This is the first comprehensive account of English Renaissance literature in the context of the culture that shaped it: the courts of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, the tumult of Catholic and Protestant alliances during the Reformation, the age of printing and of New World discovery. The Companion covers developments in poetry, prose, religious writing, drama, satire and humanism in fourteen newly-commissioned essays, written by experts for student readers. A detailed chronology of major literary achievements concludes with a list of authors and their dates.
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"The purpose of the book is to provide students with an overview of the age and the forces at work in it. It succeeds so well over such a wide field that even specialists are likely to pick up something new. Highly recommended for all academic collections." Choice
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This is the first comprehensive account of English Renaissance literature in the context of the culture which shaped it: the courts of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, the tumult of Catholic and Protestant alliances during the Reformation, the age of printing and of New World discovery. The Companion covers developments in poetry, prose, religious writing, drama, satire and humanism in fourteen newly-commissioned essays, written by experts for student readers. A detailed chronology of major literary achievements concludes with a list of authors and their dates.
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For those wanting to delve into Shakespearean or Elizabethan literature, this is an excellent collection by respected scholars in each of the areas described in the Amz synopsis(above). Modern readers cannot imagine what a different significance there was 400 years ago for writing, for drama, for the creation of arts or for the grappling with politics or social policy. Kinney's volume is an excellent launching point for a literary reader to get perspective on the cultural constraints and opportunities that birthed Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Jonson, et al. If your focus is primarily on Shakespeare, you may do as well to consider some of the other Cambridge Companions" volumes: either "...Companion to Shakespeare" or "...to Shakespeare Studies" or "...to Shakespeare on Stage." (or if pursuing other authors, to... Jonson, Spenser, etc.). In Kinney's volume, however, you find a broader inclusion of the wide-ranging forces impinging on the writing environment of the 1590s. Without having to consult separate volumes on Authorship or 16th century lyric or the patronage system, the reader finds here excellent scholarly surveys of fifteen crucial regions of writerly concern. The authors' conclusions are generally well referenced through notes (end of each chapter) and provide helpful recommendations for further reading by topic. Additionally, there are chronologies of the 16th century at the front of the book which help you place literary, social and political in temporal relations to each other. Overall, an excellent investment in your appreciation of the gestation and birth of renaissance English literature.
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A currently recognized representation of the Tudor aesthetic in the sixteenth century is Hans Holbein's double portrait of "The Ambassadors" painted in the spring of 1533 in London (Figure I), yet its significance and its actual meaning have been debated. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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A currently recognized representation of the Tudor aesthetic in the sixteenth century is Hans Holbein's double portrait of "The Ambassadors" painted in the spring of 1533 in London (Figure I), yet its significance and its actual meaning have been debated. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
rogue literature, print marketplace, jest books, humanist poetics, quantitative verse, verse satire, street ballad, manuscript culture, znd edn Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cambridge University Press, New York, University of Chicago Press, Thomas More, Cornell University Press, English Renaissance, Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press, Edmund Spenser, Queen Elizabeth, New Haven, University of California Press, Yale University Press, Sir Philip Sidney, The Faerie Queene, Princeton University Press, Samuel Daniel, Tudor England, Elizabethan Critical Essays, English Poesie, George Gascoigne, John Bale, Inns of Court, Ben Jonson, Harvard University Press New!
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- Apologie for Poetrie (English Experience Ser. No. 413) by Philip, Sir Sidney on 5 pages
- Edmund Spenser (Twayne's English Authors Series) by William A. Oram on 4 pages
- Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare's English Histories (Feminist Readings of Shakespeare) by Jean E. Howard on 4 pages
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- The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Carolyn Dinshaw in Back Matter
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