Book of Donmon Teith

Writing the Nation in Reformation England offers a major re-evaluation of English writing between 1530 and 1580. Studying authors such as Andrew Borde, John Lel

The Oxford Handbook of English Prose 1500-1640 is the only current overview of early modern English prose writing. The aim of the volume is to make prose more v

Explores the seismic impact of the dissolution of the monasteries, offering a new perspective on the English Reformation.

Many early modern poets and playwrights were also members of the legal societies the Inns of Court, and these authors shaped the development of key genres of th

This study considers the figure of the bastard in the context of analogies of the family and the state in early modern England. The trope of illegitimacy, more