Tracing the development of narrative verse in London's literary circles during the 1590s, this volume puts Shakespeare'sVenus and AdonisandThe Rape of Lucreceinto conversation with poems by a wide variety of contemporary writers, including Thomas Lodge, Francis Beaumont, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Heywood, Thomas Campion and Edmund Spenser. Chapters investigate the complexities of this literary conversation and contribute for the current, vigorous reassessment of humanism's intended consequences by drawing attention to the highly diverse forms of early modern classicism as well as the complex connection between Latin pedagogy and vernacular poetic invention.
Key themes and topics include:
-Epyllia, masculinity and sexuality
-Classicism and commerce
-Genre and mimesis
-Rhetoric and aesthetics
Lynn Enterlineis Nancy Perot Mulford Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. She is author of
The Rhetoric of the Body from Ovid to Shakespeareand
The Tears of Narcissus: Melancholia and Masculinity in Early Modern Writing. These essays contribute fascinating insights to the ongoing reassessment of humanism during Shakespeare's time.
Times Literary Supplement
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