The question confronting the editor of 'Doctor Faustus' has revolved around whether to trust the short A text of the play which appeared in 1604, or the much longer version, B, of 1616.

Othello is not often thought of as a play primarily concerned with madness, yet that is what it is.

Astrophil and Stella's sonnet 31 is conceivably (and justifiably) the most famous of Sidney's poems. But its sestet - in particular the relationship between the last line and lines nine through thirteen —has continued to ...

A favourable review of Anne Ferry's book "The Art of Naming" (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1988). Daalder states that this book makes a valuable contribution to the study of sixteenth-century literature; ...

The most recent edition of "The Pilgrim" (1621) is the one by Cyrus Hoy, in "The Dramatic Works in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon", vol. vi (gen. ed. Fredson Bowers; Cambridge University Press, 1985). The edition is an ...

Daalder's review of "The Idea of the Renaissance" by William Kerrigan and Gordon Braden (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989).

In act 5, scene 3 of Middleton and Rowley's "The Changeling", Alsemero, once fully convinced that Beatrice has been involved in murder and adultery, decides to lock her up in his 'closet', his small private room, which on ...