The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature

"In this respect, the Encyclopedia bringstogether a very wide range of material that would otherwise not beso easily accessible. To some extent, it even redresses thecanonical centrality of the well-known names by locating them veryfirmly within their own historical context and in relation to theliterary culture of the time." ( Journal of theNorthern Renaissance , 1 December 2012)

"As such, it would be a strong contender for any academiclibrary, of good use in a public library, and will work best whenplaced alongside the online Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia ofLiterature, though this is not essential to get value from theset." ( Reference Reviews , 1 December 2012)
"Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduatesthrough graduate students." ( Choice , 1 July2012)

Editors
Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr. is Professor of English at Penn State University. He is the author of The drama of landscape: land, property, and social relations on the early modern stage (1998) and Memory and forgetting in English Renaissance drama: Shakespeare, Marlowe, Webster (2005).
 
Alan Stewart is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, and International Director of the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters, University of London. He is the author of Close Readers: Humanism and Sodomy in Early Modern England (1997), and Shakespeare's Letters (2008), and editor of volume I of the Oxford Francis Bacon, Early writings, 1584-1596 (forthcoming).
 
Associate Editors
Rebecca Lemon is Associate Professor of English at the University of Southern California. She is author of Treason by words: literature, law, and rebellion in Shakespeare's England (2006) and one of the editors for The Blackwell companion to literature and the Bible (2009).
 
Nicholas McDowell is Associate Professor of English at the University of Exeter. His publications include Poetry and allegiance in the English Civil Wars: Marvell and the cause of wit (2008), and he is co-editor for The Oxford handbook of Milton (2009).
 
Jennifer Richards is head of the School of English Literature, Language, and Linguistics, and Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture at Newcastle University. Her publications include Rhetoric (2007) in the New Critical Idiom series.