{"product_id":"renaissance-and-reformations-isbn-9781405100458","title":"Renaissance and Reformations","description":"This volume offers a description of early modern habits of writing and reading, of publication and stage performance, and of political and religious writing. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cul class=\"noindent\"\u003e \u003cli\u003eAn introduction to early modern English literature for students and general readers.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eConsiders 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIllustrated with a profusion of excerpts from early modern texts.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eWriters represented include More, Erasmus, Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton, as well as less well known authors.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  List of Illustrations. \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: New Worlds of Words.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Writing.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Reading, Publication, Performance.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Forms Ancient and Modern.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Defining the Past.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Designing the Present.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Fictive Persons and Places.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Godliness.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e  \"A wonderful, bracing guide to Early Modern literature and culture. I admire Hattaway's deftness and skill at marking out the boundaries and illuminating what would otherwise lurk in the darkness.\" \u003ci\u003eStephen Greenblatt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A cliché-free zone, a most refreshing read for students as well as teachers.\" \u003ci\u003eSederi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Renaissance and Reformations is an extraordinary achievement: Michael Hattaway's compact study of Early Modern literature belies an astonishing command of the conditions of thought and writing that produced it and does so with an unusual citation of all forms and genres, major and minor and newly-discovered texts. As a result, he is able to take us into the imaginative processes of the time to show us the sheer pleasures these works held as no other study has done.\" \u003ci\u003eArthur F. Kinney, University of Massachusetts, Amherst\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Sharp insights and fresh examples fill Michael Hattaway's welcome book. He enlightens new readers and those who thought they knew 'that foreign country, early modern England' - its high, low, middling culture, its performances and rulers and ruled. All become understandable and beguilingly strange in Hattaway's volume. He admirably 'asks \"how\" questions not \"what\" questions' and invites readers to think through ideas, texts, techniques, images, historical moments so they all become the reader's own.” \u003ci\u003eA. R. Braunmuller, University of California, Los Angeles\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Put this on your reading-lists.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRoger Pooley, Keele University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eMichael Hattaway\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of English Literature at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eElizabethan Popular Theatre\u003c\/i\u003e (1982) and \u003ci\u003eHamlet: The Critics Debate\u003c\/i\u003e (1987), the editor of \u003ci\u003eAs You Like It \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eand Henry VI Parts I–III\u003c\/i\u003e for the New Cambridge Shakespeare, and also of \u003ci\u003eA Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e (2000), \u003ci\u003eThe Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare’s History Plays\u003c\/i\u003e (2002), and plays by Jonson and Beaumont.  Designed for both students and general readers, this introduction to Renaissance and Reformation literature offers a description of early modern habits of writing and reading, of publication and stage performance. It considers the ways in which early modern writers constructed the past and designed the present, wrote about people and places, recovered and adapted classical genres, and tackled religious and secular controversies. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eAll these topics are illustrated with a profusion of excerpts from early modern texts, including works by More, Erasmus, Wyatt, Spenser, Philip and Mary Sidney, Marlowe, Kyd, Shakespeare, Campion, Daniel, Donne, Southwell, Dekker, Taylor ‘the water-poet’, Aemilia Lanyer, Jonson, Chapman, Middleton, Mary Wroth, Ralegh, Greville, Wotton, Herbert and Milton. Throughout, readers are reminded that the consequences of the English reformations were as important as the better known influences of the Renaissance.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989942780133,"sku":"NP9781405100458","price":42.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405100458.jpg?v=1761785980","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/renaissance-and-reformations-isbn-9781405100458","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}