RenaissanceLiterature:AnAnthologyofPoetryandProse,2ndEdition

ThisextensivelyrevisedanthologymakesavailablethemostimportantpoetryandprosefromtheperiodbetweentheaccessionofHenryVIIIin1509andtheEnglishRevolutionof1640.Respondingtothebroadeningofthecanoninrecentyears,itbalancestheworkoffamiliarRenaissancefigureswithimportanttextsbywomenwriters,supportedbyhelpfulintroductionsandannotations.Aneweditionofthispopularanthology,whichincludesmanywritingsfromwomenandfromlesser–knownwriters,alongsideestablishedRenaissancefiguresIncludesworkbyprominentwritersoftheperiod,suchassuchasSpenser,Shakespeare,andDonne,alongsideimportanttextsbywomen,includingQueenElizabethI,LadyMaryWroth,andElizabethCaryBringstogetheravarietyofkeyworksoftheperiod,alongwithintroductionsandannotationstothetexts,reflectingdevelopmentsincriticalandculturaltheoryandthelatestRenaissancescholarshipExtensivelyrevised,corrected,andexpandedtoincreasethelevelofannotation,andtomakethevolumemoreuser–friendlyNowincludesathematictableofcontentsandtimeline,andasubstantiallyexpandedintroductiontoenablestudentstoconsiderentriesmoreeasilyinthesocial,cultural,andhistoricalcontextoftheperiod