Redefining Elizabethan Literature examines the new definitions of literature and authorship that emerged in one of the most remarkable decades in English literary history, the 1590s. Georgia Brown ...

Gordon Braden, University of Virginia "Brown has written an admirably intelligent and sensitive book that should be of great interest to anyone studying or teaching Elizabethan literature and culture.

Class participants will have an opportunity to read background materials on Elizabethan England and to make oral presentations on particular poets and poems. Some familiarity with Shakespeare’s ...

"Moreover," continued Professor Eliot, "the great achievement of Elizabethan verse is its development ... it is from this that our greatest literature derives its inspiration.