York Notes Companions: Renaissance Poetry and Prose (York Notes Companions)

Waudby, June

Longman（2010/06発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 368 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781408204788
• DDC分類 820.9003

Full Description

A fresh and exciting approach to the poetry and prose of the Renaissance which discusses the best-known writers and poets of the age - Shakespeare, Milton, Spenser and Donne - alongside writers much newer to the canon, such as Mary Sidney, Anne Locke and Aemilia Lanyer. The cultural context of the period is covered extensively in chapters focusing on religion, exploration and gender, and relevant modern critical theory is integrated throughout.

Contents

Part One - Introduction

                                                                                                                                                                   

Part Two - A Cultural Overview                              

 

 

Part Three - Texts, Writers and Contexts

 

Sonnets and Love Poetry: William Shakespeare, Thomas Wyatt and Philip Sidney

            Extended commentary: Shakespeare, Sonnets

 

Renaissance Epyllion: Thomas Lodge, William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe

            Extended Commentary: Marlowe, Hero and Leander (c. 1593)

 

Pastoral to Epic: Andrew Marvell, Edmund Spenser and John Milton

            Extended Commentary: Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1590-6), Book Three

 

Religious Verse: Anne Locke, Mary Sidney and John Donne

            Extended Commentary: Locke, A Meditation (1560)

 

Humanist Prose and Rhetoric: Thomas More, Philip Sidney and Thomas Wilson

            Extended Commentary: More, Utopia (1516)

 

Conduct Books: Castiglione, Thomas Hoby and Whately

            Extended Commentary: Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier (1528)

 

Part Four: Critical theories and Debates

 

The Country and City

 

The Woman Debate

 

Exploration and New Worlds

 

Religion and Controversy

 

 

Part Five - References and resources

 

Timeline

 

Further reading

 

 Index