Words at War: The Contested Language of the English Civil War

Andrew Hadfield is Professor of English at the University of Sussex and a Fellow of the British Academy and the English Association. His books include Shakespeare and Republicanism; Edmund Spenser: A Life; Lying in Early Modern English Culture: From the Oath of Supremacy to the Oath of Allegiance; Literature and Class: From the Peasants' Revolt to the French Revolution; John Donne: In the Shadow of Religion; and Thomas Nashe and Late Elizabethan Writing.


Paul Hammond is Professor of Seventeenth-Century English Literature at the University of Leeds and a Fellow of the British Academy. His books include Dryden and the Traces of Classical Rome; Milton and the People; Milton's Complex Words: Essays on the Conceptual Structure of 'Paradise Lost'; and Tragic Agency in Classical Drama from Aeschylus to Voltaire. He is co-editor of The Poems of John Dryden, Five Volumes and editor-in-chief of a new Longman Annotated English Poets edition of The Complete Poems of John Milton.