Products and services
The author looks over the ruins of Ramat Rahel near Jerusalem. He argues it was the site of an ancient Assyrian imperial citadel whose destruction was celebrated in Isaiah 24-27
Shakespeare and War – the topic for Shakespeare Survey 72 – is nothing if not wide-ranging. From the significance of Tom Hiddleston’s unfeasibly tight armour in Thea Sharrock’s 2012 film of Henry...
This is a question I have become increasingly pre-occupied with throughout my academic career. As a working-class woman with an “unconventional” background, I have often been told that my potential...
Scholars of the Victorian period have often written of it as a golden age of autobiography, notable for the remarkable proliferation of life writing at and after mid-century. In 1850 Leigh Hunt published...
In the era of Internet of Things (IoT), billions of smart devices, household appliances, smart phones, sensors, vehicles are connected by radio frequency signals. With the ubiquitous deployment of wireless...
In the century preceding the French Revolution advanced mathematics began to play a role in ordinary affairs. If you wanted to find the position of a ship at sea, design fortifications or price annuities,...
Why should one mind performances at court in Shakespeare’s time? Do we really need a book on the subject? So much has been written about the Elizabethan theatre industry’s connection with the public...
The fundamental concern of Romanticism, which brought about its inception, determined its development, and set its end, was the need to create a new language for religion. One of the main motivations behind...
In October 2015 Ireland’s National Theatre announced its commemorative ‘Waking the Nation’ programme. The intention was to ‘interrogate rather than celebrate’ the 1916 Easter Rising, yet women...
Thomas Hardy fully understood, from early on in his career, that the production of a novel, or short story, took place both in the realm of artistic creation and in the literary marketplace. He eventually...
The decades following the demise of the Carolingian Empire in 888 were traditionally seen as a downward spiral of political fragmentation and cultural stagnation: a ‘mind-the-gap’ period between the...
Shakespeare on Screen: King Lear is the most recent volume in the Cambridge University Press Shakespeare on Screen series, which provides in-depth analyses of how Shakespeare’s work has been adapted...
Keep up with the latest from Cambridge University Press on our social media accounts.
