A Mirror for Magistrates and the Politics of the English Reformation
Author : Scott C. Lucas
Publisher :
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 34,55 MB
Release : 2009
Category : English poetry
ISBN : 9781613761229
`A Mirror for Magistrates' in Context
Author : Harriet Archer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 12,59 MB
Release : 2016-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1107104351
Book Description
The first essay collection on A Mirror for Magistrates, the most popular work of English literature in the Shakespearean age.
A Mirror for Magistrates
Author : Scott C. Lucas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 18,64 MB
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1316998029
Book Description
Over the six decades it remained in print in Tudor and Stuart England, William Baldwin's collection of tragic verse narratives A Mirror for Magistrates captivated readers and led numerous poets and playwrights to create their own Mirror-inspired works on the fallen figures of England's past. This modernized and annotated edition of Baldwin's collection - the first such edition ever published - provides modern readers with a clear and easily accessible text of the work. It also provides much-needed scholarly elucidations of its contents and glosses of its most difficult lines and unfamiliar words. The volume permits students of early modern literature and history to view Baldwin's work in a new light, allowing them to re-assess its contents and its poems' appeal to several generations of early modern readers and authors, including William Shakespeare, Michael Drayton and Samuel Daniel.
Literature and politics in the English Reformation
Author : Tom Betteridge
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 35,73 MB
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1526130114
Book Description
This book is a study of the English Reformation as a political and literary event. Focusing on an eclectic group of texts, unified by their explication of the key elements of the cultural history of the period 1510-1580 the book unravels the political, poetic and religious themes of the era. Through readings of work by Edmund Spenser, William Tyndale, Sir Thomas More and John Skelton, as well as less celebrated Tudor writers, Betteridge surveys pre-Henrician literature as well as Henrician Reformation texts, and delineates the literature of the reigns of Edward VI, Mary Tudor and Elizabeth I. Ultimately, the book argues that this literature, and the era, should not be understood simply on the basis of conflicts between Protestantism and Catholicism but rather that Tudor culture must be seen as fractured between emerging confessional identities and marked by a conflict between those who embraced confessionalism and those who rejected it. This important study will be fascinating reading for students and researchers in early modern English literature and history.
The Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain, 4 Volume Set
Author : Sian Echard
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 2102 pages
File Size : 46,78 MB
Release : 2017-08-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1118396987
Book Description
The Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain vereint erstmals wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse zu Multilingualität und Interkulturalität im mittelalterlichen Britannien und bietet mehr als 600 fundierte Einträge zu Schlüsselpersonen, Zusammenhängen und Einflüssen in der Literatur vom fünften bis sechzehnten Jahrhundert. - Einzigartiger multilingualer, interkultureller Ansatz und die neuesten wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisse. Das gesamte Mittelalter und die Bandbreite literarischer Sprachen werden abgedeckt. - Über 600 fundierte, verständliche Einträge zu Schlüsselpersonen, Texten, kritischen Debatten, Methoden, kulturellen Zusammenhängen sowie verwandte Terminologie. - Repräsentiert die gesamte Literatur der Britischen Inseln, einschließlich Alt- und Mittelenglisch, das frühe Schottland, die Anglonormannen, Nordisch, Latein und Französisch in Britannien, die keltische Literatur in Wales, Irland, Schottland und Cornwall. - Beeindruckende chronologische Darstellung, von der Invasion der Sachsen bis zum 5. Jahrhundert und weiter bis zum Übergang zur frühen Moderne im 16. Jahrhundert. - Beleuchtet die Überbleibsel mittelalterlicher britischer Literatur, darunter auch Manuskripte und frühe Drucke, literarische Stätten und Zusammenhänge in puncto Herstellung, Leistung und Rezeption sowie erzählerische Transformation und intertextuelle Verbindungen in dieser Zeit.
Mid-Tudor Queenship and Memory
Author : Valerie Schutte
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,46 MB
Release : 2023-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 3031356888
Book Description
This book explores (mis)representations of two female claimants to the Tudor throne, Lady Jane Grey and Mary I of England. It places Jane's attempted accession and Mary I's successful accession and reign in comparative perspective, and illustrates how the two are fundamentally linked to one another, and to broader questions of female kingship, precedent, and legitimacy. Through ten original essays, this book considers the nature and meaning of mid-Tudor queenship as it took shape, functioned, and was construed in the sixteenth century as well as its memory down to the twenty-first, in literary, musical, artistic, theatrical, and other cultural forms. Offering unique comparative insights into Jane and Mary, this volume is a key resource for researchers and students interested in the Tudor period, queenship, and historical memory.
Narrative Developments from Chaucer to Defoe
Author : Gerd Bayer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 33,74 MB
Release : 2011-02-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1136821252
Book Description
This book analyzes how narrative technique developed from the late Middle Ages to the beginning of the eighteenth-century. The contributors address issues such as subjectivity, performance, voice, narrative time, character development and genre, placing their readings of early modern prose texts within the diachronic frame of the overall topic. Individual chapters will treat texts from a variety of genres, offering analyses of individual texts in the context of changes and developments within literary forms. The book in its entirety will cover a period of approximately 350 years, from 1370 to 1720.
The Last Plantagenet Consorts
Author : Kavita Mudan Finn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 41,22 MB
Release : 2012-06-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0230392997
Book Description
An examination of fifteenth-century British queens through literature and history.
Memory and Affect in Shakespeare's England
Author : Jonathan Baldo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 24,33 MB
Release : 2023-07-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1009051490
Book Description
This is the first collection to systematically combine the study of memory and affect in early modern culture. Essays by leading and emergent scholars in the field of Shakespeare studies offer an innovative research agenda, inviting new, exploratory approaches to Shakespeare's work that embrace interdisciplinary cross-fertilization. Drawing on the contexts of Renaissance literature across genres and on various discourses including rhetoric, medicine, religion, morality, historiography, colonialism, and politics, the chapters bring together a broad range of texts, concerns, and methodologies central to the study of early modern culture. Stimulating for postgraduate students, lecturers, and researchers with an interest in the broader fields of memory studies and the history of the emotions – two vibrant and growing areas of research – it will also prove invaluable to teachers of Shakespeare, dramaturges, and directors of stage productions, provoking discussions of how convergences of memory and affect influence stagecraft, dramaturgy, rhetoric, and poetic language.
Lying in Early Modern English Culture
Author : Andrew Hadfield
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 45,52 MB
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 0198789467
Book Description
A major study of ideas of truth and falsehood in early modern England from the advent of the Reformation to the aftermath of the failed Gunpowder Plot.
