This book surveys the historical, cultural, and social contexts of the English Renaissance and discusses the works of Shakespeare, Marlowe, Jonson, Donne, and Spenser.
Contents
V. 1. The Renaissance / Patrick Lee-Browne -- v. 2. The romantics / Neil King -- v. 3. The Victorians / Aidan Cruttenden -- v. 4. The modernist period, 1900-1945 / Patrick Lee-Browne -- v. 5. Post-war literature 1945 to the present / Caroline Merz and Patrick Lee-Browne.
