Renaissance and Reformations: An Introduction to Early Modern English LiteratureJohn Wiley & Sons, 2008 M04 15 - 264 pages This volume offers a description of early modern habits of writing and reading, of publication and stage performance, and of political and religious writing.
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Contents
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2 Reading Publication Performance | 38 |
3 Forms Ancient and Modern | 67 |
4 Defining the Past | 103 |
5 Designing the Present | 125 |
6 Fictive Persons and Places | 152 |
7 Godliness | 181 |
Notes | 215 |
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