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As tyrannical passions increasingly plague twenty-first-century politics, tales told in ancient Gree
I am excited to welcome Eliot Borenstein to the podcast today to discuss his new monograph, Marvel C
A cultural revolution in England, France, and the United States beginning during the time of the ind
Part 2 opens with a discussion of the history play genre and of how history shapes and constrains th
Seeing Sodomy in the Middle Ages (University of Chicago, 2015) explores the relation between sodomy
Today’s guest is Kevin Killeen whose new monograph, The Unknowable in Early Modern Thought: Natural
From vampire apocalypses, shark attacks, witches, and ghosts, to murderous dolls bent on revenge, ho
Mateusz Świetlicki's book Next-Generation Memory and Ukrainian Canadian Children's Historical Fictio
The Iliad and Beowulf provide rich sources of historical information. The novels of Henry Fielding a
Few English writers wielded a pen so sharply as George Orwell, the quintessential political writer o
Almost every student that will enroll in a college Shakespeare course can expect two things. Student
A Jewish Childhood in the Muslim Mediterranean: A Collection of Stories Curated by Lela Sebbar (U Ca
Henry V is one of the most celebrated of Shakespeare’s history plays. In the 1590s, Shakespeare wrot
Many early modern humanists would balk at the proposition that what they did amounted to housework.
Henry at Work: Thoreau on Making a Living (Princeton UP, 2023) invites readers to rethink how we wor
Feature films, television shows, homemade videos, tweets, blogs, and breaking news: digital media of
Tristan Tzara, one of the most important figures in the twentieth century's most famous avant-garde
Ada--a woman from Montreal living reluctantly in Michigan--vanishes from her bed one night while her
In Part 3, Professor Tiffany Stern offers close-readings of some of the play’s most significant spee
Bibliophobia: The End and the Beginning of the Book (Oxford UP, 2022) is a book about material books
