A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture

by Hattaway, Michael

• ISBN13: 9781405106269
• ISBN10: 1405106263
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-11-08
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This is a one volume, up-to-date collection of more than fifty wide-ranging essays which will inspire and guide students of the Renaissance and provide course leaders with a substantial and helpful frame of reference. Provides new perspectives on established texts. Orientates the new student, while providing advanced students with current and new directions. Pioneered by leading scholars. Occupies a unique niche in Renaissance studies. Illustrated with 12 single-page black and white prints.

Author Biography

Michael Hattaway is Professor of English Literature at the University of Sheffield. His many publications include Elizabethan Popular Theatre (1982) and he has edited plays by Shakespeare, Beaumont and Jonson. He is also the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's History Plays (2002), and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Drama (1990) and Shakespeare in the New Europe (1994).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	x
Notes on Contributors	xii
PART ONE Introduction
Introduction	3	(10)
Michael Hattaway
PART TWO Contexts and Perspectives, c. 1500--1650
Early Tudor Humanism	13	(14)
Mary Thomas Crane
English Reformations	27	(17)
Patrick Collinson
Platonism, Stoicism, Scepticism and Classical Imitation	44	(14)
Sarah Hutton
History	58	(13)
Patrick Collinson
The English Language of the Early Modern Period	71	(10)
N.F. Blake
Publication: Print and Manuscript	81	(14)
Michelle O'Callaghan
Literacy and Education	95	(11)
Jean R. Brink
Court and Coterie Culture	106	(13)
Curtis Perry
The Literature of the Metropolis	119	(14)
John A. Twyning
Playhouses and the Role of Drama	133	(15)
Michael Hattaway
The Writing of Travel	148	(17)
Peter Womack
PART THREE Readings
Translations of the Bible	165	(11)
Gerald Hammond
A Reading of Wyatt's `Who so list to hunt'	176	(11)
Rachel Falconer
Courtship and Counsel: John Lyly's Campaspe	187	(8)
Greg Walker
Spenser's Faerie Queene, Book V: Poetry, Politics and Justice	195	(11)
Judith H. Anderson
Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy	206	(9)
A.J. Piesse
Donne's Nineteenth Elegy'	215	(9)
Germaine Greer
Lanyer's `The Description of Cookham' and Jonson's `To Penshurst'	224	(9)
Nicole Pohl
Bacon's `Of Simulation and Dissimulation'	233	(8)
Martin Dzelzainis
Lancelor Andrewes's Good Friday 1604 Sermon	241	(8)
Richard Harries
Herbert's `The Elixir'	249	(8)
Judith Weil
The Heart of the Labyrinth: Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus	257	(10)
Robyn Bolam
The Critical Elegy	267	(9)
John Lyon
Ford, Mary Wroth, and the Final Scene of `Tis Pity She's a Whore	276	(11)
Robyn Bolam
PART FOUR Genres and Modes
Theories of Literary Kinds	287	(11)
John Roe
Allegory	298	(9)
Clara Mucci
Pastoral	307	(10)
Michelle O'Callaghan
Romance	317	(10)
Helen Moore
Epic	327	(13)
Rachel Falconer
The Position of Poetry: Making and Defending Renaissance Poetics	340	(12)
Arthur F. Kinney
The English Print, c. 1550--c.1650	352	(15)
Malcolm Jones
Traditions of Complaint and Satire	367	(11)
John N. King
Love Poetry	378	(14)
Diana E. Henderson
Erotic Poems	392	(12)
Boika Sokolova
Religious Verse	404	(15)
Elizabeth Clarke
Poets, Friends and Patrons: Donne and his Circle; Ben and his Tribe	419	(23)
Robin Robbins
`Such pretty things would soon be gone': The Neglected Genres of Popular Verse, 1480--1650	442	(22)
Malcolm Jones
Local and `Customary' Drama	464	(13)
Thomas Pettitt
Continuities between `Medieval' and `Early Modern' Drama	477	(9)
Michael O' Connell
Political Plays	486	(13)
Stephen Longstaffe
Women and Drama	499	(14)
Alison Findlay
Tales of the City: The Comedies of Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton	513	(12)
Peter J. Smith
`Tied / To Rules of Flattery?': Court Drama and the Masque	525	(20)
James Knowles
Jacobean Tragedy	545	(11)
Rowland Wymer
Caroline Theatre	556	(9)
Roy Booth
Scientific Writing	565	(11)
David Colclough
Prose Fiction	576	(13)
Andrew Hadfield
Theological Writings and Religious Polemic	589	(11)
Donna B. Hamilton
The English Renaissance Essay: Churchyard, Cornwallis, Florio's Montaigne and Bacon	600	(9)
John Lee
Diaries	609	(6)
Elizabeth Clarke
Letters	615	(8)
Jonathan Gibson
PART FIVE Issues and Debates
Rhetoric	623	(11)
Marion Trousdale
Identity	634	(10)
A. J. Piesse
Was There a Renaissance Feminism?	644	(9)
Jean E. Howard
The Debate on Witchcraft	653	(9)
James Sharpe
Reconstructing the Past: History, Historicism, Histories	662	(12)
James R. Siemon
Sexuality: A Renaissance Category?	674	(16)
James Knowles
Race: A Renaissance Category?	690	(9)
Margo Hendricks
Writing the Nation	699	(10)
Nicola Royan
Index	709