Greg Walker examines the impact of tyrannical government on the work of poets, playwrights and prose writers in the early English Renaissance.

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As conventional understanding would have it, the sometimes brutal business of governing can only be carried out at the price of distance from art, while poetic

Writing Under Tyranny: English Literature and the Henrician Reformation spans the boundaries between literary studies and history. It looks at the impact of tyr

"In Tyranny of the Textbook, a retired educational director, gives a fascinating look behind-the-scenes of how K-12 textbooks are developed, written, adopted, a