"Early Modern English Drama: A Critical Companion" is a collection of 27 contributed introductory essays on individual plays from the early modern period. Each essay, written by an authoritative scholar, addresses not only a play, but a specific cultural or literary epic, from London to the law, servants to sovereigns, geography to religion. These ...
This Companion provides a full introduction to the poetry of William Shakespeare through discussion of his freestanding narrative poems, the Sonnets, and his plays. Fourteen leading international scholars provide accessible and authoritative chapters on all relevant topics: from Shakespeare's seminal role in the development of English poetry, the ...
The Cambridge Companion to Christopher Marlowe provides a full introduction to one of the great pioneers of both the Elizabethan stage and modern English poetry. It recalls that Marlowe was an inventor of the English history play (Edward II) and of Ovidian narrative verse (Hero and Leander), as well as being author of such masterpieces of tragedy ...
Shakespeare, National Poet-Playwright is an important book which reassesses Shakespeare as a poet and dramatist. Patrick Cheney contests critical preoccupation with Shakespeare as 'a man of the theatre' by recovering his original standing as an early modern author: he is a working dramatist who composes some of the most extraordinary poems in ...
Early Modern English Poetry features twenty-eight original essays written especially for this volume by important international scholars on the major poems of the English Renaissance. The typical essay in this volume was written with two goals in mind: to provide readers with a distinctive and illuminating analysis of a key early modern work; and ...
Re-situating Shakespeare as an early modern professional, Patrick Cheney views him not simply as a man of the theatre, but also as an author with a literary career. Rather than present himself as a national or laureate poet, as Spenser does, Shakespeare conceals his authorship through dramaturgy, rendering his artistic techniques and literary ...
This book argues broadly that any historical narrative about republicanism needs to place Marlowe at the front of its genealogy, and that his interest in republican ideals is sustained from the beginning to the end of his meteoric career. More specifically, this study will nonetheless argue that it is difficult to discern a clear republican form ...
Helpful essays and teaching suggestions accompany the texts of these selected Elizabethan short poems, including work by John Donne, Elizabeth I, Ben Jonson, Edmund Spencer, and Mary Wroth.
This is a collection of essays on the topic of death in two monumental representatives of the early modern canon, Edmund Spenser and John Milton. The volume draws its impetus from the conviction that death is a central yet curiously understudied preoccupation for Spenser and Milton, contending that death in all its early modern reformations and ...
These essays consider Edmund Spenser's literary origins, his representations and influences on sixteenth-century culture, and his impact on later writers. His long and short poetry is considered, as well as his prose.
Marlowe's Counterfeit Profession Presents The First Comprehensive reading of the Marlowe canon in over a generation. The occasion for Patrick Cheney's re-reading is a primary discovery: Marlowe organizes his canon around an 'Ovidian' career model, or cursus, which turns from amatory poetry to tragedy to epic. Ovid had advertised this cursus only ...
Christopher Marlowe, famous today as an inventor of both modern English drama and modern English poetry, is considered to be Renaissance England's first great poet-playwright. This volume presents Marlowe's achievement as a poet within the context of his dramatic career. In addition to Marlowe's own extant poems, Ovid's "Elegies", "The Passionate ...
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