On Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature
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This richly informed collection brings together his essays on such major figures as Sir Philip Sidney and Milton, but also less celebrated writers, including Thomas Carew and, in a new piece, William Drummond, to reconfigure the familiar and help extend the canon. Shakespeare looms large in this volume and his poems, plays and influence on Keats, are the subject of half the book.Features
- Subtle and illuminating essays by a leading critic, concentrating on Shakespeare but embracing both canonical and less familiar writers, from Sidney to Carew and Milton.
- Brings together essays no longer easily available with new work on William Drummond.
Reviews
"John Kerrigan is a close reader with a broad knowledge, ready with the big picture and the small detail."--Leonard R.N. Ashley, Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance
"...John Kerrigan's pithy and polymathic essays in On Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature (reissued in paperback)...an enthusiastic piece on 'Shakespeare as Reviser' and a more cautious one on 'The Editor as Reader.'"--Studies in English Literature 1500-1900
"These essays consolidate Kerrigan's position as one of the outstanding scholars of the English Renaissance of his generation."--Times Literary Supplement
About the Author(s)
John Kerrigan, Professor of English 2000 at Cambridge University and Fellow, St John's College, Cambridge
