The English Department at UB has a long tradition of producing innovative work in medieval and early-modern studies. We aim to train students in the historical and textual fundamentals of the period ...

In Performing Widowhood on the Early Modern English Stage, I aim to share with the reader the pleasure of reimagining lost performances by discussing how widows were represented on stage. Widows were ...

Shakespearean English (or Early Modern English) has some notable grammatical differences from Modern English regarding using “thou,” which is the proper second-person singular.

The Unruly Womb in Early Modern English Drama: Plotting Women's Biology on the Stage. By Ursula A. Potter. This study provides an accessible, informative and entertaining introduction to women’s ...

Shakespeare maintained a wide-ranging interest in different forms of “natural philosophy,” which combined what we now call ...

José Villagrana is a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Berkeley, studying early modern English and Spanish literature. Trasnational and intertextual approaches to questions of early ...

Because British English pronunciations have changed so much since the era of Queen Elizabeth I, we’ve rather lost touch with what Early Modern English would have sounded like at the time.

First documented circa 1600 as part of Early Modern English, the original meaning of awesome is hardly obscured: something which inspires or is full of awe.

The Early Modern pathway through the MA in English Literature offers students the opportunity to study a broad chronological range of literature, from the medieval to the Restoration, whilst ...

Group members Tamsin Badcoe. Tamsin works on the intersection of poetic and devotional forms with early modern spatial and textual practices, including those of cosmography, chorography, geography, ...

David Sterling Brown is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Arizona (UA) where he teaches Shakespeare and early modern English literature. In addition to being a ...