A new companion to English Renaissance literature and culture /
"In this revised and greatly expanded edition of the original Companion, some eighty of the very best modern scholars, including Judith H. Anderson, Patrick Collinson, Alison Findlay, Germaine Greer, Malcolm Jones, Arthur F. Kinney, James Knowles, Arthur F. Marotti, Robert S. Miola, and Greg Wa...
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Chichester ; Malden, MA :
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2010.
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| Series: | Blackwell companions to literature and culture ;
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Table of Contents:
- v. 1. The English language of the early modern period / Arja Nurmi
- Literacy and education / Jean R. Brink
- Rhetoric / Gavin Alexander
- History / Patrick Collinson
- Metaphor and culture in Renaissance England / Judith H. Anderson
- Early Tudor humanism / Mary Thomas Crane
- Platonism, stoicism, scepticism, and classical imitation / Sarah Hutton
- Translation / Liz Oakley-Brown
- Mythology / Jane Kingsley-Smith
- Scientific writing / David Colclough
- Publication : print and manuscript / Michelle O'Callaghan
- Early modern handwriting / Grace Ioppolo
- The manuscript transmission of poetry / Arthur F. Marotti
- Poets, friends, and patrons : Donne and his circle, Ben and his tribe / Robin Robbins
- Law : poetry and jurisdiction / Bradin Cormack
- Spenser's Faerie queene, book 5 : poetry, politics, and justice / Judith H. Anderson
- 'Law makes the king' : Richard Hooker on law and princely rule / Torrance Kirby
- Donne, Milton, and the two traditions of religious liberty / Feisal G. Mohamed
- Court and coterie culture / Curtis Perry
- Courtship and counsel : John Lyly's Campaspe / Greg Walker
- Bacon's 'Of simulation and dissimulation' / Martin Dzelzainis
- The literature of the metropolis / John A. Twyning
- Tales of the city : the plays of Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton / Peter J. Smith
- 'An emblem of themselves' : early Renaissance country house poetry / Nicole Pohl
- Literary gardens, from More to Marvell / Hester Lees-Jeffries
- English reformations / Patrick Collinson
- Translations of the Bible / Gerald Hammond
- Lancelot Andrewes' Good Friday 1604 sermon / Richard Harries
- Theological writings and religious polemic / Donna B. Hamilton
- Catholic writings / Robert S. Miola
- Sectarian writing / Hilary Hinds
- The English broadside print, c.1550-c.1650 / Malcolm Jones
- The writing of travel / Peter Womack
- England's experiences of Islam / Stephan Schmuck
- Reading the body / Jennifer Waldron
- Physiognomy / Sibylle Baumbach
- Dreams and dreamers / Carole Levin.
- v. 2. Theories of literary kinds / John Roe
- The position of poetry : making and defending Renaissance poetics / Arthur F. Kinney
- Epic / Rachel Falconer
- Playhouses, performances, and the role of drama / Michael Hattaway
- Continuities between 'Medieval' and 'Early Modern' drama / Michael O'Connell
- Kyd's The Spanish tragedy / A.J. Piesse
- Boys' plays / Edel Lamb
- Drama of the Inns of Court / Alan H. Nelson and Jessica Winston
- 'Tied to rules of flattery'? : court drama and the masque / James Knowles
- Women and drama / Alison Findlay
- Political plays / Stephen Longstaffe
- Jacobean tragedy / Rowland Wymer
- Caroline theatre / Roy Booth
- John Ford, Mary Wroth, and the final scene of 'Tis pity she's a whore / Robyn Bolam
- Local drama and custom / Thomas Pettitt
- The critical elegy / John Lyon
- Allegory / Clara Mucci
- Pastoral / Michelle O'Callaghan
- Romance / Helen Moore
- Love poetry / Diana E. Henderson
- Music and poetry / David Lindley
- Wyatt's 'Who so list to hunt' / Rachel Falconer
- The heart of the labyrinth : Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus / Robyn Bolam
- Ovidian erotic poems / Boika Sokolova
- John Donne's nineteenth elegy / Germaine Greer
- Traditions of complaint and satire / John N. King
- Folk legends and wonder tales / Thomas Pettitt
- 'Such pretty things would soon be gone' : the neglected genres of popular verse, 1480-1650 / Malcolm Jones
- Religious verse / Elizabeth Clarke
- Herbert's 'The elixir' / Judith Weil
- Conversion and poetry in Early Modern England / Molly Murray
- Prose fiction / Andrew Hadfield
- The English Renaissance essay : Churchyard, Cornwallis, Florio's Montaigne, and Bacon / John Lee
- Diaries and journals / Elizabeth Clarke
- Letters / Jonathan Gibson
- Identity / A.J. Piesse
- Sexuality : a Renaissance category? / James Knowles
- Was there a Renaissance feminism? / Jean E. Howard
- Drama as text and performance / Andrea Stevens
- The debate on witchcraft / James Sharpe
- Reconstructing the past : history, historicism, histories / James R. Siemon
- Race : a Renaissance category? / Margo Hendricks
- Writing the nations / Nicola Royan
- Early modern ecology / Ken Hiltner.