Cartwright's New Tome Takes a Fresh Look at Tudor Literature
June 30, 2010
A Companion to Tudor Literature, edited by Kent Cartwright, has just been published by Blackwell.
The volume (536 pp.) contains 31 original essays by established and emerging scholars, with equal attention given to the early Tudor and the Elizabethan aspects of sixteenth-century literature. The volume features contributions from several members of the department: an essay by Theresa Coletti and Gail McMurray Gibson (Davidson College) on "The Tudor Origins of Medieval Drama"; an essay by Kimberly Anne Coles on "West of England: The Irish Spectre in Tamburlaine"; and a Tudor chronology compiled by Kathleen Bossert.
Editor Kent Cartwright is Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English at the University of Maryland. He is author of Shakespearean Tragedy and Its Double: The Rhythms of Audience Response (1991), which was selected as a Choice “outstanding academic book”; and Theatre and Humanism: English Drama in the Sixteenth Century (1999), winner of the Calvin and Rose Hoffman Prize for its chapter on Christopher Marlowe’s Tamburlaine. He is also a recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Long-Term Fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library.
Excerpts from A Companion to Tudor Literature can be read here.