Subjects on the world's stage
Subtitle: essays on British literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
By: edited by David G. Allen and Robert A. White.
Contributors: Allen, David G., 1953-; White, Robert A., 1943-; Citadel Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Literature (7th : 1991 : Charleston, S.C.)
Publisher: University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Newark; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
Subjects: English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism -- Congresses.; English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism -- Congresses.; Civilization, Medieval, in literature -- Congresses.; Renaissance -- Great Britain -- Congresses.
Description: In this collection eighteen scholars offer various readings on British literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Although the period covered ranges from the thirteenth through the seventeenth centuries, the essays are tied together by a common interest in one of three topics: poetic personae, dramatic production, and the influence of social context upon authors or dramatists.

Common to these topics is the crucial point of contact between an artist and society that prompts the literary imagination to respond either with the creation of a new character or with the demonstration of change in an old one.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Rev. versions of papers originally presented at the Seventh Citadel Conference on Literature, Charleston, S.C., 1991.