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Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext In this revised and greatly expanded edition of the original Companion , some eighty of the very best modern scholars, including Judith H. Anderson, Patrick Collinson, Alison Findlay, Germaine Greer, Malcolm Jones, Arthur F. Kinney, James Knowles, Arthur F. Marotti, Robert S. Miola, and Greg Walker, come together to offer an original and far-reaching assessment of English Renaissance literature and culture. The expansion into two volumes - with over twenty new essays -allows for the exploration of further aspects of a wide range of topics, including material culture, theatre - both inside and outside the playhouses - sectarian writing, further forms of popular writing, the history of the body, gardens, law, and ecology in early modern England. Sections are interspersed with new readings of key texts, both canonical and non-canonical, and are designed to exemplify aspects of the topics dealt with in the remaining chapters. All of the essays from the first edition, along with the recommendations for further reading, have been reworked or updated. Unrivalled in range and in its exploration of unfamiliar literary and cultural territories, the Companion offers a pioneering study of the phenomenon of the Renaissance. Zusammenfassung In this revised and greatly expanded edition of the original Companion, some 80 of the very best modern scholars come together to offer an original assessment of English Renaissance literature and culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis Volume I List of Illustrations xi Acknowledgements xiii Contributors xv Asterisked items are essays that offer focused readings of particular texts 1 Introduction 1 Michael Hattaway Part One: Contexts, Readings, and Perspectives c .1500- c. 1650 13 2 The English Language of the Early Modern Period 15 Arja Nurmi 3 Literacy and Education 27 Jean R. Brink 4 Rhetoric 38 Gavin Alexander 5 History 55 Patrick Collinson 6 Metaphor and Culture in Renaissance England 74 Judith H. Anderson 7 Early Tudor Humanism 91 Mary Thomas Crane 8 Platonism, Stoicism, Scepticism, and Classical Imitation 106 Sarah Hutton 9 Translation 120 Liz Oakley-Brown 10 Mythology 134 Jane Kingsley-Smith 11 Scientifi c Writing 150 David Colclough 12 Publication: Print and Manuscript 160 Michelle O'Callaghan 13 Early Modern Handwriting 177 Grace Ioppolo 14 The Manuscript Transmission of Poetry 190 Arthur F. Marotti 15 Poets, Friends, and Patrons: Donne and his Circle; Ben and his Tribe 221 Robin Robbins 16 Law: Poetry and Jurisdiction 248 Bradin Cormack 17 *Spenser's Faerie Queene , Book 5: Poetry, Politics, and Justice 263 Judith H. Anderson 18 *'Law Makes the King': Richard Hooker on Law and Princely Rule 274 Torrance Kirby 19 Donne, Milton, and the Two Traditions of Religious Liberty 289 Feisal G. Mohamed 20 Court and Coteri...
