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Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture is a diverse and innovative series publishing monographs and essay collections on the interpretation of Renaissance culture. Though its emphasis is on the English Renaissance, the series has a broad scope and includes work on a range of languages and cultures. The New Historicist vision of an integrated poetics of culture has splintered in various ways, replaced by a series of successive ‘turns’ or relatively autonomous subfields. This series aims instead to create spaces within which diverse texts, discourses and concepts, though separated by conventional disciplinary and methodological boundaries, can co-habit and transform one another. Recognising the barriers, both disciplinary and institutional, that have historically shaped our field, we are particularly keen to see work engaged with critical race studies.

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2 results in Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture

Shakespeare's Virtuous Theatre
  • Power, Capacity and the Good
  • Edited by Kent Lehnhof, Julia Reinhard Lupton, Carolyn Sale
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    28 February 2025
    Print publication:
    01 September 2023
  • This collection of essays explores how the Shakespearean drama enacts ancient virtues and conceptualises new ones in complex fictional scenarios that test virtues for their continuing value. Contributors approach the virtues as a source of imaginative, affective and intellectual nourishment and consider how Shakespeare's art increases our capacity for new pursuits of the good. Examining Shakespeare's virtuous theatre in tragic, comic and romance modes and from ethical, theatrical and political perspectives, this volume establishes virtue as a framework for a socially, environmentally and spiritually renewed literary criticism. Contributors balance historical depth and philosophical insight with the art of close reading as they contemplate the dynamic field of virtue - embodied, responsive, energetic and dynamic - as it ebbs and flows across time, among multiple wisdom traditions, and in the entangled lives and troubled circumstances of Shakespeare's characters.

Theatrical Milton
  • Politics and Poetics of the Staged Body
  • Brendan Prawdzik
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    10 January 2018
    Print publication:
    18 April 2017
  • Theatrical Milton brings coherence to the presence of theatre in John Milton through the concept of theatricality. In this book, ‘theatricality’ identifies a discursive field entailing the rhetorical strategies and effects of framing a given human action, including speech and writing, as an act of theatre.