This study represents a significant reinterpretation of literary networks during what is often called the transition from manuscript to print during the early m

A ground-breaking study of the social and cultural functions of the early modern theatre. Jean Howard looks at the effects of drama and the stage on early moder

In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries the Inns of Court and fashionable London taverns developed a culture of clubbing, urban sociability and wi

Explores the relationship between the transition to capitalism in early modern England and the many literary innovations that emerged within the period.

Misanthropoetics explores efforts by Renaissance writers to represent social flight and withdrawal as a fictional escape from the incongruous demands of culture