A Concise Companion to English Renaissance Literature

This Concise Companion launches students into the study of English Renaissance literature through the central contexts that informed it.

Places the poetry within contexts such as: 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.

Incorporates recent developments in the field, as well as work soon to be published.

Entices students to explore the subject further.

Provides new syntheses that will be of interest to scholars.

All the contributors are highly regarded scholars and teachers.

Content:
Chapter 1 Economics (pages 11–31): S. P. Cerasano
Chapter 2 Religion (pages 32–53): Donna B. Hamilton
Chapter 3 Royal Marriage and the Royal Succession (pages 54–74): Paul E. J. Hammer
Chapter 4 Patronage, Licensing, and Censorship (pages 75–93): Richard Dutton
Chapter 5 Humanism, Rhetoric, Education (pages 94–113): Peter Mack
Chapter 6 Manuscripts in Early Modern England (pages 114–135): Heather Wolfe
Chapter 7 Travel, Exploration, and Empire (pages 136–159): Ralph Bauer
Chapter 8 Private Life and Domesticity (pages 160–179): Lena Cowen Orlin
Chapter 9 Treason and Rebellion (pages 180–199): Andrew Hadfield
Chapter 10 Shakespeare and the Marginalized “Others” (pages 200–216): Carole Levin
Chapter 11 Cosmology and the Body (pages 217–237): Cynthia Marshall
Chapter 12 Life?Writing (pages 238–256): Alan Stewart