The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1500–1600

by Edited by Arthur F. Kinney

• ISBN13: 9780521587587
• ISBN10: 0521587581
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-12-13
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This is the first comprehensive account of English Renaissance literature in the context of the culture that shaped it: the courts of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, the tumult of Catholic and Protestant alliances during the Reformation, the age of printing and of New World discovery. The Companion covers developments in poetry, prose, religious writing, drama, satire and humanism in fourteen newly-commissioned essays, written by experts for student readers. A detailed chronology of major literary achievements concludes with a list of authors and their dates.

Author Biography

Catherine Bates, University of Warwick Colin Burrow, University of Cambridge Donald Cheney, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Heather Dubrow, University of Wisconsin, Madison Suzanne Gossett, Loyola University of Chicago Richard Helgerson, University of California, Santa Barbara Clark Hulse, University of Illinois, Chicago John N. King, The Ohio State University Arthur F. Kinney, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Leah S. Marcus, Vanderbitt University Lena Cowen Orlin, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Anne Lake Prescott, Barnard College, Columbia University Charlotte Spivack, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Garrett Sullivan, The Pennsylvania State University Raymond Waddington, University of California, Davis Wendy Wall, Northwestern University Linda Woodbridge, The Pennsylvania State University

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	xi
List of contributors	xiii
Chronologies	xv
Charlotte Spivack
Introduction	1	(10)
Arthur F. Kinney
The sixteenth century	11	(18)
Colin Burrow
Tudor aesthetics	29	(35)
Clark Hulse
Authorship and the material conditions of writing	64	(26)
Wendy Wall
Poetry, patronage, and the court	90	(14)
Catherine Bates
Religious writing	104	(28)
John N. King
Dramatic experiments: Tudor drama, 1490-1567	132	(21)
Leah S. Marcus
Dramatic achievements	153	(25)
Suzanne Gossett
Lyric forms	178	(22)
Heather Dubrow
Narrative, romance, and epic	200	(20)
Donald Cheney
The evolution of Tudor satire	220	(21)
Anne Lake Prescott
Chronicles of private life	241	(24)
Lena Cowen Orlin
Popular culture in print	265	(22)
Garrett Sullivan
Linda WoodBridge
Rewriting the world, rewriting the body	287	(23)
Raymond Waddington
Writing empire and nation	310	(20)
Richard Helgerson
Index	330