Concise Companion to English Renaissance Literature

Donna B. Hamilton is Professor of English at the University of Maryland. Her previous publications include Virgil and 'The Tempest': The Politics of Imitation (1990), Shakespeare and the Politics of Protestant England (1992), Religion, Literature and Politics in Post-Reformation England (co-edited with Richard Strier, 1996), Anthony Munday and the Catholics, 1560-1633 (2005), and an edition of Middleton's The Puritan (2005).

• Notes on Contributors viiIntroduction 1Donna B. Hamilton1 Economics 11S. P. Cerasano2 Religion 32Donna B. Hamilton3 Royal Marriage and the Royal Succession 54Paul E. J. Hammer4 Patronage, Licensing, and Censorship 75Richard Dutton5 Humanism, Rhetoric, Education 94Peter Mack6 Manuscripts in Early Modern England 114Heather Wolfe7 Travel, Exploration, and Empire 136Ralph Bauer8 Private Life and Domesticity 160Lena Cowen Orlin9 Treason and Rebellion 180Andrew Hadfield10 Shakespeare and the Marginalized ‘‘Others’’ 200Carole Levin11 Cosmology and the Body 217Cynthia Marshall12 Life-Writing 238Alan StewartIndex 257