A Companion to Tudor Literature

A Companion to Tudor Literature presents a collection of thirty-one newly commissioned essays focusing on English literature and culture from the reign of Henry VII in 1485 to the death of Elizabeth I in 1603. Presents students with a valuable historical and cultural context to the period Discusses key texts and representative subjects, and explores issues including international influences, religious change, travel and New World discoveries, women s writing, technological innovations, medievalism, print culture, and developments in music and in modes of seeing and reading

A Companion to Tudor Literature presents a collection ofthirty-one newly commissioned essays focusing on English literatureand culture from the reign of Henry VII in 1485 to the death ofElizabeth I in 1603.* Presents students with a valuable historical and culturalcontext to the period* Discusses key texts and representative subjects, and exploresissues including international influences, religious change, traveland New World discoveries, women's writing, technologicalinnovations, medievalism, print culture, and developments in musicand in modes of seeing and reading

List of Illustrations viiiNotes on Contributors ixAcknowledgments xvChronology xviKathleen BossertMap of England, Scotland, and Ireland in the Sixteenth Century xxxiIntroduction 1Kent CartwrightPart I Historical and Cultural Contexts 131 The Reformation, Lollardy, and Catholicism 15Peter Marshall2 Witchcraft in Tudor England and Scotland 31Kathryn A. Edwards3 The Tudor Experience of Islam 49Matthew Dimmock4 Protestantism, Profi t, and Politics: Tudor Representations of the New World 63Nancy Bradley Warren5 International Infl uences and Tudor Music 79Ross W. Duffin6 Tudor Technology in Transition 95Adam Max Cohen7 Enclosing the Body: Tudor Conceptions of Skin 111Tanya PollardPart II Manuscript, Print, and Letters 1238 Manuscripts in Tudor England 125Steven W. May and Heather Wolfe9 John Skelton and the State of Letters 140Seth Lerer10 The Henrician Courtier Writing in Manuscript and Print: Wyatt, Surrey, Bryan, and Others 151David R. Carlson11 Old Authors, Women Writers, and the New Print Technology 178Helen Smith12 Printers of Interludes 192Peter HappéPart III Literary Origins, Presences, Absences 21113 Medievalism in English Renaissance Literature 213Deanne Williams14 The Tudor Origins of Medieval Drama 228Theresa Coletti and Gail McMurray Gibson15 French Presences in Tudor England 246A. E. B. Coldiron16 Italian in Tudor England: Why Couldn't a Woman Be More Like a Man? 261Pamela J. BensonPart IV Authors, Works, and Modes 27717 More's Utopia: Medievalism and Radicalism 279Anne Lake Prescott18 The Literary Voices of Katherine Parr and Anne Askew 295Joan Pong Linton19 Reformation Satire, Scatology, and Iconoclastic Aesthetics in Gammer Gurton's Needle 309Robert Hornback20 Bad Fun and Tudor Laughter 324Pamela Allen Brown21 Perspective and Realism in the Renaissance 339Alastair Fowler22 Seeing through Words in Theories of Poetry: Sidney, Puttenham, Lodge 350Gavin Alexander23 Tudor Versification and the Rise of Iambic Pentameter 364Jeff Dolven24 John Lyly's Galatea: Politics and Literary Allusion 381Mike Pincombe25 Sidney's Arcadia, Romance, and the Responsive Woman Reader 395Clare R. Kinney26 Nature and Technê in Spenser's Faerie Queene 412Jessica Wolfe27 "In Poesie the mirrois of our Age": The Countess of Pembroke's "Sydnean" Poetics 428Suzanne Trill28 "Conceived of young Horatio his son": The Spanish Tragedy and the Psychotheology of Revenge 444Heather Hirschfeld29 West of England: The Irish Specter in Tamburlaine 459Kimberly Anne Coles30 The Real and the Unreal in Tudor Travel Writing 475Mary C. Fuller31 Jack and the City: The Unfortunate Traveler, Tudor London, and Literary History 489Steve MentzIndex 504