A new companion to English renaissance literature and culture

Author(s)

• Hattaway, Michael

Bibliographic Information

A new companion to English renaissance literature and culture

edited by Michael Hattaway

（Blackwell companions to literature and culture, 68）

Wiley-Blackwell, 2010

• : set
• v. 1
• v. 2

Note

"References and further reading" at end of each chapter

Includes index in v. 2

Description and Table of Contents

Description

In this revised and greatly expanded edition of the Companion, 80 scholars come together to offer an original and far-reaching assessment of English Renaissance literature and culture. A new edition of the best-selling Companion to English Renaissance Literature, revised and updated, with 22 new essays and 19 new illustrations Contributions from some 80 scholars including Judith H. Anderson, Patrick Collinson, Alison Findlay, Germaine Greer, Malcolm Jones, Arthur Kinney, James Knowles, Arthur Marotti, Robert Miola and Greg Walker Unrivalled in scope and its exploration of unfamiliar literary and cultural territories the Companion offers new readings of both 'literary' and 'non-literary' texts Features essays discussing material culture, sectarian writing, the history of the body, theatre both in and outside the playhouses, law, gardens, and ecology in early modern England Orientates the beginning student, while providing advanced students and faculty with new directions for their research All of the essays from the first edition, along with the recommendations for further reading, have been reworked or updated

Table of Contents

• Volume I List of Illustrations xi Acknowledgements xiii Contributors xv Asterisked items are essays that offer focused readings of particular texts 1 Introduction 1 Michael Hattaway Part One: Contexts, Readings, and Perspectives c.1500-c.1650 13 2 The English Language of the Early Modern Period 15 Arja Nurmi 3 Literacy and Education 27 Jean R. Brink 4 Rhetoric 38 Gavin Alexander 5 History 55 Patrick Collinson 6 Metaphor and Culture in Renaissance England 74 Judith H. Anderson 7 Early Tudor Humanism 91 Mary Thomas Crane 8 Platonism, Stoicism, Scepticism, and Classical Imitation 106 Sarah Hutton 9 Translation 120 Liz Oakley-Brown 10 Mythology 134 Jane Kingsley-Smith 11 Scientifi c Writing 150 David Colclough 12 Publication: Print and Manuscript 160 Michelle O'Callaghan 13 Early Modern Handwriting 177 Grace Ioppolo 14 The Manuscript Transmission of Poetry 190 Arthur F. Marotti 15 Poets, Friends, and Patrons: Donne and his Circle
• Ben and his Tribe 221 Robin Robbins 16 Law: Poetry and Jurisdiction 248 Bradin Cormack 17 *Spenser's Faerie Queene, Book 5: Poetry, Politics, and Justice 263 Judith H. Anderson 18 *'Law Makes the King': Richard Hooker on Law and Princely Rule 274 Torrance Kirby 19 Donne, Milton, and the Two Traditions of Religious Liberty 289 Feisal G. Mohamed 20 Court and Coterie Culture 304 Curtis Perry 21 *Courtship and Counsel: John Lyly's Campaspe 320 Greg Walker 22 *Bacon's 'Of Simulation and Dissimulation' 329 Martin Dzelzainis 23 The Literature of the Metropolis 337 John A. Twyning 24 *Tales of the City: The Plays of Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton 352 Peter J. Smith 25 'An Emblem of Themselves': Early Renaissance Country House Poetry 367 Nicole Pohl 26 Literary Gardens, from More to Marvell 379 Hester Lees-Jeffries 27 English Reformations 396 Patrick Collinson 28 *Translations of the Bible 419 Gerald Hammond 29 *Lancelot Andrewes' Good Friday 1604 Sermon 430 Richard Harries 30 Theological Writings and Religious Polemic 438 Donna B. Hamilton 31 Catholic Writings 449 Robert S. Miola 32 Sectarian Writing 464 Hilary Hinds 33 The English Broadside Print, c.1550-c.1650 478 Malcolm Jones 34 The Writing of Travel 527 Peter Womack 35 England's Experiences of Islam 543 Stephan Schmuck 36 Reading the Body 557 Jennifer Waldron 37 Physiognomy 582 Sibylle Baumbach 38 Dreams and Dreamers 598 Carole Levin Volume II List of Illustrations xi Part Two: Genres and Modes 1 39 Theories of Literary Kinds 3 John Roe 40 The Position of Poetry: Making and Defending Renaissance Poetics 15 Arthur F. Kinney 41 Epic 28 Rachel Falconer 42 Playhouses, Performances, and the Role of Drama 42 Michael Hattaway 43 Continuities between 'Medieval' and 'Early Modern' Drama 60 Michael O'Connell 44 *Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy 70 A. J. Piesse 45 Boys' Plays 80 Edel Lamb 46 Drama of the Inns of Court 94 Alan H. Nelson and Jessica Winston 47 'Tied to rules of fl attery'? Court Drama and the Masque 105 James Knowles 48 Women and Drama 123 Alison Findlay 49 Political Plays 141 Stephen Longstaffe 50 Jacobean Tragedy 154 Rowland Wymer 51 Caroline Theatre 166 Roy Booth 52 *John Ford, Mary Wroth, and the Final Scene of 'Tis Pity She's a Whore 176 Robyn Bolam 53 Local Drama and Custom 184 Thomas Pettitt 54 *The Critical Elegy 204 John Lyon 55 Allegory 214 Clara Mucci 56 Pastoral 225 Michelle O'Callaghan 57 Romance 238 Helen Moore 58 Love Poetry 249 Diana E. Henderson 59 Music and Poetry 264 David Lindley 60 *Wyatt's 'Who so list to hunt' 278 Rachel Falconer 61 *The Heart of the Labyrinth: Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus 288 Robyn Bolam 62 Ovidian Erotic Poems 299 Boika Sokolova 63 *John Donne's Nineteenth Elegy 317 Germaine Greer 64 Traditions of Complaint and Satire 326 John N. King 65 Folk Legends and Wonder Tales 341 Thomas Pettitt 66 'Such pretty things would soon be gone': The Neglected Genres of Popular Verse, 1480-1650 359 Malcolm Jones 67 Religious Verse 382 Elizabeth Clarke 68 *Herbert's 'The Elixir' 398 Judith Weil 69 *Conversion and Poetry in Early Modern England 407 Molly Murray 70 Prose Fiction 423 Andrew Hadfi eld 71 The English Renaissance Essay: Churchyard, Cornwallis, Florio's Montaigne, and Bacon 437 John Lee 72 Diaries and Journals 447 Elizabeth Clarke 73 Letters 453 Jonathan Gibson Part Three: Issues and Debates 461 74 Identity 463 A. J. Piesse 75 Sexuality: A Renaissance Category? 474 James Knowles 76 Was There a Renaissance Feminism? 492 Jean E. Howard 77 Drama as Text and Performance 502 Andrea Stevens 78 The Debate on Witchcraft 513 James Sharpe 79 Reconstructing the Past: History, Historicism, Histories 523 James R. Siemon 80 Race: A Renaissance Category? 535 Margo Hendricks 81 Writing the Nations 545 Nicola Royan 82 Early Modern Ecology 555 Ken Hiltner Index of Names, Topics, and Institutions 569

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Details

• NCID: BB01954506
• ISBN:
  • 9781405187626
• LCCN: 2009033117
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Malden, Mass.
• Pages/Volumes: 2 v.
• Size: 26 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PR411
  • DC22 : 820.9/003
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
  • LCSH : England -- Civilization -- 16th century -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
  • LCSH : England -- Civilization -- 17th century -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
  • LCSH : Renaissance -- England -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA33407255