Reading the Renaissance (Routledge Revivals) : Culture, Poetics, and Drama (Hardcover)

1. Reading the Renaissance: An Introduction Jonathan Hart;  Part 1: The Text, the Reader, and the Self;  2. Ritual and Text in the Renaissance Thomas M. Greene  3. Reading in the French Renaissance: Textual Communities, Boredom, Privacy Steven Rendall  4. Reading Ultima Verba: Commemoration and Friendship in Montaigne’s Writing Lisa Neal;  Part 2: Gender and Genre;  5. Gender Ideologies, Women Writers, and the Problem of Patronage in Early Modern Italy and France: Issues and Frameworks Carla Freccero  6. Female Transvestism and Male Self-Fashioning in As You Like It and La vida es sueno Katy Emck;  Part 3: Continuities and Discontinuities;  7. The Ends of Renaissance Comedy Jonathan Hart  8. Troilus and Cressida: Voices in the Darkness of Troy Robert Rawdon Wilson and Edward Milowicki  9. Two Tents on Bosworth Field: Richard III V. iii, iv, v Harry Levin  10. As They Did in the Golden World: Romantic Rapture and Semantic Rupture in As You Like It Keir Elam;  Part 4: Anticipations;  11. Noble Deeds and the Secret Singulatiry: Hamlet and Phedre Paul Morrison  12. Narrative and Theatre: From Manuel Puig to Lope de Vega Richard A. Young;  Notes;  Work Cited;  Contributors;  Index