Many chapter headings and subheadings are written as questions, helping readers quickly find the answers they need to make informed choices that will affect the later analysis and interpretation of their data.

The collection also places a decisive emphasis on the symbolic dimension of intimations of the cosmopolitan in modern and contemporary literature and film, so documenting transformations to which it continues to be subject.

A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture, c.1350-c.1500 challenges readers to think beyond a narrowly defined canon and conventional disciplinary boundaries.

Parallel themes of epic and siege intermingled with romance and carnivalesque humour, provide alternative perspectives to early modern representations of empire and war on the Spanish stage.

This book will serve to underline the complex relationship between creative writers and the once all-powerful religious Establishment.

Indeed, these articles demonstrate that crossing boundaries can be a companionable journey as well an intellectually enriching experience.

This twin volume to The Routledge Companion to Directors’ Shakespeare is an essential work for both actors and students of Shakespeare.

The Limits of a Metaphor in Greek Tragedy”; Albert Henrichs, “Hieroi Logoi and Hierai Bibloi: The (Un)Written Margins of the Sacred in Ancient Greece”; David M. Engel, “Women’s Role in the Home and the State: Stoic Theory Reconsidered”; James J. Clauss, “Once upon a Time on Cos: A Banquet with Pan on the Side in Theocritus Idyll 7”; Alexander Sens, “Pleasures Recalled: A.R. 3.813–814, Asclepiades, and Homer”; Christopher S. Mackay, “Quaestiones Pisonianae: Procedural and Chronological Notes on the S.C. De Cn. Pisone Patre”; Alex Hardie

Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally.