The Oxford handbook of the age of Shakespeare / edited by Malcolm Smuts.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smuts, R. Malcolm (Robert Malcolm), editor.

Series:

Oxford handbooks online

Oxford handbooks in literature.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature and society--Great Britain--History--16th century.

Literature and society.

Literature and society--Great Britain--History--17th century.

History.

Great Britain.

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).

Other Title:

Handbook of the age of Shakespeare

Age of Shakespeare

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This handbook presents a broad sampling of current historical scholarship on Shakespeare's period that it is hoped will prove useful to scholars of his poems and plays. Rather than attempting to summarize the historical `background' to Shakespeare, individual chapters explore numerous topics and methodologies at the forefront of current historical research.

Contents:

Introduction / Malcolm Smuts

William Cecil Lord Burghley and the Management of Elizabeth's England / Norman Jones

The Earl of Essex / Paul E. J. Hammer

Robert Cecil and the Transition from Elizabeth to James I / Pauline Croft

James I and the Consolidation of British Monarchy? / Malcolm Smuts

War, Soldiers, and High Politics under Elizabeth I / D. J. B. Trim

Shakespeare, the Irish, and Military Culture / Rory Rapple

Catholicism and Tyranny in Shakespeare's Warwickshire / Glyn Parry

Ancient Liberties, Royal Honour, and the Politics of Commonweal in English Forests, 1558-1625 / Dan Beaver

Poets, Patronage, and the Prince's Court / Timothy Wilks

The Theatre and the 'Post-Reformation Public Sphere' / Peter Lake

Rhetorical Training in the Elizabethan Grammar School / Peter Mack

English Vernacular Historical Writing and Holinshed's Chronicles / Daniel Woolf, Jane Wong Yeang Chui

European Historiography in English Political Culture / Nicholas Popper

Roman History, Essex, and Late Elizabethan Political Culture / Paulina Kewes

Other Republicanisms / Debora Shuger

The Gordian Knot of Policy / Alexandra Gajda

Seneca and English Political Culture / Curtis Perry

David Hume, Richard Verstegan, and the Battle for Britain / Arthur Williamson

The Politics of Race in England, Scotland, and Ireland / Brendan Kane, Malcolm Smuts

English Catholics and the Continent / Katy Gibbons

The Bible in English Culture / Naomi Tadmor

Religious Nonconformity and the Quality of Mercy / Ethan H. Shagan

Protestantism and the Devil / Tom Webster

The Affective Life in Shakespearean England / Linda Pollock

Chivalry and the English Gentleman / Richard Cust

Elizabethan Verse Libel / Alan Bryson

Gender, Writing Technologies, and Early Modern Epistolary Communications / James Daybell

The Shamings of Falstaff / Brian Weiser

Cuckold's Haven / Susan D. Amussen

'Murder's Crimson Badge' / K.J. Kesselring

Thinking with Poison / Alastair Bellany

Criminal London / Paul Griffiths

Families and Households in Early Modern London, c.1550-1640 / Vanessa Harding

Theatre, Church, and Neighbourhood in Early Modern Blackfriars / Christopher Highley

The Cultural Geography of St Paul's Precinct / Roze Hentschell

Art and Architecture in Provincial England / Robert Tittler

Garden Design and Experience in Shakespeare's England / Luke Morgan

Art Collecting and Patronage in Shakespeare's England / Elizabeth Goldring

Graphic Satire and the Printed Image in Shakespeare's London / Helen Pierce

Music and the Stage in the Time of Shakespeare / Ross W. Duffin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 4, 2016).

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

9780191819933

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.