{"product_id":"renaissance-and-reformations-an-introduction-to-early-modern-english-literature-paperback","title":"Renaissance and Reformations: An Introduction to Early Modern English Literature - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichael Hattaway\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume offers a description of early modern habits of writing and reading, of publication and stage performance, and of political and religious writing. \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eAn introduction to early modern English literature for students and general readers.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eConsiders the ways in which early modern writers construct the past, recover and adapt classical genres, write about people and places, and tackle religious and secular controversies.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIllustrated with a profusion of excerpts from early modern texts.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eWriters represented include More, Erasmus, Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton, as well as less well known authors.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDesigned for both students and general readers, this introduction to Renaissance and Reformation literature offers a description of early modern habits of writing and reading, of publication and stage performance. It considers the ways in which early modern writers constructed the past and designed the present, wrote about people and places, recovered and adapted classical genres, and tackled religious and secular controversies. \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll these topics are illustrated with a profusion of excerpts from early modern texts, including works by More, Erasmus, Wyatt, Spenser, Philip and Mary Sidney, Marlowe, Kyd, Shakespeare, Campion, Daniel, Donne, Southwell, Dekker, Taylor 'the water-poet', Aemilia Lanyer, Jonson, Chapman, Middleton, Mary Wroth, Ralegh, Greville, Wotton, Herbert and Milton. Throughout, readers are reminded that the consequences of the English reformations were as important as the better known influences of the Renaissance.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Hattaway\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of English Literature at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eElizabethan Popular Theatre\u003c\/i\u003e (1982) and \u003ci\u003eHamlet: The Critics Debate\u003c\/i\u003e (1987), the editor of \u003ci\u003eAs You Like It \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eand Henry VI Parts I-III\u003c\/i\u003e for the New Cambridge Shakespeare, and also of \u003ci\u003eA Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e (2000), \u003ci\u003eThe Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's History Plays\u003c\/i\u003e (2002), and plays by Jonson and Beaumont.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 264\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 9.02 x 7.44 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 01, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42119578779783,"sku":"9781405100458","price":61.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/renaissance-and-reformations-an-introduction-to-early-modern-english-literature-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}