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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Hattaway, Michael

Titel

Renaissance and Reformations : An Introduction to Early Modern English Literature [electronic resource]

Auflage

1st ed

Link zum Volltext

• Wiley Online Library - AutoHoldings Books

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Renaissance and Reformations An Introduction to Early Modern English Literature; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: New Worlds of Words; 1 Speaking and Writing; 2 Reading, Publication, Performance; 3 Forms Ancient and Modern; 4 Defining the Past; 5 Designing the Present; 6 Fictive Persons and Places; 7 Godliness; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• This volume offers a description of early modern habits of writing and reading, of publication and stage performance, and of political and religious writing. An introduction to early modern English literature for students and general readers. Considers the ways in which early modern writers construct the past, recover and adapt classical genres, write about people and places, and tackle religious and secular controversies. Illustrated with a profusion of excerpts from early modern texts. Writers represented include More, Erasmus, Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, D
• English