A Companion to Tudor Literature presents a collection of thirty-one newly commissioned essays focusing on English literature and culture from the reign of Henry VII in 1485 to the death of Elizabeth I in 1603. Presents students with a valuable historical and cultural context to the period Discusses key texts and representative subjects, and explores issues including international influences, religious change, travel and New World discoveries, women's writing, technological innovations, medievalism, print culture, and developments in music and in modes of seeing and reading
A Companion to Tudor Literature presents a collection of thirty-one newly commissioned essays focusing on English literature and culture from the reign of Henry VII in 1485 to the death of Elizabeth I in 1603. Presents students with a valuable historical and cultural context to the period Discusses key texts and representative subjects, and explores issues including international influences, religious change, travel and New World discoveries, women's writing, technological innovations, medievalism, print culture, and developments in music and in modes of seeing and readingHinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Kent Cartwright is Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English at the University of Maryland. He is author of Shakespearean Tragedy and Its Double: The Rhythms of Audience Response (1991), which was selected as a Choice "outstanding academic book"; and Theatre and Humanism: English Drama in the Sixteenth Century (1999), winner of the Calvin and Rose Hoffman Prize for its chapter on Christopher Marlowe's Tamburlaine. He is also a recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Long-Term Fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library.
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List of Illustrations viii Notes on Contributors ix Acknowledgments xv Chronology xvi Kathleen Bossert Map of England, Scotland, and Ireland in the Sixteenth Century xxxi Introduction 1 Kent Cartwright Part I Historical and Cultural Contexts 13 1 The Reformation, Lollardy, and Catholicism 15 Peter Marshall 2 Witchcraft in Tudor England and Scotland 31 Kathryn A. Edwards 3 The Tudor Experience of Islam 49 Matthew Dimmock 4 Protestantism, Profi t, and Politics: Tudor Representations of the New World 63 Nancy Bradley Warren 5 International Infl uences and Tudor Music 79 Ross W. Duffin 6 Tudor Technology in Transition 95 Adam Max Cohen 7 Enclosing the Body: Tudor Conceptions of Skin 111 Tanya Pollard Part II Manuscript, Print, and Letters 123 8 Manuscripts in Tudor England 125 Steven W. May and Heather Wolfe 9 John Skelton and the State of Letters 140 Seth Lerer 10 The Henrician Courtier Writing in Manuscript and Print: Wyatt, Surrey, Bryan, and Others 151 David R. Carlson 11 Old Authors, Women Writers, and the New Print Technology 178 Helen Smith 12 Printers of Interludes 192 Peter Happé Part III Literary Origins, Presences, Absences 211 13 Medievalism in English Renaissance Literature 213 Deanne Williams 14 The Tudor Origins of Medieval Drama 228 Theresa Coletti and Gail McMurray Gibson 15 French Presences in Tudor England 246 A. E. B. Coldiron 16 Italian in Tudor England: Why Couldn't a Woman Be More Like a Man? 261 Pamela J. Benson Part IV Authors, Works, and Modes 277 17 More's Utopia: Medievalism and Radicalism 279 Anne Lake Prescott 18 The Literary Voices of Katherine Parr and Anne Askew 295 Joan Pong Linton 19 Reformation Satire, Scatology, and Iconoclastic Aesthetics in Gammer Gurton's Needle 309 Robert Hornback 20 Bad Fun and Tudor Laughter 324 Pamela Allen Brown 21 Perspective and Realism in the Renaissance 339 Alastair Fowler 22 Seeing through Words in Theories of Poetry: Sidney, Puttenham, Lodge 350 Gavin Alexander 23 Tudor Versification and the Rise of Iambic Pentameter 364 Jeff Dolven 24 John Lyly's Galatea: Politics and Literary Allusion 381 Mike Pincombe 25 Sidney's Arcadia, Romance, and the Responsive Woman Reader 395 Clare R. Kinney 26 Nature and Technê in Spenser's Faerie Queene 412 Jessica Wolfe 27 "In Poesie the mirrois of our Age": The Countess of Pembroke's "Sydnean" Poetics 428 Suzanne Trill 28 "Conceived of young Horatio his son": The Spanish Tragedy and the Psychotheology of Revenge 444 Heather Hirschfeld 29 West of England: The Irish Specter in Tamburlaine 459 Kimberly Anne Coles 30 The Real and the Unreal in Tudor Travel Writing 475 Mary C. Fuller 31 Jack and the City: The Unfortunate Traveler, Tudor London, and Literary History 489 Steve Mentz Index 504
List of Illustrations viii Notes on Contributors ix Acknowledgments xv Chronology xvi Kathleen Bossert Map of England, Scotland, and Ireland in the Sixteenth Century xxxi Introduction 1 Kent Cartwright Part I Historical and Cultural Contexts 13 1 The Reformation, Lollardy, and Catholicism 15 Peter Marshall 2 Witchcraft in Tudor England and Scotland 31 Kathryn A. Edwards 3 The Tudor Experience of Islam 49 Matthew Dimmock 4 Protestantism, Profi t, and Politics: Tudor Representations of the New World 63 Nancy Bradley Warren 5 International Infl uences and Tudor Music 79 Ross W. Duffin 6 Tudor Technology in Transition 95 Adam Max Cohen 7 Enclosing the Body: Tudor Conceptions of Skin 111 Tanya Pollard Part II Manuscript, Print, and Letters 123 8 Manuscripts in Tudor England 125 Steven W. May and Heather Wolfe 9 John Skelton and the State of Letters 140 Seth Lerer 10 The Henrician Courtier Writing in Manuscript and Print: Wyatt, Surrey, Bryan, and Others 151 David R. Carlson 11 Old Authors, Women Writers, and the New Print Technology 178 Helen Smith 12 Printers of Interludes 192 Peter Happé Part III Literary Origins, Presences, Absences 211 13 Medievalism in English Renaissance Literature 213 Deanne Williams 14 The Tudor Origins of Medieval Drama 228 Theresa Coletti and Gail McMurray Gibson 15 French Presences in Tudor England 246 A. E. B. Coldiron 16 Italian in Tudor England: Why Couldn't a Woman Be More Like a Man? 261 Pamela J. Benson Part IV Authors, Works, and Modes 277 17 More's Utopia: Medievalism and Radicalism 279 Anne Lake Prescott 18 The Literary Voices of Katherine Parr and Anne Askew 295 Joan Pong Linton 19 Reformation Satire, Scatology, and Iconoclastic Aesthetics in Gammer Gurton's Needle 309 Robert Hornback 20 Bad Fun and Tudor Laughter 324 Pamela Allen Brown 21 Perspective and Realism in the Renaissance 339 Alastair Fowler 22 Seeing through Words in Theories of Poetry: Sidney, Puttenham, Lodge 350 Gavin Alexander 23 Tudor Versification and the Rise of Iambic Pentameter 364 Jeff Dolven 24 John Lyly's Galatea: Politics and Literary Allusion 381 Mike Pincombe 25 Sidney's Arcadia, Romance, and the Responsive Woman Reader 395 Clare R. Kinney 26 Nature and Technê in Spenser's Faerie Queene 412 Jessica Wolfe 27 "In Poesie the mirrois of our Age": The Countess of Pembroke's "Sydnean" Poetics 428 Suzanne Trill 28 "Conceived of young Horatio his son": The Spanish Tragedy and the Psychotheology of Revenge 444 Heather Hirschfeld 29 West of England: The Irish Specter in Tamburlaine 459 Kimberly Anne Coles 30 The Real and the Unreal in Tudor Travel Writing 475 Mary C. Fuller 31 Jack and the City: The Unfortunate Traveler, Tudor London, and Literary History 489 Steve Mentz Index 504
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