Elizabethan Narrative Poems: The State of Play (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781350197633)

Tracing the development of narrative verse in London's literary circles during the 1590s, this volume puts Shakespeare's Venus and Adonisand The Rape of Lucreceinto conversation with poems by a wide variety of contemporary writers, including Thomas Lodge, Francis Beaumont, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Heywood, Thomas Campion and Edmund Spenser. Chapters investigate the complexities of this literary conversation and contribute for the current, vigorous reassessment of humanism's intended consequences by drawing attention to the highly diverse forms of early modern classicism as well as the complex connection between Latin pedagogy and vernacular poetic invention.

Key themes and topics include:
-Epyllia, masculinity and sexuality
-Classicism and commerce
-Genre and mimesis
-Rhetoric and aesthetic

Author: Lynn Enterline
ISBN-10: 1350197637
ISBN-13: 9781350197633
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 01/28/2021
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.58d