Profesor Woudhuysen sa zameriava na prepojenie renesančnej anglickej literatúry s históriou knihy. Jeho práca osvetľuje vzťah medzi fyzickou podobou diel a ich významom, skúma materiálne aspekty textov, ako je rozloženie listov, história papiera a použitie interpunkcie v dielach od Shakespeara po Virgíniu Woolfovú. Dlhodobo sa podieľa na editácii renesančnej dramatickej tvorby a na digitalizácii literárnych rukopisov, čím sprístupňuje cenné historické zdroje. Jeho záujem o bibliografiu a paleografiu sa prejavuje v jeho práci na vplyvných publikáciách a v jeho prednáškach o histórii kopírovania a faksimile.
The era between the accession of Henry VIII and the crisis of the English republic in 1659 formed one of the most fertile epochs in world literature. This anthology offers a selection of its poetry, and includes a range of works by the poets of the age - notably Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Sepnser, John Donne, William Shakespeare and John Milton.
First published in 1888, Plain Tales from the Hills was Kipling's first volume of prose fiction. Most of the stories it includes had already appeared in the Civil and Military Gazette they were written before he reached the age of 22; and they show a remarkably precocious literary talent. His vignettes of life in Brittish India a hundred years ago give vivid insight into Anglo-India at work and play, into a barrack-room life, and into the character of Indians themselves.