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Sidney to Milton, 1580-1660 (Transitions)
Sidney to Milton 15801660 - Transitions Author:Marion Wynne-Davies This guide offers readers an accessible and imaginative approach to the literature of early modern Britain. Exploring the poetry, drama and prose of the period, Marion Wynne-Davies combines theory and practice, providing an introduction to key theoretical concepts and close readings of individual texts by both canonical and less well known autho... more »rs. Amongst other things, Wynne Davies discusses 16th- and 17th-century poetry in its political and cultural contexts, considers Renaissance drama in terms of performance space, and uses the early modern map to explain the prose works of writers such as Bunyan and Cavendish.« less