Through an investigation of the dedications and addresses from various printed plays of the English Renaissance, the author recuperates the richness of these pr
Though individual prologues and epilogues have been treated in depth, very little scholarship has been published on early modern framing texts as a whole. The F
This book visits the fact that, in the pre-modern world, saints and lords served structurally similar roles, acting as patrons to those beneath them on the spir
Yearly volume containing twelve essays on topics from Shakespeare to Middleton, Donne, Propertius, political resistance and legitimation, Elizabethan anthologie
From antiquity to the Renaissance the pursuit of patronage was central to the literary career, yet relationships between poets and patrons were commonly conflic