Counsel And Command in Early Modern English Thought

Lesel Dawson examines figures afflicted with erotic melancholy in early modern literature and provides a historical context for their malady. She discusses how the literary representation of lovesickness relates to issues of gender and identity, making a contribution to the fields of literature, gender, and medical history.

This volume explores the ways in which Protestantism and humanism interacted in early-modern English education, and assess their impact, especially during the years spent in school and college by the sons of the gentry and 'middling sort'.

This is the first study to consider the relationship between private confessional rituals and memory across a range of early modern writers, including Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, and Robert Southwell.