In this insightful and wide-ranging account, Helen Hackett explores the intricacies of Elizabethan ideas about the mind. Looking at their conflicted attitudes to imagination, dreams, and melancholy, Hackett sheds new light on works by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Sidney, and Spenser?demonstrating how ideas about the mind shaped new literary and theatrical forms.<
The culture of early modern England and Europe was richly hybrid, forged through interactions between diverse nations and language communities, and through new encounters with the wider world beyond Europe. Ranging from the neo-Latin poetry of an English author to the Spanish plays of a nun in the New World, from royal portraits exchanged in diplom
Shakespeare is a towering presence in English and indeed global culture. Yet considered alongside his contemporaries he was not an isolated phenomenon, but the product of a period of astonishing creative fertility. This was an age when new media - popular drama and print - were seized upon avidly and inventively by a generation of exceptionally talented writers. In her sparkling new book, Helen Hackett explores the historical contexts of Engli...
Change and transformation are central to the action, themes and language of A Midsummer Night's Dream. This is a study of A Midsummer Night's Dream in relation to its contemporary contexts and later influences, covering mutability, moon-imagery, fertility, the mingling of genres, and the supernatural animation of nature
The culture of early modern England and Europe was richly hybrid, forged through interactions between diverse nations and language communities, and through new encounters with the wider world beyond Europe. Ranging from the neo-Latin poetry of an English author to the Spanish plays of a nun in the New World, from royal portraits exchanged in diplomatic negotiations to travelling companions in the Ottoman Empire, this multidisciplinary volume p...
