This edition presents poetry by William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke, a pivotal figure in the literary and political cultures of Stuart England, who wrote poetry primarily for social occasions: a debate with a friend, seductions or apologies to beloveds, and support for a deceased political ally. A hefty apparatus explores the networks in which the poems circulated, the interpretive contexts suggested in miscellanies, and alternative readings revealed through scribal variants.

This volume presents the first printed edition of a late sixteenth-century poetic miscellany and provides invaluable insight into understanding the literature of the period.

This volume comprises more than three hundred letters written by Elizabeth Butler, first Duchess of Ormonde, revealing her importance within the Ormonde-Butler family and in the social, cultural, and political life of seventeenth-century Ireland.

A vibrant literary and musical reflection of the early Tudor court, the Henry VIII Manuscript (British Library Additional Manuscript 31,922) contributes to our critical understanding of court milieu and the connections between poetry and power in early Renaissance society in England.

New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, now in its sixth volume, preserves and disseminates papers sponsored by the Society at such conferences as MLA, RSA, Kalamazoo, and Sixteenth-Century Studies.

This edition makes available for the first time a recently discovered and provocative work by the English historian Edmund Bolton.

The Whole Book of Psalms, first published in a complete form in 1562, introduced congregational singing to England and contained the best known English verse in the early modern period.

The Whole Book of Psalms, first published in a complete form in 1562, introduced congregational singing to England and contained the best known English verse in the early modern period.