In Imagining Inheritance from Chaucer to Shakespeare, Alex Davis offers a sweeping and deft survey of 'inheritance' across poetry, drama, prose, and even paintings from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries, extending to the genealogical endeavours of the noblewoman Anne Clifford.
Alex Davis is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of Chivalry and Romance in the English Renaissance (2003) and Renaissance Historical Fiction (2011).