The Romans introduced gardens to England but its popularity grew following the Dark Ages. The Romans were the first to introduce gardens to England but its popularity began to rise when Anglo-Saxon ...

“The Tudors” shows how the English Renaissance was the work of wily leaders and enterprising foreigners. No dynasty has better captured the modern imagination. By Jason Farago The Tudors: Art and ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Published in 1588, Abraham Fraunce's The Arcadian Rhetorike is one of the most influential rhetorical treatises written in English that ...

Renaissance Studies, Vol. 22, No. 3, Special Issue: The Rhetoric of Complaint: Ovid's "Heroides" in the Renaissance and Restoration (JUNE 2008), pp. 385-400 (16 pages) This essay argues that Michael ...

Prof. Emeritus David Bevington, the extraordinarily prolific editor of Shakespeare’s full canon and author of seminal books about English Renaissance playwrights, died peacefully at home in Chicago on ...

The term “Renaissance” means “rebirth.” But rebirth of what? In this class, we’ll look at the new ways in which English writers began to explore familiar questions about the nature of desire, the ...

Thomas Roche Jr., the Murray Professor of English, Emeritus, died peacefully at 89 years old after a long illness in Beachwood, Ohio on May 3. He is survived by his husband, Robert H. “Bo” Smith.

The English poet and playwright Christopher Marlowe was born in 1564, the same year as his frenemy William Shakespeare. Yet unless you majored in English in college, it is quite possible you never ...