In this groundbreaking collection of essays the history of philosophy appears in a fresh light, n...

This is the first collaborative volume to place Shakespeare''s works within the landscape of earl...

Conal Condren offers a radical reappraisal of the character of moral and political theory in earl...

Satire was core to the work of Thomas Hobbes although his critics also used it as a weapon to rid...

Satire was core to the work of Thomas Hobbes although his critics also used it as a weapon to rid...

This, the first full analysis of Arbuthnot''s Art of Political Lying (1712), argues that the work...

This is a study of the words of political discourse in seventeenth-century England from which we ...

This is the first collaborative volume to place Shakespeare's works within the landscape of early...

Considers how political language has changed through time, looking at concrete examples from Engl...

This volume traces the evolution of Whig and Tory, Puritan and Anglican ideas across a tumultuous...

This book explores closely related aspects of the historical study of humour. It challenges much ...