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A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture

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Michael Hattaway
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John Wiley & Sons, 2000 - History - 747 pages
'The volume's awesome range makes it a valuable preserve for scholars and an ambitious reference for students.' - Times Higher Education Supplement

'This impressive tome must certainly be the last word on English Renaissance literature culture, at least for some considerable time to come.' - Reference reviews

In this comprehensive Companion over fifty of the most eminent modern scholars come together to offer an original and far-reaching survey of English Renaissance literature and culture.

The first part of the volume considers pertinent issues such as humanism, English reformations, the development of the language, court culture and playhouses, in terms of the way in which these aspects of Renaissance culture influenced literary production. There are provocative essays on canonical genres such as love poetry and Jacobean tragedy, but also accounts of popular and occasional drama and verse, and the visual arts.

The Companion also approaches key texts of the period through a number of new readings, providing original perspective and positions on both canonical and non-canonical texts. The essays include a range of approaches to a variety of texts from The Spanish Tragedy and The Faerie Queen to 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, the poems of Lady Mary Wroth, and a selection of critical elegies.

In the final section, the book moves on the explore contemporary debates in Renaissance studies such as feminism, sexuality, historicism, and nation.

This Companion is the only book of its kind to travel beyond the stage and is an invaluable guide for both student and teacher.

  

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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
Court and Coterie Culture
106
The Literature of the Metropolis
119
Playhouses and the Role of Drama
133
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
Continuities between Medieval and Early Modern Drama
477
Women and Drama
499

The Writing of Travel
148
Translations of the Bible
165
John Lylys Campaspe
187
Kyds The Spanish Tragedy
206
LanyersThe Description of Cookhamand Jonsons To Penshurst
224
Lancelot Andrewess Good Friday 1604 Sermon
241
Herberts The Elixir
249
The Critical Elegy
267
Theories of Literary Kinds
287
Pastoral
307
Epic
327
Making and Defending Renaissance Poetics
340
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
Index
709
Copyright

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About the author (2000)

Michael Hattaway is Professor of English Literature at the University of Sheffield. His many publications include Elizabethan Popular Theatre (1982) and he has edited plays by Shakespeare, Beaumont and Jonson. He is also the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's History Plays (2002), and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Drama (1990) and Shakespeare in the New Europe (1994).

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TitleA Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture
Volume 8 of Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
EditorMichael Hattaway
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherJohn Wiley & Sons, 2000
ISBN1405106263, 9781405106269
Length747 pages
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History / Europe / Great Britain
Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Literary Criticism / Reference
  
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