Formal matters : reading the materials of English Renaissance literature / edited by Allison K. Deutermann and András Kiséry.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 17, 2016).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover; Formal matters ; List of illustrations ; Notes on contributors ; Acknowledgements ; Introduction; Part I: Forming literature; 1 The first English printed commonplace books and the rise of the common reader; 2 Reading Shakespeare miscellaneously: Ben Jonson, Robert Chester, and the Vatum Chorus of Loves Martyr; 3 'Divines into dry Vines': forms of jesting in Renaissance England; 4 Afterworlds: Thomas Middleton, the book, and the genre of continuation; Part II: Translations; 5 Greek playbooks and dramatic forms in early modern England

6 Book, list, word: forms of translation in the work of Richard HakluytPart III: The matters of writing; 7 The forms of news from France in Shakespeare's 3 Henry VI; 8 Writings and the problem of satisfaction in Michaelmas Term; 9 Saving souls or selling (virtual) godliness? The 'penny godlinesses' of John Andrewes and the problem of 'popular puritanism' in early Stuart England; 10 How to construct a poem: Descartes, Sidney; Part IV: Afterword; What's the matter?; Index

The essays in this collection explore the intersection between literary and material forms of writing in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England by linking formalist analysis with the insights of book history.

In English.

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