Early modern skepticism contributed to literary invention, aesthetic pleasure, and the uneven process of secularization in England.

This ambitious account of skepticism's effects on major authors of England's Golden Age shows how key philosophical problems inspired literary innovations in po

"Places Shakespeare's sonnets and plays, including Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, and Antony and Cleopatra, within the context of the literary history of prai

Hamlin's study provides the first full-scale account of the reception and literary appropriation of ancient scepticism in Elizabethan and Jacobean England (c. 1

This collection of original essays by the nation's leading political theorists examines the origins of modernity, and considers the question of tolerance as a p