A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and CultureThis 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.
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Contents
Introduction | 3 |
English Reformations | 27 |
Platonism Stoicism Scepticism and Classical Imitation | 44 |
History | 58 |
The English Language of the Early Modern Period | 71 |
Literacy and Education | 95 |
Court and Coterie Culture | 106 |
The Literature of the Metropolis | 119 |
Epic | 327 |
Making and Defending Renaissance Poetics | 340 |
Traditions of Complaint and Satire | 367 |
Erotic Poems | 392 |
Religious Verse | 404 |
Donne and his Circle Ben and his Tribe | 419 |
The Neglected Genres | 442 |
Local and Customary Drama | 464 |
Playhouses and the Role of Drama | 133 |
The Writing of Travel | 148 |
Translations of the Bible | 165 |
A Reading of Wyatts Who so list to hunt | 176 |
John Lylys Campaspe | 187 |
Poetry Politics and Justice | 195 |
Kyds The Spanish Tragedy | 206 |
Donnes Nineteenth Elegy | 215 |
Lanyers The Description of Cookham and Jonsons To Penshurst | 224 |
Bacons Of Simulation and Dissimulation | 233 |
Lancelot Andrewess Good Friday 1604 Sermon | 241 |
Herberts The Elixir | 249 |
The Critical Elegy | 267 |
Theories of Literary Kinds | 287 |
Pastoral | 307 |
Continuities between Medieval and Early Modern Drama | 477 |
Women and Drama | 499 |
The Comedies of Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton | 513 |
Jacobean Tragedy | 545 |
Scientific Writing | 565 |
Theological Writings and Religious Polemic | 589 |
Churchyard Cornwallis Florios | 600 |
Letters | 615 |
Identity | 634 |
The Debate on Witchcraft | 653 |
A Renaissance Category? | 674 |
A Renaissance Category? | 690 |
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| Title | A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture |
| Editor | Michael Hattaway |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint, revised |
| Publisher | John Wiley & Sons, 2002 |
| ISBN | 1405106263, 9781405106269 |
| Length | 800 pages |
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