William Zunder, Suzanne Trill

Writing and the English Renaissance

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Produktbeschreibung

This is a collection of essays exploring the creative richness of Renaissance culture during the 16th and 17th centuries. As well as considering major literary figures such as Spenser, Marlowe, Donne and Milton, lesser known, especially women, writers are also examined.

Produktdetails

• Crosscurrents
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 215mm x 149mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9780582229754
• ISBN-10: 0582229758
• Artikelnr.: 39293023

Autorenporträt

William Zunder, Suzanne Trill

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Chronology Introduction Part I. 1. 'If we shadows have offended: Edmund Spenser and the Elizabethen world of patronage
Marion Wynne-Davies 2. Discourse and dialectic: the work of Christopher Marlowe
William Zunder 3. 'Anxious to amuse': metaphysical poetry and the discourse of Renaissance masculinity
Bruce Woodcock 4. 'When the bad bleed': Renaissance tragedy and dramatic form
Kathleen E. McLuskie 5. Identity and ownership: narratives of land in the English Renaissance
Melanie Hansen 6. Popular culture in the English Renaissance
Mark Thornton Burnett 7. 'Demons in female form': representations of women and gender in murder pamphlets of the late 16th and early 17th centuries
Garthine Walker 8. 16th century women's writing: Mary Sidney's Psalmes and the 'feminity' of translation
Suzanne Trill 9. 'A grain of glorie': George Herbert and 17th century devotional lyrics
Helen Wilcox 10. Marvell's news from nowhere
John Hoyles 11. 'This meaning
not the name': Milton and gender
Tony Davies 12. Preaching common grounds: Winstanley and the Diggers as concrete utopians
Christopher Kendrick 13. Female prophecy in the 17th century
Kate Chedgzoy Part II: Selected Documents 1. From 'An Exhortation Concerning Good Orders and Obedience Rulers and Magistrates' in Certain Sermons or Homilies (1547) 2. From 'The form of solemniation of Matrimony' in The Book of Common Prayer (1547) 3. Thomas Carew
'A Rapture' (1640) 4. From Sir Philip Sidney
The Defence of Poesy (1595) 5. From Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville 6. From Ben Jonson
Sejanus
His Fall (1605) 7. From John Webster
The White Devel (1612) 8. From Anon.
A Warning for Fair Women (1599) 9. From Arthur Golding
A Brief Discourse of the late Murder of Master George Sanders (1577) 10. From William Camden
Britannia
or A Chorographical Description of the most Flourishing Kingdoms
England
Scotland and Ireland
translated by Philemon Holland (1637) 11. From Barnbe Rich
Faults
Faults and Nothing Else but Faults (1606) 12. Gilbert Dugdale
A True Discourse of the Practices of Elizabeth Caldwell (1604) 13. From The Psalms of David and Others. With Mr John /calvin's Commentaries
translated by Arthur Golding (1571) 14. From Jeremy Taylor
The Rule and Exercises of Holy Iiving (1654) 15. From Joseph Hall
The Art of Divine Meditation (1607) 16. From Andrew Marvell
The Rehearsal Transpros'd: or
Animadversion Upon a Late Book
Entitles
A Preface Showing What Grounds There Are of Fears and Jealousies of Popery (1672) 17. From Desiderius Erassmus
The Praise of Folly
translated by Sir Thomas Chaloner (1559) 18. From Niccolo Machiavelli
The Prince
translated by E D (1640) 19. Gerrard Winstanley
The True Levellers Standard Advanced (1649) 20. From Anna Trapnel
The Cry of a Stone (1654) Notes on contributors Select bibliography Index.