Includes bibliographical references and index. Law Library's copy located in the Bonfield Gift Collection. IaU-L
Contents:
Part two. Contexts and perspectives, c. 1500-1650. The writing of travel. Part two. Contexts and perspectives, c. 1500-1650. Early Tudor humanism -- English reformations -- Platonism, stoicism, scepticism and classical imitation -- History -- The English language of the Early Modern Period -- Publication: print and manuscript -- Literacy and education -- Court and coterie culture -- The literature of the metropolis -- Playhouses and the role of drama -- The writing of travel. Part three. Readings. Ford, Mary Wroth, and the final scene of 'Tis pity she's a whore. A reading of Wyatt's 'Who so list to hunt' -- Courtship and counsel: John Lyly's Campaspe -- Spenser's Faerie Queene, Book V: poetry, politics and justice -- Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy -- Donne's 'Nineteenth Elegy' -- Lanyer's 'The description of Cookham' and Jonson's 'To Penshurst' -- Bacon's 'Of simulation and dissimulation' -- Lancelot Andrewes's Good Friday 1604 Sermon -- Herbert's 'The Elixir' -- The heart of the labyrinth: Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus -- The critical elegy -- Ford, Mary Wroth, and the final scene of 'Tis pity she's a whore. Part Four. Genres and modes. 'Tied / To rules of flattery?': court drama and the masque. Allegory -- Pastoral -- Romance -- Epic -- The position o poetry: making and defending Renaissance poetics -- The English print, c. 1550-c. 1650 -- Traditions of complaint and satire -- Love poetry -- Erotic poems -- Religious verse -- Poets, friends and patrons: Donne and his circle; Ben and his tribe -- 'Such pretty things would soon be gone': the neglected genres of popular verse, 1480-1650 -- Local and 'customary' drama -- Continuities between 'medieval' and 'early modern' drama -- Political plays -- Women and drama -- Tales of the city: the comedies of Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton -- 'Tied / To rules of flattery?': court drama and the masque. Writing the nation. Caroline theatre -- Scientific writing -- Prose fiction -- Theological writings and religious Polemic -- The English Renaissance essay: churchyard, Cornwallis, Florio's Montaigne and Bacon -- Diaries -- Letters -- Part five. Issues and debates. Rhetoric -- Identity -- Was there a Renaissance feminism? -- The debate on witchcraft -- Reconstructing the past: history, historicism, histories -- Sexuality: a Renaissance category? -- Race: a Renaissance category? -- Writing the nation.
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