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Informationen zum Autor John Hunter is Associate Professor of Comparative Humanities at Bucknell University. His previous publications include essays on Francis Bacon and on early modern drama. Klappentext Responding to the broadening of the canon in recent years, this accessible anthology makes available the most important poetry and prose from the period between the accession of Henry VIII in 1509 and the English Revolution of 1640. Arranged chronologically, generous selections from familiar Renaissance figures, such as More, Wyatt, Tyndale, Spenser, Sidney, Shakespeare, Bacon, and Donne, are complemented by a strong emphasis on women writers, including Queen Elizabeth, Aemilia Lanyer, Rachel Speght, Martha Moulsworth, Lady Mary Wroth, and Elizabeth Cary. A range of prose works, including biblical translations, illustrates the development of English prose over the period. The volume also offers a selection of carols, ballads, songs, and hymns.Now available in a fully revised new edition, this anthology has been extensively corrected and expanded to increase the level of annotation, and to make the volume more user-friendly. This edition features a brand new introduction and timeline enabling students to consider entries more easily in the social, cultural and historical context of the period. Zusammenfassung Reflects developments in critical and cultural theory and in the latest Renaissance scholarship Now includes a thematic table of contents and timeline, and a substantially expanded introduction to enable readers to consider entries more easily in the social, cultural, and historical context of the period. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsAlphabetical List of AuthorsPreface: Representing the Renaissance in the Twenty-First CenturyAcknowledgmentsTimeline: The Tudor and Stuart Monarchs, 1509-1642Introduction: Renaissance English History and LiteratureJohn Skelton (1460?-1529)Sir Thomas More (1477/8-1535)Sir Thomas Elyot (ca. 1490-1546)William Tyndale (1494-1536)Sir Thomas Wyatt (ca. 1503-1542)Broadside Ballads (ca. 1535 onwards)Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517-1547) (os)John Foxe (1517-1587)Richard Mulcaster (1530?-1611)Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603)George Gascoigne (ca. 1534-1577)Certain Sermons or Homilies (1547, 1563)The Book of Common Prayer (1549, 1552, and 1559) (os)Edmund Spenser (1552-1599) (os)Anonymous CarolsRichard Hakluyt (ca. 1552-1616) (os)John Lyly (ca. 1553-1606)John Florio (1553?-1625)Sir Walter Raleigh (ca. 1553-1618)Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)Thomas Hariot (1560-1621) and John White (1540?-1590)Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)Robert Southwell (1561-1595)Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (1561-1621) (os)A Mirror for Magistrates (1563, 1587 editions) (os)Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) (os)William Shakespeare (1564-1616)Thomas Campion (1567-1620) (os)Thomas Nashe (1567-1601)Æmilia Lanyer (1569-1645) (os)Ben Jonson (1572-1637)John Donne (1572-1631)John Marston (1576-1634)Martha Moulsworth (1577-?) (os)Elizabeth (Tanfield) Cary, Lady Falkland (1585-1639)Myles Smith (d. 1624)Lady Mary (Sidney) Wroth (1586?-1651?)George Wither (1588-1667)George Herbert (1593-1633)Rachel Speght (1597-?) (os)BibliographyIndex of Titles,Introductions, and Notes...
