Elizabethan Narrative Poems: The State of Play

Lynn Enterline is Nancy Perot Mulford Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. She is author of The Rhetoric of the Body from Ovid to Shakespeare and The Tears of Narcissus: Melancholia and Masculinity in Early Modern Writing.

These essays contribute fascinating insights to the ongoing reassessment of humanism during Shakespeare's time.

• Series PrefaceNotes on ContributorsLynn Enterline, Introduction: On ‘Schoolmen’s Cunning Notes’Part One. Reckoning with Rhetoric1. Jenny C. Mann, ‘Reck’ning’ with Shakespeare’s Orpheus in The Rape of Lucrece2. Rachel Eisendrath, Poetry at the Limits of Rhetoric in Shakespeare’s The Rape of LucrecePart Two. Debating Mimesis3. Joseph M. Ortiz, Epic Oenone, Pastoral Paris: Undoing the Virgilian rota in Thomas Heywood’s Oenone and Paris4. Andrew Fleck, ‘Arte with her contending, doth aspire T’excell the naturall’: Contending for Representation in the Elizabethan Epyllion5. Catherine Nicholson, Learning to Read with LucrecePart Three. Epyllia, Masculinity and Sexuality6. Jessica Winston, From Discontent to Disdain: Thomas Lodge’s Scillaes Metamorphosis and Inns of Court7. John S. Garrison, Love Will Tear Us Apart: Campion’s Umbra and Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis8. Stephen Guy-Bray, Love Loves: Venus and Adonis, Venus and AnchisesPart Four. Classicism and Mercantile Capital9. Jane Raisch, Crossing the Hellespont: The Erotics of the Everyday in Marlowe’s Hero and Leander10. Barbara Correll, ‘Unthriftie waste’: Epyllia, Idleness, and General EconomyAppendixNotesIndex