Lauded after his death as ‘champion of the English Commonwealth’, but also derided as a ‘most servile wit, and mercenary pen’, the poet, dramatist and h

In War, Liberty, and Caesar, Edward Paleit discusses how readers and writers of the English Renaissance read and understood Lucan's epic poem on the Roman civil

This innovative book reconceptualises Roman poetry and its reception through the lens of fictional biography ('biofiction').

Examining the Caroline era - a period of great importance to English history in the build-up to the Civil War, these essays address politics, religion, the mona