Elizabethan Narrative Poems: The State of Play

Tracing the development of narrative verse in London''s literary circles during the 1590s, this volume puts Shakespeare''s Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece into conversation with poems by a wide variety of contemporary writers, including Thomas Lodge, Francis Beaumont, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Heywood, Thomas Campion and Edmund Spenser. Chapters investigate the complexities of this lite...