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Accolades should be pouring in for this new, stimulating forum. Studies in Renaissance Literature offers investigations of topics in English literature focussed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; its scope extends from early Tudor writing, including works reflecting medieval concerns, to the Restoration period.

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21 results in Studies in Renaissance Literature

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The Collected Works of Thomas Kyd
  • Edited by Brian Vickers
  • Edited in association with Darren Freebury-Jones
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    16 May 2024
    Print publication:
    05 March 2024
  • The first complete, integrated corpus of Kyd and first critical edition of his collected works in over one hundred years, with major new discoveries of authorship and attribution.

Localizing Christopher Marlowe
  • His Life, Plays and Mythology, 1575-1593
  • Arata Ide
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    22 February 2024
    Print publication:
    12 December 2023
  • This study punctures stereotyped portrayals of Marlowe, and in doing so reveals the social and cultural discourses out of which such myths emerged.

John Cruso of Norwich and Anglo-Dutch Literary Identity in the Seventeenth Century
  • Christopher Joby
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    26 May 2022
    Print publication:
    07 January 2022
  • The first book-length biography of John Cruso of Norwich (b. 1592/3), a second-generation migrant poet, translator and military author, that explores ideas and practices of identity formation in the early modern period.

Pity and Identity in the Age of Shakespeare
  • Toria Johnson
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    07 October 2022
    Print publication:
    29 November 2021
  • Exploring a wide range of material including dramatic works, medieval morality drama, and lyric poetry, this book argues for the central significance of literary material to the history of emotions.

The Atom in Seventeenth-Century Literature
  • Cassandra Gorman
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    16 July 2022
    Print publication:
    13 August 2021
  • An investigation into the remarkable poetics of the atom in English literary texts from the mid- to late-seventeenth century.

Poly-Olbion: New Perspectives

Shakespeare's Ovid and the Spectre of the Medieval

George Lauder (1603–1670)
  • Life and Writings
  • Alasdair A. MacDonald
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    07 September 2018
    Print publication:
    01 September 2018
  • The Scottish poet George Lauder began as a "university wit", by imitating anti-papal satires popular in the Italian Renaissance. He set off for London as a young man, looking for patronage, but instead became an officer in the army, seeing service in France, the Low Countries, Germany, Denmark and Sweden -- an experience which provides the backdrop to the poetry of his mature years. At the Restoration he wrote a lengthy poem of advice to Charles II, and his final masterwork was a poetic conflation of the Gospel accounts of the life of Christ. Lauder was influenced by Ben Jonson, William Drummond, and by the Metaphysical and the Caroline styles. His personal library testifies to his wide range of interests, and to his acquaintance with European literature in neo-Latin and other languages.This volume traces Lauder's career, collects all his surviving verse (presented with full notes and commentary), and examines his interactions with certain of the greatest intellectuals of the Dutch Golden Age. Lauder was a British patriot and a loyal supporter of the House of Orange; above all, however, he is the author of a unique corpus of highly accomplished poetry.Alasdair A. MacDonald is Emeritus Professor of English Language and Literature of the Middle Ages, University of Groningen, Netherlands.

The Poetry of Kissing in Early Modern Europe
  • From the Catullan Revival to Secundus, Shakespeare and the English Cavaliers
  • Alex Wong
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    11 August 2017
    Print publication:
    11 August 2017
  • There is a great deal of kissing in Renaissance poetry, but modern critics do not generally recognise (as early readers did) that the literary conventions of the kiss were closely related to a fully-formed, lively and popular genre of Neo-Latin "kissing-poems". Beginning with the imitation of Catullus in fifteenth-century Italy, this specialised form was securely established in the next century by the Dutch poet Janus Secundus, whose elegant Basia ("Kisses") were an extraordinary international success. Secundus stimulated a long-lived tradition of Latin and vernacular "kisses", willfully repetitious and yet meticulously varied, which can tell us much about humanist poetics. This book offers a critical account of the Renaissance kiss-poem, using an abundance of vivid and often racy examples, many of them drawn from authors who are all but forgotten today. It shows that the genre had a sophisticated rationale and clear but flexible conventions. These include habits of irony, mood and structure that proved widely influential, and some slippery, self-conscious ways of dealing with masculine sexuality. Presenting new readings of English writers including Sidney, Shakespeare and Donne, the study also reminds us how important Neo-Latin writing was to the literary culture of early modern Britain. A number of well known texts are thus placed in a context unfamiliar to most modern scholars, in order to show how deftly their kisses engage with an international tradition of humanist poetry. Alex Wong is currently a Research Fellow in English literature at St John's College, University of Cambridge.

Thomas Traherne and Seventeenth-Century Thought
  • Edited by Elizabeth S. Dodd, Cassandra Gorman
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    05 July 2016
    Print publication:
    16 June 2016
  • Thomas Traherne has all too often been defined and studied as a solitary thinker, "out of his time", and not as a participant in the complex intellectual currents of the period. The essays collected here take issue with this reading of him, placing Traherne firmly in his historical context and situating his work within broader issues in seventeenth-century studies and the history of ideas; they draw on recently published textual discoveries alongside manuscripts which still have yet to be published. They address major themes in Traherne studies, including Traherne's interpretation of spirit and his understanding of matter, his attitude towards happiness and holiness, his response to solitude and society, and his Anglican identity. As a wholle, the volume aims to re-ignite discussion on settled readings of Traherne's work, reconsider issues in Traherne scholarship which have long lain dormant, and supplement our picture of the man and his writings through new discoveries and insights.

    Elizabeth S. Dodd lectures in theology, ministry, imagination and culture at Sarum College in Salisbury; Cassandra Gorman is lecturer in English at Trinity College, Cambridge.

    Contributors: Jacob Blevins, Warren Chernaik, Phoebe Dickerson, Elizabeth S. Dodd, Ana Elena González-Trevino, Cassandra Gorman, Carol Ann Johnston, Alison Kershaw, Kathryn Murphy

Wyatt Abroad
  • Tudor Diplomacy and the Translation of Power
  • William Rossiter
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    23 February 2023
    Print publication:
    20 November 2014
  • An examination of Wyatt's translations and adaptions of European poetry yields fresh insights into his work and poetic practice.

Pain and Compassion in Early Modern English Literature and Culture
  • Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    05 April 2013
    Print publication:
    15 November 2012
  • ‘A deeply original work of scholarship. Through fine close readings of primary and secondary texts, the author offers the fullest account we have of the related phenomena of pain, sympathy, and sensation in early modern culture.’ Michael Schoenfeldt, John R. Knott, Jr., Professor of English, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. In late medieval Catholicism, pain was seen as a way of imitating Christ, and as an avenue to salvation. During the early modern period, Protestant theologians came to reject these assumptions, and attempted to redefine and circumscribe the spiritual meaning of suffering. The rethinking of the meaning of pain during the early modern era is the central theme of this book. The author pays particular attention to how literary writers explored the issue of pain, by placing their work in a broad context of devotional, theological, philosophical and medical texts on suffering. In detailed readings of Alabaster, Donne, Herbert, Crashaw, Lanyer, Spenser, Milton and Montaigne, he shows that early modern culture located the meaning of pain in its capacity to elicit compassion in others - yet the nature of this compassion was also fiercely contested. Dr Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Leiden.

The Elizabethan Invention of Anglo-Saxon England
  • Laurence Nowell, William Lambarde, and the Study of Old English
  • Rebecca Brackmann
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    05 February 2013
    Print publication:
    21 June 2012
  • Full of fresh and illuminating insights into a way of looking at the English past in the sixteenth century... a book with the potential to deepen and transform our understanding of Tudor attitudes to ethnic identity and the national past.' - Philip Schwyzer, University of Exeter. Laurence Nowell (1530-c.1570), author of the first dictionary of Old English, and William Lambarde (1536-1601), Nowell's protégé and eventually the first editor of the Old English Laws, are key figures in Elizabethan historical discourses and in its political and literary society; through their work the period between the Germanic migrations and the Norman Conquest came to be regarded as a foundational time for Elizabethan England, overlapping with and contributing to contemporary debates on the shape of Elizabethan English language. Their studies took different strategies in demonstrating the role of early medieval history in Elizabethan national - even imperial - identity, while in Lambarde's legal writings Old English law codes become identical with the 'ancient laws' that underpinned contemporary common law. Their efforts contradict the assumption that Anglo-Saxon studies did not effectively participate in Tudor nationalism outside of Protestant polemic; instead, it was a vital part of making history 'English.' Their work furthers our understanding of both the history of medieval studies and the importance of early Anglo-Saxon studies to Tudor nationalism. Rebecca Brackmann is Assistant Professor of English, Lincoln Memorial University.

The Heroines of English Pastoral Romance
  • Sue P. Starke
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    10 March 2023
    Print publication:
    16 August 2007
  • The figure of the woman as hero in pastoral romance is shown to grow in importance and complexity in this important new study.

Allegory, Space and the Material World in the Writings of Edmund Spenser
  • Christopher Burlinson
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    05 February 2013
    Print publication:
    20 July 2006
  • This book provides a radical reassessment of Spenserian allegory, in particular of 'The Faerie Queene', in the light of contemporary historical and theoretical interests in space and material culture. It explores the ambiguous and fluctuating attention to materiality, objects, and substance in the poetics of 'The Faerie Queene', and discusses the way that Spenser's creation of allegorical meaning makes use of this materiality, and transforms it. It suggests further that a critical engagement with materiality [which has been so important to the recent study of early modern drama] must come, in the case of allegorical narrative, through a study of narrative and physical space, and in this context it goes on to provide a reading of the spatial dimensions of the poem - quests and battles, forests, castles and hovels - and the spatial characteristics of Spenser's other writings. The book reaffirms the need to place Spenser in his historical contexts - philosophical and scientific, military and architectural - in early modern England, Ireland and Europe, but also provides a critical reassessment of this literary historicism.Dr CHRISTOPHER BURLINSON is a Research Fellow in English at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

The Making of Restoration Poetry
  • Paul Hammond
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    18 March 2023
    Print publication:
    15 June 2006
  • A survey of Restoration poetry, from the forms in which it was disseminated to studies of important texts.

Milton and the Terms of Liberty

Shakespeare and Machiavelli
  • John Roe
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    15 February 2024
    Print publication:
    01 March 2002
  • A detailed comparison of Machiavelli with Shakespeare, grounded in their common use of rhetoric.

The Uncertain World of Samson Agonistes

Neo-Historicism

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