A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and CultureISBN: 978-1-4051-0626-9
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786 pages
November 2002, Wiley-Blackwell
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Notes on Contributors. .
Part I: Introduction.
1. Introduction (Michael Hattaway).
Part II: Contexts and Perspectives ca 1500-1650.
2. Early Tudor 'Humanism (Mary T. Crane).
3. English Reformations (Patrick Collinson).
4. Platonism, Stoicism, Scepticism, and Classical Imitation (Sarah Hutton).
5. History (Patrick Collinson).
6. The English Language of the Early Modern Period (N.F. Blake).
7. Publication: Print and Manuscript (Michelle O'Callaghan).
8. Literacy and Education (Jean R. Brink).
9. Court and Coterie Culture (Curtis Perry).
10. The Literature of the Metropolis (John A. Twyning).
11. Playhouses and the Role of Drama (Michael Hattaway).
12. The Writing of Travel (Peter Womack).
Part III: Readings.
13. Translations of the Bible (Gerald Hammond).
14. Wyatt's 'Who So List to Hunt' (Rachel Falconer).
15. Courtship and Counsell: John Lyly's Campaspe (Greg Walker).
16. Spenser's Faerie Queene, Book V: Poetry, Politics, and Justicem (Judith Anderson).
17. Kyd's Spanish Tragedy (Amanda Piesse).
18. Donne's 19th Elergy (Germaine Greer).
19. Lanyer's 'The Description of Cookham' and Jonson's 'To Penshurst' (Nicole Pohl).
20. A Bacon Essay ('Of Simulation and Dissimulation') (Martin Dzelzainis).
21. Lancelot Andrewes Good Friday 1604 Sermon (Richard Harries).
22. Herbert's 'The Elixir' (Judith Weil).
23. The Heart of the Labyrinth: Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus (Robyn Bolam).
24. The Critical Elegy (John Lyon).
25. The final scene of 'Tis Pity She's a Whore (Robyn Bolam).
Part IV: Genres and Modes.
26. Theories of Literary Kinds (John Roe).
27. Allegory (Clara Mucci).
28. Pastoral (Michelle O'Callaghan).
29. Romance (Helen Moore).
30. Epic (Rachel Falconer).
31. Criticism (Arthur Kinney).
32. The English Print c.1550-c.1650 (Malcolm Jones).
Verse.
33. Traditions of Complaint and Satire (John King).
34. Love Poetry (Diana Henderson).
35. Erotic Poems (Boika Sokolova).
36. Religious Verse (Elizabeth Clarke).
37. Poets, Friends and Patrons: Donne and his Circle; Ben and his Tribe (Robin Robbins).
38. 'Such Pretty Things Would Soon be Gone': The Neglected Genres of Popular Verse 1480-1650 (Malcolm Jones).
Drama.
39. Local and "Customary" Drama (Thomas Pettitt).
40. Continuities between 'Medieval' and 'Early Modern' Drama (Michael O'Connell).
41. Heroic, Political, and Problem Plays (Stephen Longstaffe).
42. Women and Drama (Alison Findlay).
43. Tales of the City: The Comedies of Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton (Peter J. Smith).
44. 'Tied/To Rules of Flattery?': Court Drama and the Masque (James Knowles).
45. Jacobean Tragedy (Rowland Wymer).
46. Caroline Theatre (Roy Booth).
Prose.
47. Scientific Writing (David Colclough).
48. Prose Fiction (Andrew Hadfield).
49. Theological Writings and Religious Polemic (Donna Hamilton).
50. The English Renaissance Essay: Churchyard, Cornwallis, Florio's Montaigne, and Bacon (John Lee).
51. Diaries (Elizabeth Clarke).
52. Letters (Jonathan Gibson).
Part V: Issues and Debates.
53. Rhetoric (Marion Trousdale).
54. Identity (A.J. Piesse).
55. Was There a Renaissance Feminism (Jean Howard).
56. The Debate on Witchcraft (James Sharpe).
57. Reconstructing the Past: History, Historicism, Histories (James R .Siemon).
58. Sexuality: A Renaissance Category (James Knowles).
59. Race: A Renaissance Category (Margo Hendricks).
60. Writing the Nation (Nicola Royan)
