Andrew Hadfield is Professor of English at the University of Sussex and visiting Professor at the University of Granada. He is the author of a number of works on early modern literature, including Shakespeare and Republicanism (Cambridge University Press, 2005); Literature, Travel and Colonialism in the English Renaissance, 1540-1625 (Oxford University Press, 1998); Sand Literature, Politics and National Identity: Reformation to Renaissance (Cambridge, 1994). He has also edited, with Matthew Dimmock, Religions of the Book: Co-existence and Conflict, 1400-1660 (Palgrave, 2008); with Raymond Gillespie, The Oxford History of the Irish Book, Vol. III: The Irish Book in English, 1550-1800 (Oxford, 2006); with Paul Hammond, Shakespeare and Renaissance Europe (Cengage, Arden Critical Companions, 2004); and Literature and Censorship in Renaissance England (Palgrave, 2001). He is a regular reviewer for The Times Literary Supplement.

Fascinating ... Across a multitude of genres - romances, sermons, domestic manuals, news pamphlets, jest books, and a plethora of othersâcontributors chart the tensions between theory and practice, private reading and public performance, ephemera and established traditions. Beyond the sections on genres, there are essays for individual authors, including Gascoigne, Robert Greene, Lyly, and Thomas Nashe, as well as Sidney and Wroth ... By gathering such a distinguished and talented group, Hadfield has shown how much more we could do, as a collective field, as prose returns to the fore.

• PART 1: TRANSLATION, EDUCATION, AND LITERARY CRITICISM; PART 2: PROSE FICTION; PART 3: VARIETIES OF EARLY MODERN PROSE 1: PUBLIC PROSE; PART 4: VARIETIES OF EARLY MODERN PROSE 2: PRIVATE PROSE; SECTION 5: RELIGIOUS PROSE; PART 6: MAJOR PROSE WRITERS

Andrew Hadfield is Professor of English at the University of Sussex and visiting Professor at the University of Granada. He is the author of a number of works on early modern literature, including Shakespeare and Republicanism (Cambridge University Press, 2005); Literature, Travel and Colonialism in the English Renaissance, 1540-1625 (Oxford University Press, 1998); Sand Literature, Politics and National Identity: Reformation to Renaissance (Cambridge, 1994). He has also edited, with Matthew Dimmock, Religions of the Book: Co-existence and Conflict, 1400-1660 (Palgrave, 2008); with Raymond Gillespie, The Oxford History of the Irish Book, Vol. III: The Irish Book in English, 1550-1800 (Oxford, 2006); with Paul Hammond, Shakespeare and Renaissance Europe (Cengage, Arden Critical Companions, 2004); and Literature and Censorship in Renaissance England (Palgrave, 2001). He is a regular reviewer for The Times Literary Supplement.

Fascinating ... Across a multitude of genres - romances, sermons, domestic manuals, news pamphlets, jest books, and a plethora of othersâcontributors chart the tensions between theory and practice, private reading and public performance, ephemera and established traditions. Beyond the sections on genres, there are essays for individual authors, including Gascoigne, Robert Greene, Lyly, and Thomas Nashe, as well as Sidney and Wroth ... By gathering such a distinguished and talented group, Hadfield has shown how much more we could do, as a collective field, as prose returns to the fore.

• PART 1: TRANSLATION, EDUCATION, AND LITERARY CRITICISM; PART 2: PROSE FICTION; PART 3: VARIETIES OF EARLY MODERN PROSE 1: PUBLIC PROSE; PART 4: VARIETIES OF EARLY MODERN PROSE 2: PRIVATE PROSE; SECTION 5: RELIGIOUS PROSE; PART 6: MAJOR PROSE WRITERS

Andrew Hadfield is Professor of English at the University of Sussex and visiting Professor at the University of Granada. He is the author of a number of works on early modern literature, including Shakespeare and Republicanism (Cambridge University Press, 2005); Literature, Travel and Colonialism in the English Renaissance, 1540-1625 (Oxford University Press, 1998); Sand Literature, Politics and National Identity: Reformation to Renaissance (Cambridge, 1994). He has also edited, with Matthew Dimmock, Religions of the Book: Co-existence and Conflict, 1400-1660 (Palgrave, 2008); with Raymond Gillespie, The Oxford History of the Irish Book, Vol. III: The Irish Book in English, 1550-1800 (Oxford, 2006); with Paul Hammond, Shakespeare and Renaissance Europe (Cengage, Arden Critical Companions, 2004); and Literature and Censorship in Renaissance England (Palgrave, 2001). He is a regular reviewer for The Times Literary Supplement.

Fascinating ... Across a multitude of genres - romances, sermons, domestic manuals, news pamphlets, jest books, and a plethora of othersâcontributors chart the tensions between theory and practice, private reading and public performance, ephemera and established traditions. Beyond the sections on genres, there are essays for individual authors, including Gascoigne, Robert Greene, Lyly, and Thomas Nashe, as well as Sidney and Wroth ... By gathering such a distinguished and talented group, Hadfield has shown how much more we could do, as a collective field, as prose returns to the fore.

• PART 1: TRANSLATION, EDUCATION, AND LITERARY CRITICISM; PART 2: PROSE FICTION; PART 3: VARIETIES OF EARLY MODERN PROSE 1: PUBLIC PROSE; PART 4: VARIETIES OF EARLY MODERN PROSE 2: PRIVATE PROSE; SECTION 5: RELIGIOUS PROSE; PART 6: MAJOR PROSE WRITERS