Description
This is the first book to provide students and scholars with a truly comprehensive guide to the early modern soliloquy.
About the Author
A. D. Cousins is a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and a member of the Order of Australia. He has published fifteen books in America and England, including monographs on Andrew Marvell, Thomas More, Shakespeare's non-dramatic verse, and religious verse of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He has been a visiting adjunct professor at the Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Center at the University of Massachusetts, a visiting scholar at Princeton University and at Pennsylvania State University, and a library fellow at the Library of the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He holds doctorates in both English literature and political theory. Daniel Derrin is a research fellow in the Department of English Studies at Durham University. He has published in the areas of early modern rhetorical theory, drama, comedy, Shakespeare, and the writing of John Donne. He was awarded the S. Ernest Sprott fellowship for 2014-15 from the University of Melbourne, which was completed at the Warburg Institute, and has been an associate investigator for the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions.
Reviews
'... scholars and teachers of early modern drama will find Shakespeare and the Soliloquy in Early Modern English Drama a valuable resource that furthers our understanding of the uses of this important rhetorical device.' Emily Shortslef, Renaissance Quarterly
Book Information
ISBN 9781316623893
Author A. D. Cousins
Format Paperback
Page Count 288
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 430g
Dimensions(mm) 228mm * 150mm * 16mm