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Book Synopsis* 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. .
Trade Review"The inclusivity and scholarship of this Companion builds on the excellence of the earlier edition. Any university library supporting undergraduate and postgraduate courses on Renaissance literature should consider adding this to their collection." (Reference Reviews, 2011)
"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 and culture, at least for some considerable time to come." Reference Reviews
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations x
Notes on Contributors xii
PART ONE Introduction
1 Introduction 3
Michael Hattaway
PART TWO Contexts and Perspectives, c.1500–1650
2 Early Tudor Humanism 13
Mary Thomas Crane
3 English Reformations 27
Patrick Collinson
4 Platonism, Stoicism, Scepticism and Classical Imitation 44
Sarah Hutton
5 History 58
Patrick Collinson
6 The English Language of the Early Modern Period 71
N. F. Blake
7 Publication: Print and Manuscript 81
Michelle O’Callaghan
8 Literacy and Education 95
Jean R. Brink
9 Court and Coterie Culture 106
Curtis Perry
10 The Literature of the Metropolis 119
John A. Twyning
11 Playhouses and the Role of Drama 133
Michael Hattaway
12 The Writing of Travel 148
Peter Womack
PART THREE Readings
13 Translations of the Bible 165
Gerald Hammond
14 A Reading of Wyatt’s ‘Who so list to hunt’ 176
Rachel Falconer
15 Courtship and Counsel: John Lyly’s Campaspe 187
Greg Walker
16 Spenser’s Faerie Queene, Book V: Poetry, Politics and Justice 195
Judith H. Anderson
17 Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy 206
A. J. Piesse
18 Donne’s ‘Nineteenth Elegy’ 215
Germaine Greer
19 Lanyer’s ‘The Description of Cookham’ and Jonson’s ‘To Penshurst’ 224
Nicole Pohl
20 Bacon’s ‘Of Simulation and Dissimulation’ 233
Martin Dzelzainis
21 Lancelot Andrewes’s Good Friday 1604 Sermon 241
Richard Harries
22 Herbert’s ‘The Elixir’ 249
Judith Weil
23 The Heart of the Labyrinth: Mary Wroth’s Pamphilia to Amphilanthus 257
Robyn Bolam
24 The Critical Elegy 267
John Lyon
25 Ford, Mary Wroth, and the Final Scene of ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore 276
Robyn Bolam
PART FOUR Genres and Modes
26 Theories of Literary Kinds 287
John Roe
27 Allegory 298
Clara Mucci
28 Pastoral 307
Michelle O’Callaghan
29 Romance 317
Helen Moore
30 Epic 327
Rachel Falconer
31 The Position of Poetry: Making and Defending Renaissance Poetics 340
Arthur F. Kinney
32 The English Print, c.1550–c.1650 352
Malcolm Jones
33 Traditions of Complaint and Satire 367
John N. King
34 Love Poetry 378
Diana E. Henderson
35 Erotic Poems 392
Boika Sokolova
36 Religious Verse 404
Elizabeth Clarke
37 Poets, Friends and Patrons: Donne and his Circle; Ben and his Tribe 419
Robin Robbins
38 ‘Such pretty things would soon be gone’: The Neglected Genres of Popular Verse, 1480–1650 442
Malcolm Jones
39 Local and ‘Customary’ Drama 464
Thomas Pettitt
40 Continuities between ‘Medieval’ and ‘Early Modern’ Drama 477
Michael O’Connell
41 Political Plays 486
Stephen Longstaffe
42 Women and Drama 499
Alison Findlay
43 Tales of the City: The Comedies of Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton 513
Peter J. Smith
44 ‘Tied / To Rules of Flattery?’: Court Drama and the Masque 525
James Knowles
45 Jacobean Tragedy 545
Rowland Wymer
46 Caroline Theatre 556
Roy Booth
47 Scientific Writing 565
David Colclough
48 Prose Fiction 576
Andrew Hadfield
49 Theological Writings and Religious Polemic 589
Donna B. Hamilton
50 The English Renaissance Essay: Churchyard, Cornwallis, Florio’s Montaigne and Bacon 600
John Lee
51 Diaries 609
Elizabeth Clarke
52 Letters 615
Jonathan Gibson
PART FIVE Issues and Debates
53 Rhetoric 623
Marion Trousdale
54 Identity 634
A. J. Piesse
55 Was There a Renaissance Feminism? 644
Jean E. Howard
56 The Debate on Witchcraft 653
James Sharpe
57 Reconstructing the Past: History, Historicism, Histories 662
James R. Siemon
58 Sexuality: A Renaissance Category? 674
James Knowles
59 Race: A Renaissance Category? 690
Margo Hendricks
60 Writing the Nation 699
Nicola Royan
Index 709
