Contents
List of Illustrations
Abbreviations and Conventions
List of Contributors
Prologue: The Travails of Tudor Literature
PART I. 1485–1529
1. Caxton and the Invention of Printing
2. Dramatic Theory and Lucres’ ‘Discretion’: The Plays of Henry Medwall
3. Stephen Hawes and Courtly Education
4. Having The Last Word: Manuscript, Print, and the Envoy in The Poetry of John Skelton
5. All For Love: Lord Berners and the Enduring, Evolving Romance
PART II. 1530–1559
6. Thomas More, William Tyndale, and the Printing of Religious Propaganda
7. Rhetoric, Conscience, and the Playful Positions of Sir Thomas More
8. John Bale and Controversy: Readers and Audiences
9. Sir Thomas Elyot and the Bonds of Community
10. John Heywood and Court Drama
11. Thomas Wyatt and Francis Bryan: Plainness and Dissimulation
12. Piety and Poetry: English Psalms From Miles Coverdale to Mary Sidney
13. Katherine Parr and Her Circle
14. John Leland and His Heirs: The Topography of England
15. Biblical Allusion and Argument in Luke Shepherd’s Verse Satires
16. Reforming the Reformers: Robert Crowley and Nicholas Udall
17. William Baldwin and the Tudor Imagination
18. Directions for English: Thomas Wilson’s Art of Rhetoric, George Puttenham’s Art of English Poesy, and the Search for Vernacular Eloquence
19. Order and Disorder: John Proctor’s History of Wyatt’s Rebellion (1554)
20. Marian Political Allegory: John Heywood’s The Spider and the Fly
21. Hall’s Chronicle and the Mirror for Magistrates: History and the Tragic Pattern
22. A Place in the Shade: George Cavendish and De Casibus Tragedy
23. What is My Nation? Language, Verse, and Politics in Tudor Translations of Virgil’s Aeneid
24. Thomas Hoby, William Thomas, and Mid-Tudor Travel to Italy
25. Popularizing Courtly Poetry: Tottel’s Miscellany and its Progeny
PART III. 1560–1579
26. Minerva’s Men: Horizontal Nationhood and the Literary Production of Googe, Turbervile, and Gascoigne
27. ‘For This is True or els I Do Lye’: Thomas Smith, William Bullein, and Mid-Tudor Dialogue
28. English Seneca: Heywood to Hamlet
29. Political Tragedy in the 1560s: Cambises and Gorboduc
30. John Foxe’s Acts And Monuments, 1563–1583: Antiquity and the Affect of History
31. Tragical Histories, Tragical Tales
32. Foresters, Ploughmen, and Shepherds: Versions of Tudor Pastoral
33. Interludes, Economics, and the Elizabethan Stage
34. Ovidian Reflections in Gascoigne’s Steel Glass
35. The Art of War: Martial Poetics from Henry Howard to Philip Sidney
36. Thomas Whithorne and First-Person Life-Writing in the Sixteenth Century
37. Pageants and Propaganda: Robert Langham’s Letter and George Gascoigne’s Princely Pleasures at Kenilworth
38. Sir Philip Sidney and the Arcadias
PART IV. 1580–1603
39. Gabriel Harvey’s Choleric Writing
40. The Intimacy of Manuscript and the Pleasure of Print: Literary Culture from The Schoolmaster to Euphues
41. Revenge and Romance: George Pettie’s Palace of Pleasure and Robert Greene’s Pandosto
42. Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus and Nathaniel Woodes’s The Conflict of Conscience
43. Fictive Acts: Thomas Nashe and the Mid-Tudor Legacy
44. ‘Hear My Tale or Kiss My Tail!’ The Old Wife’s Tale, Gammer Gurton’s Needle, and the Popular Cultures of Tudor Comedy
Epilogue: Edmund Spenser and the Passing of Tudor Literature
Bibliography
Acknowledgements of Sources
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