New Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture

Michael Hattaway is Professor Emeritus of English Literature at the University of Sheffield, and Professor of English at New York University in London. His principal publications include Elizabethan Popular Theatre (1982), Hamlet: The Critics Debate (1987), and Renaissance and Reformations: An Introduction to Early Modern English Literature (2005); he is the editor of As You Like It (2000) and   1–3 Henry VI for the New Cambridge Shakespeare (1990, 1991, 1993), and of A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture (2000) and The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare’s History Plays (2002).

• Volume IList of Illustrations xiAcknowledgements xiiiContributors xvAsterisked items are essays that offer focused readings of particular texts1 Introduction 1Michael HattawayPart One: Contexts, Readings, and Perspectives c.1500–c.1650 132 The English Language of the Early Modern Period 15Arja Nurmi3 Literacy and Education 27Jean R. Brink4 Rhetoric 38Gavin Alexander5 History 55Patrick Collinson6 Metaphor and Culture in Renaissance England 74Judith H. Anderson7 Early Tudor Humanism 91Mary Thomas Crane8 Platonism, Stoicism, Scepticism, and Classical Imitation 106Sarah Hutton9 Translation 120Liz Oakley-Brown10 Mythology 134Jane Kingsley-Smith11 Scientifi c Writing 150David Colclough12 Publication: Print and Manuscript 160Michelle O’Callaghan13 Early Modern Handwriting 177Grace Ioppolo14 The Manuscript Transmission of Poetry 190Arthur F. Marotti15 Poets, Friends, and Patrons: Donne and his Circle; Ben and his Tribe 221Robin Robbins16 Law: Poetry and Jurisdiction 248Bradin Cormack17 *Spenser’s Faerie Queene, Book 5: Poetry, Politics, and Justice 263Judith H. Anderson18 *‘Law Makes the King’: Richard Hooker on Law and Princely Rule 274Torrance Kirby19 Donne, Milton, and the Two Traditions of Religious Liberty 289Feisal G. Mohamed20 Court and Coterie Culture 304Curtis Perry21 *Courtship and Counsel: John Lyly’s Campaspe 320Greg Walker22 *Bacon’s ‘Of Simulation and Dissimulation’ 329Martin Dzelzainis23 The Literature of the Metropolis 337John A. Twyning24 *Tales of the City: The Plays of Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton 352Peter J. Smith25 ‘An Emblem of Themselves’: Early Renaissance Country House Poetry 367Nicole Pohl26 Literary Gardens, from More to Marvell 379Hester Lees-Jeffries27 English Reformations 396Patrick Collinson28 *Translations of the Bible 419Gerald Hammond29 *Lancelot Andrewes’ Good Friday 1604 Sermon 430Richard Harries30 Theological Writings and Religious Polemic 438Donna B. Hamilton31 Catholic Writings 449Robert S. Miola32 Sectarian Writing 464Hilary Hinds33 The English Broadside Print, c.1550–c.1650 478Malcolm Jones34 The Writing of Travel 527Peter Womack35 England’s Experiences of Islam 543Stephan Schmuck36 Reading the Body 557Jennifer Waldron37 Physiognomy 582Sibylle Baumbach38 Dreams and Dreamers 598Carole LevinVolume IIList of Illustrations xiPart Two: Genres and Modes 139 Theories of Literary Kinds 3John Roe40 The Position of Poetry: Making and Defending Renaissance Poetics 15Arthur F. Kinney41 Epic 28Rachel Falconer42 Playhouses, Performances, and the Role of Drama 42Michael Hattaway43 Continuities between ‘Medieval’ and ‘Early Modern’ Drama 60Michael O’Connell44 *Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy 70A. J. Piesse45 Boys’ Plays 80Edel Lamb46 Drama of the Inns of Court 94Alan H. Nelson and Jessica Winston47 ‘Tied to rules of fl attery’? Court Drama and the Masque 105James Knowles48 Women and Drama 123Alison Findlay49 Political Plays 141Stephen Longstaffe50 Jacobean Tragedy 154Rowland Wymer51 Caroline Theatre 166Roy Booth52 *John Ford, Mary Wroth, and the Final Scene of ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore 176 Robyn Bolam53 Local Drama and Custom 184Thomas Pettitt54 *The Critical Elegy 204John Lyon55 Allegory 214Clara Mucci56 Pastoral 225Michelle O’Callaghan57 Romance 238Helen Moore58 Love Poetry 249Diana E. Henderson59 Music and Poetry 264David Lindley60 *Wyatt’s ‘Who so list to hunt’ 278Rachel Falconer61 *The Heart of the Labyrinth: Mary Wroth’s Pamphilia to Amphilanthus 288Robyn Bolam62 Ovidian Erotic Poems 299Boika Sokolova63 *John Donne’s Nineteenth Elegy 317Germaine Greer64 Traditions of Complaint and Satire 326John N. King65 Folk Legends and Wonder Tales 341Thomas Pettitt66 ‘Such pretty things would soon be gone’: The Neglected Genres of Popular Verse, 1480–1650 359Malcolm Jones67 Religious Verse 382Elizabeth Clarke68 *Herbert’s ‘The Elixir’ 398Judith Weil69 *Conversion and Poetry in Early Modern England 407Molly Murray70 Prose Fiction 423Andrew Hadfi eld71 The English Renaissance Essay: Churchyard, Cornwallis, Florio’s Montaigne, and Bacon 437John Lee72 Diaries and Journals 447Elizabeth Clarke73 Letters 453Jonathan GibsonPart Three: Issues and Debates 46174 Identity 463A. J. Piesse75 Sexuality: A Renaissance Category? 474James Knowles76 Was There a Renaissance Feminism? 492Jean E. Howard77 Drama as Text and Performance 502Andrea Stevens78 The Debate on Witchcraft 513James Sharpe79 Reconstructing the Past: History, Historicism, Histories 523James R. Siemon80 Race: A Renaissance Category? 535Margo Hendricks81 Writing the Nations 545Nicola Royan82 Early Modern Ecology 555Ken HiltnerIndex of Names, Topics, and Institutions 569

"As with the previous volume, each essay is the work of an accomplished scholar and is supplemented with a list of references and further reading. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." (Choice, 1July 2011)