Hattaway Renaissance and Reformations

An Introduction to Early Modern English Literature
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-77700-8
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Introductions to Literature

This volume offers a description of early modern habits of writingand reading, of publication and stage performance, and of politicaland religious writing.

* An introduction to early modern English literature for studentsand general readers.

* Considers the ways in which early modern writers construct thepast, recover and adapt classical genres, write about people andplaces, and tackle religious and secular controversies.

* Illustrated with a profusion of excerpts from early moderntexts.

* Writers represented include More, Erasmus, Spenser, Marlowe,Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton, as well as less well knownauthors.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hattaway, Michael

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations.
Acknowledgements.
Introduction: New Worlds of Words.
1. Writing.
2. Reading, Publication, Performance.
3. Forms Ancient and Modern.
4. Defining the Past.
5. Designing the Present.
6. Fictive Persons and Places.
7. Godliness.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Hattaway is Professor of English Literature at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of Elizabethan Popular Theatre (1982) and Hamlet: The Critics Debate (1987), the editor of As You Like It and Henry VI Parts I-III for the New Cambridge Shakespeare, and also of A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture (2000), The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's History Plays (2002), and plays by Jonson and Beaumont.