Renaissance Writing - The Anthology (Paperback)

In this title original sources are presented from the times of the English Renaissance to provide the student with invaluable insights into the detailed working of the period. Rather than constituting a companion volume filled with secondary observations, this title confronts the student with writing from the time. The passages included have been obtained from original manuscripts and constitute an important advance in teaching of this period. Students are required to construct their own definition of the period and its significance for today by examining and reconstituting such original material. Both as an exercise in cultural history as well as a methodological first lesson, this volume will go far in recreating the complex world of Elizabethan times.