This Concise Companion launches students into the study of English Renaissance literature by way of the key contexts that informed it.
The contributors, who are all highly regarded scholars and teachers in the field, place the literature of the period within a set of relevant historical, intellectual and cultural contexts, including: economics; religion; empire and exploration; education, humanism and rhetoric; censorship and patronage; royal marriage and succession; treason and rebellion; "others" in England; private lives; cosmology and the body; and life-writing. Their contributions incorporate recent developments in the field, as well as work soon to be published.
The volume as a whole makes the period accessible and enticing to students, and provides innovative syntheses that will be of interest to scholars.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Notes on Contributors vii
Introduction 1
Donna B. Hamilton
1 Economics 11
S. P. Cerasano
2 Religion 32
Donna B. Hamilton
3 Royal Marriage and the Royal Succession 54
Paul E. J. Hammer
4 Patronage, Licensing, and Censorship 75
Richard Dutton
5 Humanism, Rhetoric, Education 94
Peter Mack
6 Manuscripts in Early Modern England 114
Heather Wolfe
7 Travel, Exploration, and Empire 136
Ralph Bauer
8 Private Life and Domesticity 160
Lena Cowen Orlin
9 Treason and Rebellion 180
Andrew Hadfield
10 Shakespeare and the Marginalized ''Others'' 200
Carole Levin
11 Cosmology and the Body 217
Cynthia Marshall
12 Life-Writing 238
Alan Stewart
Index 257
