A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and CultureMichael Hattaway John Wiley & Sons, 2002 M11 8 - 800 pages 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.
|
Contents
PART TWO Contexts and Perspectives c 15001650 | 13 |
English Reformations | 27 |
Platonism Stoicism Scepticism and Classical Imitation | 44 |
History | 58 |
The English Language of the Early Modern Period | 71 |
Court and Coterie Culture | 106 |
The Literature of the Metropolis | 119 |
Playhouses and the Role of Drama | 133 |
Erotic Poems | 392 |
Religious Verse | 404 |
Donne and his Circle Ben and his Tribe | 419 |
The Neglected Genres | 442 |
Local and Customary Drama | 464 |
Continuities between Medieval and Early Modern Drama | 477 |
Women and Drama | 499 |
The Comedies of Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton | 513 |
The Writing of Travel | 148 |
PART THREE Readings | 165 |
A Reading of Wyatts Who so list to hunt Rachel Falconer | 176 |
John Lylys Campaspe | 187 |
Poetry Politics and Justice | 195 |
Kyds The Spanish Tragedy | 206 |
Donnes Nineteenth Elegy Germaine Greer | 215 |
Lanyers The Description of Cookham and Jonsons To Penshurst Nicole Pohl | 224 |
Bacons Of Simulation and Dissimulation Martin Dzelzainis | 233 |
Lancelot Andrewess Good Friday 1604 Sermon | 241 |
Herberts The Elixir Judith Weil | 249 |
The Critical Elegy | 267 |
PART FOUR Genres and Modes | 287 |
Pastoral | 307 |
Epic | 327 |
Making and Defending Renaissance Poetics | 340 |
Traditions of Complaint and Satire | 367 |
Jacobean Tragedy | 545 |
Scientific Writing | 565 |
Theological Writings and Religious Polemic | 589 |
Churchyard Cornwallis Florios | 600 |
Diaries | 609 |
Letters | 615 |
PART FIVE Issues and Debates | 623 |
Identity | 634 |
Was There a Renaissance Feminism? Jean E Howard | 644 |
The Debate on Witchcraft | 653 |
History Historicism Histories | 662 |
A Renaissance Category? James Knowles | 674 |
A Renaissance Category? Margo Hendricks | 690 |
Writing the Nation | 699 |
| 709 | |
Other editions - View all
A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture Michael Hattaway No preview available - 2008 |
Common terms and phrases
appears argued Bacon become body called Cambridge century church classical court critics culture death desire Donne Drama early modern edition Elizabeth Elizabethan England English epic epigrams Essays example female figure further genre hand Henry human humanist important interest Italy James John Jonson kind King language later Latin learning letters lines literary literature London Lord manuscript means moral nature NOTES offers original Oxford pastoral performed period play poem poet poetry political popular practice present printed Protestant published Queen reader REFERENCES Reformation religious Renaissance represent rhetoric Richard Robert romance satire sense sexual Shakespeare Sidney social sonnet stage Studies suggests theatre things Thomas tion tradition Tragedy translation turn University Press verse women writing written York