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Autore: | Keenan Siobhan |
Titolo: | Renaissance Literature [[electronic resource]] |
Pubblicazione: | Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, 2008 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (313 p.) |
Disciplina: | 820.9003 |
Soggetto topico: | English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism |
Motion in literature | |
Supernatural in literature | |
English | |
Languages & Literatures | |
Literature - General | |
English Literature | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di contenuto: | Copyright; Contents; Series Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; About this Book; Chronology; Introduction; Chapter 1 Drama; Chapter 2 Poetry; Chapter 3 Prose; Conclusion; Student Resources; Index |
Sommario/riassunto: | This concise introduction to the literature of an exciting and influential period opens with an overview of the historical and cultural context in which English Renaissance literature was produced, and a discussion of its contemporary and subsequent critical reception. The following chapters survey the major Renaissance genres of drama, poetry and prose. Each chapter provides illustrative case studies of canonical and non-canonical key texts by authors such as William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, Edmund Spenser, John Milton, Sir Philip Sidney, John Donne, Aemilia Lanyer, Sir F |
Titolo autorizzato: | Renaissance Literature |
ISBN: | 1-281-94779-2 |
9786611947798 | |
0-7486-3121-6 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910813146903321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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