A New Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture) (2 Volume Set)

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 A NEW COMPANION TO ENGLISH RENAISSANCE LITERATURE AND CULTURE......Page 6 How to go to your page ......Page 2 Acknowledgements......Page 16 Contributors......Page 18 Volume I ......Page 8 Volume II ......Page 10 Volume I ......Page 14 Volume I ......Page 654 1: Introduction......Page 32 Part One: Contexts, Readings, and Perspectives c. 1500–c. 1650......Page 44 2: The English Language of the Early Modern Period......Page 46 3: Literacy and Education......Page 58 4: Rhetoric......Page 69 5: History......Page 86 6: Metaphor and Culture in Renaissance England......Page 105 7: Early Tudor Humanism......Page 122 8: Platonism, Stoicism, Scepticism, and Classical Imitation......Page 137 9: Translation......Page 151 10: Mythology......Page 165 11: Scientific Writing......Page 181 12: Publication: Print and Manuscript......Page 191 13: Early Modern Handwriting......Page 208 14: The Manuscript Transmission of Poetry......Page 221 15: Poets, Friends, and Patrons: Donne and his Circle; Ben and his Tribe......Page 252 16: Law: Poetry and Jurisdiction......Page 279 17: Spenser’s Faerie Queene , Book 5: Poetry, Politics, and Justice......Page 294 18: ‘Law Makes the King’: Richard Hooker on Law and Princely Rule......Page 305 19: Donne, Milton, and the Two Traditions of Religious Liberty......Page 320 20: Court and Coterie Culture......Page 335 21: Courtship and Counsel: John Lyly’s Campaspe......Page 351 22: Bacon’s ‘Of Simulation and Dissimulation’......Page 360 23: The Literature of the Metropolis......Page 368 24: Tales of the City: The Plays of Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton......Page 383 25: ‘An Emblem of Themselves’: Early Renaissance Country House Poetry......Page 398 26: Literary Gardens, from More to Marvell......Page 410 27: English Reformations......Page 427 28: Translations of the Bible......Page 450 29: Lancelot Andrewes’ Good Friday 1604 Sermon......Page 461 30: Theological Writings and Religious Polemic......Page 469 31: Catholic Writings......Page 480 32: Sectarian Writing......Page 495 33: The English Broadside Print c.1550–c.1650......Page 509 34: The Writing of Travel......Page 558 35: England’s Experiences of Islam......Page 574 36: Reading the Body......Page 588 37: Physiognomy......Page 613 38: Dreams and Dreamers......Page 629 Volume II ......Page 646 Part Two: Genres and Modes......Page 656 39: Theories of Literary Kinds......Page 658 40: The Position of Poetry: Making and Defending Renaissance Poetics......Page 670 41: Epic......Page 683 42: Playhouses, Performances, and the Role of Drama......Page 697 43: Continuities between ‘Medieval’ and ‘Early Modern’ Drama......Page 715 44: Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy......Page 725 45: Boys’ Plays......Page 735 46: Drama of the Inns of Court......Page 749 47: ‘Tied to rules of flattery’? Court Drama and the Masque......Page 760 48: Women and Drama......Page 778 49: Political Plays......Page 796 50: Jacobean Tragedy......Page 809 51: Caroline Theatre......Page 821 52: John Ford, Mary Wroth, and the Final Scene of’Tis Pity She’s a Whore......Page 831 53: Local Drama and Custom......Page 839 54: The Critical Elegy......Page 859 55: Allegory......Page 869 56: Pastoral......Page 880 57: Romance......Page 893 58: Love Poetry......Page 904 59: Music and Poetry......Page 919 60: Wyatt’s ‘Who so list to hunt’......Page 933 61: The Heart of the Labyrinth: Mary Wroth’s Pamphilia to Amphilanthus......Page 943 62: Ovidian Erotic Poems......Page 954 63: John Donne’s Nineteenth Elegy......Page 972 64: Traditions of Complaint and Satire......Page 981 65: Folk Legends and Wonder Tales......Page 996 66: ‘Such pretty things would soon be gone’: The Neglected Genres of Popular Verse 1480–1650......Page 1014 67: Religious Verse......Page 1037 68: Herbert’s ‘The Elixir’......Page 1053 69: Conversion and Poetry in Early Modern England......Page 1062 70: Prose Fiction......Page 1078 71: The English Renaissance Essay: Churchyard, Cornwallis, Florio’s Montaigne, and Bacon......Page 1092 72: Diaries and Journals......Page 1102 73: Letters......Page 1108 Part Three: Issues and Debates......Page 1116 74: Identity......Page 1118 75: Sexuality: A Renaissance Category?......Page 1129 76: Was There a Renaissance Feminism?......Page 1147 77: Drama as Text and Performance......Page 1157 78: The Debate on Witchcraft......Page 1168 79: Reconstructing the Past: History, Historicism, Histories......Page 1178 80: Race: A Renaissance Category?......Page 1190 81: Writing the Nations......Page 1200 82: Early Modern Ecology......Page 1210 Index of Names, Topics, and Institutions......Page 1224 "In this revised and greatly expanded edition of the original Companion, some eighty of the very best modern scholars, including Judith H. Anderson, Patrick Collinson, Alison Findlay, Germaine Greer, Malcolm Jones, Arthur F. Kinney, James Knowles, Arthur F. Marotti, Robert S. Miola, and Greg Walker, come together to offer an original and far-reaching assessment of English Renaissance literature and culture. The expansion into two volumes -- with over twenty new essays -allows for the exploration of further aspects of a wide range of topics, including material culture, theatre - both inside and outside the playhouses -- sectarian writing, further forms of popular writing, the history of the body, gardens, law, and ecology in early modern England. Sections are interspersed with new readings of key texts, both canonical and non-canonical, and are designed to exemplify aspects of the topics dealt with in the remaining chapters. All of the essays from the first edition, along with the recommendations for further reading, have been reworked or updated. Unrivalled in range and in its exploration of unfamiliar literary and cultural territories, the Companion offers a pioneering study of the phenomenon of the Renaissance."--Publisher's 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 lite."-- Provided by publisher