Reassessing Shakespeare as a poet and dramatist, Patrick Cheney contests critical preoccupation with Shakespeare as "a man of the theatre" by reclaiming his original standing as an early modern author ...

John works on English Renaissance drama and English Renaissance and Early-Modern poetry in general, with particular interests in Spenser, Shakespeare, Jonson, and Milton. He also has interests in the ...

Tom Macfaul, University of Oxford 'Whipday convincingly demonstrates that Shakespeare's tragedies are very much in dialogue with common cultural conceptions of the English home ... J.S. Clarke, Early ...

In 1593 and 1594, Shakespeare’s first poems, 'Venus and Adonis' and 'The Rape of Lucrece', were published and he dedicated them to his patron, Henry Wriothesley, the Earl of Southampton.