This is a one volume, up-to-date collection of more than fifty wide-ranging essays which will inspire and guide students of the Renaissance and provide course leaders with a substantial and helpful frame of reference.

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• Provides new perspectives on established texts.
  
• Orientates the new student, while providing advanced students with current and new directions.
  
• Pioneered by leading scholars.
  
• Occupies a unique niche in Renaissance studies.
  
• Illustrated with 12 single-page black and white prints.

• ENGLISH RENAISSANCE LITERATURE AND CULTURE 6
  • Contents 8
  • List of Illustrations 13
  • Notes on Contributors 15
  • PART ONE Introduction 24
    • 1 Introduction 26
  • PART TWO Contexts and Perspectives,1500—1650 34
    • 2 Early Tudor Humanism 36
    • 3 English Reformations 50
    • 4 Platonism, Stoicism, Scepticism and Classical Imitation 67
    • 5 History 81
    • 6 The English Language of the Early Modern Period 94
    • 7 Publication: Print and Manuscript 104
    • 8 Literacy and Education 118
    • 9 Court and Coterie Culture 129