Recurring to the governing idea of Shakespeare on the Edge, Hopkins expands the parameters of her investigation beyond England to include the Continent, and beyond... Læs mere
The first scholarly edition of a little-known play by a major Renaissance playwright, which interestingly reworks Othello. -- .
Considering a variety of questions centering on magic and, or in, performance, this volume furthers the debate about the cultural work performed... Læs mere
Hopkins argues the succession to the throne was a burning topic not only in the final years of Elizabeth but well into the 1630s, and drama, with its... Læs mere
Explores the way in which the stories of the Caesars, and of the Julio-Claudians in particular, can be used to figure the stories of... Læs mere
Offers an investigation of the complex relationship between the fraught religio-political culture of the modern and the theater that it spawned. This title... Læs mere
From Sherlock Holmes onwards, fictional detectives use lenses: Ocular Proof and the Spectacled Detective in British Crime Fiction... Læs mere
A scholarly, modern-spelling edition of a play by the Caroline dramatist John Ford which was accidentally omitted from the 1652 edition of his works... Læs mere
Lisa Hopkins analyzes eight film adaptations which have taken either Shakespeare or Jane Austen - icons of Englishness - out of their original geographical or... Læs mere
This book examines the cultural legacies of the fifteen years that Mary Queen of Scots spent as a prisoner in the household of Bess of Hardwick and her fourth husband, the Earl of Shrewsbury.
Burial Plots in British Detective Fiction offers an overview of the ways in which the past is brought back to the surface and influences the present in British detective fiction written between 1920 and 2020.
It ranges widely over a variety of authors including classic golden age crime writers such as the four ‘queens of crime’ (Allingham, Christie, Marsh, Sayers), Nicholas Blake and Edmund Crispin, as well as more recent authors such as Reginald Hill, Kate Atkinson and Val McDermid.