Readership: Scholars and students of Shakespeare and the poets of his period and beyond.
John Kerrigan, Professor of English 2000 at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge
"Kerrigan's best credential is his capacity for close reading, exposition, and elaboration of implications drawn from key phrases in his texts ... a scholar's book."
"... a volume that is more than the sum of its parts." - Sixteenth Century Journal
"The ability to hold complicated detail in focus, and to draw the larger arguments, is remarkable; Kerrigan pulls off the trick of seeing both the wood and the trees." - Sixteenth Century Journal
"Anyone with an interest in the period will enjoy these essays, and come away the richer for having read them." - Sixteenth Century Journal
"All eleven essays repay reading or rereading, being distinguished by a combination of literary acumen and scholarship, as well as being lucid and well written." - Sixteenth Century Journal
"These essays consolidate Kerrigan's position as one of the outstanding scholars of the English Renaissance of his generation" - E. A. J. Honigmann, Times Literary Supplement
"Though elegantly written, Kerrigan's essays are densely argued and formidably erudite ... The quality of Kerrigan's work sets a standard for others to aim at." - Neil Rhodes, Around the Globe
I: Shakespeare 1: Shakespeare as Reviser (1987) 2: Between Michelangelo and Petrarch: Shakespeare's Sonnets of Art (1994) 3: Keats and Lucrece (1988) 4: Henry IV and the Death of Old Double (1990) 5: Secrecy and Gossip in Twelfth Night (1997) II: Early Modern Literature 6: The Editor as Reader: Constructing Renaissance Texts (1996) 7: Astrophil's Tragicomedy (1992) 8: William Drummond and the British Problem 9: Thomas Carew (1988) 10: Milton and the Nightingale (1992) 11: Revenge Tragedy Revisited, 1649-1683 (1997) Index
