A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture

List of Illustrations. Notes on Contributors. . Part I: Introduction. 1. Introduction (Michael Hattaway). Part II: Contexts and Perspectives ca 1500--1650. 2. Early Tudor a Humanism (Mary T. Crane). 3. English Reformations (Patrick Collinson). 4. Platonism, Stoicism, Scepticism, and Classical Imitation (Sarah Hutton). 5. History (Patrick Collinson). 6. The English Language of the Early Modern Period (N.F. Blake). 7. Publication: Print and Manuscript (Michelle Oa Callaghan). 8. Literacy and Education (Jean R. Brink). 9. Court and Coterie Culture (Curtis Perry). 10. The Literature of the Metropolis (John A. Twyning). 11. Playhouses and the Role of Drama (Michael Hattaway). 12. The Writing of Travel (Peter Womack). Part III: Readings. 13. Translations of the Bible (Gerald Hammond). 14. Wyatta s a Who So List to Hunta (Rachel Falconer). 15. Courtship and Counsell: John Lylya s Campaspe (Greg Walker). 16. Spensera s Faerie Queene, Book V: Poetry, Politics, and Justicem (Judith Anderson). 17. Kyda s Spanish Tragedy (Amanda Piesse). 18. Donnea s 19th Elergy (Germaine Greer). 19. Lanyera s a The Description of Cookhama and Jonsona s a To Penshursta (Nicole Pohl). 20. A Bacon Essay (a Of Simulation and Dissimulationa ) (Martin Dzelzainis). 21. Lancelot Andrewes Good Friday 1604 Sermon (Richard Harries). 22. Herberta s a The Elixira (Judith Weil). 23. The Heart of the Labyrinth: Mary Wrotha s Pamphilia to Amphilanthus (Robyn Bolam). 24. The Critical Elegy (John Lyon). 25. The final scene of a Tis Pity Shea s a Whore (Robyn Bolam). Part IV: Genres and Modes. 26. Theories of Literary Kinds (John Roe). 27. Allegory (Clara Mucci). 28. Pastoral (Michelle Oa Callaghan). 29. Romance (Helen Moore). 30. Epic (Rachel Falconer). 31. Criticism (Arthur Kinney). 32. The English Print c.1550--c.1650 (Malcolm Jones). Verse. 33. Traditions of Complaint and Satire (John King). 34. Love Poetry (Diana Henderson). 35. Erotic Poems (Boika Sokolova). 36. Religious Verse (Elizabeth Clarke). 37.

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 Shakespearea s History Plays (2002), and co--editor of The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Drama (1990) and Shakespeare in the New Europe (1994).

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