Description
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.
About the Author
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).
Reviews
"As with the previous volume, each essay is the work of an accomplished scholar and is supplemented with a list of references and further reading. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." (Choice, 1July 2011)
Book Information
ISBN 9781405187626
Author Michael Hattaway
Format Hardback
Page Count 1272
Imprint Wiley-Blackwell
Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Weight(grams) 2517g
Dimensions(mm) 257mm * 183mm * 76mm
- 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
About the Author
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).
Reviews
"As with the previous volume, each essay is the work of an accomplished scholar and is supplemented with a list of references and further reading. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." (Choice, 1July 2011)
Book Information
ISBN 9781405187626
Author Michael Hattaway
Format Hardback
Page Count 1272
Imprint Wiley-Blackwell
Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Weight(grams) 2517g
Dimensions(mm) 257mm * 183mm * 76mm
