Renaissance Poetry and Drama in Context is a stimulating refereed collection of new work dedicated to Emeritus Professor Christopher Wortham of The University of Western Australia. The essays provide a rich context for the interdisciplinary study of the English Renaissance, from its medieval antecedents to its modern afterlife on stage and screen. Their up-to-date engagement with many scholarly fields - art and iconography, cartography, cultural and social history, literature, politics, theatre, and film - will ensure that this book makes a valuable contribution to contemporary Renaissance studies, with a special interest for those researching and teaching English literature and drama. 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: Andrew Lynch is Associate Professor of English and Cultural Studies, and Chair of Medieval and Early Modern Studies at The University of Western Australia. His publications include Malory's Book of Arms: The Narrative of Combat in Le Morte Darthur (D. S. Brewer) and numerous articles and chapters on medieval, medievalist and Australian literature, including forthcoming contributions to the Cambridge Companion to the Arthurian Legend and the Blackwell Companion to Arthurian Literature. With Anne M. Scott he edits Parergon, the Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies. He currently holds an Australian Research Council Discovery Project grant with a team investigating Medievalism in Australian Cultural Memory. 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.