Carole Levin Books

The authors, Carole Levin and John Watkins, are esteemed professors with expertise in history and literature, respectively. Levin focuses on the interplay of politics and desire in the English Renaissance, while Watkins explores the representation of Queen Elizabeth in Stuart England through literature and historical context. Their academic backgrounds inform their insightful analyses, making their works valuable resources for understanding the complexities of their subjects.

This textbook provides an overview of the long reign of Elizabeth I (1558-1603), a highly significant female ruler in a time of great change.

With a new introduction that situates the original edition within the emerging genre of cultural biography, the second edition of The Heart and Stomach of a King explores the myriad ways Queen Elizabeth I represented herself as a public figure and how her subjects represented and responded to her.

In Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds, Carole Levin and John Watkins focus on the relationship between the London-based professional theater world of Shakespeare and an unprecedented European experience of geographic, social, and intellectual mobility.