Reading the Renaissance: Ideas and Idioms from Shakespeare to Milton

Reading the Renaissance is a timely and compelling answer to a decades-long attack on literature by various schools of critical theory. A collection of new and provocative essays by prominent scholars, it speaks eloquently to the enduring value of Renaissance literature and literary study.

Reading Renaissance literature requires what Edward W. Tayler calls "literary tact," the willingness to allow poets their own ideas. A reader might...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820703362
• ISBN13: 9780820703367
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.4"