In this revised and greatly expanded edition of the
Companion, 80 scholars come together to offer an original
and far-reaching assessment of English Renaissance literature and
culture.
* A new edition of the best-selling Companion to English
Renaissance Literature, revised and updated, with 22 new
essays and 19 new illustrations
* Contributions from some 80 scholars including Judith H.
Anderson, Patrick Collinson, Alison Findlay, Germaine Greer,
Malcolm Jones, Arthur Kinney, James Knowles, Arthur Marotti, Robert
Miola and Greg Walker
* Unrivalled in scope and its exploration of unfamiliar literary
and cultural territories the Companion offers new readings
of both ‘literary’ and ‘non-literary’
texts
* Features essays discussing material culture, sectarian writing,
the history of the body, theatre both in and outside the
playhouses, law, gardens, and ecology in early modern England
* Orientates the beginning student, while providing advanced
students and faculty with new directions for their
research
* All of the essays from the first edition, along with the
recommendations for further reading, have been reworked or
updated
Circa l’autore
Michael Hattaway is Professor Emeritus of English Literature at the University of Sheffield, and Professor of English at New York University in London. His principal publications include Elizabethan Popular Theatre (1982), Hamlet: The Critics Debate (1987), and Renaissance and Reformations: An Introduction to Early Modern English Literature (2005); he is the editor of As You Like It (2000) and 1-3 Henry VI for the New Cambridge Shakespeare (1990, 1991, 1993), and of A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture (2000) and The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare’s History Plays (2002).
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