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Greg Walker examines the impact of tyrannical government on the work of poets, playwrights and prose writers in the early English Renaissance.
Author : Greg Walker
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 50,14 MB
Release : 2005-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0199283338
Greg Walker examines the impact of tyrannical government on the work of poets, playwrights and prose writers in the early English Renaissance.
Author : Sir Thomas Elyot
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,32 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Education of princes
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Author : William Roper
Publisher :
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 47,14 MB
Release : 1817
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Author : Thomas Stapleton
Publisher :
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 16,4 MB
Release : 1928
Category : History
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Author : James Christopher Warner
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 39,12 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9780851156422
A close examination of the rivalry between two printing presses at the time of the divorce crisis shows how the new learning could be employed to influence even the king himself.
Author : Gabriele Stein
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 48,64 MB
Release : 2014-01-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0191506184
Sir Thomas Elyot's Latin-English dictionary, published in 1538, became the leading work of its kind in England. Gabriele Stein describes this pioneering work, exploring its inner structure and workings, its impact on contemporary scholarship, and its later influence. The author opens with an account of Elyots life and publications. Sir Thomas Elyot (c. 1490-1546) was a humanist scholar and intellectual friend of Sir Thomas More. He was employed by Thomas Cromwell in diplomatic and official capacities that did more to impoverish than enrich him, and he sought to increase his income with writing. His treatise on moral philosophy, The Boke named the Governour, was published in 1531, and dedicated to Henry VIII. His popular treatise on medicine, The Castell of Helth, published some years later, went through seventeen editions. Professor Stein then considers how and why Elyot decided to compile a Latin-English dictionary. She looks at the guiding principles, the organization he devised, and the authors and texts he used as sources. She examines the books importance for the historical study of English, noting the lexical regionalisms and items of vulgar usage in the Promptuorum parvulorum and the dictionaries of Palsgrave and Elyot before discussing Elyots linking of lemma and gloss, and use of generic reference points. She explains how Elyot translated and defined the Latin headwords and compares his practice with his predecessors. The author ends with a detailed assessment of Elyots impact on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century dictionaries and his place in Renaissance lexicography. Her exploration of the work of an outstanding sixteenth-century scholar will interest historians of the English language, lexicography, and the intellectual climate of Tudor England.
Author : Sir Thomas Elyot
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Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,39 MB
Release : 1946
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Author : Christopher Page
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 40,24 MB
Release : 2015-07-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 1107108365
This book reveals the most popular instrument in the world as it was in the age of Elizabeth I and Shakespeare.
Author : T. S. Eliot
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 27,98 MB
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0547542607
T. S. Eliot's most famous drama, a retelling of the murder of the archbishop of Canterbury Murder in the Cathedral, written for the Canterbury Festival in 1935, was one of T. S. Eliot’s first dramatic achievements, and it remains one of the great plays of the century. It takes as its subject matter the martyrdom of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, depicting the events that led to his assassination, in his own cathedral church, by the knights of Henry II in 1170. Like Greek drama, the play’s theme and form are rooted in religion, ritual purgation and renewal, and it was this return to the earliest sources of drama that brought poetry triumphantly back to the English stage at the time. "The theatre is enriched by this poetic play of grave beauty and momentous decision." —The New York Times
Author : Joan Fitzpatrick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 40,52 MB
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 131713432X
A study of common and exotic food in Shakespeare's plays, this is the first book to explore early modern English dietary literature to understand better the significance of food in Shakespearean drama. Food in Shakespeare provides for modern readers and audiences an historically accurate account of the range of, and conflicts between, contemporary ideas that informed the representations of food in the plays. It also focuses on the social and moral implications of familiar and strange foodstuff in Shakespeare's works. This new approach provides substantial fresh readings of Hamlet, Macbeth, As you Like It, The Winter's Tale, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, Henry V, Titus Andronicus, Coriolanus, Pericles, Timon of Athens, and the co-authored Sir Thomas More. Among the dietaries explored are Andrew Boorde's A Compendyous Regyment or a Dyetary of Healthe (1547), William Bullein's The Gouernement of Healthe (1595), Thomas Elyot's The Castle of Helthe (1595) and Thomas Cogan's The Hauen of Health (1636). These dieteries were republished several times in the early modern period; together they typify the genre's condemnation of surfeit and the tendency to blame human disease on feeding practices. This study directs scholarly attention to the importance of early modern dietaries, analyzing their role in wider culture as well as their intersection with dramatic art. In the dietaries food and drink are indices of one's position in relation to complex ideas about rank, nationality, and spiritual well-being; careful consumption might correct moral as well as physical shortcomings. The dietaries are an eclectic genre: some contain recipes for the reader to try, others give tips on more general lifestyle choices, but all offer advice on how to maintain good health via diet. Although some are more stern and humourless than others, the overwhelming impression is that of food as an ally in the battle against disease and ill-health as well as a potential enemy.