The Rivalrous Renaissance

Envy and jealousy are the emotions that fuel interpersonal rivalry, and interpersonal rivalry is a cornerstone of literature. Emerging from growing scholarly interest in the history of emotion, The Rivalrous Renaissance is the first full-length study of envy and jealousy in Renaissance England.

Auteur

Bradley J. Irish is Associate Professor of English at Arizona State University. He is the author of Emotion in the Tudor Court: Literature, History, and Early Modern Feeling (2018) and Shakespeare and Disgust: The History and Science of Early Modern Revulsion (2023).