Books by Stephen Hamrick

Contextualizing the duo's work within British comedy, Shakespeare criticism, the history of sexuality, and their own historical moment, this book offers the first sustained analysis of the 20th Century's most successful double-act.

Demonstrates how poets writing in the first thirty years of Elizabeth I's reign proved instrumental in transferring Catholic worldviews and paradigms to the cults and early anti-cults of Elizabeth. This book provides an analysis of poets who used Petrarchan poetry to transform many forms of Catholic piety.