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Kristen Poole, Lauren Shohet - Gathering Force: Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1557-1623: Volume 1, Inbunden

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Gathering Force: Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1557-1623: Volume 1

Av Kristen Poole, Lauren Shohet

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During the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, England grew from a marginal to a major European power, established overseas settlements, and negotiated the Protestant Reformation. The population burgeoned and became increasingly urban. England also saw the meteoric rise of commercial theatre in London, the creation of a vigorous market for printed texts, and the emergence of writing as a viable profession. Literacy rates exploded, and an increasingly diverse audience encountered a profusion of new textual forms. Media, and literary culture, transformed on a scale that would not happen again until television and the Internet. The twenty innovative contributions in Gathering Force: Early Modern Literature in Transition, 1557-1623 trace ways that five different genres both spurred and responded to change. Chapters explore different facets of lyric poetry, romance, commercial drama, masques and pageants, and non-narrative prose. Exciting and accessible, this volume illuminates the dynamic relationships among the period's social, political, and literary transformations.
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Kristen Poole, Blue and Gold Distinguished Professor of English Renaissance Literature at the University of Delaware, is the author of Radical Religion from Shakespeare to Milton: Figures of Nonconformity in Early Modern England (Cambridge, 2000) and Supernatural Environments in Shakespeare's England: Spaces of Demonism, Divinity, and Drama (Cambridge, 2011). She is co-editor of The Bible on the Shakespearean Stage: Cultures of Interpretation in Reformation England (Cambridge, 2018). Her research has been supported by the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Huntington Library, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Penn Humanities Forum. Lauren Shohet, Professor of English at Villanova University, is the author of Reading Masques: The English Masque and Public Culture in the Seventeenth Century (2010) and editor of Temporality, Genre and Experience in the Age of Shakespeare: Forms of Time (2018). The author of numerous articles and book chapters on Milton, Shakespeare, Marvell, adaptation, and genre, she has won fellowships and prizes from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Huntington Library, the Mellon Foundation, the Shakespeare Association of America, the Bogliasco Foundation, and the Freiburg (Germany) Institute of Advanced Studies.

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