Whore was first performed between 1629 and 1633 and since then its themes of incest, love versus duty and forbidden passion have made…
This collection of twelve new essays examines some of what Jane Austen has become in the two hundred years since her death. Austen is often considered romantic and not often…
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Lisa Hopkins
Throughout the 16th and 17th centuries, the edges of Europe were under pressure from the Ottoman Turks. This book explores how Shakespeare and his contemporaries represented places where Christians encountered…
The first scholarly edition of a little-known play by a major Renaissance playwright, which interestingly reworks Othello. – .
The first scholarly edition of a little-known play by a major Renaissance playwright, which interestingly reworks Othello.
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Born the daughter of a country squire, Bess of Hardwick made four marriages which brought her wealth and status. She built and furnished houses and founded a dynasty which included…
It ranges widely over a variety of authors including classic golden age crime writers such as the four ‘queens of crime’ (Allingham, Christie, Marsh, Sayers), Nicholas Blake and Edmund Crispin…
Recurring to the governing idea of Shakespeare on the Edge, Hopkins expands the parameters of her investigation beyond England to include the Continent, and beyond Shakespeare to include a dramatists…
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Examines the late 16th- and early 17th-century engagement with a crucial part of Britain’s past, the period between the withdrawal of the Roman legions and the Norman Conquest. Considers how…
Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Critical Histories; i. 1598-1741: A bumpy ride; ii. 1741-1904: Enter; Shakespeare; iii. Enshrinement; iv. A.C. Bradley and character study; v. The Thirties: images and patterns; vi. Tillyard…
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Explores the cultural uses of Greek and Trojan settings and allusions to Greece and Troy in plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
Hopkins argues the succession to the throne was a burning topic not only in the final years of Elizabeth but well into the 1630s, and drama, with its disguised identities…
Lisa Hopkins analyzes eight film adaptations which have taken either Shakespeare or Jane Austen - icons of Englishness - out of their original geographical or cultural context and transposed them…
Explores the way in which the stories of the Caesars, and of the Julio-Claudians in particular, can be used to figure the stories of English rulers on the Renaissance stage…
Burial Plots in British Detective Fiction offers an overview of the ways in which the past is brought back to the surface and influences the present in British detective fiction…
Exploring how the Gothic has been deployed in contemporary films.
Giants of the Past explores how ideas about evolution, initially seen as a major threat to the establishment of Victorian England, were rapidly co-opted in popular fiction and transformed from…
My innocence, gone at 10 years old. Rape, molestation, alcoholism, lies, abomination, confusion and insanity. Just to name a few circumstances that I had encountered. It all started when I…
This book engages with postclassical Trauma Studies in order to widen the scope of discussion about trauma to concepts such as toleration, mourning, nostalgia, vulnerability and existential Angst. The authors…
An accessible student guide to all of the plays of Christopher Marlowe.
A comprehensive account of the Cavendish family’s creative output and cultural significance in the seventeenth century, combining a survey of existing work on the Cavendishes with new, wide-ranging research.
Offers an investigation of the complex relationship between the fraught religio-political culture of the modern and the theater that it spawned. This title addresses questions such as: What is the…
Goddesses and Queens: The Iconography of Elizabeth I is a collection of essays which explores the ways in which the rich and varied image of the queen was developed and…
Collection of new essays about the earl of Essex, one of the most important figures of the Elizabethan court – .
This book explores some of the many instances of poisoning in early modern plays. It considers the practical, legal and epistemological aspects of poison plays and analyses the cultural work…
Lisa Hopkins,Helen Ostovich
Considering a variety of questions centering on magic and, or in, performance, this volume furthers the debate about the cultural work performed by representations of magic on the early modern…
This book brings together thirteen essays, by both established and emerging scholars, which examine the most influential meanings of roads in early modern literature and culture.
This book introduces the plays of Christopher Marlowe in a clear and engaging manner. Marlowe is a playwright whose work taps into the central concerns of his age, many of…
Lisa D Hopkins
Evolution of a Student is a humorous memoir of one student’s journey from kindergarten through her doctorate and the educators who made it possible. The story evolves as the author…
Professor Lisa Hopkins,Dr Matthew Steggle
Provides students with an introduction to literature and its context from 1533-1642, including: the historical, cultural and intellectual background including religion, politics, exploration and visual culture; major writers and genres…
These twelve new essays show the variety and versatility of Renaissance tragedy and highlight the issues it explores. Each chapter defines a particular kind of Renaissance tragedy and offers new…
Lisa D Piper,J Harold Utley
Postcard History Series: Hopkins County portrays the fantastic history of its cities, including Dawson Springs, as unveiled through postcards of the lavish hotels and businesses that once brought thousands of…
