A Companion To English Renaissance Literature And Culture

ENGLISH RENAISSANCE LITERATURE AND CULTURE......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
List of Illustrations......Page 12
Notes on Contributors......Page 14
PART ONE Introduction......Page 23
1 Introduction......Page 25
PART TWO Contexts and Perspectives,1500—1650......Page 33
2 Early Tudor Humanism......Page 35
3 English Reformations......Page 49
4 Platonism, Stoicism, Scepticism and Classical Imitation......Page 66
5 History......Page 80
6 The English Language of the Early Modern Period......Page 93
7 Publication: Print and Manuscript......Page 103
8 Literacy and Education......Page 117
9 Court and Coterie Culture......Page 128
10 The Literature of the Metropolis......Page 141
11 Playhouses and the Role of Drama......Page 155
12 The Writing of Travel......Page 170
PART THREE Readings......Page 185
13 Translations of the Bible......Page 187
14 A Reading of Wyatt's 'Who so list to hunt'......Page 198
15 Courtship and Counsel: John Lyly's Campaspe......Page 209
16 Spenser's Faerie Queene, Book V: Poetry, Politics and Justice......Page 217
17 Kyd's Spanish Tragedy......Page 228
18 Donne's 'Nineteenth Elegy'......Page 237
19 Lanyer's 'The Description of Cookham' and Jonson's 'To Penshurst'......Page 246
20 Bacon's 'Of Simulation and Dissimulation'......Page 255
21 Lancelot Andrewes's Good Friday 1604 Sermon......Page 263
22 Herbert's 'The Elixir'......Page 271
23 The Heart of the Labyrinth: Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus......Page 279
24 The Critical Elegy......Page 289
25 Ford, Mary Wroth, and the Final Scene of ' Tis Pity She's a Whore......Page 298
PART FOUR Genres and Modes......Page 307
26 Theories of Literary Kinds......Page 309
27 Allegory......Page 320
28 Pastoral......Page 329
29 Romance......Page 339
30 Epic......Page 349
31 The Position of Poetry: Making and Defending Renaissance Poetics......Page 362
32 The English Print, c. 1550„c. 1650......Page 374
33 Traditions of Complaint and Satire......Page 389
34 Love Poetry......Page 400
35 Erotic Poems......Page 414
36 Religious Verse......Page 426
37 Poets, Friends and Patrons: Donne and his Circle; Ben and his Tribe......Page 441
38 'Such pretty things would soon be gone': The Neglected Genres of Popular Verse, 1480…1650......Page 464
39 Local and 'Customary' Drama......Page 486
40 Continuities between 'Medieval' and 'Early Modern' Drama......Page 499
41 Political Plays......Page 508
42 Women and Drama......Page 521
43 Tales of the City: The Comedies of Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton......Page 535
44 'Tied / To Rules of Flattery?': Court Drama and the Masque......Page 547
45 Jacobean Tragedy......Page 567
46 Caroline Theatre......Page 578
47 Scientific Writing......Page 587
48 Prose Fiction......Page 598
49 Theological Writings and Religious Polemic......Page 611
50 The English Renaissance Essay: Churchyard, Cornwallis, Florio's Montaigne and Bacon......Page 622
51 Diaries......Page 631
52 Letters......Page 637
PART FIVE Issues and Debates......Page 643
53 Rhetoric......Page 645
54 Identity......Page 656
55 Was There a Renaissance Feminism?......Page 666
56 The Debate on Witchcraft......Page 675
57 Reconstructing the Past: History, Historicism, Histories......Page 684
58 Sexuality: A Renaissance Category?......Page 696
59 Race: A Renaissance Category?......Page 712
60 Writing the Nation......Page 721
Index......Page 731
Plates......Page 771