A COMPANION TO ENGLISH RENAISSANCE LITERATURE AND CULTURE EDITED BY MICHAEL HATTAWAY EHBLACKWELL
List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors x xii PART ONE Introduction 1 Introduction 3 Michael Hattaway PART TWO Contexts and Perspectives, c. 1500-1650 2 Early Tudor Humanism 13 Mary Thomas Crane f 3 English Reformations 27 Patrick Collinson ' 4 Platonism, Stoicism, Scepticism and Classical Imitation 44 Sarah Hutton i I 5 History 58 Patrick Collinson 6 The English Language of the Early Modern Period 71 t N. F. Blake 7 Publication: Print and Manuscript 81 Michelle O'Callaghan
vi 8 Literacy and Education 95 Jean R. Brink 9 Court and Coterie Culture 106 Curtis Perry 10 The Literature of the Metropolis 119 John A. Twyning 11 Playhouses and the Role of Drama 133 Michael Hattaway 12 The Writing of Travel 148 Peter Womack PART THREE Readings 13 Translations of the Bible. 165 Gerald Hammond 14 A Reading of Wyatt's'Who so list to hunt' 176 Rachel Falconer 15 Courtship and Counsel: John Lyly's Campaspe 187 Greg Walker 16 Spenser's Faerie Queene, Book V: Poetry, Politics and Justice 195 Judith H. Anderson 17 Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy 206 A. J. Piesse 18 Donne's 'Nineteenth Elegy' 215 Germaine Greer 19 Lanyer's 'The Description of Cookham' and Jonson's 'To Penshurst' 224 Nicole Pohl 20 Bacon's'Of Simulation and Dissimulation' 233 Martin Dzelzainis 21 Lancelot Andrewes's Good Friday 1604 Sermon 241 Richard Harries
vii 22 Herbert's 'The Elixir' 249 Judith Weil 23 The Heart of the Labyrinth: Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus 257 Robyn Bolam 24 The Critical Elegy 267 John Lyon 25 Ford, Mary Wroth, and the Final Scene of 'Tis Pity She's a Whore 276 Robyn Bolam PART FOUR Genres and Modes 26 Theories of Literary Kinds 287 John Roe 27 Allegory 298 Clara Mucci 28 Pastoral 307 Michelle O'Callaghan 29 Romance 317 Helen Moore 30 Epic 327 Rachel Falconer 31 The Position of Poetry: Making and Defending Renaissance Poetics 340 Arthur F. Kinney 32 The English Print, c.l550-c. 1650 352 Malcolm Jones 33 Traditions of Complaint and Satire 367 John N. King 34 Love Poetry 378 Diana E. Henderson 35 Erotic Poems 392 Boika Sokolova
viii 36 Religious Verse 404 Elizabeth Clarke 37 Poets, Friends and Patrons: Donne and his Circle; Ben and his Tribe 419 Robin Robbins 38 'Such pretty things would soon be gone': The Neglected Genres of Popular Verse, 1480-1650 442 Malcolm Jones 39 Local and 'Customary' Drama 464 Thomas Pettitt 40 Continuities between 'Medieval' and 'Early Modern' Drama 477 Michael O'Connell 41 Political Plays 486 Stephen Longstaffe 42 Women and Drama 499 Alison Findlay 43 Tales of the City: The Comedies of Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton 513 Peter J. Smith 44 'Tied / To Rules of Flattery?': Court Drama and the Masque 525 James Knowles 45 Jacobean Tragedy 545 Rowland Wymer ^ 46 Caroline Theatre 556 Roy Booth 47 Scientific Writing 565 David Colclough 48 Prose Fiction 576 Andrew Hadfield 49 Theological Writings and Religious Polemic 589 Donna B. Hamilton
ix 50 The English Renaissance Essay: Churchyard, Cornwallis, Florio's Montaigne and Bacon 600 John Lee 51 Diaries 609 Elizabeth Clarke 52 Letters 615 Jonathan Gibson PART FIVE Issues and Debates 53 Rhetoric 623 Marion Trousdale 54 Identity 634 /" A.J. Piesse 55 Was There a Renaissance Feminism? 644 Jean E. Howard 56 The Debate on Witchcraft 653 James Sbarpe 57 Reconstructing the Past: History, Historicism, Histories 662 James R. Siemon 58 Sexuality: A Renaissance Category? 674 James Knowles 59 Race: A Renaissance Category? 690 Margo Hendricks 60 Writing the Nation 699 > Nicola Royan Index 709