Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture

Michael Hattaway is Professor of English Literature at the University of Sheffield. His many publications include Elizabethan Popular Theatre (1982) and he has edited plays by Shakespeare, Beaumont and Jonson. He is also the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's History Plays (2002), and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Drama (1990) and Shakespeare in the New Europe (1994).

• List of Illustrations xNotes on Contributors xiiPART ONE Introduction1 Introduction 3Michael HattawayPART TWO Contexts and Perspectives, c.1500–16502 Early Tudor Humanism 13Mary Thomas Crane3 English Reformations 27Patrick Collinson4 Platonism, Stoicism, Scepticism and Classical Imitation 44Sarah Hutton5 History 58Patrick Collinson6 The English Language of the Early Modern Period 71N. F. Blake7 Publication: Print and Manuscript 81Michelle O’Callaghan8 Literacy and Education 95Jean R. Brink9 Court and Coterie Culture 106Curtis Perry10 The Literature of the Metropolis 119John A. Twyning11 Playhouses and the Role of Drama 133Michael Hattaway12 The Writing of Travel 148Peter WomackPART THREE Readings13 Translations of the Bible 165Gerald Hammond14 A Reading of Wyatt’s ‘Who so list to hunt’ 176Rachel Falconer15 Courtship and Counsel: John Lyly’s Campaspe 187Greg Walker16 Spenser’s Faerie Queene, Book V: Poetry, Politics and Justice 195Judith H. Anderson17 Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy 206A. J. Piesse18 Donne’s ‘Nineteenth Elegy’ 215Germaine Greer19 Lanyer’s ‘The Description of Cookham’ and Jonson’s ‘To Penshurst’ 224Nicole Pohl20 Bacon’s ‘Of Simulation and Dissimulation’ 233Martin Dzelzainis21 Lancelot Andrewes’s Good Friday 1604 Sermon 241Richard Harries22 Herbert’s ‘The Elixir’ 249Judith Weil23 The Heart of the Labyrinth: Mary Wroth’s Pamphilia to Amphilanthus 257Robyn Bolam24 The Critical Elegy 267John Lyon25 Ford, Mary Wroth, and the Final Scene of ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore 276Robyn BolamPART FOUR Genres and Modes26 Theories of Literary Kinds 287John Roe27 Allegory 298Clara Mucci28 Pastoral 307Michelle O’Callaghan29 Romance 317Helen Moore30 Epic 327Rachel Falconer31 The Position of Poetry: Making and Defending Renaissance Poetics 340Arthur F. Kinney32 The English Print, c.1550–c.1650 352Malcolm Jones33 Traditions of Complaint and Satire 367John N. King34 Love Poetry 378Diana E. Henderson35 Erotic Poems 392Boika Sokolova36 Religious Verse 404Elizabeth Clarke37 Poets, Friends and Patrons: Donne and his Circle; Ben and his Tribe 419Robin Robbins38 ‘Such pretty things would soon be gone’: The Neglected Genres of Popular Verse, 1480–1650 442Malcolm Jones39 Local and ‘Customary’ Drama 464Thomas Pettitt40 Continuities between ‘Medieval’ and ‘Early Modern’ Drama 477Michael O’Connell41 Political Plays 486Stephen Longstaffe42 Women and Drama 499Alison Findlay43 Tales of the City: The Comedies of Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton 513Peter J. Smith44 ‘Tied / To Rules of Flattery?’: Court Drama and the Masque 525James Knowles45 Jacobean Tragedy 545Rowland Wymer46 Caroline Theatre 556Roy Booth47 Scientific Writing 565David Colclough48 Prose Fiction 576Andrew Hadfield49 Theological Writings and Religious Polemic 589Donna B. Hamilton50 The English Renaissance Essay: Churchyard, Cornwallis, Florio’s Montaigne and Bacon 600John Lee51 Diaries 609Elizabeth Clarke52 Letters 615Jonathan GibsonPART FIVE Issues and Debates53 Rhetoric 623Marion Trousdale54 Identity 634A. J. Piesse55 Was There a Renaissance Feminism? 644Jean E. Howard56 The Debate on Witchcraft 653James Sharpe57 Reconstructing the Past: History, Historicism, Histories 662James R. Siemon58 Sexuality: A Renaissance Category? 674James Knowles59 Race: A Renaissance Category? 690Margo Hendricks60 Writing the Nation 699Nicola RoyanIndex 709

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