Dublin: Renaissance City of Literature

Kathleen Miller is a Visiting Research Fellow at Queen's University BelfastCrawford Gribben is a Professor of History and Anthropology at Queen's University Belfast

‘Brings a salutary perspective to a marginalized topic—the nature and scope of a literary Renaissance in early modern Dublin. This very appealing volume is notable for its broad historical scope (ranging from the early fifteen-century Memoriale by the Dublin-born notary and legal scribe James Yonge to Anglo-Irish writing for the stage in Restoration Dublin) and the breadth of topics it addresses.’Professor Lowell Gallagher, Studies in English Literature

• Notes on contributorsIntroduction – Kathleen Miller 1. Centre or periphery? The role of Dublin in James Yonge’s Memoriale (1412) – Theresa O’Byrne 2. Books, politics and society in Renaissance Dublin – Raymond Gillespie 3. Edmund Spenser’s Dublin – Andrew Hadfield 4. Complaint and reform in late Elizabethan Dublin, 1579–94 –David Heffernan 5. Renaissance Dublin and the construction of literary authorship: Richard Bellings, James Shirley and Henry Burnell – Marie-Louise Coolahan6. ‘A real credit to Ireland, and to Dublin’: the scholarly achievements of Sir James Ware – Mark Empey 7. Translation and collaboration in Renaissance Dublin – Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin 8. Amor vincit omnia: Gaelic poetry and English books – Mícheál Mac Craith 9. Latin oratory in seventeenth-century Dublin – Jason Harris10. Anglo-Irish drama? Writing for the stage in Restoration Dublin – Stephen Austin Kelly 11. Peripheral print cultures in Renaissance Europe – Alexander S. Wilkinson Index