John Lee - A Handbook of English Renaissance Literary Studies

1. Chapter 06
2. Chapter 12
3. Chapter 13
4. Chapter 24
5. Chapter 27

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A Handbook of English Renaissance Literary Studies
Edited by John Lee

Edited by
John Lee

This edition first published 2017
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Names: Lee, John, 1966 editor.
Title: A handbook of English Renaissance literary studies / edited by John Lee, University of Bristol.
Description: First edition. | Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, 2017. | Series: WileyBlackwell critical theory
handbooks | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Identifiers: LCCN 2017016286 (print) | LCCN 2017030274 (ebook) | ISBN 9781118458761 (pdf) |
ISBN 9781118458778 (epub) | ISBN 9781118458785 (cloth)
Subjects: LCSH: English literatureEarly modern, 15001700History and criticism. |
RenaissanceEngland.
Classification: LCC PR411 (ebook) | LCC PR411 .H35 2017 (print) | DDC 820.9/003dc23
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Cover image: (top) Elizabeth I arriving at Nonsuch by Franz Hogenberg; (bottom) Works by Ambroise Par. Images courtesy of the Folger Shakespeare Library licensed under CC:BYSA.
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Many people have helped in the production of this book. Thanks go first to the contributors for their chapters: the editing of the Handbook was, among other things, an illuminating pleasure. Thanks go next to my and the contributors students this is a book that has been shaped by our interactions with them. Thanks are also owed to colleagues, especially George Donaldson and Tim Kendall, and to the several teams at WileyBlackwell who oversaw the project: in editing Emma Bennett, who got things going, and then Deirdre Ilkson, Rebecca Harkin, and Ben Thatcher; in production Luthra Manish and Carol Thomas; and in marketing Emily Corkhill. Final thanks are due to the University of Bristol.

Judith H. Anderson is Chancellors Professor of English Emeritus at Indiana University. She has published five books, most recently Translating Investments: Metaphor and the Dynamic of Cultural Change in TudorStuart England (2005) and Reading the Allegorical Intertext: Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton (2008), which received the MacCaffrey Award of the International Spenser Society. She has also coedited five books. Her forthcoming book project is titled Issues of Analogy, Light, and Death: Spenser, Kepler, Donne, and Milton.

David J. Baker is Peter G. Phialas Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of On Demand: Writing for the Market in Early Modern England (2010) and Between Nations: Shakespeare, Spenser, Marvell and the Question of Britain (1997). With Willy Maley, he is the coeditor or British Identity and English Renaissance Literature (2002).

Catherine Bates is Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. Her books include The Rhetoric of Courtship in Elizabethan Language and Literature (1992), Play in a Godless World: The Theory and Practice of Play in Shakespeare, Nietzsche and Freud (1999), Masculinity, Gender and Identity in the English Renaissance Lyric (2007), and Masculinity and the Hunt: Wyatt to Spenser (2013). She is currently writing a book on Sidneys Defence of Poesy.

Bruce Boehrer is Bertram H. Davis Professor of English at Florida State University. His most recent book, Environmental Degradation in Jacobean Drama, was published in 2013 by Cambridge University Press.