Early Modern/Renaissance Literature

First published in 1996, the authors here gather to explore Marlowe on the four hundredth anniversary of his death, including significant interdisciplinary elements and focus on dramaturgy, textual criticism and biography..

In this sustained full length study of Marlowe's plays, Andrew Duxfield argues that Marlovian drama exhibits a marked interest in unity and unification, and that in doing so it engages with a discourse of anxiety over social discord that was prominent in the 1580s and 1590s. Duxfield’s focus on unit..

Commemorating the 450th birthday of a major, powerfully influential English poet and dramatist, Christopher Marlowe at 450 presents a comprehensive, up-to-date appraisal of the Marlovian scholarly landscape. An international group of acknowledged Marlowe experts evaluates the scholarship and critici..

Contributions to this volume explore the idea of Marlowe as a working artist, in keeping with John Addington Symonds' characterization of him as a "sculptor-poet." Throughout the body of his work-including not only the poems and plays, but also his forays into translation and imitation-a distinguis..

Focusing on team translation and the production of multilingual editions, and on the difficulties these techniques created for Renaissance translation theory, this book interrogates textual practices that were widespread in medieval and Renaissance Europe but have been excluded from translation and ..

Focusing on team translation and the production of multilingual editions, and on the difficulties these techniques created for Renaissance translation theory, this book interrogates textual practices that were widespread in medieval and Renaissance Europe but have been excluded from translation and ..

Pooling their resources, twenty-two leading experts on Early Stuart drama here explore three closely interconnected questions. To what extent did playwrights how their dramatis personae as forming, or failing to form, communal groupings? How far were theatrical productions likely to weld together, o..

Court Politics, Culture and Literature in Scotland and England, 1500-1540..

Cultural Genealogy explores the popularization in the Renaissance of the still pervasive myth that later cultures are the hereditary descendants of ancient or older cultures. Through examples ranging from Petrarch to Columbus, Maffeo Vegio to the Hapsburgs, Falco shows how the new techne of systemat..

This study explores the female experience of death in early modern England. By tracing attitudes towards gender through the occasion of death, it advances our understanding of the construction of femininity in the period. The first part of the book gives a cultural and historical overview of dea..

Studying the conjoined emergence of literary criticism, economic theory, and public theater at the turn of the seventeenth century in England, this book posits that what connects all three is a fascination with creating something out of nothing. Each of the five chapters highlights a particular dram..

Disciplinary Measures from the Metrical Psalms to Milton studies the relationship between English poetry and church discipline in four carefully chosen bodies of poetry written between the Reformation and the death of John Milton. The book argues that while poetry can help us to understand the oppre..