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Book SynopsisIn this revised and greatly expanded edition of the original Companion, some 80 of the very best modern scholars come together to offer an original assessment of English Renaissance literature and culture.
Trade Review"As with the previous volume, each essay is the work of an accomplished scholar and is supplemented with a list of references and further reading. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." (Choice, 1July 2011)
Table of ContentsVolume I
List of Illustrations xi
Acknowledgements xiii
Contributors xv
Asterisked items are essays that offer focused readings of particular texts
1 Introduction 1
Michael Hattaway
Part One: Contexts, Readings, and Perspectives c.1500–c.1650 13
2 The English Language of the Early Modern Period 15
Arja Nurmi
3 Literacy and Education 27
Jean R. Brink
4 Rhetoric 38
Gavin Alexander
5 History 55
Patrick Collinson
6 Metaphor and Culture in Renaissance England 74
Judith H. Anderson
7 Early Tudor Humanism 91
Mary Thomas Crane
8 Platonism, Stoicism, Scepticism, and Classical Imitation 106
Sarah Hutton
9 Translation 120
Liz Oakley-Brown
10 Mythology 134
Jane Kingsley-Smith
11 Scientifi c Writing 150
David Colclough
12 Publication: Print and Manuscript 160
Michelle O’Callaghan
13 Early Modern Handwriting 177
Grace Ioppolo
14 The Manuscript Transmission of Poetry 190
Arthur F. Marotti
15 Poets, Friends, and Patrons: Donne and his Circle; Ben and his Tribe 221
Robin Robbins
16 Law: Poetry and Jurisdiction 248
Bradin Cormack
17 *Spenser’s Faerie Queene, Book 5: Poetry, Politics, and Justice 263
Judith H. Anderson
18 *‘Law Makes the King’: Richard Hooker on Law and Princely Rule 274
Torrance Kirby
19 Donne, Milton, and the Two Traditions of Religious Liberty 289
Feisal G. Mohamed
20 Court and Coterie Culture 304
Curtis Perry
21 *Courtship and Counsel: John Lyly’s Campaspe 320
Greg Walker
22 *Bacon’s ‘Of Simulation and Dissimulation’ 329
Martin Dzelzainis
23 The Literature of the Metropolis 337
John A. Twyning
24 *Tales of the City: The Plays of Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton 352
Peter J. Smith
25 ‘An Emblem of Themselves’: Early Renaissance Country House Poetry 367
Nicole Pohl
26 Literary Gardens, from More to Marvell 379
Hester Lees-Jeffries
27 English Reformations 396
Patrick Collinson
28 *Translations of the Bible 419
Gerald Hammond
29 *Lancelot Andrewes’ Good Friday 1604 Sermon 430
Richard Harries
30 Theological Writings and Religious Polemic 438
Donna B. Hamilton
31 Catholic Writings 449
Robert S. Miola
32 Sectarian Writing 464
Hilary Hinds
33 The English Broadside Print, c.1550–c.1650 478
Malcolm Jones
34 The Writing of Travel 527
Peter Womack
35 England’s Experiences of Islam 543
Stephan Schmuck
36 Reading the Body 557
Jennifer Waldron
37 Physiognomy 582
Sibylle Baumbach
38 Dreams and Dreamers 598
Carole Levin
Volume II
List of Illustrations xi
Part Two: Genres and Modes 1
39 Theories of Literary Kinds 3
John Roe
40 The Position of Poetry: Making and Defending Renaissance Poetics 15
Arthur F. Kinney
41 Epic 28
Rachel Falconer
42 Playhouses, Performances, and the Role of Drama 42
Michael Hattaway
43 Continuities between ‘Medieval’ and ‘Early Modern’ Drama 60
Michael O’Connell
44 *Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy 70
A. J. Piesse
45 Boys’ Plays 80
Edel Lamb
46 Drama of the Inns of Court 94
Alan H. Nelson and Jessica Winston
47 ‘Tied to rules of fl attery’? Court Drama and the Masque 105
James Knowles
48 Women and Drama 123
Alison Findlay
49 Political Plays 141
Stephen Longstaffe
50 Jacobean Tragedy 154
Rowland Wymer
51 Caroline Theatre 166
Roy Booth
52 *John Ford, Mary Wroth, and the Final Scene of ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore 176
Robyn Bolam
53 Local Drama and Custom 184
Thomas Pettitt
54 *The Critical Elegy 204
John Lyon
55 Allegory 214
Clara Mucci
56 Pastoral 225
Michelle O’Callaghan
57 Romance 238
Helen Moore
58 Love Poetry 249
Diana E. Henderson
59 Music and Poetry 264
David Lindley
60 *Wyatt’s ‘Who so list to hunt’ 278
Rachel Falconer
61 *The Heart of the Labyrinth: Mary Wroth’s Pamphilia to Amphilanthus 288
Robyn Bolam
62 Ovidian Erotic Poems 299
Boika Sokolova
63 *John Donne’s Nineteenth Elegy 317
Germaine Greer
64 Traditions of Complaint and Satire 326
John N. King
65 Folk Legends and Wonder Tales 341
Thomas Pettitt
66 ‘Such pretty things would soon be gone’: The Neglected Genres of Popular Verse, 1480–1650 359
Malcolm Jones
67 Religious Verse 382
Elizabeth Clarke
68 *Herbert’s ‘The Elixir’ 398
Judith Weil
69 *Conversion and Poetry in Early Modern England 407
Molly Murray
70 Prose Fiction 423
Andrew Hadfi eld
71 The English Renaissance Essay: Churchyard, Cornwallis, Florio’s Montaigne, and Bacon 437
John Lee
72 Diaries and Journals 447
Elizabeth Clarke
73 Letters 453
Jonathan Gibson
Part Three: Issues and Debates 461
74 Identity 463
A. J. Piesse
75 Sexuality: A Renaissance Category? 474
James Knowles
76 Was There a Renaissance Feminism? 492
Jean E. Howard
77 Drama as Text and Performance 502
Andrea Stevens
78 The Debate on Witchcraft 513
James Sharpe
79 Reconstructing the Past: History, Historicism, Histories 523
James R. Siemon
80 Race: A Renaissance Category? 535
Margo Hendricks
81 Writing the Nations 545
Nicola Royan
82 Early Modern Ecology 555
Ken Hiltner
Index of Names, Topics, and Institutions 569
