The Broadview Anthology of British Literature: Volume 2: The Renaissance and the Early Seventeenth Century

by JeromeJ.McGann (Editor), KateFlint (Editor), Don Le Pan (Editor), Leonard Conolly (Editor), IsobelGrundy (Editor), JoeBlack (Editor), Claire Waters (Editor), Barry V . Qualls (Editor), Anne Lake Prescott (Editor), RoyLiuzza (Editor)

• New

  Illustrated
  2016

  $48.89

  For the third edition of this volume a considerable number of changes have been made. Excerpts from Thomas Hoby's enormously influential translation of Castiglione's Book of the Courtier are included for the first time. Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke is now represented in the bound book anthology-and selections from Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia are now included as well. The range of selections from Elizabeth I's poems, letters, and speeches has been broadened considerably, as have been done with Spenser's Fairie Queene; Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis has been added; there are now more poems by Lady Mary Wroth and George Herbert; and Anne Locke is now represented in the Sonnets section. Bacon's Essay On Revenge has been added-as has Thomas Kyd's influential play of revenge, The Spanish Tragedy. Margaret Cavendish, previously included in volume 3 of the full anthology, will now also be included in this volume; we have added a number of her poems, with an emphasis on those with scientific themes. Several additions have been mad to existing Contexts sections, and an all-new Contexts section, Ranters, Levellers, and Diggers, has been added. There are many additions the website component as well-including Thomas Deloney's Jack of Newbury (also being published as a stand-alone BABL edition), and excerpts from Thomas Dekker's plague pamphlets.