1st Edition
Literature and Popular Culture in Early Modern England
Biography
Matthew Dimmock is Senior Lecturer in English and co-director of the Centre for Early Modern Studies at the University of Sussex. He is is the author of New Turkes: Dramatizing Islam and the Ottomans in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2005), co-editor of Cultural Encounters Between East and West, 1453-1699 (CSP, 2004) and editor of William Percy’s Mahomet and His Heaven: A Critical Edition (Ashgate, 2007). He is currently working on a monograph concerning the Prophet Muhammad in Christian thought. Andrew Hadfield is Professor of English at the University of Sussex. He is the author of a number of works on early modern literature, politics and culture, including Literature, Politics and National Identity: Reformation to Renaissance (Cambridge University Press, 1994); Spenser’s Irish Experience: Wilde Fruit and Salvage Soyl (Clarendon, 1997) and Shakespeare, Spenser and the Matter of Britain (Palgrave, 2003). His most recent book, Shakespeare and Republicanism (Cambridge University Press, 2005), was awarded the Roland H. Bainton prize for literature by the Sixteenth Century Society of America. He is also the editor of Renaissance Studies.
’The collection is nicely edited by Matthew Dimmock and Andrew Hadfield, who have made a fine selection from the original conference and presented us with a worthy addition to any library on early modern studies. It is enjoyable and most helpful.’ Renaissance Quarterly ’This is a very useful text for anyone interested in the study of popular culture, or for those who simply want to learn more about early modern England. The essays are rich and diverse in methodology and subject matter that will appeal to literary, historical, and cultural scholars and students of the early modern period and beyond.’ Sixteenth Century Journal 'These are all good and valuable essays.' Review of English Studies '... this essay collection makes evident that ’Shakespeare and popular culture’ is an emergent and exhilarating field of study, and that it produces good academic reads.' Shakespeare Jahrbuch
