Renaissance Poetry and Drama in Context: Essays for Christopher Wortham
About this ebook
The nineteen contributors include distinguished Renaissance scholars such as Ann Blake, Graham Bradshaw, Alan Brissenden, Conal Condren, Joost Daalder, Heather Dubrow, Philippa Kelly, Anthony Miller, Kay Gililand Stevenson, Robert White, and Lawrence Wright. Work on Shakespeare forms the core of this coherent collection. There are also significant essays on Magnificence, Donne, Marlowe, A Yorkshire Tragedy, Jonson, Marvell, the Ferrars of Little Gidding, and female conduct literature.
hardbound with dust jacket; xii+353 pp; 18 b/w illustrations.
About the author
Anne M. Scott is Convenor of the Australian Research Council Network for Early European Research, and an honorary research fellow in English and Cultural Studies at The University of Western Australia. Her field of research is in fourteenth-century English literature, on which she has published a number of articles and the monograph, Piers Plowman and the Poor (Four Courts Press, 2004). Work is currently in progress for a book on the iconography and representations of poverty in medieval English literature and art. Among other literary diversions, she is co-editor, with Andrew Lynch, of Parergon, now available through Project Muse.
