Materials for Eng. 709: Renaissance Languages

Consult the bibliography for the course for suggestions for additional reading.

A useful site on classical and renaissance rhetorical terms

Links for texts for Eng. 709

Selections from Crooke and Gosson will be available (soon) on the Furness Shakspeare Library electronic text site

Crooke's Mikrokosmographia

Gosson's Playes confuted

At the University of Virginia Electronic Text Archive (search for Puttenham) George Puttenham, Art of English Poesie

Sidney's Defense of Poesie

At Toronto, Cawdry's Table Alphabeticall

Not on the syllabus, but related is Edmund Coote's English School-Maister, The Elizabethan Homilies, and Campion'sObservations on the Art of English Poesie, to which Daniel was responding.

For the class on science and nature, you might also look at Della Porta's Natural Magic

Images for the course: Family portraits