Representing the English Renaissance / Stephen Greenblatt, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Greenblatt, Stephen, 1943- editor.

Series:

Representations Bks.

Representations Bks. ; v.2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Renaissance--England.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (392 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1988]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1988. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

Murdering Peasants: Status, Genre, and The Representation of Rebellion

"Shaping Fantasies": Figurations of Gender and Power in Elizabethan Culture

Strange Things, Gross Terms, Curious Customs: The Rehearsal of Cultures in the Late Renaissance

"Secret" Arts: Elizabethan Miniatures and Sonnets

Shakespeare's "Perjur'd Eye"

Pastoral and the Domain of Lyric in Spenser's Shepheardes Calender

Fabula and Historia: The Crisis of the "Universall Consideration" in The Unfortunate Traveller

"Who does the wolf love?" Reading Coriolanus*

Prospero's Wife

Authors-Readers: Jonson's Community of the Same

The Script in the Marketplace

The Sovereign, the Theater, and the Kingdome of Darknesse: Hobbes and the Spectacle of Power

Heresy, Orthodoxy, and the Politics of Religious Discourse: The Case of the English Family of Love

The Land Speaks: Cartography, Chorography, and Subversion in Renaissance England

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520332201

0520332202

OCLC:

1224279424