1st Edition

Reading the Renaissance (Routledge Revivals) Culture, Poetics, and Drama

Edited By Jonathan Hart Copyright 1996
302 Pages
by Routledge

302 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

Reading the Renaissance, first published in 1996, is a collection of essays discussing the literature, drama, poetics and culture of the Renaissance period. The Renaissance, which extends from about 1300 to 1700 depending on the country, was originally a rebirth of the arts but has also come to apply to the wider cultural change in the face of modernization. The essays represent a plural... Read more

1. Reading the Renaissance: An Introduction Jonathan HartPart 1: The Text, the Reader, and the Self;  2. Ritual and Text in the Renaissance Thomas M. Greene  3. Reading in the French Renaissance: Textual Communities, Boredom, Privacy Steven Rendall  4. Reading Ultima Verba: Commemoration and Friendship in Montaigne’s Writing Lisa NealPart 2: Gender and Genre;  5. Gender Ideologies, Women Writers, and the Problem of Patronage in Early Modern Italy and France: Issues and Frameworks Carla Freccero  6. Female Transvestism and Male Self-Fashioning in As You Like It and La vida es sueno Katy EmckPart 3: Continuities and Discontinuities;  7. The Ends of Renaissance Comedy Jonathan Hart  8. Troilus and Cressida: Voices in the Darkness of Troy Robert Rawdon Wilson and Edward Milowicki  9. Two Tents on Bosworth Field: Richard III V. iii, iv, v Harry Levin  10. As They Did in the Golden World: Romantic Rapture and Semantic Rupture in As You Like It Keir Elam;  Part 4: Anticipations;  11. Noble Deeds and the Secret Singulatiry: Hamlet and Phedre Paul Morrison  12. Narrative and Theatre: From Manuel Puig to Lope de Vega Richard A. Young;  Notes;  Work Cited;  Contributors;  Index

Biography

Hart, Jonathan