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Although best known for his plays, William Shakespeare (1564 -
1616) was also a poet who achieved extraordinary depth and variety
in only a few key works. This edition of his poetry provides
detailed notes, commentary and appendices resulting in an
academically thorough and equally accessible edition to
Shakespeare's poetry. The editors present his non-dramatic poems in
the chronological order of their print publication: the narrative
poems Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece; the metaphysical
'Let the Bird of Loudest Lay' (often known as The Phoenix and the
Turtle); all 154 Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint. In headnotes and
extensive annotations to the texts, Cathy Shrank and Raphael Lyne
elucidate historical contexts, publication histories, and above all
the literary and linguistic features of poems whose subtleties
always reward careful attention. Substantial appendices trace the
sources for Shakespeare's narrative poems and the controversial
text The Passionate Pilgrim, as well as providing information about
poems posthumously attributed to him, and the English sonnet
sequence. Shrank and Lyne guide readers of all levels with a
glossary of rhetorical terms, an index of the poems (titles and
first lines), and an account of Shakespeare's rhymes informed by
scholarship on Elizabethan pronunciation. With all these scholarly
resources supporting a newly edited, modern-spelling text, this
edition combines accessibility with layers of rich information to
inform the most sophisticated reading.
Leading scholars show how laughter and satire in early modern
Britain functioned in a variety of contexts both to affirm communal
boundaries and to undermine them. This interdisciplinary collection
considers the related topics of satire and laughter in early modern
Britain through a series of case studies ranging from the
anti-monastic polemics of the early Reformation to the satirical
invasion prints of the Napoleonic wars. Moving beyond the
traditional literary canon to investigate printed material of all
kinds, both textual and visual, it considers satire as a mode or
attitude rather than a literary genre and is distinctive in its
combination of broad historial range and thick description of
individual instances. Within an over-arching investigation of the
dual role of laughter and satire as a defence of communal values
and as a challenge to political, religious and social constructions
of authority, the individual chapters by leading scholars provide
richly contextualised studies of the uses of laughter and satire in
various settings - religious, political, theatrical and literary.
Drawing on some unfamiliar and intriguing source material and on
recent work on the history of the emotions, the contributors
consider not just the texts themselves but their effect on their
audiences, andchart both the changing use of humour and satire
across the whole early modern period and, importantly, the less
often noticed strands of continuity, for instance in the
persistence of religious tropes throughout the period. MARK KNIGHTS
is Professor of History at the University of Warwick. ADAM MORTON
is Lecturer in the History of Britain at the University of
Newcastle. Contributors: ANDREW BENJAMIN BRICKER, MARK KNIGHTS,
FIONA MCCALL, ANDREW MCRAE, ADAM MORTON, SOPHIE MURRAY, ROBERT
PHIDDIAN, MARK PHILP, CATHY SHRANK.
Although best known for his plays, William Shakespeare (1564 -
1616) was also a poet who achieved extraordinary depth and variety
in only a few key works. This edition of his poetry provides
detailed notes, commentary and appendices resulting in an
academically thorough and equally accessible edition to
Shakespeare's poetry. The editors present his non-dramatic poems in
the chronological order of their print publication: the narrative
poems Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece; the metaphysical
'Let the Bird of Loudest Lay' (often known as The Phoenix and the
Turtle); all 154 Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint. In headnotes and
extensive annotations to the texts, Cathy Shrank and Raphael Lyne
elucidate historical contexts, publication histories, and above all
the literary and linguistic features of poems whose subtleties
always reward careful attention. Substantial appendices trace the
sources for Shakespeare's narrative poems and the controversial
text The Passionate Pilgrim, as well as providing information about
poems posthumously attributed to him, and the English sonnet
sequence. Shrank and Lyne guide readers of all levels with a
glossary of rhetorical terms, an index of the poems (titles and
first lines), and an account of Shakespeare's rhymes informed by
scholarship on Elizabethan pronunciation. With all these scholarly
resources supporting a newly edited, modern-spelling text, this
edition combines accessibility with layers of rich information to
inform the most sophisticated reading.
Writing the Nation in Reformation England offers a major
re-evaluation of English writing between 1530 and 1580. Studying
authors such as Andrew Borde, John Leland, William Thomas, Thomas
Smith, and Thomas Wilson, Cathy Shrank highlights the significance
of these decades to the formation of English nationhood and
examines the impact of the break with Rome on the development of a
national language, literary style, and canon. As well as
demonstrating the close relationship between literary culture and
English identities, it reinvests Tudor writers with a sense of
agency. As authors, counsellors, and thinkers they were active
citizens participating within, and helping to shape, a national
community. In the process, their works were also used to project an
image of themselves as authors, playing - and fitted to play -
their part in the public domain. In showing how these writers
engaged with, and promoted, concepts of national identity, the book
makes a significant contribution to our broader understanding of
the early modern period, demonstrating that nationhood was not a
later Elizabethan phenomenon, and that the Reformation had an
immediate impact on English culture, before England emerged as a
'Protestant' nation.
Writing the Nation in Reformation England is a major re-evaluation
of English writing between 1530 and 1580. Studying authors such as
Andrew Borde, John Leland, William Thomas, Thomas Smith, and Thomas
Wilson, Cathy Shrank highlights the significance of these decades
to the formation of English nationhood and examines the impact of
the break with Rome on the development of a national language,
literary style, and canon. As well as demonstrating the close
relationship between literary culture and English identities, it
reinvests Tudor writers with a sense of agency. As authors,
counsellors, and thinkers they were active citizens participating
within, and helping to shape, a national community. In the process,
their works were also used to project an image of themselves as
authors, playing - and fitted to play - their part in the public
domain. In showing how these writers engaged with, and promoted,
concepts of national identity, the book makes a significant
contribution to our broader understanding of the early modern
period, demonstrating that nationhood was not a later Elizabethan
phenomenon, and that the Reformation had an immediate impact of
English culture, before England emerged as a 'Protestant' nation.
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