Elizabethan Verse And Prose

This anthology contains five of the most important short works of Elizabethan prose fiction: George Gascoigne's The Adventures of Master F.J., John Lyly's Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit, Robert Greene's Pandosto: The Triumph of Time, Thomas Nashe's The Unfortunate Traveller, and Thomas Deloney's Jack of Newbury. Paul Salzman has modernized the texts for easier comprehension.

This 1999 book offers an original study of lyric form and social custom in the Elizabethan age. Ilona Bell explores the tendency of Elizabethan love poems not only to represent an amorous thought, but to conduct the courtship itself. Where studies have focused on courtiership, patronage and preferment at court, her focus is on love poetry, amorous courtship, and relations between Elizabethan men and women. The book examines the ways in which the tropes and rhetoric of love poetry were used to court Elizabethan women (not only at court and in the great houses, but in society at large) and how the women responded to being wooed, in prose, poetry and speech. Bringing together canonical male poets and women writers, Ilona Bell investigates a range of texts addressed to, written by, read, heard or transformed by Elizabethan women, and charts the beginnings of a female lyric tradition.

This interdisciplinary Renaissance reference work, provides a definitive finding list for printed and manuscript poetry texts for the Elizabethan period. Lists over 32,500 poems and over 3,400 books and manuscripts, locating all poems ascribed to a given author, and finding all texts upon which critical editions of poems are based. The index provides rapid and thorough interdisciplinary control over this important canon. Each record provides a fully cross-referenced profile of the poems, including, as relevant, texts and locations, technical format, author, date of imprint/transcription, number of lines, burden or refrain, title, editions/scholarship. Poems covered include subjects as diverse as alchemy, astrology, libel, marriage, politics, royal entertainments, satire, tobacco, and withcraft, and personalties such as Cressida, Henry IV of France, Hercules, Mary Magdalene, Pope Joan and William the Conqueror.

This anthology represents the poetry of the Elizabethan period with a selection of poems written in the five popular literary genres of the time: the sonnet, lyric, satire, pastoral and Ovidian romance.