The most extensive collection of its kind available! The period from the accession of James I in 1603 to the restoration of his grandson Charles II in 1660, or from the death of Spenser to Dryden's emergence as a writer, was a time when doctors wrote about religion, politicians doubled as historians, divines were men of letters, and everybody had an opinion about politics. This extensive collection of writings, painstakingly examined in their earliest printed or manuscript sources and compiled by the late Herschel Baker, provides reliable texts for a generous sampling of the nondramatic literary activity of a period rich in writers great and small. Baker fully immerses readers into a period of exciting and important literary expression, believing that representing only the giants of this momentous time--Andrewes, Donne, Taylor, Clarendon, Bacon, or Hobbes--gives a very partial view of an age conspicuous for its conflict and diversity.

The Later Renaissance in England: Nondramatic verse and prose, 1600-1660

Baker, Herschel

Literature & Fiction

Houghton/Mifflin

The Race of Time - three lectures on Renaissance historiography - The Alexander Lectures for 1965 at the University of Toronto dealt with the relations of the English Renaissance historians to other writers of their time and to the historians of later ages. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, even more than in our own time, the materials and techniques proper to historical writings were but vaguely defined. When the facts at his disposal were suspect or were merely crystallizations of fancy and legend, the Renaissance historian found that he was unable to deal with the without encroaching on the territory of the poet. When - inevitably - he attempted to draw conclusions from his view of the past and of human nature, he usurped the function of the philosopher. And even when he stayed within the bounds of indisputable fact he risked offending monarchs to whom certain facts, if widely known, would be dangerous. All these difficulties, and the ways in which Renaissance historians faced or avoided them, are recounted and analyzed in professor Baker's lectures. Supported and enlivened with a wealth of quotation from the historians themselves, their critics, and their colleagues, The Race of time illuminates the problems of historiography in an age when academic freedom was always subservient to the national interest, to the sensitivity of rules, to the prevalence of legend, and to the envy of contemporaries.

The Race of Time

History

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Univ. of Toronto Press

<p>The most extensive collection of English Renaissance literature! This extensive volume presents a survey of the literature of Renaissance England, including the Tudor and Elizabethan periods, the Reformation, translations from classical Greek and Latin works, prose fiction, critical theory, and other forms of literature that characterize this period. Completely self- contained, this valuable collection of works features a glossary of English words and phrases containing over 5,600 entries, a glossary of names and foreign words and phrases containing over 3,200 entries, and background information on many of the authors and works. A comprehensive index lists authors, titles, and first lines of poems.</p>

The Renaissance in England: Non-Dramatic Prose and Verse of the 16th Century

Rollins, Hyder Edward

British & Irish

Waveland Pr Inc.

<p>The Second Edition of this complete collection of Shakespeare's plays and poems features two essays on recent criticism and productions, fully updated textual notes, a photographic insert of recent productions, and two works recently attributed to Shakespeare. The authors of the essays on recent criticism and productions are Heather DuBrow, University of Wisconsin at Madison, and William Liston, Ball State University, respectively.</p>

The Wadsworth Shakespeare

Levin, Harry

Evans, G. Blakemore

Barton, Anne

Shakespeare., William

Literary

Cengage Learning'

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