Robinson, Jon, Mr.
Court Politics, Culture and Literature in Scotland and England, 1500-1540. - 1 online resource (199 pages)
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Conventions -- Introduction -- 1 Poet, Court and Culture -- 2 Patronage and Panegyric Verse -- 3 The 'Inclusive and Exclusive' Rhetorical Strategy of David Lyndsay's The Dreme and The Complaynt -- 4 Counsel, Service, Kingship and the Moral Reality of the Court -- 5 The 'Honestye' of Thomas Wyatt's Court Critique and the Unstable 'I' of his Verse -- 6 The Murky Waters of Court Politics and Poetic Propaganda -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- O -- P -- S -- T -- W.
The focus of this study is court literature in early sixteenth-century England and Scotland. Author Jon Robinson examines courtly poetry and drama in the context of a complex system of entertainment, education, self-fashioning, dissimulation, propaganda and patronage. He places selected works under close critical scrutiny to explore the symbiotic relationship that existed between court literature and important socio-political, economic and national contexts of the period 1500 to 1540.
9780754682189
Courts and courtiers in literature.
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
English literature -- Scottish authors -- History and criticism.
Politics and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century.
Politics and literature -- Scotland -- History -- 16th century.
Scottish literature -- To 1700 -- History and criticism.
Electronic books.
PR418.P65 -- R63 2008eb
820.9/358
Court Politics, Culture and Literature in Scotland and England, 1500-1540. - 1 online resource (199 pages)
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Conventions -- Introduction -- 1 Poet, Court and Culture -- 2 Patronage and Panegyric Verse -- 3 The 'Inclusive and Exclusive' Rhetorical Strategy of David Lyndsay's The Dreme and The Complaynt -- 4 Counsel, Service, Kingship and the Moral Reality of the Court -- 5 The 'Honestye' of Thomas Wyatt's Court Critique and the Unstable 'I' of his Verse -- 6 The Murky Waters of Court Politics and Poetic Propaganda -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- O -- P -- S -- T -- W.
The focus of this study is court literature in early sixteenth-century England and Scotland. Author Jon Robinson examines courtly poetry and drama in the context of a complex system of entertainment, education, self-fashioning, dissimulation, propaganda and patronage. He places selected works under close critical scrutiny to explore the symbiotic relationship that existed between court literature and important socio-political, economic and national contexts of the period 1500 to 1540.
9780754682189
Courts and courtiers in literature.
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
English literature -- Scottish authors -- History and criticism.
Politics and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century.
Politics and literature -- Scotland -- History -- 16th century.
Scottish literature -- To 1700 -- History and criticism.
Electronic books.
PR418.P65 -- R63 2008eb
820.9/358