Renaissance and Reformations

This volume offers a description of early modern habits of writing and reading, of publication and stage performance, and of political and religious writing.

• An introduction to early modern English literature for students and general readers.

• Considers the ways in which early modern writers construct the past, recover and adapt classical genres, write about people and places, and tackle religious and secular controversies.

• Illustrated with a profusion of excerpts from early modern texts.

• Writers represented include More, Erasmus, Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton, as well as less well known authors.