A New Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture, Volume One and Two

Content: Chapter 1 Introduction (pages 1–11): Michael Hattaway Chapter 2 The English Language of the Early Modern Period (pages 13–26): Arja Nurmi Chapter 3 Literacy and Education (pages 27–37): Jean R. Brink Chapter 4 Rhetoric (pages 38–54): Gavin Alexander Chapter 5 History (pages 55–73): Patrick Collinson Chapter 6 Metaphor and Culture in Renaissance England (pages 74–90): Judith H. Anderson Chapter 7 Early Tudor Humanism (pages 91–105): Mary Thomas Crane Chapter 8 Platonism, Stoicism, Scepticism, and Classical Imitation (pages 106–119): Sarah Hutton Chapter 9 Translation (pages 120–133): Liz Oakley?Brown Chapter 10 Mythology (pages 134–149): Jane Kingsley?Smith Chapter 11 Scientific Writing (pages 150–159): David Colclough Chapter 12 Publication: Print and Manuscript (pages 160–176): Michelle O'Callaghan Chapter 13 Early Modern Handwriting (pages 177–189): Grace Ioppolo Chapter 14 The Manuscript Transmission of Poetry (pages 190–220): Arthur F. Marotti Chapter 15 Poets, Friends, and Patrons: Donne and his Circle; Ben and his Tribe (pages 221–247): Robin Robbins Chapter 16 Law: Poetry and Jurisdiction (pages 248–262): Bradin Cormack Chapter 17 Spenser's Faerie Queene, Book 5: Poetry, Politics, and Justice (pages 263–273): Judith H. Anderson Chapter 18 ‘Law Makes the King’: Richard Hooker on Law and Princely Rule (pages 274–288): Torrance Kirby Chapter 19 Donne, Milton, and the Two Traditions of Religious Liberty (pages 289–303): Feisal G. Mohamed Chapter 20 Court and Coterie Culture (pages 304–319): Curtis Perry Chapter 21 Courtship and Counsel: John Lyly's Campaspe (pages 320–328): Greg Walker Chapter 22 Bacon's ‘Of Simulation and Dissimulation’ (pages 329–336): Martin Dzelzainis Chapter 23 The Literature of the Metropolis (pages 337–351): John A. Twyning Chapter 24 Tales of the City: The Plays of Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton (pages 352–366): Peter J. Smith Chapter 25 ‘An Emblem of Themselves’: Early Renaissance Country House Poetry (pages 367–378): Nicole Pohl Chapter 26 Literary Gardens, from More to Marvell (pages 379–395): Hester Lees?Jeffries Chapter 27 English Reformations (pages 396–418): Patrick Collinson Chapter 28 Translations of the Bible (pages 419–429): Gerald Hammond Chapter 29 Lancelot Andrewes' Good Friday 1604 Sermon (pages 430–437): Richard Harries Chapter 30 Theological Writings and Religious Polemic (pages 438–448): Donna B. Hamilton Chapter 31 Catholic Writings (pages 449–463): Robert S. Miola Chapter 32 Sectarian Writing (pages 464–477): Hilary Hinds Chapter 33 The English Broadside Print, c.1550–c.1650 (pages 478–526): Malcolm Jones Chapter 34 The Writing of Travel (pages 527–542): Peter Womack Chapter 35 England's Experiences of Islam (pages 543–556): Stephan Schmuck Chapter 36 Reading the Body (pages 557–581): Jennifer Waldron Chapter 37 Physiognomy (pages 582–597): Sibylle Baumbach Chapter 38 Dreams and Dreamers (pages 598–610): Carole Levin Chapter 39 Theories of Literary Kinds (pages 1–14): John Roe Chapter 40 The Position of Poetry: Making and Defending Renaissance Poetics (pages 15–27): Arthur F. Kinney Chapter 41 Epic (pages 28–41): Rachel Falconer Chapter 42 Playhouses, Performances, and the Role of Drama (pages 42–59): Michael Hattaway Chapter 43 Continuities between ‘Medieval’ and ‘Early Modern’ Drama (pages 60–69): Michael O'Connell Chapter 44 Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy (pages 70–79): A. J. Piesse Chapter 45 Boys' Plays (pages 80–93): Edel Lamb Chapter 46 Drama of the Inns of Court (pages 94–104): Alan H. Nelson and Jessica Winston Chapter 47 ‘Tied to Rules of Flattery’? Court Drama and the Masque (pages 105–122): James Knowles Chapter 48 Women and Drama (pages 123–140): Alison Findlay Chapter 49 Political Plays (pages 141–153): Stephen Longstaffe Chapter 50 Jacobean Tragedy (pages 154–165): Rowland Wymer Chapter 51 Caroline Theatre (pages 166–175): Roy Booth Chapter 52 John Ford, Mary Wroth, and the Final Scene of 'Tis Pity She's a Whore (pages 176–183): Robyn Bolam Chapter 53 Local Drama and Custom (pages 184–203): Thomas Pettitt Chapter 54 The Critical Elegy (pages 204–213): John Lyon Chapter 55 Allegory (pages 214–224): Clara Mucci Chapter 56 Pastoral (pages 225–237): Michelle O'Callaghan Chapter 57 Romance (pages 238–248): Helen Moore Chapter 58 Love Poetry (pages 249–263): Diana E. Henderson Chapter 59 Music and Poetry (pages 264–277): David Lindley Chapter 60 Wyatt's ‘Who so List to Hunt’ (pages 278–287): Rachel Falconer Chapter 61 The Heart of the Labyrinth: Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus (pages 288–298): Robyn Bolam Chapter 62 Ovidian Erotic Poems (pages 299–316): Boika Sokolova Chapter 63 John Donne's Nineteenth Elegy (pages 317–325): Germaine Greer Chapter 64 Traditions of Complaint and Satire (pages 326–340): John N. King Chapter 65 Folk Legends and Wonder Tales (pages 341–358): Thomas Pettitt Chapter 66 ‘Such Pretty Things would Soon be Gone’: The Neglected Genres of Popular Verse, 1480–1650 (pages 359–381): Malcolm Jones Chapter 67 Religious Verse (pages 382–397): Elizabeth Clarke Chapter 68 Herbert's ‘The Elixir’ (pages 398–406): Judith Weil Chapter 69 Conversion and Poetry in Early Modern England (pages 407–422): Molly Murray Chapter 70 Prose Fiction (pages 423–436): Andrew Hadfield Chapter 71 The English Renaissance Essay: Churchyard, Cornwallis, Florio's Montaigne, and Bacon (pages 437–446): John Lee Chapter 72 Diaries and Journals (pages 447–452): Elizabeth Clarke Chapter 73 Letters (pages 453–460): Jonathan Gibson Chapter 74 Identity (pages 461–473): A. J. Piesse Chapter 75 Sexuality: A Renaissance Category? (pages 474–491): James Knowles Chapter 76 Was There a Renaissance Feminism? (pages 492–501): Jean E. Howard Chapter 77 Drama as Text and Performance (pages 502–512): Andrea Stevens Chapter 78 The Debate on Witchcraft (pages 513–522): James Sharpe Chapter 79 Reconstructing the Past: History, Historicism, Histories (pages 523–534): James R. Siemon Chapter 80 Race: A Renaissance Category? (pages 535–544): Margo Hendricks Chapter 81 Writing the Nations (pages 545–554): Nicola Royan Chapter 82 Early Modern Ecology (pages 555–568): Ken Hiltner "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 illustrationsContributions 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 WalkerUnrivalled in scope and its exploration of unfamiliar literary and cultural territories the "Companion" offers new readings of both 'literary' and 'non-literary' textsFeatures 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 EnglandOrientates the beginning student, while providing advanced students and faculty with new directions for their researchAll of the essays from the first edition, along with the recommendations for further reading, have been reworked or updated "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 In this revised and greatly expanded edition of the original Companion , some 80 of the very best modern scholars come together to offer an original assessment of English Renaissance literature and culture.