Texts and Cultural Change in Early Modern England

This is a wide-ranging, closely-researched collection, written by scholars from both sides of the Atlantic, on the cultural placement and transmission of text between 1520 and 1750. Materia and historical conditions of texts are analyzed, and the range of works is wide, including plays and the Lucrece of Shakespeare, Sidney's Arcadia, Greene's popular Pandosto (both discussed in the context of changing readerships and forms of fiction), Hakluyt's travel books, funerary verse, and the writings o Katherine Parr and Elizabethan Catholic martyrs.