Hattaway A New Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4443-1902-6
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 1264 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture

In this revised and greatly expanded edition of theCompanion, 80 scholars come together to offer an originaland far-reaching assessment of English Renaissance literature andculture.

* A new edition of the best-selling Companion to EnglishRenaissance Literature, revised and updated, with 22 newessays and 19 new illustrations

* Contributions from some 80 scholars including Judith H.Anderson, Patrick Collinson, Alison Findlay, Germaine Greer,Malcolm Jones, Arthur Kinney, James Knowles, Arthur Marotti, RobertMiola and Greg Walker

* Unrivalled in scope and its exploration of unfamiliar literaryand cultural territories the Companion offers new readingsof both 'literary' and 'non-literary'texts

* Features essays discussing material culture, sectarian writing,the history of the body, theatre both in and outside theplayhouses, law, gardens, and ecology in early modern England

* Orientates the beginning student, while providing advancedstudents and faculty with new directions for theirresearch

* All of the essays from the first edition, along with therecommendations for further reading, have been reworked orupdated

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hattaway, Michael

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Hattaway is Professor Emeritus of English Literature at the University of Sheffield, and Professor of English at New York University in London. His principal publications include Elizabethan Popular Theatre (1982), Hamlet: The Critics Debate (1987), and Renaissance and Reformations: An Introduction to Early Modern English Literature (2005); he is the editor of As You Like It (2000) and 1-3 Henry VI for the New Cambridge Shakespeare (1990, 1991, 1993), and of A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture (2000) and The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's History Plays (2002).