1: General Introduction: Reconceiving the Renaissance
2: Textuality
3: Histories
4: Appropriation
5: Identities
6: Materiality
7: Values
The only comprehensive anthology of contemporary Renaissance criticism.
Ewan Fernie (born 1971) won the James Elliott prize for his 1994
first-class degree from the University of Edinburgh, where he also
achieved the Lanfine Bursary in English, the Horsliehill-Scott
Bursary in Philosophy and a number of other prizes. He is Lecturer
in Shakespeare at Royal Holloway, University of London. Ramona Wray
is Lecturer at the School of English, Queen's University, Belfast.
She has published Women Writers of the Seventeenth Century
(Northcote House, 2003) and has co-edited Shakespeare and Ireland:
History, Politics, Culture (Macmillan, 1997) and Shakespeare, Film,
Fin de Siecle (Macmillan, 2000). Mark Thornton Burnett is Professor
of
Renaissance Studies at Queen's University, Belfast, and Director of
the Kenneth Branagh Archive. He is the author of Masters and
Servants in English Renaissance Drama and Culture and Constructing
'Monsters' in Shakespearean Drama and Early Modern Culture, and the
editor of Christopher Marlowe: The Complete Plays and Christopher
Marlowe: The Complete Poems. Clare McManus is Lecturer in English
at Queen's University, Belfast. Her research focuses on early
modern European theatre and performance, and in particular on
women's performance and cultural production. She is the author of
Women on the Renaissance Stage: Anna of Denmark and Female Masquing
in the Stuart Court (1590-1619). She is also
editor of Women and Culture at the Courts of the Stuart Queens.
`A one-of-a-kind book will serve as an indispensable guide to
students and teachers of Renaissance literature.'
William Kerwin, University of Missouri-Columbia
`An excellent resource...should be required reading for all serious
students of Renaissance literature.'
Andrew Murphy, University of St Andrews
`Without doubt the most illuminating and comprehensive guide to
Renaissance and early modern studies available anywhere today A
signal achievement and one that will stand as a guide for many
years to come.'
Patricia Parker, Stanford University
`remarkably succeeds in meeting the ambition of its title
compellingly demonstrates how various and exciting contemporary
scholarship is.'
David Scott Kastan, Columbia University
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