A new book by the Harvard scholar Stephen Greenblatt contends that the innovative dramatist Christopher Marlowe was the ...

Here is a characteristic sentence from David Norbrook’s introduction to “The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse,” published in 1992: Like More, Wyatt found it impossible to find a public discourse ...

The recent scholarship on the relationship between English Renaissance literature and Renaissance painting, both English and Continental, reviewed here surveys sixteen general studies followed by an ...

Language during the English Renaissance displayed the wealth, stature, power, and class of the speaker. And it may sounds a little strange if you listen closely during the Michigan Renaissance ...

Specializes in English Renaissance literature and culture, 1500-1660, especially intellectual history, history of science and technology, and cognitive literary theory. Ed., with Amy Boesky, Form and ...

Responding to uncritical reliance on a stable, coherent, and collective Elizabethan world picture and the antihistorical determinism of structuralist and post-structuralist formalism, a "New ...

The Renaissance witnessed a great flowering of literature, the arts and architecture. Of the musical riches the best known are probably from Italy, notably the church music of Palestrina and Giovanni ...