The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Century

by Stephen Greenblatt (Editor), Tiffany Stern (Editor), Julie Crawford (Editor), Katharine Eisaman Maus (Editor)

Overview

A sweeping revision that speaks to how English literature is taught today.

From the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Eleventh Edition, showcases exciting new authors, works, and textual clusters that demonstrate the relevance of literature to contemporary students and trace the creative arc that has yielded the ever-changing and ever-fascinating body of material called English literature. This anthology offers the experience of literature as part of the world—not apart from it. It is also now available in ebook format for the complete anthology. The Norton Ebook Reader platform provides an active reading environment that equips students with tools for placing works within their social and historical contexts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781324062639
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	07/01/2024
Edition description:	Eleventh Edition
Pages:	1768
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Stephen Greenblatt is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. He has written extensively on English Renaissance literature and acts as general editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature and The Norton Shakespeare. He is the author of fourteen books, including The Swerve, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, and Will in the World, a Pulitzer Prize finalist.

Tiffany Stern (Ph.D. Cambridge), The Sixteenth Century, is Professor of Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama at the University of Birmingham. Her work combines literary criticism, theatre and book history and editing from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. In particular, she studies the theatrical contexts that brought about plays by Shakespeare and others. As General Editor of the New Mermaids play series and Arden Shakespeare 4, she looks at the way plays were manifested in manuscript and print, and at how to rethink editing for the digital age. She is currently at work on a book on early modern theatre and popular entertainment, Playing Fair, a book on Shakespeare Beyond Performance, looking at the theatrical documents produced in the light of a play’s performance, and an edition of Shakespeare’s Tempest.

Julie Crawford (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania), The Early Seventeenth Century, is the Mark Van Doren Professor of Humanities at Columbia University. She works on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature and culture and has written on Shakespeare, John Fletcher, Margaret Cavendish, the Sidneys, Anne Clifford, Margaret Hoby, and Mary Wroth, as well as on post-Reformation religious culture, the history of reading, and the history of sexuality. She is the author of Marvelous Protestantism: Monstrous Births in Post-Reformation England and Mediatrix: Women, Politics, and Literary Production in Early Modern England. She is currently completing a book entitled Margaret Cavendish's Political Career. Her articles have appeared in Studies in English Literature, English Literary History, Renaissance Drama, PMLA, Early Modern Culture, Huntington Library Quarterly, The Oxford Companion to Popular Print Culture, The History of British Women’s Writing, 1500–1610, and in a wide range of edited collections.

Katharine Eisaman Maus (Ph.D. Johns Hopkins), The Early Seventeenth Century, is James Branch Cabell Professor of English at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Being and Having in Shakespeare, Inwardness and Theater in the English Renaissance, and Ben Jonson and the Roman Frame of Mind; editor of a volume of Renaissance tragedies; and coeditor of The Norton Shakespeare, English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology, and a collection of criticism on seventeenth-century English poetry. She has been awarded Guggenheim, Leverhulme, NEH, and ACLS fellowships, and the Roland Bainton Prize for Inwardness and Theater.

Hometown:

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Date of Birth:

November 7, 1943

Place of Birth:

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Education:

B.A., Yale University, 1964; B.A., Cambridge University, 1966; Ph.D., Yale University, 1969