A Companion to Tudor Literature

Kent Cartwright

Wiley, Mar 8, 2010 - Literary Criticism - 568 pages

A Companion to Tudor Literature presents a collection ofthirty-one newly commissioned essays focusing on English literatureand culture from the reign of Henry VII in 1485 to the death ofElizabeth I in 1603.

• Presents students with a valuable historical and culturalcontext to the period
• Discusses key texts and representative subjects, and exploresissues including international influences, religious change, traveland New World discoveries, women’s writing, technologicalinnovations, medievalism, print culture, and developments in musicand in modes of seeing and reading

About the author

Kent Cartwright is Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English at the University of Maryland. He is author of Shakespearean Tragedy and Its Double: The Rhythms of Audience Response (1991), which was selected as a Choice “outstanding academic book”; and Theatre and Humanism: English Drama in the Sixteenth Century (1999), winner of the Calvin and Rose Hoffman Prize for its chapter on Christopher Marlowe’s Tamburlaine. He is also a recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Long-Term Fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library.

Bibliographic information

• Title: A Companion to Tudor Literature; Volume 118 of Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
• Editor: Kent Cartwright
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Wiley, 2010
• ISBN: 1405154772, 9781405154772
• Length: 568 pages
• Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General; Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh