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Renaissance literature : an anthology

"Responding to the broadening of the canon in recent years, this accessible anthology makes available the most important poetry and prose from the period between the accession [sic] of Henry VIII in 1509 and the English Revolution in 1640. Arranged chronologically, generous selections of familiar Renaissance figures, such as More, Wyatt, Tyndale Spenser, Sidney, Shakespeare, Bacon, and Donne, are complemented by a strong emphasis on women writers, including Queen Elizabeth, Aemilia Lanyer, Rachel Speght, Mary Sidney, Martha Moulsworth, Lady Mary Wroth, and Elizabeth Cary. A range of prose works, including biblical translations, illustrates the development of English prose style over the period. The volume also offers a copious selection of carols, ballads, songs, and hymns. Helpful introductions and annotations to the newly-edited texts reflect recent developments in cultural and critical theory as well as the current state of Renaissance scholarship. The anthology also contains cross-references to material available on the Internet"--Back cover
Print Book, English, 2003
Blackwell Pub., Malden, MA, 2003
xxix, 1161 pages ; 25 cm.
9780631198970, 9780631198987, 0631198970, 0631198989
50035200
Introduction : Renaissance in cultural and critical theory
John Skelton
Sir Thomas More
Sir Thomas Elyot
King Henry VIII
William Tyndale
Sir Thomas Wyatt
Poems attributed to Wyatt
John Knox
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
John Foxe
John Stow
Richard Mulcaster
Queen Elizabeth I
George Gascoigne
Certain sermons or homilies
Book of common prayer
Anonymous carols
Edmund Spenser
Richard Hakluyt
John Lyly
John Florio
Sir Walter Raleigh
Sir Philip Sidney
Thomas Harriot and John White
Sir Francis Bacon
Robert Southwell
Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke
Robert Sidney
Mirror for magistrates
Christopher Marlowe
William Shakespeare
Thomas Campion
Thomas Nashe
Aemilia Lanyer
Ben Jonson
John Donne
Richard Barnfield
John Marston
Martha Moulsworth
Elizabeth (Tanfield) Cary, Lady Falkland
Lady Mary (Sidney) Wroth
George Wither
Anonymous ballads
George Herbert
Izaak Walton
Rachel Speght
England's Helicon
Myles Smith