Cheney argues that Marlowe organizes his canon around an Ovidian career model, or cursus, which turns from amatory poetry to tragedy to epic. The first comprehensive reading of the Marlowe…

Reading Sixteenth-Century Poetry combines analysis of individual poems with a critical consideration of the historical context in which they were written. Cheney emphasises the poetry’s accessibility by illuminating the dynamic…

Studying the sublime in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century writing, this book advances our understanding of Renaissance literature as a field in the arts and humanities today. Above all, the…

Worldmaking Spenser reexamines the role of Spenser’s work in English history and highlights the richness and complexity of his understanding of place. The authors define Spenser as the maker of…