Description
Book SynopsisThis
Concise Companion launches students into the study of English Renaissance literature through the central contexts that informed it.
- Places the poetry within contexts such as: economics; religion; empire and exploration; education, humanism and rhetoric; censorship and patronage; royal marriage and succession; treason and rebellion; others in England; private lives; cosmology and the body; and life-writing.
- Incorporates recent developments in the field, as well as work soon to be published.
- Entices students to explore the subject further.
- Provides new syntheses that will be of interest to scholars.
- All the contributors are highly regarded scholars and teachers.
Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors vii
Introduction 1
Donna B. Hamilton
1 Economics 11
S. P. Cerasano
2 Religion 32
Donna B. Hamilton
3 Royal Marriage and the Royal Succession 54
Paul E. J. Hammer
4 Patronage, Licensing, and Censorship 75
Richard Dutton
5 Humanism, Rhetoric, Education 94
Peter Mack
6 Manuscripts in Early Modern England 114
Heather Wolfe
7 Travel, Exploration, and Empire 136
Ralph Bauer
8 Private Life and Domesticity 160
Lena Cowen Orlin
9 Treason and Rebellion 180
Andrew Hadfield
10 Shakespeare and the Marginalized ‘‘Others’’ 200
Carole Levin
11 Cosmology and the Body 217
Cynthia Marshall
12 Life-Writing 238
Alan Stewart
Index 257
