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Literature

Renaissance Literature

Smyth: Profit and Delight“Profit and Delight”: Printed Miscellanies in England, 1640–1682

Adam Smyth

The first sustained study of seventeenth-century printed miscellanies.

Papazian: John Donne and the Protestant ReformationJohn Donne and the Protestant Reformation: New Perspectives

Edited by Mary Arshagouni Papazian

This collection of thirteen essays by an international group of scholars focuses on the impact of the Protestant Reformation on Donne’s life, theology, poetry, and prose.

Keevak: Sexual ShakespeareSexual Shakespeare: Forgery, Authorship, Portraiture

Michael Keevak

A search for the “authentic” Shakespeare and his questionable sexuality.