Enigma and Revelation in Renaissance Literature

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Preface / Helen Cooney -- 1. 'Let se who dare make up the reste': fear and the interpretation of Skelton's Speke Parott / John Scattergood -- 2. The lady loves her will: riddling in The marriage of Sir Gawain / Erin Sebo -- 3. Anne Lock's anonymous friend: A meditation of a penitent sinner and the problem of ascription / Deirdre Serjeantson -- 4. 'A certaine disgracing': resonances of a Renaissance word / Cormac o Cuilleanain -- 5. Facie ad Faciem: reader, protagonist, and self-reflection in Spenser's Legend of Temperance / Helen Cooney -- 6. 'This concealed man': Spenser, Ireland and Ormond(?) in Shakespeare's As you like it / Thomas Herron -- 7. The enigma of divine revelation in Tourneur's the Atheist's tragedy / Rory Loughnane -- 8. Decoding landscape and fertility in early modern travels to Palestine / Paris O'Donnell -- 9. Ignorance is iniquity: the arcana imperii in the sermons of John Donne / Mark S. Sweetnam -- 10. Millennialism and the renewal of nature: Thomas Fairfax, the Diggers and Andrew Marvell's 'Upon Appleton House' / Crawford Gribben -- 11. 'Lycidas' (1637) and timely reading: some observations on John Milton and Histories of Ireland (1633) / W. J. Mc Cormack -- 12. 'Very far from being dark and affectedly mysterious': women, philosophy and the interpretation of Genesis 1-3 in seventeenth-century England / John Flood -- Index. Publisher Marketing: This volume explores how the literature of the English REnaissance was informed by and involved with the twin concepts of 'enigma' and 'revelation'. The collection includes new readings of poetry, prose and play-texts. Contributor Bio:  Cooney Caroline B. Cooney is the author of "Goddess of Yesterday" (an ALA Notable Children's Book); "The Ransom of Mercy Carter"; and "The Face on the Milk Carton" (an IRA-CBC Children's Choice). She lives in Westbrook, CT. Contributor Bio:  Cooney, Helen Helen Cooney has taught Medieval and Renaissance literature at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, Nottingham University, and Trinity College, Dublin. She has published numerous articles on both Chaucer and Spenser and has just completed a monograph on the courtly poetry of Chaucer, entitled "Chaucer's Theodicies of Love," Her increasing interest in the fifteenth century was reflected in a collection of essays which she edited, "Nation, Court and Culture: New Essays on Fifteenth Century English Poetry "(2001). Her current major project is a study of how the Middle Ages 'becomes' the Renaissance in English literature, as seen through the lens of courtly allegory. She is currently lecturer in Medieval and Renaissance English at Trinity College, Dublin. Contributor Bio:  Sweetnam, Mark S Mark Sweetnam is a postdoctoral fellow in the Centre for Irish-Scottish and Comparative Studies at Trinity College Dublin. His main area of research interest is literature and theology.