Jon Robinson

Court Politics, Culture and Literature in Scotland and England, 1500-1540 (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The focus of this study is court literature in early sixteenth-century England and Scotland. The author examines courtly poetry and drama in the context of a complex system of entertainment, education, self-fashioning, dissimulation, propaganda and patronage.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351125802
• Artikelnr.: 50407365

Autorenporträt

Jon Robinson

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
Poet, court and culture
Patronage and panegyric verse
The 'inclusive and exclusive' rhetorical strategy of David Lyndsay's The Dreme and The Complaynt
Counsel, service, kingship and the moral reality of the court
The 'honestye' of Thomas Wyatt's court critique and the unstable 'I' of his verse
The murky waters of court politics and poetic propaganda
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.