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This concise introduction opens with an overview of the historical and cultural context in which English Renaissance literature was produced and a discussion of its contemporary and subsequent critical reception. Following chapters survey drama, poetry, and prose. Each provides illustrative case studies of canonical and non-canonical texts by such authors as William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, Edmund Spenser, John Milton, Sir Philip Sidney, John Donne, Aemilia Lanyer, Sir Francis Bacon, Thomas Nashe, and Lady Mary Wroth. A guide to further reading accompanies each chapter, complemented by student resources at the end of the book. In conclusion, the text summarizes significant developments in English Renaissance literary culture and discusses the future direction of Renaissance literary scholarship.Key Features* Detailed readings of Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Milton's Lycidas, Sidney's Astrophil and Stella, Shakespeare's Sonnets, Venus and Adonis, and Hamlet, Marlowe's Tamburlaine, Jonson's The Alchemist, Lanyer's The Description of Cookham, Bacon's essays, Donne's sermons, Nashe's The Unfortunate Traveller, and Wroth's The Countess of Montgomery's Uran

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Author

Siobhan Keenan

Publisher

University of Edinburgh Press

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780748625833

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, History, Literary Fiction