A Concise Companion to English Renaissance Literature [Hardcover]

• Places the poetry within contexts such as: economics; religion; empire and exploration; education, humanism and rhetoric; censorship and patronage; royal marriage and succession; treason and rebellion; “others” in England; private lives; cosmology and the body; and life-writing.
  
• Incorporates recent developments in the field, as well as work soon to be published.
  
• Entices students to explore the subject further.
  
• Provides new syntheses that will be of interest to scholars.
  
• All the contributors are highly regarded scholars and teachers.

Notes on Contributors vii

Introduction 1
Donna B. Hamilton

1 Economics 11
S. P. Cerasano

2 Religion 32
Donna B. Hamilton

3 Royal Marriage and the Royal Succession 54
Paul E. J. Hammer

4 Patronage, Licensing, and Censorship 75
Richard Dutton

5 Humanism, Rhetoric, Education 94
Peter Mack

6 Manuscripts in Early Modern England 114
Heather Wolfe

7 Travel, Exploration, and Empire 136
Ralph Bauer

8 Private Life and Domesticity 160
Lena Cowen Orlin

9 Treason and Rebellion 180
Andrew Hadfield

10 Shakespeare and the Marginalized ‘‘Others&rl3d