Contributor
Hattaway, Michael.
Imprint:Oxford, UK ; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell, 2001.
Descriptionxix, 747 p. ; 26 cm.
Note:Early Tudor humanism / Mary Thomas Crane. - English reformations / Patrick Collinson. - Platonism, stoicism, scepticism and classical imitation / Sarah Hutton. - History / Patrick Collinson. - The English language of the early modern period / N.F. Blake. - Publication: print and manuscript / Michelle O'Callaghan. - Literacy and education / Jean R. Brink. - Court and coterie culture / Curtis Perry. - The literature of the metropolis / John A. twyining. - Playhouses and the role of drama / Michael Hattaway. - The writing of travel / Peter Womach. - Translations of the Bible / Gerald Hammond. - A reading of Wyatt's 'Who so list to hunt' / Rachel Falconer. - Courtship and counsel: John Lyly's Campaspe / Greg Walker. - Spenser's Faerie Queene, book V: poetry, politics and justice / Judith H. Anderson. - Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy / A.J. Piesse. - Donne's 'Nineteenth elegy' / Germaine Greer. - Lanyer'sd 'The description of Cookham' and Jonson's 'To Penshurst' / Nicole Pohl. - Bacon's 'Of simulation and dissimulation' / Martin Dzelzainis. - Lancelot Andrewes's Good Friday 1604 sermon / Richard Harries. Herbert's 'That Elixir' / Judith Weil. - The heart of the labyrinth: Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus / Robyn Bolam. - The critical elegy / John Lyon. - Ford, Mary Wroth, and the final scene of 'Tis a Pity She's a Whore / Robyn Bolam.
Note:Theories of literary kinds / John Roe. - Allegory / Clara Mucci. - Pastoral / Michelle O'Callaghan. - Romance / Helen Moore. - Epic / Rachel Falconer. - The position of poetry: making and defending renaissance poetics / Arthur F. Kinney. - The English print, c.1550-c.1650 / Malcolm Jones. - Traditions of complaint and satire / John N. King. - Love poetry / Diana E. Henderson. - Erotic poems / Boika Sokolova. - Religious verse / Elizabeth Clarke. - Poets, friends and patrons: Donne and his circle; Ben and his tribe / Robin Robbins. - 'Such pretty things would soon be gone': the neglected genres of popular verse, 1480-1650 / Malcolm Jones. - Local and 'customary' drama / Thomas Pettitt. - Continuities between 'medieval' and 'early modern' drama / Michael O'Connell. - Political plays / Stephen Longstaffe. - Women and drama / Alison Findlay. - Tales of the city: the comedies of Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton / Peter J. Smith. - 'Tied / To rules of flattery?': court drama and the masque / James Knowles. - Jacobean tragedy / Rowland Wymer. - Caroline theatre / Roy Booth. - Scientific writing / David Colclough .- Prose fiction / Andrew Hadfield. - Theological writings and religious polemic / Donna B. Hamilton. - The English renaissance essay: Churchyard, Cornwallis, Florio's Montaigne and Bacon / John Lee. - Diaries / Elizabeth Clarke. - Letters / Jonathan Gibson. - Rhetoric / Marion Trousdale. - Identity / A.J. Piesse. - Was there a renaissance feminism? / Jean E. Howard. - The debate on witchcraft / James Sharpe. - Reconstructing the past: history, historicism, histories / James R. Simeon. - Sexuality: a renaissance category? / James Knowles. - Race: a renaissance category? / Margo Hendricks. - Writing the nation / Nicola Royan.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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