Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
About the Book Series
From Shakespeare to Jonson, Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture looks at both the literature and culture of the early modern period. This series is our home for cutting-edge, upper-level scholarly studies and edited collections. Considering literature alongside theatre, popular culture, race, gender, ecology, space, and other subjects, titles are characterized by dynamic interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics.
Eros and Music in Early Modern Culture and Literature
1st Edition
By Claire Bardelmann
September 30, 2020
What is the relationship between Eros and music? How does the intersection of love and music contribute to define the perimeter of Early Modern love? The Early Moderns hold parallel discourses on the metaphysical doctrines of love and music as theories of harmony. Statements of love as music, of ...
Freedom and Censorship in Early Modern English Literature
1st Edition
Edited
By Sophie Chiari
September 30, 2020
Broadening the notion of censorship, this volume explores the transformative role played by early modern censors in the fashioning of a distinct English literature in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In early modern England, the Privy Council, the Bishop of London and the Archbishop of ...
Jewish and Christian Voices in English Reformation Biblical Drama: Enacting Family and Monarchy
1st Edition
By Chanita Goodblatt
September 30, 2020
English Biblical drama of the sixteenth century resounds with a variety of Jewish and Christian voices. Whether embodied as characters or manifested as exegetical and performative strategies, these voices participate in the central Reformation project of biblical translation. Such translations and ...
Jonson, the Poetomachia, and the Reformation of Renaissance Satire: Purging Satire
1st Edition
By Jay Simons
September 30, 2020
Does satire have the ability to effect social reform? If so, what satiric style is most effective in bringing about reform? This book explores how Renaissance poet and playwright Ben Jonson negotiated contemporary pressures to forge a satiric persona and style uniquely his own. These pressures were...
Mythologies of Internal Exile in Elizabethan Verse: Six Studies
1st Edition
By A.D. Cousins
September 30, 2020
Writers of the English Renaissance, like their European contemporaries, frequently reflect on the phenomenon of exile—an experience that forces the individual to establish a new personal identity in an alien environment. Although there has been much commentary on this phenomenon as represented in ...
The Early Modern Grotesque: English Sources and Documents 1500-1700
1st Edition
By Liam Semler
September 30, 2020
The Early Modern Grotesque: English Sources and Documents 1500-1700 offers readers a large and fully annotated collection of primary source texts addressing the grotesque in the English Renaissance. The sources are arranged chronologically in 120 numbered items with accompanying explanatory ...
Mendacity and the Figure of the Liar in Seventeenth-Century French Comedy
1st Edition
By Emilia Wilton-Godberfforde
December 12, 2019
The first book-length study devoted to this topic, Mendacity and the Figure of the Liar in Seventeenth-Century French Comedy offers an important contribution to scholarship on the theatre as well as on early modern attitudes in France, specifically on the subject of lying and deception. Unusually ...
Women�s Prophetic Writings in Seventeenth-Century Britain
1st Edition
By Carme Font
December 12, 2019
This study examines women’s prophetic writings in seventeenth-century Britain as the literary outcome of a discourse of social transformation that integrates religious conscience, political participation, and gender identity. The following pages approach prophecy as a culture, a language, and a ...
Bodies, Speech, and Reproductive Knowledge in Early Modern England
1st Edition
By Sara D. Luttfring
December 10, 2019
This volume examines early modern representations of women’s reproductive knowledge through new readings of plays, monstrous birth pamphlets, medical treatises, court records, histories, and more, which are often interpreted as depicting female reproductive bodies as passive, silenced objects of ...
Family and the State in Early Modern Revenge Drama: Economies of Vengeance
1st Edition
By Chris McMahon
December 10, 2019
In this book, McMahon considers Early Modern revenge plays from a political science perspective, paying particular attention to the construction of family and state institutions. Plays set for close study are The Spanish Tragedy, Hamlet, The Revenger’s Tragedy, The Malcontent and The Duchess of ...
Forms of Hypocrisy in Early Modern England
1st Edition
Edited
By Lucia Nigri, Naya Tsentourou
December 10, 2019
This collection examines the widespread phenomenon of hypocrisy in literary, theological, political, and social circles in England during the years after the Reformation and up to the Restoration. Bringing together current critical work on early modern subjectivity, performance, print history, and ...
Friendship and Queer Theory in the Renaissance: Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern England
1st Edition
By John S. Garrison
December 10, 2019
In this volume, the author offers a substantial reconsideration of same-sex relations in the early modern period, and argues that early modern writers – rather than simply celebrating a classical friendship model based in dyadic exclusivity and a rejection of self-interest – sought to innovate on ...