A New Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Hattaway, Michael

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In this revised and greatly expanded edition of the Companion, 80 scholars come together to offer an original and far-reaching assessment of English Renaissance literature and culture. * A new edition of the best-selling Companion to English Renaissance Literature, revised and updated, with 22 new essays and 19 new illustrations * Contributions from some 80 scholars including Judith H. Anderson, Patrick Collinson, Alison Findlay, Germaine Greer, Malcolm Jones, Arthur Kinney, James Knowles, Arthur Marotti, Robert Miola and Greg Walker * Unrivalled in scope and its exploration of unfamiliar literary and cultural territories the Companion offers new readings of both 'literary' and 'non-literary' texts * Features essays discussing material culture, sectarian writing, the history of the body, theatre both in and outside the playhouses, law, gardens, and ecology in early modern England * Orientates the beginning student, while providing advanced students and faculty with new directions for their research * All of the essays from the first edition, along with the recommendations for further reading, have been reworked or updated

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 1264
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444319026
• Artikelnr.: 37343170

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

VOLUME I:

- List of Illustrations

- Acknowledgements

- Contributors

1. Introduction

Part I: Contexts, Readings, and Perspectives c.1500-c.1650

VOLUME II:

Part II: Genres and Modes

Part III: Issues and Debates

Index