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Emma Smith, Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr.
The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Tragedy
Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2010
Featuring essays by major international scholars, this Companion combines analysis of themes crucial to Renaissance tragedy with the interpretation of canonical and frequently taught texts. Part I introduces key topics, such as religion, revenge, and the family, and discusses modern performance traditions on stage and screen. Bridging this section with Part II is a chapter which engages with Shakespeare. It tackles Shakespeare's generic distinctiveness and how our familiarity with Shakespearean tragedy affects our appreciation of the tragedies of his contemporaries. Individual essays in Part II introduce and contribute to important critical conversations about specific tragedies. Topics include The Revenger's Tragedy and the theatrics of original sin, Arden of Faversham and the preternatural, and The Duchess of Malfi and the erotics of literary form. Providing fresh readings of key texts, the Companion is an essential guide for all students of Renaissance tragedy.
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Chronology
Part I. Themes:
1. Renaissance tragedy: theories and antecedents Mike Pincombe
2. Tragedy, family and household Catherine Richardson
3. Tragedy and the nation state Andrew Hadfield
4. Tragedy and religion Alison Shell
5. Tragedy and revenge Tanya Pollard
6. Tragic subjectivities Garrett A. Sullivan Jr
7. Tragic forms Lucy Munro
8. Tragedy and performance Lois Potter
9. Renaissance tragedy on film: defying mainstream Shakespeare Pascale Aebischer
10. Shakespeare and early modern tragedy Emma Smith
Part II. Readings:
11. The Spanish Tragedy and metatheatre Gregory M. Colón Semenza
12. Dr Faustus: dramaturgy and disturbance Mark Thornton Burnett
13. Edward II: Marlowe, tragedy and the sublime Patrick Cheney
14. Arden of Faversham: tragic action at a distance Mary Floyd-Wilson
15. The Revenger's Tragedy: original sin and the allures of vengeance Heather Hirschfield
16. The Tragedy of Mariam: legitimacy and maternal authority Mary Beth Rose
17. The Changeling and the dynamics of ugliness Gordon McMullan
18. The Duchess of Malfi: tragedy and gender Judith Haber
19. 'Tis Pity She's a Whore: the play of intertextuality Emily C. Bartels.
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Achsah Guibbory
The Cambridge Companion to John Donne
Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2006
The Cambridge Companion to John Donne, first published in 2006, introduces students (undergraduate and graduate) to the range, brilliance, and complexity of John Donne. Sixteen essays, written by an international array of leading scholars and critics, cover Donne's poetry (erotic, satirical, devotional) and his prose (including his Sermons and occasional letters). Providing readings of his texts and also fully situating them in the historical and cultural context of early modern England, these essays offer the most up-to-date scholarship and introduce students to the current thinking and debates about Donne, while providing tools for students to read Donne with greater understanding and enjoyment. Special features include a chronology; a short biography; essays on political and religious contexts; an essay on the experience of reading his lyrics; a meditation on Donne by the contemporary novelist A. S. Byatt; and an extensive bibliography of editions and criticism.
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1. Donne's life: a sketch Jonathan F. S. Post
2. The text of Donne's writings Ted-Larry Pebworth
3. The social context and nature of Donne's writing: occasional verse and letters Arthur F. Marotti
4. Literary contexts: predecessors and contemporaries Andrew Hadfield
5. Donne's religious world Alison Shell and Arnold Hunt
6. Donne's political world Tom Cain
7. Reading and rereading Donne's poetry Judith Herz
8. Satirical writing: Donne in shadows Annabel Patterson
9. Erotic poetry Achsah Guibbory
10. Devotional writing Helen Wilcox
11. Donne as preacher Peter McCullough
12. Donne's language: the conditions of communication Lynne Magnusson
13. Gender matters: the women in Donne's poems Ilona Bell
14. Facing death Ramie Targoff
15. Donne's afterlife Dayton Haskin
16. Feeling thought: Donne and the embodied mind A. S. Byatt
17. Select bibliography L. E. Semler.
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Dennis Danielson
The Cambridge Companion to Milton . 2nd Edition
Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 1999
An accessible, helpful guide for any student of Milton, whether undergraduate or graduate, introducing readers to the scope of Milton's work, the richness of its historical relations, and the range of current approaches to it. This second edition contains several new and revised essays, reflecting increasing emphasis on Milton's politics, the social conditions of his authorship and the climate in which his works were published and received, a fresh sense of the importance of his early poems and Samson Agonistes, and the changes wrought by gender studies on the criticism of the previous decade. By contrast with other introductions to Milton, this Companion gathers an international team of scholars, whose informative, stimulating and often argumentative essays will provoke thought and discussion in and out of the classroom. The Companion's reading lists and extended bibliography offer readers the necessary tools for further informed exploration of Milton studies.
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John Milton: significant dates
1. Milton's social life Stephen B. Dobranski
2. Milton's Ludlow masque Cedric Brown
3. Lycidas J. Martin Evans
4. Poems 1645: the future poet Colin Burrow
5. Milton's politics Martin Dzelzainis
6. Milton's prose Thomas N. Corns
7. Milton's sonnets and his contemporaries R. F. Hall
8. The genres of Paradise Lost Barbara Kiefer Lewalski
9. Language and knowledge in Paradise Lost John Leonard
10. The Fall and Milton's theodicy Dennis Danielson
11. Milton's Satan John Carey
12. Milton and the sexes Diane K. McColley
13. Milton and the reforming spirit Georgia Christopher
14. How Milton read the Bible: the case of Paradise Regained Mary Ann Radzinowicz
15. A reading of Samson Agonistes Joan S. Bennett
16. Milton's readers Nicholas von Maltzahn
17. Milton's place in intellectual history William Kerrigan
18. Milton's works and life: select studies and resources R. G. Siemens
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