This extensively revised anthology makes available the most important poetry and prose from the period between the accession of Henry VIII in 1509 and the English Revolution of 1640. Responding to the broadening of the canon in recent years, it balances the work of familiar Renaissance figures with important texts by women writers, supported by helpful introductions and annotations.* A new edition of this popular anthology, which includes many writings from women and from lesser-known writers, alongside established Renaissance figures* Includes work by prominent writers of the period, such as such as Spenser, Shakespeare, and Donne, alongside important texts by women, including Queen Elizabeth I, Lady Mary Wroth, and Elizabeth Cary* Brings together a variety of key works of the period, along with introductions and annotations to the texts, reflecting developments in critical and cultural theory and the latest Renaissance scholarship* Extensively revised, corrected, and expanded to increase the level of annotation, and to make the volume more user-friendly* Now includes a thematic table of contents and timeline, and a substantially expanded introduction to enable students to consider entries more easily in the social, cultural, and historical context of the period

List of IllustrationsAlphabetical List of AuthorsPreface: Representing the Renaissance in the Twenty-First CenturyAcknowledgmentsTimeline: The Tudor and Stuart Monarchs, 1509-1642Introduction: Renaissance English History and LiteratureJohn Skelton (1460?-1529)Sir Thomas More (1477/8-1535)Sir Thomas Elyot (ca. 1490-1546)William Tyndale (1494-1536)Sir Thomas Wyatt (ca. 1503-1542)Broadside Ballads (ca. 1535 onwards)Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517-1547) (os)John Foxe (1517-1587)Richard Mulcaster (1530?-1611)Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603)George Gascoigne (ca. 1534-1577)Certain Sermons or Homilies (1547, 1563)The Book of Common Prayer (1549, 1552, and 1559) (os)Edmund Spenser (1552-1599) (os)Anonymous CarolsRichard Hakluyt (ca. 1552-1616) (os)John Lyly (ca. 1553-1606)John Florio (1553?-1625)Sir Walter Raleigh (ca. 1553-1618)Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)Thomas Hariot (1560-1621) and John White (1540?-1590)Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)Robert Southwell (1561-1595)Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (1561-1621) (os)A Mirror for Magistrates (1563, 1587 editions) (os)Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) (os)William Shakespeare (1564-1616)Thomas Campion (1567-1620) (os)Thomas Nashe (1567-1601)Æmilia Lanyer (1569-1645) (os)Ben Jonson (1572-1637)John Donne (1572-1631)John Marston (1576-1634)Martha Moulsworth (1577-?) (os)Elizabeth (Tanfield) Cary, Lady Falkland (1585-1639)Myles Smith (d. 1624)Lady Mary (Sidney) Wroth (1586?-1651?)George Wither (1588-1667)George Herbert (1593-1633)Rachel Speght (1597-?) (os)BibliographyIndex of TitlesIntroductions, and Notes