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A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture

ISBN: 978-1-405-10626-9

November 2002

Wiley-Blackwell

800 pages

Description

This is a one volume, up-to-date collection of more than fifty wide-ranging essays which will inspire and guide students of the Renaissance and provide course leaders with a substantial and helpful frame of reference.

  • Provides new perspectives on established texts.
  • Orientates the new student, while providing advanced students with current and new directions.
  • Pioneered by leading scholars.
  • Occupies a unique niche in Renaissance studies.
  • Illustrated with 12 single-page black and white prints.
About the Author
Michael Hattaway is Professor of English Literature at the University of Sheffield. His many publications include Elizabethan Popular Theatre (1982) and he has edited plays by Shakespeare, Beaumont and Jonson. He is also the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's History Plays (2002), and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Drama (1990) and Shakespeare in the New Europe (1994).
Features

  • Provides new perspectives on established texts.
  • Orientates the new student, while providing advanced students with current and new directions.
  • Pioneered by leading scholars.
  • Occupies a unique niche in Renaissance studies.
  • Illustrated with 12 single-page black and white prints.