"This innovative study shows how printing and translation transformed English literary culture in the Renaissance. Focusing on the century after Caxton brought the press to England in 1476, Coldiron illustrates the foundational place of foreign, especially French language, mater…
This book explores how England's first printers transformed English Renaissance literary culture by collaborating with translators to reshape foreign texts.
"This innovative study shows how printing and translation transformed English literary culture in the Renaissance. Focusing on the century after Caxton brought the press to England in 1476, Coldiron illustrates the foundational place of foreign, especially French language, mater…
This volume offers a wide range of approaches and critical viewpoints of leading international scholars concerning questions which are still open to debate and which may pave the way to further analyses on Shakespeare's art of dramatic construction and that of his contemporaries.
Throwing fresh light on a much discussed but still controversial field, this collection of essays places the presence of Italian literary theories against and alongside the background of English dramatic traditions, to assess this influence in the emergence of Elizabethan theatr…
"Grief and Women Writers in the English Renaissance anatomizes the era's powerful but troubling links between the forgettable dead and the living mourners who are implicated in the same oblivion. Four major women writers from 1570 to 1670 construct these difficult bonds between …
Machine generated contents note: 1. Inheriting loss: Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke; 2. The golden chain: Aemelia Lanyer; 3. 'This testament of me': Mary Wroth's melancholic sonnets; 4. 'In every breast her monument': Katherine Philips. "Grief and Women Writers in th…
"Grief and Women Writers in the English Renaissance anatomizes the era's powerful but troubling links between the forgettable dead and the living mourners who are implicated in the same oblivion. Four major women writers from 1570 to 1670 construct these difficult bonds between …