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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...