Renaissance Literature

by Siobhan Keenan

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748625836
• ISBN13: 9780748625833
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher