This volume offers a description of early modern habits of writing
and reading, of publication and stage performance, and of political
and religious writing.
* An introduction to early modern English literature for students
and general readers.
* Considers the ways in which early modern writers construct the
past, recover and adapt classical genres, write about people and
places, and tackle religious and secular controversies.
* Illustrated with a profusion of excerpts from early modern
texts.
* Writers represented include More, Erasmus, Spenser, Marlowe,
Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton, as well as less well known
authors.
Table of Content
List of Illustrations.
Acknowledgements.
Introduction: New Worlds of Words.
1. Writing.
2. Reading, Publication, Performance.
3. Forms Ancient and Modern.
4. Defining the Past.
5. Designing the Present.
6. Fictive Persons and Places.
7. Godliness.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index.
About the author
Michael Hattaway is Professor of English Literature at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of Elizabethan Popular Theatre (1982) and Hamlet: The Critics Debate (1987), the editor of As You Like It and Henry VI Parts I-III for the New Cambridge Shakespeare, and also of A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture (2000), The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare’s History Plays (2002), and plays by Jonson and Beaumont.
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