Renaissance pastoral and its English developments

Abstract

Part 1 Pastoral in the Continental Renaissance: Virgil allegorized allusive and didactic pastoral - the neo-Latin, French and Italian eclogue art-pastoral - Boccaccio and Sannazaro pastoral and the Renaissance lyric. Part 2 English pastoral poetry: English pastoral before Spenser - Giles Fletcher, Barclay's eclogues, the Tudor lyric Shepheardes Calender the Elizabethan pastoral lyric the pastoral of allusion - Spenser, allusive pastoral from Peele to Quarles Drayton and his circle - Idea the Shepheards Garland, Poly-Olbion, Shepheards Pipe and other poems the diffusion of pastoral in the earlier 17th century. Part 3 The extension of pastoral - narrative, drama and spectacle: pastoral romance - the cyclic structure Cervantes - Galatea, Don Quixote as pastoral D'Urfe's L'Astree Sidney's Arcadia other English romance - Faerie Queene, Britannia's Pastorals pageants and entertainments English pastoral drama - Elizabethan drama, Shakespeare, Jacobean and Caroline drama more court spectacles and the Masque. Part 4 Last fruits - three versions of pastoral: Drayton's late pastorals Milton - Lycidas, Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained Andrew Marvell. Appendices: allusions in neo-Latin art-pastorals months and seasons in Shepheardes Calender Sidney and the Elizabethan pastoral lyric Protestantism in the Spenserian poets Protestant pastorale.

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