Literature

Renaissance Literature

The Unmasking of Drama: Contested Representation in Shakespeare’s Tragedies

Jonathan Baldo

Baldo reveals the flaws within the widespread assumption that Shakespearean drama posses an almost limitless capacity to represent subsequent generations and other cultures.

Squitter-wits and Muse-haters: Sidney, Spenser, Milton and Renaissance Antipoetic Sentiment

Peter C. Herman

Herman shows how Sidney, Spenser, and Milton attempted to confront the deeply ingrained hostility toward poetry that percolated throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Compromising the Classics: Romance Epic Narrative in the Italian Renaissance

Dennis Looney

The evolution of narrative poetics in three of the canonical poems of the Italian Renaissance, the romance-epics of Boiardo, Aristo, and Torquato Tasso.

Renaissance Women Writers: French Texts/American Contexts

Edited by Anne R. Larsen and Colette H. Winn

An enlightening collection of essays that examines the influence of gender on the texts of French Renaissance women writers.

Will Power: Essays on Shakespearean Authority

Richard Wilson

In a sequence of close readings of the entire range of plays, Wilson locates the materiality of history embedded in Shakespearean texts.

The Genesis of Tasso’s Narrative Theory: English Translations of the Early Poetics and a Comparative Study of Their Significance

Lawrence F. Rhu

Translations of Tasso’s theoretical works and an evaluation of their significance for comparative literature.