| Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 339 pages) : illustrations |
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Cambridge companions to culture |
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Cambridge companions to culture
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| Contents |
The sixteenth century / Colin Burrow -- Tudor aesthetics / Clark Hulse -- Authorship and the material conditions of writing / Wendy Wall -- Poetry, patronage, and the court / Catherine Bates -- Religious writing / John N. King -- Dramatic experiments: Tudor drama, 1490-1567 / Leah S. Marcus -- Dramatic achievements / Suzanne Gossett -- Lyric forms / Heather Dubrow -- Narrative, romance, and the epic / Donald Cheney -- The evolution of Tudor satire / Anne Lake Prescott -- Chronicles of private life / Lena Cowen Orlin -- Popular culture in print / Garrettt Sullivan and Linda Woodbridge -- Rewriting the world, rewriting the body / Raymond Waddington -- Writing empire and nation / Richard Helgerson |
| Summary |
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. In this century courtly literature under Henry VIII moves toward a new, more personal poetry of sentiment, narrative and romance. The development of English prose is seen in the writing of More, Foxe and Hooker and in the evolution of satire and popular culture. Drama moves from the churches to the commercial playhouses with the plays of Kyd, Marlowe and the early careers of Shakespeare and Jonson. The Companion tackles all these subjects 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
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Literature and history -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century
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English Literature.
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English literature -- Early modern.
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English.
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Languages & Literatures.
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Literature and history.
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United Kingdom.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kinney, Arthur F., 1933-
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| ISBN |
0511999259 |
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9780511999253 |
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