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Informationen zum Autor Donna B. Hamilton is Professor of English at the University of Maryland. Her previous publications include Virgil and 'The Tempest' : The Politics of Imitation (1990), Shakespeare and the Politics of Protestant England (1992), Religion, Literature and Politics in Post-Reformation England (co-edited with Richard Strier, 1996), Anthony Munday and the Catholics , 1560-1633 (2005), and an edition of Middleton's The Puritan (2005). Klappentext This Concise Companion launches students into the study of English Renaissance literature by way of the key contexts that informed it. The contributors, who are all highly regarded scholars and teachers in the field, place the literature of the period within a set of relevant historical, intellectual and cultural contexts, including: economics; religion; empire and exploration; education, humanism and rhetoric; censorship and patronage; royal marriage and succession; treason and rebellion; "others" in England; private lives; cosmology and the body; and life-writing. Their contributions incorporate recent developments in the field, as well as work soon to be published. The volume as a whole makes the period accessible and enticing to students, and provides innovative syntheses that will be of interest to scholars. Zusammenfassung * A concise! cutting-edge survey of English Renaissance literature from 1575-1625. * Launches students into the study of English Renaissance literature by way of the central contexts that informed it. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on Contributors vii Introduction 1 Donna B. Hamilton 1 Economics 11 S. P. Cerasano 2 Religion 32 Donna B. Hamilton 3 Royal Marriage and the Royal Succession 54 Paul E. J. Hammer 4 Patronage, Licensing, and Censorship 75 Richard Dutton 5 Humanism, Rhetoric, Education 94 Peter Mack 6 Manuscripts in Early Modern England 114 Heather Wolfe 7 Travel, Exploration, and Empire 136 Ralph Bauer 8 Private Life and Domesticity 160 Lena Cowen Orlin 9 Treason and Rebellion 180 Andrew Hadfield 10 Shakespeare and the Marginalized ''Others'' 200 Carole Levin 11 Cosmology and the Body 217 Cynthia Marshall 12 Life-Writing 238 Alan Stewart Index 257 ...
