Comedy was at the centre of a fierce controversy that raged from the opening of the first purpose-built playhouse in 1576 to the closure of the theatres in 1742. Shakespeare's plays made capital of t
Published to coincide with the celebration of this beloved poet’s centenary, this volume contains all the poems and illustrations previously published in Mervyn Peake's much-loved Book of Nonsense in
An Apology for Poetry (or The Defence of Poesy), by the celebrated soldier-poet Sir Philip Sidney, is the most important work of literary theory published in the Renaissance. Its wit and inventiveness
