A Companion to Tudor Literature

Notes on Contributors.

List of Illustrations.

Chronology.

Map of England in the Sixteenth Century.

Introduction (Kent Cartwright).

I: Historical and Cultural Contexts.

1. The Reformation, Lollardy, and Catholicism (Peter Marshall).

2. Witchcraft in Tudor England and Scotland (Kathryn A. Edwards).

3. The Tudor Experience of Islam (Matthew Dimmock).

4. Protestantism, Profit, and Politics: Tudor Representations of the New World (Nancy Bradley Warren).

5. International Influences and Tudor Music (Ross W. Duffin).

6. Tudor Technology in Transition (Adam Max Cohen).

7. Enclosing the Body: Tudor Conceptions of Skin (Tanya Pollard).

II: Manuscript, Print, and Letters.

8. Manuscripts in Tudor England (Steven W. May and Heather Wolfe).

9. John Skelton and the State of Letters (Seth Lerer).

10. The Henrician Courtier Writing in Manuscript and Print (Wyatt, Surrey, Bryan, and Others: David R. Carlson).

11. Old Authors, Women Writers, and the New Print Technology (Helen Smith).

12. Printers of Interludes (Peter Happé).

III: Literary Origins, Presences, Absences.

13. Medievalism in English Renaissance Literature (Deanne Williams).

14. The Tudor Origins of Medieval Drama (Theresa M. Coletti and McMurray Gibson).

15. French Presences in Tudor England (A. E. B. Coldiron).

16. Italian in Tudor England: Why Couldn’t a Woman Be More Like a Man? (Pamela J. Benson).

IV: Authors, Works, and Modes.

17. More’s Utopia: Medievalism and Radicalism (Anne Lake Prescott).

18. The Literary Voices of Katherine Parr and Anne Askew (Joan Pong Linton).

19. Reformation Satire, Scatology, and Iconoclastic Aesthetics in Gammer Gurton’s Needle (Robert Hornback).

20. Bad Fun and Tudor Laughter (Pamela Allen Brown).

21. Perspective and Realism in the Renaissance (Alastair Fowler).

22. Seeing Through Words In Theories Of Poetry: Sidney, Puttenham, Lodge (Gavin Alexander).

23. Tudor Versification and the Rise of Iambic Pentameter (Jeff Dolven).

24. John Lyly’s Galatea:  Politics and Literary Allusion (Mike Pincombe).

25. Sidney’s Arcadia, Romance, and the Responsive Woman Reader (Clare R. Kinney).

26. Nature and Technê in Spenser’s Faerie Queene (Jessica Wolfe).

27. “In Poesie the mirrois of our Age”: The Countess of Pembroke’s ‘Sydnean’ Poetics (Suzannne Trill).

28. ‘Conceived of young Horatio his son’: The Spanish Tragedy and the Psychotheology of Revenge (Heather Hirschfeld).

29. West of England: The Irish Specter in Tamburlaine (Kimberly Anne Coles).

30. The Real and the Unreal in Tudor Travel Writing (Mary C. Fuller).

31. Jack in the City: The Unfortunate Traveler, Tudor London, and Literary History (Steve Mentz).