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Subject(s)

• English literature—Early modern, 1500-1700—History and criticism—Handbooks, manuals, etc [Browse]
• England—Civilization—16th century—Handbooks, manuals, etc [Browse]

Editor

• Pincombe, Michael [Browse]
• Shrank, Cathy [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Handbooks and manuals [Browse]

Series

• Oxford Handbooks of Literature [More in this series]
• Oxford handbooks The Oxford handbook of Tudor literature, 1485-1603

Summary note

The literature of the entire Tudor period, from the reign of Henry VII to death of Elizabeth I is covered by this volume. It pays particular attention to the years before 1580, covering the establishment of print culture and growth of a reading public.

Notes

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

• Description based on print version record.
• Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Language note

English

Contents

• Caxton and the invention of printing / Alexandra Gillespie
• Dramatic theory and Lucres' Discretion : the plays of Henry Medwall / Kent Cartwright
• Stephen Hawes and courtly education / Daniel Wakelin
• Having the last word : manuscript, print, and the envoy in the poetry of John Skelton / Jane Griffiths
• All for love : Lord Berners and the enduring, evolving romance / Joyce Boro
• Thomas More, William Tyndale, and the printing of religious propaganda / John N. King
• Rhetoric, conscience, and the playful positions of Sir Thomas More / James Simpson
• John Bale and controversy : readers and audiences / Peter Happé
• Sir Thomas Elyot and the bonds of community / Cathy Shrank
• John Heywood and court drama / Thomas Betteridge
• Thomas Wyatt and Francis Bryan : plainness and dissimulation / Jason Powell
• Piety and poetry : English psalms from Miles Coverdale to Mary Sidney / Hannibal Hamlin
• Katherine Parr and her circle / Janel Mueller
• John Leland and his heirs : the topography of England / Philip Schwyzer
• Biblical allusion and argument in Luke Shepherd's verse satires / Mark Rankin
• Reforming the reformers : Robert Crowley and Nicholas Udall / Christopher Warley
• William Baldwin and the Tudor imagination / R.W. Maslen
• Directions for English : Thomas Wilson's Art of rhetoric, George Puttenham's Art of English poesy, and the search for vernacular eloquence / Wolfgang G. Müller
• Order and disorder : John Proctor's History of Wyatt's Rebellion (1554) / Alan Bryson
• Marian political allegory : John Heywood's The spider and the fly / Alice Hunt
• Hall's chronicle and the Mirror for magistrates : history and the tragic pattern / Scott Lucas
• A place in the shade : George Cavendish and De Casibus tragedy / Mike Pincombe
• What is my nation? Language, verse, and politics in Tudor translations of Virgil's Aeneid / Margaret Tudeau-Clayton
• Thomas Hoby, William Thomas, and mid-Tudor travel to Italy / Jonathan Woolfson
• Popularizing courtly poetry : Tottel's miscellany and its progeny / Steven W. May
• Minerva's men : horizontal nationhood and the literary production of Googe, Turbervile, and Gascoigne / Laurie Shannon
• 'For this is true or els I do lye' : Thomas Smith, William Bullein, and mid-Tudor dialogue / Phil Withington
• English Seneca : Heywood to Hamlet / Jessica Winston
• Political tragedy in the 1560s : Cambises and Gorboduc / Dermot Cavanagh
• John Foxe's Acts and monuments, 1563-1583 : antiquity and the affect of history / Andrew Escobedo
• Tragical histories, tragical tales / Jonathan Gibson
• Foresters, ploughmen, and shepherds : versions of Tudor pastoral / Andrew Hadfield
• Interludes, economics, and the Elizabethan stage / Paul Whitfield White
• Ovidian reflections in Gascoigne's Steel glass / Syrithe Pugh
• The art of war : martial poetics from Henry Howard to Philip Sidney / D.J.B. Trim
• Thomas Whithorne and first-person life-writing in the sixteenth century / Elizabeth Heale
• Pageants and propaganda : Robert Langham's Letter and George Gascoigne's Princely pleasures at Kenilworth / Janette Dillon
• Sir Philip Sidney and the Arcadias / Helen Moore
• Gabriel Harvey's choleric writing / Jennifer Richards
• The intimacy of manuscript and the pleasure of print : literary culture from The schoolmaster to Euphues / Fred Schurink
• Revenge and romance : George Pettie's Palace of pleasure and Robert Greene's Pandosto / Katharine Wilson
• Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus and Nathaniel Woodes's The conflict of conscience / David Bevington
• Fictive acts : Thomas Nashe and the mid-Tudor legacy / Lorna Hutson
• 'Hear my tale or kiss my tail!' The old wife's tale, Gammer Gurton's needle, and the popular cultures of Tudor comedy / Andrew Hiscock
• Edmund Spenser and the passing of Tudor literature / Helen Cooper.

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Other title(s)

• Handbook of Tudor literature, 1485-1603
• Tudor literature, 1485-1603

ISBN

• 9780191744037
• 0191744034
• 9780191548390
• 0191548391

OCLC

609850469

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