Title: Renaissance essays for Kitty Scoular Datta /
Authors: Datta, Kitty Scoular, 1930-; Chaudhuri, Sukanta, 1950-
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 1995
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, Criticism and interpretation.; English literature History and criticism; Renaissance England
Abstract: "Renaissance Essays for Kitty Scoular Datta brings together a rich collection of new work on the English and European Renaissance by scholars from three continents. Professor Datta, who now lives in Oxford, spent most of her working life in India, where she helped greatly in activating Renaissance studies and setting up links between Indian and Western scholars in the field. This collection has been initiated by Jadavpur University in Calcutta, where she taught for many years." "An important function of the collection is the link set up by most essays between the English Renaissance and the continental, particularly the humanist currents. This implies attention to the classical elements of the Renaissance, though medieval continuities are also explored in several pieces. There are studies of Renaissance approaches to reading, and to time and history, as well as essays on Spenser, George Herbert, Bacon and Milton. But the greatest number, as might be expected, relate to Renaissance English drama. There are five essays on Shakespeare, and others on Marlowe, Jonson and Middleton, as well as the evolution of the drama generally." "The contributors include most of the eminent Renaissance scholars in India, as well as Professor Datta's colleagues and friends from British and American universities. There is a bibliography of her writings in an appendix."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: Renaissance habits of reading / Peter Mack -- The rebirth of time : tradition, history and the renaissance mind / Sukanta Chaudhuri -- The battle rages on : the Psychomachia and the Faerie Queene book I / Aparajita Nanda -- The secularizing process in early English drama / Shyamal Kumar Sarkar -- The 'middle' of Marlowe's Faustus / D.K. Lahiri Choudhury -- 'And therefore look you call me Ganymede' / Sailendra Kumar Sen -- Twelfth night and epiphany / Alastair Fowler -- Some uses of topoi in Shakespeare's Coriolanus : an approach to the play / S. Viswanathan -- Hermione's education : from indiscretion to 'better grace' / R.W. Desai -- Prospero's boats : magic, providence and human choice / Helen Cooper -- Jonson's fox / Supriya Chaudhuri -- 'In another country' : forms of strangeness and the strangeness of form in Women beware women / Swapan Chakravorty -- Bacon's 'sensible images' : demystifying the emblem / Bridget Gellert Lyons -- George Herbert : poetic form and the re-formation of man / Shirshendu Chakrabarti -- Change and reform : a note on Milton's Christian doctrine / Amlan Dasgupta -- Milton's 'unoriginal night and chaos wild' / Malabika Sarkar -- The remote saviour : distancing technique in Paradise regained / John Carey