A new companion to English Renaissance literature and culture /
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by Michael Hattaway
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
2 volumes :
Other Physical Details
illustrations ;
Dimensions
26 cm
SERIES
Series Title
Blackwell companions to literature and culture ;
Volume Designation
68
GENERAL NOTES
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"[R]evised and greatly expanded edition of the original Companion"--Jkt
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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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 --
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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
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TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
English literature-- Early modern, 1500-1700-- History and criticism, Handbooks, manuals, etc
Renaissance-- England, Handbooks, manuals, etc
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
England, Civilization, 16th century, Handbooks, manuals, etc
England, Civilization, 17th century, Handbooks, manuals, etc