Representing the English Renaissance

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Stephen Greenblatt, Stephen Jay Greenblatt
University of California Press, Jan 1, 1988 - Literary Criticism - 372 pages
"An exciting collection of essays on English Renaissance literature and culture, this book contributes substantially to the contemporary renaissance in historical modes of critical inquiry."--Margaret W. Ferguson, Columbia University "An exciting collection of essays on English Renaissance literature and culture, this book contributes substantially to the contemporary renaissance in historical modes of critical inquiry."--Margaret W. Ferguson, Columbia University
 

Selected pages

Contents

LOUIS ADRIAN MONTROSE
31
STEVEN MULLANEY
65
PATRICIA FUMERTON
93
JOEL FINEMAN
135
PAUL ALPERS
163
ROBERT WEIMANN
181
STANLEY CAVELL
197
STEPHEN ORGEL
217
STANLEY FISH
231
JOSEPH LOEWENSTEIN
265
The Sovereign the Theater and the Kingdome
279
JANET E HALLEY
303
RICHARD HELGERSON
327
List of Contributors
363
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Common terms and phrases

Albrecht Dürer Amazons Arcadia artifice Astrophil and Stella authority Ben Jonson called chorography claim Coriolanus Coriolanus's court courtier cultural dark lady difference discourse Dürer eclogues Elizabeth Elizabethan England English essay expression fact Faerie Queene Familist Family of Love fantasy father fictional figure genre heart Henry ideal imagery Jonson king language limning literary London lover lyric maps marriage masque means metaphor Midsummer Night's Dream miniature monument mother narrative Nashe Nashe's Nicholas Hilliard Niclaes Niclaes's ornament paradox pastoral peasants performance person play poem poet poet's poetic poetry political Poly-Olbion praise present Prospero Queen reader rehearsal Renaissance representation represented rhetoric Roy Strong royal Saxton's sense sestina Shakespeare's sonnets Shepheardes Calender Sidney Sidney's social speak Spenser strange suggests thee Theseus things Thomas Nashe thou tion tradition truth vision words writes young man sonnets

About the author (1988)

Stephen Greenblatt is a literary critic, theorist and scholar. He is the author of Three Modern Satirists: Waugh, Orwell, and Huxley (1965); Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare (1980); Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture (1990); Redrawing the Boundaries: The Transformation of English and American Literary Studies (1992); The Norton Shakespeare (1997); Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare (2004); Shakespeare's Freedom (2010); and The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (2011).

Bibliographic information

TitleRepresenting the English Renaissance
Volume 2 of Representations: Books
EditorsStephen Greenblatt, Stephen Jay Greenblatt
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherUniversity of California Press, 1988
ISBN0520061306, 9780520061309
Length372 pages
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Literary Criticism / European / General
  
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