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In this comprehensive Companion over fifty of the very best of modern scholars - including Patrick Collinson, Germaine Greer, Richard Harries, Arthur Kinney, Andrew Hadfield , Jean Howard, and Judith Anderson - come together to offer an original and far-reaching survey of English Renaissance literature and culture. The first part of the volume considers pertinent issues such as humanism, English reformations, the development of the language, court culture, and playhouses, in terms of the way in which these aspects of Renaissance culture influenced literary production. There are provocative essays on canonical genres such as love poetry and Jacobean tragedy , but also accounts of popular and occasional drama and verse, and on the visual arts. The Companion also approaches key texts of the period through a number of new readings by eminent scholars in the field providing original perspectives and positions on both canonical and non-canonical texts. The essays include a range of approaches to a variety of texts from 'The Spanish Tragedy' and 'The Faerie Queen' to ''Tis Pity She's a Whore', the poems of Lady Mary Wroth, and a selection of critical elegies. In the final section, the book moves on to explore contemporary debates in Renaissance studies such as feminism, sexuality, historicism, and nation. This Companion is the only book of its kind to travel beyond the stage and is an invaluable guide for both student and teacher.
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a companion to ENGLISH RENAISSANCE LITERATURE AND CULTURE EDITED BY MICHAEL HATTAWAY Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture This series offers comprehensive, newly written surveys of key periods and movements and certain major authors, in English literary culture and history. Extensive volumes provide new perspectives and positions on contexts and on canonical and postcanonical texts, orientating the beginning student in new fields of study and providing the experienced undergraduate and new graduate with current and new directions, as pioneered and developed by leading scholars in the field. Published A Companion to Romanticism A Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture A Companion to Shakespeare A Companion to the Gothic A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare A Companion to Chaucer A Companion to Literature from Milton to Blake A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture A Companion to Milton A Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry A Companion to Anglo-Saxon Literature Edited by Duncan Wu Edited by Herbert F. Tucker Edited by David Scott Kastan Edited by David Punter Edited by Dympna Callaghan Edited by Peter Brown Edited by David Womersley Edited by Michael Hattaway Edited by Thomas N. Corns Edited by Neil Roberts Edited by Phillip Pulsiano and Elaine Trebarne A Companion to Restoration Drama Edited by Susan J. Owen A Companion to Early Modern Women’s Writing Edited by Anita Pacheco A Companion to English Renaissance Drama Edited by Arthur F. Kinney A Companion to Victorian Poetry Edited by Richard Cronin, Anthony Harrison and Alison Chapman A Companion to the Victorian Novel Edited by Patrick Brantlinger and William Thesing Forthcoming A Companion to Shakespeare’s Work, Volume I: The Tragedies A Companion to Shakespeare’s Work, Volume II: The Histories A Companion to Shakespeare’s Work, Volume III: The Comedies A Companion to Shakespeare’s Work, Volume IV: The Poems, Problem Comedies, Late Plays Edited by Richard Dutton and Jean E. Howard Edited by Richard Dutton and Jean E. Howard Edited by Richard Dutton and Jean E. Howard Edited by Richard Dutton and Jean E. Howard a companion to ENGLISH RENAISSANCE LITERATURE AND CULTURE EDITED BY MICHAEL HATTAWAY © 2000, 2003 by Blackwell Publishers Ltd a Blackwell Publishing company except for editorial material and organization © 2000, 2003 b