{"product_id":"the-english-renaissance-15001620-9780631220244","title":"The English Renaissance 15001620","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis lively and stimulating book guides students through the historical contexts, key figures, texts, themes and issues in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century English literature. \u003ci\u003eThe English Renaissance, 1500-1620\u003c\/i\u003e sets out the historical and cultural contexts of Renaissance England, highlighting the background voices and events which influenced literary production, including the Reformation, the British problem, perceptions of other cultures and the voyages to the Americas. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eA series of short biographical essays on the key writers of the period explain their significance, and explore a variety of perspectives with which to approach them. In-depth analyses of a number of well-studied texts are also provided, indicating why each text is important and suggesting ways in which each might usefully be read. Texts featured include Astrophil and Stella, Othello, Utopia, Dr Faustus, The Tragedy of Miriam, The Unfortunate Traveller and the Faerie Queene.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe vo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Hadfield's \u003ci\u003eThe English Renaissance 1500-1620\u003c\/i\u003e admirably acheives the author's intention, clearly set out in a preamble, to provide essentials to readers new to the territory. It is divided into helpful sections, providing a succint historical overview of the period and of major religious, political, exploratory and colonising movements. And it is written in lucid, jargon-free prose. Hadfield's book is a leader in its field.\" \u003ci\u003eTimes Higher Education Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This guide will be useful precisely because it is a supplement to (and not a substitute for) the primary materials from the period. It self-consciously raises the proper questions not only for the authors and texts it includes, but also for the very process involved in making those selections. As such, it is a guide that can lead undergraduate students profitably through the Dark Wood of English Renaissance literature, as well as the critical debates generated by the literature.\" \u003ci\u003eReference Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Andrew Hadfield's \u003ci\u003eThe English Renaissance, 1500-1620\u003c\/i\u003e in the series Blackwell Guides to Literature - lucid little introductions to issues, authors, and texts, aimed at the undergraduate but also useful for Ph.D. students - is remarkable because he wrote it all himself.\" \u003ci\u003eStudies in English Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"What makes these pieces particularly useful in one's teaching is that they are short but also insightful and provocative. They therefore manage to be accessible to students and to exemplify the kind of work that one would seriously expect one's students to aspire to. ... \u003ci\u003eThe English Renaissance 1500-1620\u003c\/i\u003e is an informative work and an engaging read. I hope that it will be appearing under the heading of required secondary reading in undergraduate module and course guides for many years to come.\" \u003ci\u003eEnglish: The Journal\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eof the English Association\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements. \u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChronology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA History of the English Renaissance.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePolitical and Religious Developments.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe British Isles.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExploration, Discovery, and Colonisation in the Americas.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWriters.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRoger Ascham (1515-68).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrancis Bacon (1561-1626).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Bale (1495-1563).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlexander Barclay (1475?-1552).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Campion (1567-1620).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eElizabeth Cary (1585-1639).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeorge Chapman (c.1560-1634).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSamuel Daniel (1562\/3- 1619).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSir John Davies (1569-1626).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Dekker (c.1570-1632).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Donne (1572-1631).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMichael Drayton (1563-1631).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Fletcher (1579-1625).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Florio (1553-1625).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeorge Gascoigne (c.1534-77).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBarnaby Googe (1540-94).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobert Greene (c.1558-92).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSir Fulke Greville, First Baron Brooke (1554-1628).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJoseph Hall (1574-1656).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGabriel Harvey (1550?-1631).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHenry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517?-47).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBen Jonson (1572-1637).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Kyd (1558-94).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAemilia Lanyer (1569-1645).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Lyly (1554?-1606).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChristopher Marlowe (1564-93).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Marston (1576-1634).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Middleton (c.1580-1627).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas More (1477-1535).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Nashe (1567-1601).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSir Walter Raleigh (1554-1618).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Shakespeare (1564-1616).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke (1561-1621).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSir Philip Sidney (1554-86).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Skelton (1460?-1529).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEdmund Spenser (1552?-1599).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Tyndale (1494?-1536).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Webster (c.1580-c.1634).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIsabella Whitney (fl. 1567-73).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSir Thomas Wyatt (1503?-42).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKey Texts.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSir Philip Sidney, An Apology for Poetry and George Puttenham (?), The Art of English Poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSir Philip Sidney, The Arcadia.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSir Philip Sidney, Astrophil and Stella.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChristopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Webster, The Duchess of Malfi.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBen Jonson, Every Man in his Humour.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEdmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Norton and Thomas Sackville, Gorboduc, or Ferrex and Porrex.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBen Jonson, Poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Mirror for Magistrates.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Shakespeare, Othello.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Shakespeare, Richard II.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Dekker, The Shoemaker's Holiday.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Donne, Songs and Sonnets and Divine Poems.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Shakespeare, Sonnets.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChristopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine the Great, parts one and two.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Shakespeare, The Tempest.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eElizabeth Cary, The Tragedy of Miriam.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Nashe, The Unfortunate Traveller.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas More, Utopia.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTopics.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHumanism, Education, Rhetoric, Genre Theory.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrinting, Manuscript Circulation, and Censorship.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAttitudes to Other Nations and Cultures.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWomen, Gender, and Queer Reading.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Stage.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCurrent Issues in the criticism of Renaissance literature.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGuide to Further Reading.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlossary.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403434303831,"sku":"9780631220244","price":43.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780631220244.jpg?v=1730483464","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-english-renaissance-15001620-9780631220244","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}