A companion to English renaissance literature and culture / edited by Michael Hattaway.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The English language of the early modern period / Arja Nurmi
Literacy and education / Jean R. Brink
Rhetoric / Gavin Alexander
History / Patrick Collinson
Metaphor and culture in Renaissance England / Judith H. Anderson
Early Tudor humanism / Mary Thomas Crane
Platonism, stoicism, scepticism, and classical imitation / Sarah Hutton
Translation / Liz Oakley-Brown
Mythology / Jane Kingsley-Smith
Scientific writing / David Colclough
Publication : print and manuscript / Michelle O'Callaghan
Early modern handwriting / Grace Ioppolo
The manuscript transmission of poetry / Arthur F. Marotti
Poets, friends, and patrons : Donne and his circle, Ben and his tribe / Robin Robbins
Law : poetry and jurisdiction / Bradin Cormack
Spenser's Faerie queene, book 5 : poetry, politics, and justice / Judith H. Anderson
Law makes the king : Richard Hooker on law and princely rule / Torrance Kirby
Donne, Milton, and the two traditions of religious liberty / Feisal G. Mohamed
Court and coterie culture / Curtis Perry
Courtship and counsel : John Lyly's Campaspe / Greg Walker
Bacon's Of simulation and dissimulation / Martin Dzelzainis
The literature of the metropolis / John A. Twyning
Tales of the city : the plays of Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton / Peter J. Smith
An emblem of themselves : early Renaissance country house poetry / Nicole Pohl
Literary gardens, from More to Marvell / Hester Lees-Jeffries
English reformations / Patrick Collinson
Translations of the Bible / Gerald Hammond
Lancelot Andrewes' Good Friday 1604 sermon / Richard Harries
Theological writings and religious polemic / Donna B. Hamilton
Catholic writings / Robert S. Miola
Sectarian writing / Hilary Hinds
The English broadside print, c.1550-c.1650 / Malcolm Jones
The writing of travel / Peter Womack
England's experiences of Islam / Stephan Schmuck
Reading the body / Jennifer Waldron
Physiognomy / Sibylle Baumbach
Dreams and dreamers / Carole Levin
Theories of literary kinds / John Roe
The position of poetry : making and defending Renaissance poetics / Arthur F. Kinney
Epic / Rachel Falconer
Playhouses, performances, and the role of drama / Michael Hattaway
Continuities between Medieval and Early Modern drama / Michael O'Connell
Kyd's The Spanish tragedy / A.J. Piesse
Boys' plays / Edel Lamb
Drama of the Inns of Court / Alan H. Nelson and Jessica Winston
Tied to rules of flattery? Court drama and the masque / James Knowles
Women and drama / Alison Findlay
Political plays / Stephen Longstaffe
Jacobean tragedy / Rowland Wymer
Caroline theatre / Roy Booth
John Ford, Mary Wroth, and the final scene of 'Tis pity she's a whore / Robyn Bolam
Local drama and custom / Thomas Pettitt
The critical elegy / John Lyon
Allegory / Clara Mucci
Pastoral / Michelle O'Callaghan
Romance / Helen Moore
Love poetry / Diana E. Henderson
Music and poetry / David Lindley
Wyatt's Who so list to hunt / Rachel Falconer
The heart of the labyrinth : Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus / Robyn Bolam
Ovidian erotic poems / Boika Sokolova
John Donne's nineteenth elegy / Germaine Greer
Traditions of complaint and satire / John N. King
Folk legends and wonder tales / Thomas Pettitt
Such pretty things would soon be gone : the neglected genres of popular verse, 1480-1650 / Malcolm Jones
Religious verse / Elizabeth Clarke
Herbert's The elixir / Judith Weil
Conversion and poetry in Early Modern England / Molly Murray
Prose fiction / Andrew Hadfield
The English Renaissance essay : Churchyard, Cornwallis, Florio's Montaigne, and Bacon / John Lee
Diaries and journals / Elizabeth Clarke
Letters / Jonathan Gibson
Identity / A.J. Piesse
Sexuality : a Renaissance category? / James Knowles
Was there a Renaissance feminism? / Jean E. Howard
Drama as text and performance / Andrea Stevens
The debate on witchcraft / James Sharpe
Reconstructing the past : history, historicism, histories / James R. Siemon
Race : a Renaissance category? / Margo Hendricks
Writing the nations / Nicola Royan
Early modern ecology / Ken Hiltner

"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 lite."-- Provided by publisher