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Tracing the development of narrative verse in London''s literary circles during the 1590s, this volume puts Shakespeare''s Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece into conversation with poems by a wide variety of contemporary writers, including Thomas Lodge, Francis Beaumont, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Heywood, Thomas Campion and Edmund Spenser. Chapters investigate the complexities of this literary conversation and contribute for the current, vigorous reassessment of humanism''s intended consequences by drawing attention to the highly diverse forms of early modern classicism as well as the complex connection between Latin pedagogy and vernacular poetic invention.Key themes and topics include:-Epyllia, masculinity and sexuality-Classicism and commerce-Genre and mimesis-Rhetoric and aesthetics>
About the author
Lynn Enterline holds a distinguished chair in the department of English at Vanderbilt University, USA, where she specializes in 16th century British literature, classical reception, the histories of rhetoric and emotion, gender studies, and literary theory. Her publications include The Tears of Narcissus: Melancholia and Masculinity in Early Modern Writing (1995), The Rhetoric of the Body from Ovid to Shakespeare (2000) and Shakespeare's Schoolroom: Rhetoric, Discipline, Emotion (2012).LENA COWEN ORLIN is Professor of English at Georgetown University, USA, Washington DC, and Executive Director of the Shakespeare Association of America.ANN THOMPSON is Emeritus Professor in English at King' s College London UK.
