Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Editors’ Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I: Systematic Questions
6. 1. Editing English Renaissance Texts 27
7. 2. Forms of Translation 46
8. 3. New Ways of Worldmaking: English Renaissance Literature as ‘Early Modern’ 66
9. 4. Theatre and Drama 89
10. 5. Life-Writing: Encountering Selves 108
11. 6. England and its Others 136
12. 7. Literature and Religion in Early Modern England 155
13. 8. Renaissance Englishwomen as Writers, Readers, and Patrons 182
14. 9. Rhetoric and Literary Theory 203
15. Part II: Close Readings
16. 10. John Skelton, The Bowge of Courte (1499?) 225
17. 11. Thomas More, Utopia (1516/1551) 244
18. 12. William Baldwin, Beware the Cat (1553/1570) 265
19. 13. Richard Tottel, Songes and Sonettes (1557) 280
20. 14. John Lyly, Euphues (1578/1580) 295
21. 15. Philip Sidney, The Two Arcadias (1577–1584) 311
22. 16. Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy (c. 1587) 331
23. 17. Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1590/1596) 352
24. 18. Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus (c. 1588–1592) 376
25. 19. Thomas Nashe, The Unfortunate Traveller (1594) 395
26. 20. William Shakespeare, Richard II (1595) 411
27. 21. Francis Bacon, Essays (1597–1625) 425
28. 22. Shakespeare’s Sonnets (1609) 444
29. 23. Ben Jonson, The Alchemist (1610) 464
30. 24. Aemilia Lanyer, “The Description of Cooke-ham” (1611) 478
31. 25. Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621–1651) 496
32. 26. John Ford, ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore (c. 1632) 516
33. 27. John Donne, Songs and Sonnets (1633) 537
34. 28. Thomas Carew and Inigo Jones, Coelum Britannicum (1634) 557
35. 29. Andrew Marvell, Upon Appleton House (1651) 573
36. 30. Margaret Cavendish, Poems, and Fancies (1653) 594
37. 31. William Davenant, The Siege of Rhodes (1656) 615
38. 32. John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667/1674) 635
39. Index of Names 661
40. Index of Subjects 683
41. List of Contributors 739