Archaeologies of English Renaissance Literature

This study draws on the theory and practice of archaeology to develop a new perspective on the literature of the Renaissance. Philip Schwyzer explores the fascination with images of excavation, exhumation, and ruin that runs through literary texts including Spenser''s Faerie Queene, Shakespeare''s Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet, Donne''s sermons and lyrics, and Thomas Browne''s Hydriotaphia, or Urne-...