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Title: The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1500-1600 (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Arthur F. Kinney ISBN: 0-521-58758-1 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Another well-designed Cambridge Companion volume
Comment: For those wanting to delve into Shakespearean or Elizabethan literature, this is an excellent collection by respected scholars in each of the areas described in the Amz synopsis(above). Modern readers cannot imagine what a different significance there was 400 years ago for writing, for drama, for the creation of arts or for the grappling with politics or social policy. Kinney's volume is an excellent launching point for a literary reader to get perspective on the cultural constraints and opportunities that birthed Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Jonson, et al.
If your focus is primarily on Shakespeare, you may do as well to consider some of the other Cambridge Companions" volumes: either "...Companion to Shakespeare" or "...to Shakespeare Studies" or "...to Shakespeare on Stage." (or if pursuing other authors, to... Jonson, Spenser, etc.). In Kinney's volume, however, you find a broader inclusion of the wide-ranging forces impinging on the writing environment of the 1590s. Without having to consult separate volumes on Authorship or 16th century lyric or the patronage system, the reader finds here excellent scholarly surveys of fifteen crucial regions of writerly concern.
The authors' conclusions are generally well referenced through notes (end of each chapter) and provide helpful recommendations for further reading by topic.
Additionally, there are chronologies of the 16th century at the front of the book which help you place literary, social and political in temporal relations to each other. Overall, an excellent investment in your appreciation of the gestation and birth of renaissance English literature.
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Title: A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture) by Michael Hattaway ISBN: 1405106263 Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Pub. Date: 01 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry Donne to Marvell (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Thomas N. Corns ISBN: 0521423090 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 1993 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: The Polemics and Poems of Rachel Speght (Women Writers in English 1350-1850) by Rachel Speght, Barbara Kiefer Lewalski ISBN: 0195086155 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1996 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Renaissance Literature: An Anthology (Blackwell Anthologies (Paper)) by Michael Payne, John Hunter ISBN: 0631198989 Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Pub. Date: 01 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $41.95 |
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Title: The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Drama (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by A. R. Braunmuller, Michael Hattaway ISBN: 0521527996 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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