On Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature Essays [Paperback]

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

John Kerrigan is a close reader with a broad knowledge, ready with the big picture and the small detail. --Leonard R.N. Ashley,Biblioth??que d'Humanisme et Renaissance

...John Kerrigan's pithy and polymathic essays inOn Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature(reissued in paperback)...an enthusiastic piece on 'Shakespeare as Reviser' and a more cautious one on 'The Editor as Reader.' --Studies in English Literature 1500-1900

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