On Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature Essays [Hardcover]

John Kerrigan is one of the foremost critics of English literature. This richly informed collection brings together his essays on such major figures as Sir Philip Sidney and Milton, but also less celebrated writers, including Thomas Carew and, in a new piece, William Drummond, to reconfigure the familiar and help extend the canon. Shakespeare looms large in this volume and his poems, plays and influence on Keats, are the subject of half the book.

I: Shakespeare
1. Shakespeare as Reviser (1987)
2. Between Michelangelo and Petrarch: Shakespeare's Sonnets of Art (1994)
3. Keats andLucrece(1988)
4.Henry IVand the Death of Old Double (1990)
5. Secrecy and Gossip inTwelfth Night(1997)
II: Early Modern Literature
6. The Editor as Reader: Constructing Renaissance Texts (1996)
7. Astrophil's Tragicomedy (1992)
8. William Drummond and the British Problem
9. Thomas Carew (1988)
10. Milton and the Nightingale (1992)
11. Revenge Tragedy Revisited, 1649-1683 (1997)
Index

These essays consolidate Kerrigan's position as one of the outstanding scholars of the English Renaissance of his generation. --Times Literary Supplement