Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

New and Published Books

11-20 of 23 results in Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

11. Narrative Developments from Chaucer to Defoe

    Edited by Gerd Bayer, Ebbe Klitgard

    Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

    This collection analyzes how narrative technique developed from the late Middle Ages to the beginning of the 18th century. Taking Chaucer’s influential Middle English works as the starting point, the original essays in this volume explore diverse aspects of the formation of early modern prose...

    Published February 21st 2011 by Routledge
12. Moral Play and Counterpublic

    By Ineke Murakami

    Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

    In this study, Murakami overturns the misconception that popular English morality plays were simple medieval vehicles for disseminating conservative religious doctrine. On the contrary, Murakami finds that moral drama came into its own in the sixteenth century as a method for challenging normative...

    Published February 6th 2011 by Routledge
13. Prophecy and Sibylline Imagery in the Renaissance

    Shakespeare’s Sibyls

    By Jessica L. Malay

    Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

    This book restores the rich tradition of the Sibyls to the position of prominence they once held in the culture and society of the English Renaissance. The sibyls — figures from classical antiquity — played important roles in literature, scholarship and art of the period, exerting a powerful...

    Published April 6th 2010 by Routledge
14. Staging Early Modern Romance

    Prose Fiction, Dramatic Romance, and Shakespeare

    Edited by Mary Ellen Lamb, Valerie Wayne

    Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

    This collection recovers the continuities between three forms of romance that have often been separated from one another in critical discourse: early modern prose fiction, the dramatic romances staged in England during the 1570s and 1580s, and Shakespeare’s late plays. Although Pericles, Cymbeline,...

    Published January 25th 2010 by Routledge
15. The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe

    Edited by Andrea Brady, Emily Butterworth

    Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

    Is modernity synonymous with progress? Did the Renaissance really break with the cyclical, agrarian time of the Middle Ages, inaugurating a new concept of irreversible time in a secular culture defined by development? How does methodology affect scholarly responses to the idea of the future in the...

    Published November 1st 2009 by Routledge
16. Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage

    By Ayanna Thompson

    Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

    Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage provides the first sustained reading of Restoration plays through a performance theory lens. This approach shows that an analysis of the conjoined performances of torture and race not only reveals the early modern interest in the nature of...

    Published January 9th 2009 by Routledge
17. The Popular Culture of Shakespeare, Spenser and Jonson

    By Mary Ellen Lamb

    Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

    Breaking new ground by considering productions of popular culture from above, rather than from below, this book draws on theorists of cultural studies, such as Pierre Bourdieu, Roger Chartier and John Fiske to synthesize work from disparate fields and present new readings of well-known literary...

    Published June 14th 2008 by Routledge
18. Stillness in Motion in the Seventeenth-Century Theatre

    By P.A. Skantze

    Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

    Stillness in Motion in the Seventeenth Century Theatre provides a comprehensive examination of this aesthetic theory. The author investigates this aesthetic history as a form of artistic creation, philosophical investigation, a way of representing and manipulating ideas about gender and a way of...

    Published December 29th 2007 by Routledge
19. Reading the Early Modern Dream

    The Terrors of the Night

    Edited by Sue Wiseman, Katharine Hodgkin, Michelle O'Callaghan

    Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

    Dreams have been significant in many different cultures, carrying messages about this world and others, posing problems about knowledge, truth, and what it means to be human. This thought-provoking collection of essays explores dreams and visions in early modern Europe, canvassing the place of the...

    Published August 8th 2007 by Routledge
20. Dramatists and their Manuscripts in the Age of Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton and Heywood

    Authorship, Authority and the Playhouse

    By Grace Ioppolo

    Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

    This book presents new evidence about the ways in which English Renaissance dramatists such as William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Thomas Heywood, John Fletcher and Thomas Middleton composed their plays and the degree to which they participated in the dissemination of their texts to theatrical...

    Published January 17th 2006 by Routledge