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LITERATURE AND POPULAR CULTURE
IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND

For Mary Dove (19442009)

Literature and Popular Culture
in Early Modern England

Edited by
MATTHEW DIMMOCK AND ANDREW HADFIELD
University of Sussex, UK

First published 2009 by Ashgate Publishing

Published 2016 by Routledge
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Literature and popular culture in early modern England.

1. Popular culture and literature England History 16th century. 2. Popular culture and literature England History 17th century. 3. English literature Early modern, 15001700 History and criticism. 4. Popular culture England History 16th century. 5. Popular culture England History 17th century. I. Dimmock, Matthew. II. Hadfield, Andrew.
820.9002dc22

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Literature and popular culture in early modern England / [edited by]
Matthew Dimmock and Andrew Hadfield.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-7546-6580-9 (alk. paper)
1. English literatureEarly modern, 15001700History and criticism. 2. Popular
literatureEnglandHistory and criticism. 3. Popular culture and literatureEngland History16th century. 4. Popular culture and literatureEnglandHistory 17th century. 5. Popular culture in literature. 6. Popular cultureEnglandHistory 16th century. 7. Popular cultureEnglandHistory17th century.
I. Dimmock, Matthew. II. Hadfield, Andrew.

PR428.P65L57 2009
820.9355dc22

2009005305

ISBN 9780754665809 (hbk)

Contents

Matthew Dimmock and Andrew Hadfield

Sue Wiseman

Neil Rhodes

Michelle OCallaghan

Lori Humphrey Newcomb

Linda Hutjens

Ian Frederick Moulton

Elisabeth Salter

Femke Molekamp

Abigail Shinn

Nandini Das

Thomas Healy

Mary Ellen Lamb

Kevin Killeen

Peter Burke

Peter Burke studied at Oxford and taught History and Intellectual History at Sussex (196278) before moving to Cambridge, where he was Professor of Cultural History and remains Fellow of Emmanuel College. He has published more than twenty books, from Culture and Society in Renaissance Italy (1972) to Languages and Communities in Early Modern Europe (2004) and has been translated into 30 languages.

Nandini Das is Lecturer in Renaissance English Literature at the School of English, University of Liverpool. She specialises in Renaissance prose fiction and early travel writing and has published on both Renaissance romance and travel. Her edition of Robert Greenes Planetomachia (1585), a complex combination of humanist astronomical discourse and sensational Italianate tales, was published in 2007 and has been nominated for the 2009 MLA Distinguished Edition prize.

Matthew Dimmock is Senior Lecturer in English and Co-Director of the Centre for Early Modern Studies at the University of Sussex. His is the author of New Turkes: Dramatizing Islam and the Ottomans in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2005), co-editor of Cultural Encounters Between East and West, 14531699 (CSP, 2004) and editor of William Percys Mahomet and His Heaven: A Critical Edition (Ashgate, 2007). He is currently working on a monograph concerning the Prophet Muhammad in Christian thought.

Andrew Hadfield is Professor of English at the University of Sussex. He is the author of a number of works on early modern literature, politics and culture, including Literature, Politics and National Identity: Reformation to Renaissance (Cambridge University Press, 1994); Spensers Irish Experience: Wilde Fruit and Salvage Soyl (Clarendon, 1997) and Shakespeare, Spenser and the Matter of Britain (Palgrave, 2003). His most recent book, Shakespeare and Republicanism (Cambridge University Press, 2005), was awarded the Roland H. Bainton prize for literature by the Sixteenth Century Society of America. He is also the editor of Renaissance Studies.

Thomas Healy is Professor of Renaissance Studies and Head of the School of English at the University of Sussex. A founder of the London Renaissance Seminar, he has written widely on literary, cultural and theoretical aspects of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He has recently completed editing a volume of essays with Margaret Healy, Renaissance Transformations: The Making of English Writing, 15001650, and a study of the poetics of sectarianism in the long Reformation.

Linda Hutjens completed her graduate studies in Renaissance and medieval literature at the Department of English, University of Toronto. Her doctoral thesis, entitled The Renaissance Cobbler: The Significance of Shoemaker and Cobbler Characters in Elizabethan Drama, was submitted in 2004. She currently works in administration at the University of Torontos Faculty of Law. Her current research interests include folk-tales, recurring themes in literature and early issues in biblical translation.

Kevin Killeen is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of York. He is the author of a forthcoming work on Thomas Browne, Biblical Scholarship, Science and Politics in Early Modern England: Thomas Browne and the Thorny Place of Knowledge (Ashgate, 2009), and the co-editor of a collection on early modern science and religious cultures, The Word and the World: Biblical Exegesis and Early Modern Science (Palgrave, 2007). He is currently working on a book on the political bible in the seventeenth century.

Mary Ellen Lamb is a Professor at Southern Illinois University. She is the author of The Popular Culture of Shakespeare, Spenser, and Jonson (Routledge, 2006) and the co-editor of Oral Traditions and Gender in Early Modern Literary Texts (Ashgate, 2008), and has written numerous essays appearing in such journals as Shakespeare Quarterly, English Literary Renaissance, Studies in English Literature and Criticism. She is the current editor of the Sidney Journal, and is on the editorial board of English Literary Renaissance.

Femke Molekamp completed her doctorate on the Geneva Bible and its early modern female readership at the University of Sussex and the British Library (AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award). She is joining the University of Warwick as a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow to research the devotional reading culture of early modern women, and its connection to female literary agency. She has published essays on the making and reception of the Geneva Bible, and on early modern female devotional reading.

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