From Early Modern Inheritances to Postmodern Legacies

Аннотация

The heart set on such a task as addressing the full range of Renaissance genres, even as we know them today, will surely be riven by heavy doses of tragedy, comedy, tragicomedy, romance, and pastoral, and, after a two-year gestation, quite a bit of history as well. Mine was. The tragedy was the most obvious and, inevitably, keenly felt. Those that befell me seem scarcely worth mentioning, but the work of a year stretched to another as the extraordinary, stoic individuals who contributed to this volume faced sorrow, illness, and the passing of those dearest to them.