I've been feeling lately (again) that I have no real comprehensive view of critical approaches to Ren. Lit. in English (or any other language for that matter). I wish I had taken a class called "Critical Approaches to Renaissance Studies" or the like, and would love to teach a class like that one day. So I thought you might have ideas.
If you were teaching a grad course to people going into Ren Lit as their specialty, what would you include? What are the groundbreaking articles and books in the field? Which critical approaches might a grad student choose in their further study?