A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture
by Editor: Michael Hattaway (University of Sheffield)Format: eBook
Pub. Date: 2008-04-01
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary
This is a one volume, up-to-date collection of more than fifty wide-ranging essays which will inspire and guide students of the Renaissance and provide course leaders with a substantial and helpful frame of reference. Provides new perspectives on established texts. Orientates the new student, while providing advanced students with current and new directions. Pioneered by leading scholars. Occupies a unique niche in Renaissance studies. Illustrated with 12 single-page black and white prints.
Table of Contents
| List of Illustrations | |
| Notes on Contributors. | |
| Introduction. | |
| Introduction | |
| Contexts and Perspectives ca 1500-1650. | |
| Early Tudor 'Humanism | |
| English Reformations | |
| Platonism, Stoicism, Scepticism, and Classical Imitation | |
| History | |
| The English Language of the Early Modern Period | |
| Publication: Print and Manuscript | |
| Literacy and Education | |
| Court and Coterie Culture | |
| The Literature of the Metropolis | |
| Playhouses and the Role of Drama | |
| The Writing of Travel | |
| Readings. | |
| Translations of the Bible | |
| Wyatt's 'Who So List to Hunt' | |
| Courtship and Counsell: John Lyly's Campaspe | |
| Spenser's Faerie Queene, Book V: Poetry, Politics, and Justicem | |
| Kyd's Spanish Tragedy | |
| Donne's 19th Elergy | |
| Lanyer's 'The Description of Cookham' and Jonson's 'To Penshurst' | |
| A Bacon Essay ('Of Simulation and Dissimulation') | |
| Lancelot Andrewes Good Friday 1604 Sermon | |
| Herbert's 'The Elixir' | |
| The Heart of the Labyrinth: Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus | |
| The Critical Elegy | |
| The final scene of 'Tis Pity She's a Whore | |
| Genres and Modes. | |
| Theories of Literary Kinds | |
| Allegory | |
| Pastoral | |
| Romance | |
| Epic | |
| Criticism | |
| The English Print c.1550-c.1650 | |
| Verse | |
| Traditions of Complaint and Satire | |
| Love Poetry | |
| Erotic Poems | |
| Religious Verse | |
| Poets, Friends and Patrons: Donne and his Circle; Ben and his Tribe | |
| 'Such Pretty Things Would Soon be Gone': The Neglected Genres of Popular Verse 1480-1650 | |
| Drama | |
| Local and "Customary" Drama | |
| Continuities between 'Medieval' and 'Early Modern' Drama | |
| Heroic, Political, and Problem Plays | |
| Women and Drama | |
| Tales of the City: The Comedies of Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton | |
| 'Tied/To Rules of Flattery?': Court Drama and the Masque | |
| Jacobean Tragedy | |
| Caroline Theatre | |
| Prose | |
| Scientific Writing | |
| Prose Fiction | |
| Theological Writings and Religious Polemic | |
| The English Renaissance Essay: Churchyard, Cornwallis, Florio's Montaigne, and Bacon | |
| Diaries | |
| Letters | |
| Issues and Debates. | |
| Rhetoric | |
| Identity | |
| Was There a Renaissance Feminism | |
| The Debate on Witchcraft | |
| Reconstructing the Past: History, Historicism, Histories | |
| Sexuality: A Renaissance Category | |
| Race: A Renaissance Category | |
| Writing the Nation | |
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