This volume offers a description of early modern habits of writingand reading, of publication and stage performance, and of politicaland religious writing.
* An introduction to early modern English literature for studentsand general readers.
* Considers the ways in which early modern writers construct thepast, recover and adapt classical genres, write about people andplaces, and tackle religious and secular controversies.
* Illustrated with a profusion of excerpts from early moderntexts.
* Writers represented include More, Erasmus, Spenser, Marlowe,Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton, as well as less well knownauthors.