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Renaissance literature / Siobhan Keenan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Keenan, Siobhan, 1973-
- Series:
- Edinburgh critical guides to literature.
- Edinburgh critical guides to literature
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- European literature--Renaissance, 1450-1600.
- European literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (313 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This concise introduction to the literature of an exciting and influential period opens with an overview of the historical and cultural context in which English Renaissance literature was produced, and a discussion of its contemporary and subsequent critical reception. The following chapters survey the major Renaissance genres of drama, poetry and prose. Each chapter provides illustrative case studies of canonical and non-canonical key texts by authors such as William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, Edmund Spenser, John Milton, Sir Philip Sidney, John Donne, Aemilia Lanyer, Sir F
- Contents:
- Copyright; Contents; Series Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; About this Book; Chronology; Introduction; Chapter 1 Drama; Chapter 2 Poetry; Chapter 3 Prose; Conclusion; Student Resources; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-266) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611947798
- 9781281947796
- 1281947792
- 9780748631216
- 0748631216
- OCLC:
- 465643363
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