Early Modern Literature in History General Editors: Cedric C. Brown, Emeritus Professor, University of Reading; Andrew Hadfield, Professor of English, University of Sussex, Brighton International Advisory Board: Sharon Achinstein, University of Oxford; Jean Howard, Columbia University; John Kerrigan, University of Cambridge; Katie Larson, University of Toronto; Richard McCoy, CUNY; Michelle O’Callaghan, University of Reading; Cathy Shrank, University of Sheffield; Adam Smyth, University of London; Steven Zwicker, Washington University, St Louis. Within the period 1520–1740 this series discusses many kinds of writing, both within and outside the established canon. The volumes may employ different theoretical perspectives, but they share a historical awareness and an interest in seeing their texts in lively negotia- tion with their own and successive cultures. Titles include: Robyn Adams and Rosanna Cox DIPLOMACY AND EARLY MODERN CULTURE John M. Adrian LOCAL NEGOTIATIONS OF ENGLISH NATIONHOOD, 1570–1680 Jocelyn Catty WRITING RAPE, WRITING WOMEN IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND Unbridled Speech Bruce Danner EDMUND SPENSER’S WAR ON LORD BURGHLEY James Daybell THE MATERIAL LETTER IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND Manuscript Letters and the Culture and Practices of Letter-Writing, 1512–1635 James Daybell and Peter Hinds (editors) MATERIAL READINGS OF EARLY MODERN CULTURE Texts and Social Practices, 1580–1730 Tania Demetriou and Rowan Tomlinson (editors) THE CULTURE OF TRANSLATION IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND AND FRANCE, 1500–1660 Maria Franziska Fahey METAPHOR AND SHAKESPEAREAN DRAMA Unchaste Signification Andrew Gordon WRITING EARLY MODERN LONDON Memory, Text and Community Kenneth J. E. Graham and Philip D. Collington (editors) SHAKESPEARE AND RELIGIOUS CHANGE Jane Grogan THE PERSIAN EMPIRE IN ENGLISH RENAISSANCE WRITING, 1549–1622 Johanna Harris and Elizabeth Scott-Baumann (editors) THE INTELLECTUAL CULTURE OF PURITAN WOMEN, 1558–1680 Katherine Heavey THE EARLY MODERN MEDEA Constance Jordan and Karen Cunningham (editors) THE LAW IN SHAKESPEARE Claire Jowitt (editor) PIRATES? THE POLITICS OF PLUNDER, 1550–1650 Gregory Kneidel RETHINKING THE TURN TO RELIGION IN EARLY MODERN ENGLISH LITERATURE