Table of Contents
List of Illustrations x
Notes on Contributors xii
PART ONE Introduction
1 Introduction 3Michael Hattaway
PART TWO Contexts and Perspectives, c.1500–1650
2 Early Tudor Humanism 13Mary Thomas Crane
3 English Reformations 27Patrick Collinson
4 Platonism, Stoicism, Scepticism and Classical Imitation 44Sarah Hutton
5 History 58Patrick Collinson
6 The English Language of the Early Modern Period 71N. F. Blake
7 Publication: Print and Manuscript 81Michelle O’Callaghan
8 Literacy and Education 95Jean R. Brink
9 Court and Coterie Culture 106Curtis Perry
10 The Literature of the Metropolis 119John A. Twyning
11 Playhouses and the Role of Drama 133Michael Hattaway
12 The Writing of Travel 148Peter Womack
PART THREE Readings
13 Translations of the Bible 165Gerald Hammond
14 A Reading of Wyatt’s ‘Who so list to hunt’ 176Rachel Falconer
15 Courtship and Counsel: John Lyly’s Campaspe 187Greg Walker
16 Spenser’s Faerie Queene, Book V: Poetry, Politics and Justice 195Judith H. Anderson
17 Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy 206A. J. Piesse
18 Donne’s ‘Nineteenth Elegy’ 215Germaine Greer
19 Lanyer’s ‘The Description of Cookham’ and Jonson’s ‘To Penshurst’ 224Nicole Pohl
20 Bacon’s ‘Of Simulation and Dissimulation’ 233Martin Dzelzainis
21 Lancelot Andrewes’s Good Friday 1604 Sermon 241Richard Harries
22 Herbert’s ‘The Elixir’ 249Judith Weil
23 The Heart of the Labyrinth: Mary Wroth’s Pamphilia to Amphilanthus 257Robyn Bolam
24 The Critical Elegy 267John Lyon
25 Ford, Mary Wroth, and the Final Scene of ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore 276Robyn Bolam
PART FOUR Genres and Modes
26 Theories of Literary Kinds 287John Roe
27 Allegory 298Clara Mucci
28 Pastoral 307Michelle O’Callaghan
29 Romance 317Helen Moore
30 Epic 327Rachel Falconer
31 The Position of Poetry: Making and Defending Renaissance Poetics 340Arthur F. Kinney
32 The English Print, c.1550–c.1650 352Malcolm Jones
33 Traditions of Complaint and Satire 367John N. King
34 Love Poetry 378Diana E. Henderson
35 Erotic Poems 392Boika Sokolova
36 Religious Verse 404Elizabeth Clarke
37 Poets, Friends and Patrons: Donne and his Circle; Ben and his Tribe 419Robin Robbins
38 ‘Such pretty things would soon be gone’: The Neglected Genres of Popular Verse, 1480–1650 442Malcolm Jones
39 Local and ‘Customary’ Drama 464Thomas Pettitt
40 Continuities between ‘Medieval’ and ‘Early Modern’ Drama 477Michael O’Connell
41 Political Plays 486Stephen Longstaffe
42 Women and Drama 499Alison Findlay
43 Tales of the City: The Comedies of Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton 513Peter J. Smith
44 ‘Tied / To Rules of Flattery?’: Court Drama and the Masque 525James Knowles
45 Jacobean Tragedy 545Rowland Wymer
46 Caroline Theatre 556Roy Booth
47 Scientific Writing 565David Colclough
48 Prose Fiction 576Andrew Hadfield
49 Theological Writings and Religious Polemic 589Donna B. Hamilton
50 The English Renaissance Essay: Churchyard, Cornwallis, Florio’s Montaigne and Bacon 600John Lee
51 Diaries 609Elizabeth Clarke
52 Letters 615Jonathan Gibson
PART FIVE Issues and Debates
53 Rhetoric 623Marion Trousdale
54 Identity 634A. J. Piesse
55 Was There a Renaissance Feminism? 644Jean E. Howard
56 The Debate on Witchcraft 653James Sharpe
57 Reconstructing the Past: History, Historicism, Histories 662James R. Siemon
58 Sexuality: A Renaissance Category? 674James Knowles
59 Race: A Renaissance Category? 690Margo Hendricks
60 Writing the Nation 699Nicola Royan
Index 709