Offering new readings of works by Shakespeare, Spenser, and their contemporaries, this study examines the profound impact of the cultural shift in the English a

The first full length treatment of how men of different professions, social ranks and ages are empowered by their emotional expressiveness in early modern Engli

Engaging with Elizabethan understandings of masculinity, this book examines representations of manhood during the short-lived vogue for verse satire in the 1590

This collection explores how situations of authority, governance, and influence were practised through both gender ideologies and affective performances in medi

Robert Sidney, the first Earl of Leicester (1563–1626), serves as an exemplar of an Elizabethan nobleman who had in his collection a body of work pertinent to