Shakespeare’s Culture in Modern Performance

In early modern culture and in Milton’s poetry and prose, this book argues, the concept of hope is intrinsically connected with place and land.

The book concerns itself with material rarely or never viewed as part of the “Poets’ War” (such as the mutual attempted cuckoldings of The Insatiate Countess and the Middle Temple performance of Twelfth Night) rather than with texts (like Satiromastix and Poetaster) long considered in this light.

Volume 1 thus ends with a discussion of morality, from models of civic virtue (and vice) to Christian prescriptions and prohibitions.

The collection also provides a helpful Chronology and detailed Bibliography.

The composition of aesthetic beauty and its necessary correlation with the counterparts of ugliness and monstrosity have been the primary concerns of artists and philosophers through the ages.