Early Modern Whale

Some work by one of my postgraduate students led me to read Nathaneal Richards’s The tragedy of Messallina the Roman em...

One of the great deaths in Jacobean drama is that of Chapman’s Bussy D’Ambois: impelle...

I was attracted by this woodcut (quite unfamiliar to me) to read Heywood’s play to find ou...

Rather than pressing on with other tasks, I have been reading John Sheffield’s Antapologia, or, A discourse of excuses setting forth t...

“The best is that which is tepid, of equall substance, not quickly running off the naile if put thereon, light, not viscous, but sweet, wit...